Ember2528

It's worth noting that when I say the views of a creator naturally will leak into their work, I mean that as a good thing. Entertainment being intertwined with the voice of the creator is as far as I'm concerned something that makes a piece of media more engaging. And when that is subtle as that kind of unintentional leakage normally is, that is normally better, coming across as more authentic and not preachy

@ember2528 無論、自身のイデオロギーや芸術的感性の表現を、ゲーム制作で表すクリエイターも存在しますが。そういったクリエイターは、つまりはエンターテイメント路線ではない、ということだと思います。

>西洋では「エンターテイメント製品」という概念が存在しない えええええええぇぇ こ、これはどういうこっちゃ

I get what you are saying, but the reason I can't really square that circle is that in all but the most basic, shallow slop will inevitably have reflected the internal feelings of their creators in some way, and the consumers of that media will pick up on that, and that itself is both extremely subjective and valid.

@ember2528 エンターテイメントの意図とは常に他者の為にあります。遊び手が楽しめるように。直感的な快適さを感じられるように。練習や考えることで報酬を得られる快感があるように。 それらは、作者の内心の表現……芸術性とは、異なるものであるように感じます。

Well, the other thing you have to remember is that fundamentally, the US has been the cultural center of the West since World War 2, and our First Amendment rights and our freedom of speech are probably the most deeply embedded concepts in our culture and our legal systems. Regulatory pressures like what you just described at most are capable influencing what is blatantly broadcast on public airwaves like the radio or public television where obscenity can be argued, but anything beyond is basically going to be dead in the water, and specific moral panics of any generation come and go, leaving their mark, but with people still making and distributing basically whatever they want. Also, there is the specific angle that in a lot of cases the underground "vulgar" counterculture just won and became part of the mainstream culture.

@ember2528 日本でもテレビ番組は比較的検閲が多く体制的エンタメと言えますが、漫画はよりアングラな所から始まっています。 常に社会からの規制圧と戦ってきた歴史があり、「子供が親に隠れて読む低俗な不健全図書」のイメージは、当時子供だった読者が大人になってもそう変わらないと思ってます。

西側の人達、これって本当ですか⁉︎? 本当だったらかなり驚きだけど、私もゲームを「アート」と呼ぶ人達が多い事を昨日から不思議に思ってたから、腑には落ちる。

Okay, yeah, I've got it now. The labels we use instead are just "high art" and "low art" to make distinction between different kinds of literature (or film or drawing or whatever). Also there is a much stronger understanding that what is considered an example of of "low art" when it is released often will develop a stronger cultural significance and place in history later and become a piece of "high art" to future generations. One iconic piece of American literature that is a perfect example of this being the Little House on the Prairie books.

@ember2528 @Farkham 日本のライトノベルは西洋で言うヤングアダルト小説やパルプ小説に該当するかも知れません。 純文学が最上位で、その下に一般小説や商業小説があり、その下がラノベ。一般的にこう見られています。 西洋でも同様のヒエラルキーはあると思いますが日本の方が明確な区分意識が強固かも知れません。

We would normally just describe those as more basic forms of art than more complex or in-depth works, but we wouldn't say they "aren't art". And, also, I can't think of any game that isn't some mixture of those elements you just labeled. Like, a lot of simpler games don't have a story because that doesn't always make sense, but every game has visuals, sound design, and gameplay that were made with intentionality by the people who made them. Some are just a lot simpler and more limited than others.

@ember2528 ゲームが芸術と言われるのは、音楽やビジュアル・ストーリー等が、ゲームの作者の創作性を意図し、それを実現しているからであると思っていました。 エンターテイメント製品の中に、芸術性が含まれているかどうかです。そして、芸術性がなくともエンターテイメント製品としてのゲームは成立します。

What you are describing in regards to what is and isn't considered art exists in the West, but in a far more limited form that rarely lasts for more than a single generation before their kids just naturally group the new type of media under "art". Or beyond that there are certain kinds of people who dismiss baser more pandering forms of media as "not real art" but that isn't the norm and most people consider that kind of mindset elitist and out of touch. Like, the most recent example of the generational divide is video games where it is more common for older generations to not consider it art, but they won't be able to give a clear reason, and ask anyone under the age of 40 and they will just refer to them as a form of art.

