@ryo @TerminalAutism @Alex
GameFreak was always notable for having shit programmers. Pokemon would've been dead after the first generation if it weren't for the many times Iwata save them. Iwata was the only reason why the first gen games made it overseas because the programmers couldn't make a text system that works in all languages. GameFreak using Unity now doesn't surprise me.

I remember hearing that Nintendo's programmers are required to know Unreal now. The most recent Yoshi game uses Unreal. I don't know why they would use Unity instead. Maybe they despise Tencent.

Unity seems to have become the standard game engine for Japanese gamedevs even in AAA games. I watched this "day in the life of a Japanese game programmer" video and during the brief parts where you can actually see source code on his computer screen, you can clearly tell it's C#. The guys works at Bandai Namco by the way.

https://invidious.poast.org/watch?v=e_TxH59MclA

BoTW was made in it's own engine though (the decomp proves it), but granted that game was in development since at least 2012 and even then, I don't know if Unity can handle a game like that.

@xianc78 @TerminalAutism @Alex Japanese devs making soy is what made more and more Japanese companies believe that hiring western developers is the answer, but barely do that because of the human language barrier both sides generally refuse to overcome.
Little do they know that western devs make even more soy though, it's just that western soydevs are generally using newer trends while Japanese soydevs just discovered the trend that westerners no longer consider trendy anymore.

@xianc78 @TerminalAutism @Alex Also, I heard that thanks to Iwata they were able to put in Kanto in Gen 2.
I remember being very disappointed when I beated Gen 3 for not being able to go to Kanto and Joto.
And then again when I couldn't go from Sinnoh to the older 3 regions.
But then it all normalized.

@ryo @xianc78 @Alex I was disappointed by that as well. Though it's not like any Pokemon generation was technically all that good anyway. The Gen 2 games may actually be the biggest baby games of all, they are ridiculously easy. It has more content than most, but that content is just one-shotting low level pokes controlled by an artificial unintelligence that for the most part just selects random bad moves and never switches. The actual Gen 2 pokemon are very unavailable and most of them are horrific. Horrible stats, horrible moves, horrible everything. Houndour/Derubiru is pretty good, though... when you can catch it in fucking Kanto. Why is a Johto pokemon only in Kanto?! Tyranitar/Bangiras is pretty good too, after you beat the game and have nothing left to do!

Gen 3 and Gen 4 had the Battle Frontier, though. That was nice, even though the Battle Factory does drive me fucking nuts because I can't use my own team and I keep getting screwed over by bad luck and the AI probably knowing the future outcome of everything that they can do and everything that I can do. Still, really damn good. Black 2 and White 2 had a lot of content too. They used to actually put effort into their games, even though the core experience was just hitting the A button.

@TerminalAutism @Alex @xianc78 Speaking of which, in Gen 8 I tried the Battle Tower, but the fucking annoying thing here is that for whatever reason it permanently screws up the moveset of my Mew every single time I try it, so I gave up on that one.

But I agree, Gen 2 was way too easy.
Only that ice cave was fucking annoying back in the day, but somehow I had an easier time with that one in the remake, like if they made it easier to solve.

And the cave with the mandatory HM5 move really felt like it's only there for the sake of being there, served no purpose at all.
You might argue about the whole Anon part as well, but at least that one got you to catch a Pokemon and its 26 varieties you'd not find anywhere else in the game.

@xianc78 @ryo @Alex
Yeah, Gen 1 really displays how new they were to the whole programming thing. The games are so glitchy that the glitches became a game within a game and you can even rewrite the game in memory using them.

And I'm pretty out-of-touch with the current absolute state of gaming, but I can imagine how bad it is. I don't pay attention to game releases at all these days, I only hear about some releases because of the videos that I watch, and that's pretty much just Pokemon and Shin Megami Tensei, I don't watch much gaming stuff other than that, and also old videos.

Not surprised that they don't mind using Chink shit, though. Japan is just a few steps away from being China anyway, and the resistance to the Chinese takeover is a small minority and I bet it's getting smaller. Soon it will be to China what Hawaii is to the US. "That island over there that we own". That's if they don't decide to blow it up just for the fun of it. But that's not very profitable, so maybe not. Pretty sure that there is some old document that says that after the depopulation is over, most of the people around should be Chinese and Japanese because they make for good obedient slaves.

@TerminalAutism @xianc78 @Alex
> the resistance to the Chinese takeover is a small minority and I bet it's getting smaller.

That's actually incorrect.
Politicians and big corporations are in favor of a Chinese takeover, pretty much everyone else, especially those who have to live with Chinese neighbors or in neighborhoods that has lots of Chinese residents, are very much against it.
CHAINA!!, North Korea, and South Korea have always been viewed upon as very unfavorable.

@ryo @Alex @xianc78 Well, that's good if I'm wrong and if that's growing. I guess my predictions haven't happened yet, even though most of them result in someone from Japan telling me "actually, that already happened".

