comfortable
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comfortable
6mo ago
Well I suppose that's bad news for people who want to break the law when driving, for the rest of us though it's a good if such drivers are off the roads.
My new car will helpfully display what it thinks the current speed limit is.
Sometimes, that means that while I'm driving down the highway with a posted 65mph speed limit, it will start flashing "25 mph" on the dashboard.
comfortable
5mo ago
This reminds me of the video game localization done by Cygames (a Japanese company notable for mobile game Granblue Fantasy). In every localization that they've ever done, "Merry Christmas" becomes "Happy Holidays", and all references to the word "Christmas" get removed.
However, they generally don't dub their games, so you can read "Happy Holidays" in the text while hearing the voice actors say "Merry Christmas" in heavily accented English.
I don't find race swapping to be necessarily bad, but it's often at the very least a red flag.
As for your Sir Orfeo example, I have much more respect for a full-scale consistent race/location/culture swap than inconsistent piecemeal swaps that seem as if to attempt a replacement of the source material.
"The Wiz" is fine. Disney's "The Princess and the Frog" is fine. Disney's "The Little Mermaid" remake is not fine, but it would have been if they called it something different and marketed it differently.
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