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What I then wonder, is why did dubs feel the need to fill their audio with extra lines, or even replace intentional ambience/music choices with repetitive tracks?

There's at least one evolution/card slash sequence in Tamers where the music of the scene continues instead of the usual theme. Usually a mysterious or sombre theme. The dub would just use the usual action theme every time.

Is it that dubbers felt that w̶e̶s̶t̶e̶r̶n̶ American kids wouldn't be engaged? Would US kids *not* have been engaged? Or was it a self-fulfilling design choice, where by presuming kids wouldn't appreciate certain audio design and filling dubs with noise, that is exactly what kids ended up desiring?

Watching fansubbed Digimon Tamers and every so often I find myself thinking "the dub would have filed this silent section with nonsense throwaway lines".

I feel like old dubs maybe didn't have much respect for the sound design of their source material.

Remember when the most DRM you had to worry about was managing dozens of registration keys for all your OS versions and game expansion packs?

... remember when the most egregious money making scheme in the game industry was expansion packs?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Re boost:
I wish the tech industry didn't actively fight against the right to, just, own things.
But I understand the sentiment~.

Went through and deleted a *lot* of toots.

It's not like they needed to stay up. Metrics aren't important, and some of that personal stuff doesn't need to remain on a pseudo-public archive.

I'm still not sure about making a second more public account or not. Again: it's not like I should worry about a curated public image, but I still want an accessible account sometimes... hum.

I should try to remember to repost my tweets here too.

on that note;

I'm conflicted about whether I should continue to watch the Extra Credits channel.

It's not even anything to do with the harassment. (Unless Dan's departure was due to that.)

The new narrator's exuberance just doesn't work most of the time, the inclusion of the cat character is cute but the jokes are forced.

There's been a noticeable uptick in paid promotions.

And more recently the subject choices have either been weak, and not fully explored. Also they had a "Games You Might Not Have Tried" last month, and they had another one this week?

I haven't even really been watching Dan's Play Frame because I've seen KH's story enough times, I'd be more interested in just hearing his thoughts on design/direction in the games.

While I've mostly moved on from EC's horrendously misguided lootbox videos, and I disagree with Portnow's theory about making lootboxes better (tldr his suggestion would make them not lootboxes), there still remains that part of me that wonders if they regret those videos now that more regulations are being pushed.

It would suck to have to drop their channel, because they do have interesting things to say here and there, and the Extra Scifi has been interesting, but... the quality hasn't been consistent for a while.

People are jumping for joy about Evangelion on Netflix and it's just... I'm expecting it to not be licensed for streaming outside the US, and I would rather buy discs/download it so I actually own the damn eps than rely on some third-party to keep my purchases in existence.

What if I learned Japanese, just to be more authentically kitsune; I ponder, realising that would be absolute ヘル.