I have seen videos before of people on the streets, in protests, shouting about killing all the Koreans and painting the streets red with their blood. I guess that's not over yet. And I have seen resistance to China taking over corporations, I think even in 2020. But I made that assumption because the default in Asia is to be about as complacent as possible, and seeing anyone that doesn't comply as a threat, even more so if they don't "contribute" to soycitiety.

@TerminalAutism @Alex @xianc78 Loli frog went to Europe for an entire summer, she met Japanese people over there, and none were wearing face diapers.
Hell, she even told me how at Helsinki airport there were lots of Japanese waiting for the flight to Haneda, and with the exception of 2 people, nobody was wearing a face diaper until it was time to board the plane, at that point almost everyone was wearing one.

In a sense something tells me that it's more about blindly following the rules than it is because most people genuinely still believe in this fake virus that doesn't even exist.
On the other hand, you get experiences like what I had a few weeks ago on the train where I was offered a whole pack of face diapers and the guy was going absolutely insane when I declined, and you go straight into believing that there actually still are those who genuinely believe in this fictional "sickness".

While we're at it, until recently I thought that if somebody is wearing 2 face diapers and/or a face diaper + plastic covering their entire face they MUST believe it's real, those who wear none MUST know it's a scam, and those who wear 1 face diaper might or might not believe it's real, and just wear it because of "rules", which aren't even rules because you J-Gov never mandated face diapers to begin with.
However, a woman who was wearing 2 face diapers on the train saw I was wearing none, so then she took off both of her face diapers, and took it back on again when she left the train.
So this made me thing that even those who wear 2 face diapers are probably "just following the rules".

@TerminalAutism @ryo @Alex
>Pretty sure that there is some old document that says that after the depopulation is over, most of the people around should be Chinese and Japanese because they make for good obedient slaves.

I know what you are talking about. People kept on claiming that's from one of Klaus Schwab's books, but it's not. It's from some unrelated book.

And I wouldn't say that there is a Chinese take over because as we all know, China along with every other country on Earth is controlled by the same elites.

@xianc78 @TerminalAutism @Alex The one problem I always keep having with the whole so-called "truth movement" is that they are more concerned about hand signals, numbers, and triangles, and then they just use mainstream media articles that are well known for spreading misinformation, or photos or videos from people that could have been faked in a way, and use it as a gospel and turn it into "this is proof that we're living in the end of times".

@ryo @TerminalAutism @Alex They made it especially difficult to find actual information about the COVID jabs.

The worst example is probably that Deagel website. That site has nothing to back up its population forecasts. Yet, people use it as proof that we are going to see a mass depopulation in less than 3 years. People say that it has a connection with Edwin A Deagle, but that's wrong (note the spelling between the site and the person). I don't know where this site comes from. I could probably get any military personal and ask if they have ever worked with some Deagel company and I bet none of them would have any clue.

@xianc78 @TerminalAutism @Alex I looked at Deagel before, seems more like it was made by some weapon otaku (no, this doesn't mean a military weapon anime weeb, it just means someone who's a huge fan of military grade weapons), and simply provides deep details about those.

Similar to all the train otaku's over here who know everything about trains, on which exact stations they stop, the differences between local, rapid, special rapid, commuter rapid, semi-rapid, semi-express, express, and so on, they know every single railway company, at which exact station you can change to which exact lines, every single train model that existed since the Meiji restoration etc.

I could never understand how this somehow got turned into "this is the Freemasons telling you that they're depopulating the world", just because it used to list that the USSA would lose 75% of the population, even though the disclaimer literally told that it doesn't necessarily mean that people are dying, it might as well be a result of a mass migration.
This especially makes sense if you consider how many 3rd world countries tend to get population increases, which immediately makes the whole depopulation claims fall apart.

As for the covAIDS injections, I simply concluded that there's just no true information available at all.
Everyone has a certain agenda with it, whether it be "safe and effective" or "depopulation and total enslavement" or "microchipping everybody".
In the end if you notice how they do the same stuff at every turn of the decade, it becomes obvious that the truth most likely lies somewhere in the middle.

@ryo @xianc78 @Alex It's not microchipping, it's nanochipping. All the shit that has been seen in the shots is in a microscopic scale. Pretty early on, I saw people looking at blood under the microscope and the blood cells were fucked, and there were weird structures all over the place.

@ryo @TerminalAutism @Alex The site said something about mass suicides occurring as a result of the economic collapse and violent civil wars occurring as countries become more unstable, leading to even more deaths. They've been making the same depopulation prediction since 2014.

@ryo @xianc78 @Alex The one problem that I have with the truth movement is that it doesn't exist.

@TerminalAutism @Alex @xianc78 This is why I say "so-called truth movement".
They call themselves "truthers", but most of them are just glowie ops who successfully managed to brainwash a couple of people who are technically working for them without even knowing it.

There is no truth, there is no lies, everything is an opinion in the end.

@ryo @Alex @xianc78 Quite the opposite. There are no opinions, there is truth and lies. Reality is what it is regardless of what people think. The problem is that they are too certain of everything that they hear even when they have no way to know for sure.