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"Robert has a problem letting a team take care of his game due to creative control, but doesn't have one in taking money from his Latin American fans."
Oof.
There are more hot takes in there, like how very "gringo" it is to think people should learn to speak English to truly appreciate his work of art, putting it behind a wall of privilege most of the world doesn't have access to.
https://dropsdejogos.uai.com.br/noticias/industria/toby-fox-nao-e-seu-amigo-por-victor-hidalgo/
Hot take (maybe?): if you want your game to be translated with the highest quality possible, you don't need to speak the language, but still have to be directly involved in the process in some capacity.
You can't just offload the text to an agency and expect not to have to think about it anymore.
And yeah, it's a ton of work. Quality translation isn't easy and it doesn't depend just on the translator.
Two foreign researchers who are married apparently tried to steal virus samples from a Brazilian university.
This feels like some spy story or something.
I absolutely love that handheld gaming is coming back with tons of companies making tons of different stuff with different designs and all.
But it sucks that it all amounts to "what flavor of Steam do you want to run?". Valve might as well be monopolizing another entire sector of the market.
It's a bit uneasy to have one company controlling the PC market and also taking over the "handheld" (miniaturized PCs with screens, actually) market, even if indirectly.
