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@Ares42 said:

@CaLe: It's not so much that the translation is bad but games tend to use a lot of unusual words that gets translated very literally, making for very "logical" but unintuitive and complex words. Can't think of any really great examples at the moment, but words like sub-mission or waypoint aren't exactly words you tend to use much in your everyday life.

If you're a native speaker of Norwegian and a gamer, you're the core audience for that translation, and if it sounds bad to you, I would still call it a bad translation. Making things sound right is just as much part of a translators job as is conveying the information.

Would it sound weird just to adopt the English terms into Norwegian? If Norwegian gamers are already familiar with the English terms, that would be my initial inkling as a translator, even if they had to be adapted to Norwegian phonetics. Japanese games do it all the time.

I usually just jiggle the stick back and forth and hit the buttons. My scores are off the grid.

@Andorski said:

@YOU_DIED said:

@depecheload said:

@YOU_DIED said:

I'm against this, not because I'm a hateful human being, but because I believe in a form of freedom of speech that doesn't include the right to silence someone just because you are offended by what they said

EDIT: christ, I don't mean government enforced freedom of speech in this context, I mean MS' rules

So you believe in consequence free speech?

Sorry, but in the real world you have to face the repercussions of your actions. If you're saying something with the sole purpose of upsetting/offending/abusing them, then you get what you deserve.

@scalpel your statement was prophetic, I feel the need to post this because so many people are off the mark:

Somewhat of an irrelevant video clip, as Penn makes his remarks about free speech in a public forum (purposefully using government funded colleges as examples) whereas Xbox Live is a private service.

The examples given in the clip were also things like using coarse language and eating meat in front of vegans, not the directed, personal, discriminatory insults like "get back in the kitchen" or referring to people by racial slurs.

@Jagged85: While I would agree that it might be difficult to agree on a clear definition for JRPGs, rather than just listing examples, I don't see how it would be any easier to do so for fast food or PCs.

For the same reason that "PC" refers to a specific subset, rather than every computer for personal use (i.e. not things like Macs, tablets, or even game consoles. All video games would be PC games in that case) and "fast food restaurant" doesn't describe every restaurant that makes food quickly, JRPG doesn't have to refer to every RPG made in Japan. Words don't determine their own meaning, usage does.

@Jams said:

The transcript shows he just mentions "acts of terror". But if he called it a terrorist attack then why did he have to say that it was still being investigated and blame a video? Obama and Candy corn were both wrong on that.

Because terrorists and people who are angry about videos are not mutually exclusive categories. Reacting to something you don't like with deadly violence pretty much defines terrorism.

@jakob187 said:

@triviaman09: @laserbolts: Ummm...Sony launched a brand new revision of the PS3 within the last couple of weeks at a much lower price point.

As for people that are saying "why get one this late in the cycle", the answer is simple: many people aren't going to be getting the new consoles for the next two years. Therefore, current gen is still very viable.

Also, Sony sold 2.3 million PS2s for the 2012 fiscal year. Definitely not too late for this generation.

@BillyMethers said:

You bring up a great point about the bandwidth. I agree. You bring up a great point about the bandwidth. It's actual theft because they are removing physical product stock from a storefront, although it's digital.

I would add to the bandwidth the fact you would also be continuing to use Origin to play those games and potentially benefiting from whatever it provides. But at the same time, digital copies are pretty specifically not physical, and it's not like they're going to run out of digital copies of their own games. I'm saying that makes it any better, I just don't think that particular point makes it any more or less stealing than piracy. I think it's really the willful exploitation and use of their resources that makes it feel scummy.

@Butano said:

I am curious what EAs move is toward this. Wouldn't put it past them if they either A) Banned the accounts that abused the system; or B) Disabled the games that were acquired after the code's first use. Of course, option C) is just do nothing about it and let be a loss for them but gain some customer traction for Origin in the long run.

I think C might be their best option. Giving Portal away for free (albeit, on purpose) got a lot of people onto steam, myself included. They may have sound grounds for B, though. The code came along with some legal copy that the codes were for promotional use only, and did not constitute credit, i.e., they were giving people money and therefore wouldn't be taking anyway.

It sure has a visual style.

It's just convention.