>cyberpunk/sci-fi game
>random Japanese neon sign in full Katakana
Why do devs do this?
Cyberpunk/sci-fi game
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>tfw hundreds of kanji learned and still cant read katakana
I dont even care, katakana is dumb
Neuromancer by William Gibson was the birth of the Cyberpunk genre and a large portion of the book takes place in Japan.
Never actually noticed this trope before now.
This. It’s a staple of the genre
Hundreds of Kanji is basically nothing though...
>Play sleeping dogs
>can read all the signs but not really
Because "cultural relativism/mixing" due to shithole future that is worse than the ass cancer we have now.
Thats not w good reason especially if a cyberpunk game doesnt take place in Japan
The point she was trying to make was that katakana is hard to read quickly because the letters look so similar... You just have to practice really. The alphabet itself is dead easy but reading something like トランジション in a long sentence in less than a second is hard if you're not fluent at reading.
Well, there's Blade Runner.
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>year of our based lord 2020
>still doesn't know Japanese
You've had so long to learn it.
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>not a good reason
translating
>i don't like that reason
I don't know what to tell you user. That's the reason it's there. If you look into the lore into the Cyberpunk tabletop RPG, Japan is a global superpower. Neon weebshit is a staple. The same way that Gothic architecture and symbolism is a staple of lovecraftian settings.
perhaps underageb& or maybe actually want a dekinai thread
Cyberpunk was "born" during the Japan boom and perhaps alot of contributors liked the aesthetic
It makes me irrationally mad when I see this, not even the japanese like katakana beacause for some is difficult to read to the point that they feel like they have dislexya.
Cyberpunk borrows it's aesthetics from Japan bro. I've played video games set in alternate realities that still have spaghetti in them, despite no Italians living there.
People in the 80s thought Japan was going to take over the world.
Much like how people think China is going to take over the world now and that learning Mandarin is a big investment in the future.
That's actually interesting, user
but it makes no sense for a game not in japan
So the asian century is just like the year of the linux desktop
>people actually make porn of deki-chan
WHAT THE FUCK
Why? You can go to many cities and see stores with foreign signs right now.
>Why?
Becuase it's not in japan
Japanese things can be outside of Japan
There is literally just 1 country where people speak japanese, that's why.
What video games are you playing in japanese?
For me its P4G on PC, its nice because I can easily screenshot words I don't know.
Back in the 80s-90s, you can see slavrunes in American cities to cater to slav immigrants. The idea of cyberpunk is kind of the same. Big cities attract immigrants and in megacities like in cyberpunk settings, racial diversity is all over. Degeneracy is at its peak, megacorporations control everything, and racial homogeneity is essentially gone.
So lore wise a sequel can take place in Japan? Or is that place fucked up at the timeline?
>You can't fuck me
My デキ is already 内
I literally just started 2 days ago and can get 7 hiragana characters constantly on Anki, is that good?
I was planning to decipher Yotsuba once I get halfway through hiragana so I can use it in practice, and hope at some point it becomes more reading than decipher.
>ONE COUNTRY ONE CULTURE
retard
As long as you're making progress, it's good. I've been learning slavrunes myself.
Please post more porn of her. I only have the 3 pics.
I can give you the rundown on what to expect because I was in your position. Also if you want to practice Nihongo offsite too