This is a quite a bit of handwringing over what is probably nothing:
- Kids have been playing war, battle, or fighting games during recess since recess started. I guarantee you can spend 1 recess at any school and see at least one set of kids playing some game which is fundamentally violent fantasy.
- As far as exposure - no offense but we are so far off kids never seeing violent imagery.
- But, most importantly, these are also likely a sourced by handful of kids who are teaching other kids to play it that way. That’s what kids do. I can think of several personal memories of my experience in elementary school where “Kid X” taught me something that, in retrospect, that kid probably shouldn’t know yet. The spread of knowledge in children is immensely effective.
My kid knows everything about squid game. She’s11. She’s never seen squid game. She has just heard others talk about it and she’s seen youtubers talk about it. Now she plays those games with friends who have also never seen squid game
Anyone remember red rover?
So many broken collarbones and other injuries. But lots of fun!
Fuck, looking back at that. Yeah that is a brutal game. No wonder I enjoy moshing.
So they’re playing regular kids games at recess or they’re murdering each other for money?
Not just Quebec. Kindergarteners are playing red light green light and think it’s called squid game.
who the fuck is letting their kids watch squid game?
It says game in the title. It’s obviously for kids. Just like Ender’s Game, the children’s picture book about committing genocide.
Playing Squid Games in the schoolyard is a step in a positive direction by Québécois standards:
Quebec premier says he wants to stop people from praying in public
I’m a proud atheist but this party is racist af
EDIT: direction 🥲
How would someone even know you’re ‘praying’ in public ynless youre making a spectacle about it? Thats what people dont want in the streets, large public demonstrations that seek to suck in and take advantage of vulnerable people. People know they can go to any of hundreds of churches or religious institutions if they want that sort of thing, but accosting strangers in public with your religion is not appropriate. You wanna sit on a park bench with yojr eyes closed and talk to god in your head, no one is going to stop you though.
“When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men … but when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your father who is unseen.”
Matthew 6:5-8
Jesus had some damn fine ideas. No matter what your religion is, prayer isn’t about being seen by other people.
You don’t seem very atheist. Why you want parks and streets covered with brain washed people doing pointless activities being a nuisance. Wanna pray go to a fucking church/synagogue/mosque or your house.
Do people watch stuff for adults dubbed?
Uncultured rubes do.
I suspect that a huge portion of Americans do not have the reading skill to keep up with subtitles. Subtitles make them feel stupid, so they won’t watch em.
Drag’s friend has ADHD and doesn’t like subs because then bot can’t look at bot’s stim toys and other distractions. Drag prefers subs because dub performances are so unreliable in quality, and they’re never going to perfectly match the directorial intent which the animations were made for. All Might’s American voice actor absolutely sucks. Which should be impossible because All Might is one of the most American characters in all of anime. But the guy just did a bad job. He’s not nearly loud and boisterous enough.
I watched it subbed the first time, per my preference. When I’ve rewatched it with family and friends, often they prefer dubs or we wanted to do other things at the same time which made dubs easier.
Having gone through both options twice, I can confidently say that while the essence is still the same (it’s still the same show at the end of the day), the experiences are vastly different
I just didn’t know adults did that in other places. Here it’s just for kids
I find subtiles distracting
I read the words that pop up on the screen in my own voice in my head and basically ignore the voices because I can not understand them anyways.
I enjoyed Death Note in dubbed
I enjoyed Alice in Boarderlands in subbed, dubbed was bad
I’m split on Money Heist. My friend showed me it in English and I watched the whole first episode without realizing it was dubbed. Trying to watch it subbed after that was like the characters were not speaking the language I thought they did. It was weird.
I can see some people hating the lips not matching up, but I don’t really look at.
Maybe if I was big into subbed shows I’d like them more and I’m sure I’d get better at enjoying subtitles.
But I am the kind of person that would want to rewind a movie or show because I didn’t understand what a character said. I hate feeling like I am missing important information.
I read the words that pop up on the screen in my own voice in my head and basically ignore the voices because I can not understand them anyways.
Most people read the subtitles in the voice of the character who said the thing.
So a Japanese character that I’ve never heard speak English says something in Japanese. English words pop up on screen.
You’re telling me you read the English words in a random Japanese/English accent? Like a stereotype voice?
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It’s the sounds of the Japanese language but the meaning is in English.
