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    Quote Originally Posted by Mithron View Post
    I've been to Florence, as my brother lived in Cincinnati for awhile. "Northern Kentucky" does sound less southern overall but it's still not the "general" accent. I also travel through eastern Kentucky as I have family in North Carolina as well.

    Let me put it to you this way. I'll go work for the JP voices for this game and use my White Kentuckian accent to say Japanese lines. And you better say I'm "doing Japanese proud" when I do.
    This is a poor analogy because you don't speak Japanese.

    For this analogy to work, Wuk Lamat would have to be speaking Spanish.

    Besides, this already happened. Gosetsu's VA is an English man who put on a vaguely-Japanese accent, but nobody grabbed their pitchforks over that.

    I wonder why... <3
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    Quote Originally Posted by Embran View Post
    This is a poor analogy because you don't speak Japanese.

    For this analogy to work, Wuk Lamat would have to be speaking Spanish.

    Besides, this already happened. Gosetsu's VA is an English man who put on a vaguely-Japanese accent, but nobody grabbed their pitchforks over that.

    I wonder why... <3

    Hien too. His accent is a bit weird, especially the way he pronounces some of the names. it's always taken me out of it when he pronounces Yugiri's name. Like, he puts too much emphasis on the Yuu part, dragging it too long. It doesn't sound natural. No rage threads tho.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Valkyrie_Lenneth View Post
    Hien too. His accent is a bit weird, especially the way he pronounces some of the names. it's always taken me out of it when he pronounces Yugiri's name. Like, he puts too much emphasis on the Yuu part, dragging it too long. It doesn't sound natural. No rage threads tho.
    Hien's VA is Japanese, but raised in the UK, which really just reduces this "argument" even further, since it mirror's Wuk Lamat's VA's position exactly. Latina, raised in the US.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Embran View Post
    This is a poor analogy because you don't speak Japanese.

    For this analogy to work, Wuk Lamat would have to be speaking Spanish.

    Besides, this already happened. Gosetsu's VA is an English man who put on a vaguely-Japanese accent, but nobody grabbed their pitchforks over that.

    I wonder why... <3
    My dude, I dated a Korean for 7 years who spoke four languages, including Japanese. Who are you to say I don't speak Japanese? And that's not even the point. The point is that there unjust and immoral double standards being applied here. And even further to the point, it's not even just her VA is bad, it's her entire character, who and what she represents. Her personality, how out of place she looks (not even culturewise just graphically wise), her face doesn't look anything like any other race in FFXIV, much less male Hrothgars. She looks very similar to all that creepy AI art, completely out of place with the rest of the game.

    Gosetsu's VA did a great job. Wuk Lamat did not. Why is that hard to understand? Why is it even contentious or controversial to have that opinion?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Mithron View Post
    My dude, I dated a Korean for 7 years who spoke four languages, including Japanese. Who are you to say I don't speak Japanese? And that's not even the point. The point is that there unjust and immoral double standards being applied here. And even further to the point, it's not even just her VA is bad, it's her entire character, who and what she represents. Her personality, how out of place she looks (not even culturewise just graphically wise), her face doesn't look anything like any other race in FFXIV, much less male Hrothgars. She looks very similar to all that creepy AI art, completely out of place with the rest of the game.

    Gosetsu's VA did a great job. Wuk Lamat did not. Why is that hard to understand? Why is it even contentious or controversial to have that opinion?
    You keep pulling weird obscure shit from your past every time someone points out the flaws in your logic like "my neighbor was X race, I can comment about racial issues that don't apply to me all I want" lol

    I'm glad you dated a Korean woman and I have no doubt that makes you the arbiter of Korean culture and representation in your mind, Mr. Kentucky.
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