With Apologies to Sena Bryer

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. Health issues and working on tracking down all of Kate's spiciest and stupidest takes. Saw a fun collection of her tweets a few pages back. Trying to compile a nice collection ranging from common ones where she forced the pixies to be non-binary in English localization only, to her refusal to translate Otokonoko (男の娘) on stage at Fanfest when Yoshi-P used it to refer to Emet-Selech. Kate and Sena both deserve to be fired for their incompetence and forcing their politics into everything. Please look forward to it or whatever, idk.

You know, I do have to thank both Sena and Kate for going full unhinged mask off with their insane takes. The people who claimed it was only "imaginary problems" made up by grifters are conveniently silent now. Still want to argue that DEI hires aren't making the things you love worse? I didn't think so.

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Originally Posted by Isala

You know, I do have to thank both Sena and Kate for going full unhinged mask off with their insane takes. The people who claimed it was only "imaginary problems" made up by grifters are conveniently silent now. Still want to argue that DEI hires aren't making the things you love worse? I didn't think so.

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Only thing left for FFXIV now is to accelerate the en-crappening of the game. Cat's out of the bag now, so I have little hope for the game's future anymore.

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Originally Posted by Bananarama

Only thing left for FFXIV now is to accelerate the en-crappening of the game. Cat's out of the bag now, so I have little hope for the game's future anymore.

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I haven't had hope for this game's future since they decided to double and triple down on the dog water Job Design from Shadowbringers. DT's so god damned boring, I'm basically already raid logging at this point. And that's only because I committed to my friends. And I'm about to hit the limit of my patience with that.

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Originally Posted by Karious

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. Health issues and working on tracking down all of Kate's spiciest and stupidest takes. Saw a fun collection of her tweets a few pages back. Trying to compile a nice collection ranging from common ones where she forced the pixies to be non-binary in English localization only, to her refusal to translate Otokonoko (男の娘) on stage at Fanfest when Yoshi-P used it to refer to Emet-Selech. Kate and Sena both deserve to be fired for their incompetence and forcing their politics into everything. Please look forward to it or whatever, idk.

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Godspeed and good luck brother. May your finds be great and enemies dumb.

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Originally Posted by Karious

Trying to compile a nice collection ranging from common ones where she forced the pixies to be non-binary in English localization only, to her refusal to translate Otokonoko (男の娘) on stage at Fanfest when Yoshi-P used it to refer to Emet-Selech.

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You know, I've always wondered how the pixies refer to themselves originally.

My knowledge of japanese it's below basic but I can't recall if I caught on that while playing through SHB.

As for the Otokonoko thing, I wasn't aware... a localizer unable to grasp the nuances of the culture they're localizing games from? Of course, wouldn't want to show that Japan accepts that men with ambiguous looks are a thing, that must be transphobic, and of course, westerners know better, right?

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Originally Posted by Midare

You know, I've always wondered how the pixies refer to themselves originally.

My knowledge of japanese it's below basic but I can't recall if I caught on that while playing through SHB.

As for the Otokonoko thing, I wasn't aware... a localizer unable to grasp the nuances of the culture they're localizing games from? Of course, wouldn't want to show that Japan accepts that men with ambiguous looks are a thing, that must be transphobic, and of course, westerners know better, right?

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There's a reason JP companies are starting to replace Wokalizers with AI in things like manga. And nobody that matters is upset about this. We're to the point where crappy AI gibberish is preferable to actual people, because they can't just do their jobs.

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Originally Posted by Isala

There's a reason JP companies are starting to replace Wokalizers with AI in things like manga. And nobody that matters is upset about this. We're to the point where crappy AI gibberish is preferable to actual people, because they can't just do their jobs.

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It's not that they can't, it's that they won't.

I work with money. My job's to count the beans, not tell people how to eat them. It's not a hard concept. I do my job, and it pays for my hobbies. I go home, play games, and build models.

These people think it's their job to tell other people what to think and feel, not to translate. Getting real sick of it.

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Originally Posted by SwadTheFrog

I dunno. I think that people actively talking about a VA calling everyone racist for not liking a notoriously fairly divisive track is something really worth discussing in the official forums in the game.

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I agree, Sena's statements and behavior are completely unprofessional and instigating a lot of unrest within our community. It's clear that casting Sena Bryer as Wuk Lamat's English VA was a mistake due to their lack of expressive range. The mistake is now being compounded by Sena's continued divisive online behavior.

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Originally Posted by Karious

Sorry I haven't posted in a few days. Health issues and working on tracking down all of Kate's spiciest and stupidest takes. Saw a fun collection of her tweets a few pages back. Trying to compile a nice collection ranging from common ones where she forced the pixies to be non-binary in English localization only, to her refusal to translate Otokonoko (男の娘) on stage at Fanfest when Yoshi-P used it to refer to Emet-Selech. Kate and Sena both deserve to be fired for their incompetence and forcing their politics into everything. Please look forward to it or whatever, idk.

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I genuinely wasn't aware of this stuff. It's frustrating how difficult it is to remain faithful to the source material for these kind of people that are so mentally fixated on their own ideology. This kind of nonsense needs to stop. It does a disservice not only to the people you supposedly work for, but for the players as well.