>"Airhead" is too offensive in the modern gaming landscape

>"Airhead" is too offensive in the modern gaming landscape
jesus fricking christ

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  1. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    because that word is trademarked by the candy brand.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Nintendo has millions of proofs of prior usage across the globe
      Siri, collect 1,000 common phrases that are also trademarked, then search the entire english dialogue of Paper Mario

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      you cant trade mark a common english word

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Nintendo has millions of proofs of prior usage across the globe
        Siri, collect 1,000 common phrases that are also trademarked, then search the entire english dialogue of Paper Mario

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airheads_(candy)
        right here

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          then they wouldnt have used it in the original. think a little, moron.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's a pretty legendary candy though tbh. Fricking cherry ones just melt in your mouth. I'd just ask for 20 Airheads as my last meal if I was being executed.

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            i used to take two flavors and twist them together and chew on the twist for a good 10 minutes

            • 8 months ago
              Anonymous

              oh dude it was so fun twisting them
              i can't believe i don't have any cavities, but did get gingivitis once (went to dentist since I had an off-white yellow/brownish line along one tooth) and needed antibiotics lel

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            i used to take two flavors and twist them together and chew on the twist for a good 10 minutes

            I love the Blue Raspberry ones but I don't have candy anymore. They made 'Sour' Airheads too and that were really tasty.

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Anon, do you think Airhead didn't exist when the original was made?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Ohio State trademarked THE

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          frick osu

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Like Apple and Monster?

        https://www.eurogamer.net/monster-energy-targets-indie-game-in-latest-trademark-lawsuit

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        what's hilarious is that you can, but any highschool law class worth its weight would have told you that in order for a trademark to be strong and more easily approved and be of a generic word, the word in question cannot simply be something that applies to the product
        for instance, calling your company "apples" when all you sell are apples
        but when you're a music company or a computer company, apple doesn't really say anything and thus adds more strength to the trademark
        on the flipside of this is a thing called trademark erosion, which happened to things like aspirin and escalator, by overuse of words to become commonplace causing such trademarks to become genericized
        also for infringement to occur, one must prove that there can easily exist confusion between parties or elements

        noone is going to get confused thinking bowser saying "airhead" is a reference to a candy product

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        apple says hi

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      learn how trademark law applies through apple records v apple

  2. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    What did he call her in the Japanese version?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      finger butt

  3. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's been a long ass time since I played the original Thousand Year door but were there battles with 5 enemies?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      They're rare, but they definitely happen. There's even a battle against 5 Goombas in the Glitz Pit.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      why the frick are the battle icons so frickhuge?

  4. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's all so tiresome

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      i agree, how do people keep getting upset over nothing?

  5. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Honestly Lunkhead sounds more like something Bowser would say.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      But airhead is more in line with the casual PM dialogue.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      This is a good change. Airhead has an early 90s valley girl vibe to it. Lunkhead sounds more Bowser-like.

      https://i.imgur.com/eP4YTD1.jpg

      >"Airhead" is too offensive in the modern gaming landscape
      jesus fricking christ

      I was going to say this:

      Airhead is a sexist term used primarily towards women.

      It doesn't make sense for Bowser to say lunkhead, because that's typically an insult used against dumb men.

      Airhead is makes more sense, because he's insulting a woman.

  6. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    but apparently even more offensive in-universe given all of their reactions.

  7. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    It's a different translation. Not everything is a political issue. You can b***h when Vivian shit gets revealed.

  8. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is a good change. Airhead has an early 90s valley girl vibe to it. Lunkhead sounds more Bowser-like.

  9. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Huh, bowser's lair actually looks straight up better.
    Maybe they are actually trying even if they don't always get it right.
    Looks a lot more fittingly dark rather than staticly bright.

  10. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    defending trannieslation

  11. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >that painting of bowser with a moustache
    Is this Bowser's father, King Bowser I

  12. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Vivian is still not a troony
    >Translatorgays lose

    >Vivian is a troony
    >based people lose

    This is a lose lose on Ganker's end.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Vivian remains a girl in the west
      >shitposters have no ammo, a handful of people b***h about the translation, more porn is made

      >Vivian is now a troony/trap in the west
      >shitposters have unlimited ammo, but more porn is made
      The moral of the story is to not give shitposters (You)s and to enjoy the porn regardless.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Ganker hates troonyslators though

  13. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Airhead is a sexist term used primarily towards women.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      [...]
      [...]
      I was going to say this: [...]
      It doesn't make sense for Bowser to say lunkhead, because that's typically an insult used against dumb men.

      Airhead is makes more sense, because he's insulting a woman.

      Is this what you have learned in genderstudies?
      An airhead does dumb shit because he is absent minded.
      A lunkhead is a slow witted moron with the focus on slow.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        Airhead definitely was more female
        https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Basic_%28slang%29&useskin=vector#Origins

        why the frick are the battle icons so frickhuge?

        Maybe touch controls

  14. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    oh no the wokie wokety woke wokite wokkle devs are ruining our games once again

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      I know right, those /misc/ gamers are way worse than those who actually complain for lack of poc characters in nintendo’s lineup

  15. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    This is the biggest reach ive ever seen of case of censorship.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      Yeah. The censors really did reach pretty far. When they already had a full translation ready. And all they had to do was copy and paste text, it's crazy that they bothered to change the word. Why were they so bothered by "airhead"?

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        I meant for op for reaching but i should have been more clear

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          I know what you meant.

  16. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why are you playing with children toys? Kinda creepy

  17. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lunkhead is actually more offensive as a "Lunk" was a racial slur traditionally used against the native U''ivelm people of the plains of Appalachia by the Appalachians..

  18. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Love how every fricking speech bubble will be dissected for shitposting and fake outrage while I will just play it in my language and Nintendo of Europe does a better job anyway^^

  19. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Is peach walking around naked going to be kept in the switch version? And the playboy bunny boo?

  20. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Genuinely who gives a fat shit?

  21. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Lunkhead's a little sharper as an insult.

  22. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I don't care what kind of re-localization shit they do, just as long as they keep the genius idea to turn the Bunny Boos into cat Boos to get around Playboy.

  23. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    honestly lunkhead sounds more like something Bowser would say so I'm cool with this

  24. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Important: How will the shower scene be altered?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      It'll just be cut.
      TEC will froth over peach doing her hair or something instead

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      it won't
      it doesn't even show anything
      considering madame flurrie's gigantic voluptuous breasts are still bouncing freely as god intended i seriously doubt there's anything else that they would be concerned about

  25. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because a particular airhead died and became Black Jesus

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