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Really don't want to complain in this random comment section, but I am kind of tired of the restricting corset trope. Corsets are as comfortable as you make/buy them, many women who are into historical fashion even prefer them to modern bras. The restricting ones were ones that women wore mostly to appear more attractive as they did slim down your physique (while rearranging your internal organs) just like how women today wear high heels for the special posture they give.

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Not gonna lie, I always wondered what the hell Dumbledore was smoking when he left Harry in Petunia's care. "Bla bla bla her love will protect you", my dude, she was basically pressured into taking him in and he got bullied and tortured for years, where the hell is the love in that?

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Gastrodgf said in comment #2645510:

Current Events - Localisation discourse over Daitaku Helios, newly added into the Global version.

"Discourse" over this is really funny because this is one of the few times where I think the English translation being full of zoomer slang and meme references actually makes sense; because isn't that the closest analog to the gyaru slang she uses in the original JP?

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Gastrodgf said in comment #2645510:

Current Events - Localisation discourse over Daitaku Helios, newly added into the Global version.

alphashitlord said in comment #2645863:

"Discourse" over this is really funny because this is one of the few times where I think the English translation being full of zoomer slang and meme references actually makes sense; because isn't that the closest analog to the gyaru slang she uses in the original JP?

Whenever people defend localization, they basically go , "ermmm Japanese is a highly contextual language that you cannot comprehend unless you study Murasaki Shikibu's entire literature and derivatives. Even then, its nouns require three translators because they change depending on the phase of the moon." To defend a character's gyaru rendering and butcher her characterisation to a quirkychungus zoomer who says, "Highkey sussy rizz, 'kay?" Bet, no cap... Skibidi?" As if valley girls don't exist and couldn't have borrowed from their slang and syntax.

"Toreppi," "ojou," the "cchi" suffix, and "paisen" are the Japanese equivalent of Jabberwocky and are thus difficult for English audiences to understand. Therefore, translating them as "BB Flo," "Rubae," "Palmz," "Memmy B," or "Ogurizz" is better.

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