The Ben 10 Affleck-Out: I feel like fame is wasted on me.

[Sheik]

That's a good way to jynx your team. The hockey gods would not approve.

...

Do it.

I see your game...
I shall NOT let my impulse lose the only team in Michigan that is worth keeping around. Well Red Wings and somewhat the Tigers. But I'm fucked when it comes to throwing stats.

[Iamerror]

South Park is fucking random.

[Sheik]

Sheik is fucking random.

Maybe.
Maybe not.
But you know what is random, and a bit unsettling, some translated fan horror games.
http://vgperson.com/games/

[deadlegion]

Who is random?

[Iamerror]

Stop changing my posts

[Drageuth]

Who is random?

Old member. You probably weren't around when he was here.

[Iamerror]

Everyone's random.

[Beelzebub]

Deviating somewhat from the original doesn't bother me, as direct translations are. . . well, NES games. It's all the out-of-place meme inserts that destroy the experience for me. Exile Wicked Phenomenon had an MST3K reference. That's part awesome, seeing how much I loved MST3K as a kid. . . but it's also awful, because WHY THE HELL WOULD SOMEBODY IN 12 CENTURY BAGHDAD BE WATCHING MST3K?! There was also an Elvis reference in Albert Odyssey, a Pepto Bismol reference in one of the Lunars and a bunch more I can't think of right now.
Also, they sometimes tweaked damage values to make games more challenging, but usually botched it, because the original companies had to do the insertion; Popful Mail is needlessly difficult, and Exile Wicked Phenomenon is largely considered impossible to beat.

As for age. . . I'll be 31 on Saturday.
next time somebody asks me the difference between existentialism and nihilism, I'm going to quote Sartre. . . the answer is 30.

Well, at the time (early-mid 90s) it wasn't uncommon to see blatantly American pop culture references in the US releases of games. Seeing as how Japanese pop culture didn't really become popular in America until after 2000. So to make it easier on Americans certain "Japan-esque" references/jokes/slang. Were usually changed to more American one's so that we could relate a bit easier. Since if they were to put the literal translation in there. We would be scratching our heads and saying "WTF was that?" This wasn't just a Working Designs "problem" either. Just look at the game Earthbound. There were a lot of references to Japanese culture that had to be changed because of the target audience in America. Not to mention NoA's penchant for extreme censoring. The thing about video games back then is that there was always the target demographic. The demographic was quite a bit different in the 90s in the US than in Japan. Video games have been and always will be a business. Businesses have to make money, thus the attempt to not alienate their demo. We're just lucky that it's not really like that nowadays in the US. With the proliferation of Japanese culture in the past decade and a half or so.

Also Japanese/USA game difficulties have gone both ways since the history of game localization. For example take a look at the Japanese version of Actraiser versus the American counterpart. the Japanese version is way harder with many more damaging obstacles in levels. As well as harder boss fights. Though usually when it comes to the US. We almost always get the watered-down version compared to the Japanese. That is if we get a version at all.

Hey man, I turned 31 in August. I feel your pain.

[Warrior]

[Iamerror]

I'm 34.I feel your pain too.

[Drageuth]

I'm 25, but I feel like I'm 35. Does that count?

[Beelzebub]

sports talk that isn't kendo.

Damn you for leaving before making my point!

[Sheik]

Oh god...
This conversation
I'll just show myself the door

[Beelzebub]

I'm 34.I feel your pain too.

I'm 25, but I feel like I'm 35. Does that count?

Pssh.

Sometimes I feel like I'm 50, I swear.

[deadlegion]

Old member. You probably weren't around when he was here.

You're talking about Random, not random