@ember2528 作品によって「利益の為に大衆に迎合した要素」と「深いテーマで人の人生に答えを提示する要素」のブレンド具合が異なるって事は日本人も西洋人も同様に理解してるけど、 日本人は最初にアニメと聞いた時点で「アニメか。ならエンタメのフォルダに入れよう」となるけど、 西洋人はそうしないという事？

The "products designed to make money" angle does make me ask though how you categorize the freely available Web Novels a lot of authors in Japan post on syosetu and other sites of that nature. Because they aren't really making anyone money unless they get picked up by a publisher and rewritten as a light novel and while more polished those aren't different in spirit from the web novels they tend to be adapted from. Do you consider light novels to be entertainment media?

@Farkham ただ、呼び方はさておいて、日本だと一般的に芸術品とエンタメ作品は明確に別物だとされます。 漫画やアニメ、ゲームは原則的にお金を稼ぐための商品であり製品であるという大前提があります(勿論それらに人生を変えられた人もいますし、愛情は本物だと思いますが) ここ説明するのが難しいですが…

Well, yeah. I may not quite be getting what your saying, but we absolutely have labels like "arcade games" "tabletop RPGs", and "board games", but we just consider them as different categories of art as capable of having as much cultural value as literature, paintings, or anything else that traditionally falls under the arts. The specific format they take on doesn't really affect that.

@ember2528 とても衝撃を受け、混乱しています。 そもそも、日本のゲームは海外にあったアーケードゲームや、テーブルトークRPG等のボードゲームを起源としています……いや、そもそも、ドラゴンクエストより先にあったのは、ウィザードリィやウルティマです。 なのに、それらのラベル概念が存在しない？

Yeah, of course! When I look at any piece of media, I am investing myself in the characters, trying to infer the values and messaging the creator put into the work, etc. To be clear, that doesn't mean I think every piece of art has the same amount of depth. Just to list off some Japanese series I like, Nekopara clearly has less depth than Overlord, which clearly has less depth than Mushoku Tensei and the degree to which I seriously take in their messaging varies with that, though doesn't completely go away at any level. But Regardless the format or traditional "seriousness" associated with any given type of media is irrelevant in my mind to whether or not it is capable of being art or being worth thinking about. Does that make sense?

@ember2528 もしかして、アニメや漫画、ドラマや映画に対するスタンスも同様ですか？ 私は以前から、西側のオタクたちが日本のオタクより遥かに情熱的に、作品について本気で視聴し意見を戦わせる様子を目にしました。 日本ではもっと肩の力を抜いて視聴するので。私はそれを国民性の違いだと思ってました。

A lot of people see one of the side benefits of this kind of legislation being that it pushes publishers against the live service model that I think you are talking about. After all, what we have basically seen that category of online games turned into is a bunch of very similar games, most of which loaded with microtransactions despite often being sold as a full priced AAA game. And then because the market is so saturated a lot of them fail to stay profitable making paying customers feel robbed when the servers go down. What most of us really want are the lightweight games with peer-to-peer multiplayer that requires cheap or nonsexist servers to maintain online services for that we pay for upfront, and continue to support through purchasing expansion packs the developers may release throughout the game's life. That was the model before live service and those were much better times.

@NAITOTokihiro これ通ったら、オンラインゲーム業界衰退するでしょうね。もしくは基本料金+アイテム課金に。 プライベートサーバーにすればと言う方は自前でゲームに耐えられるサーバーPCと光回線用意するだけの事が出来るんでしょうね

これは例えば電車を使ってたら、その電車を廃線にする時は、利用者全員に自転車を提供するか、それまで支払った乗車費用を全額払い戻せという意味になる、とんでもない法律と思う。これ、ゲームに限らずオンラインメディア全てに共通する話だよね。オンラインコミックとか。

Well, yeah. That is correct. And I support those people whenever I can. It is truly wonderful to see people take initiative and put in the work to make content more accessible to other players. Also, more broadly, while this isn't universally true, there is a general distrust towards the companies that large Japanese publishers tend to outsource their translations too thanks to there being many documented examples of the localizers butchering translations so you'll sometimes even see things lile fan retranslations of games that already have official translations.

I think one deeper disconnect is that in the West the concept of an "entertainment product" isn't really a concept that exists in the West and we mostly universally consider art to be a very broad category that describes literally any creative work. Video games logically falling under the category of interactive artwork.

@SigmaSyndikate @omusubirolling1 漫画とかアニメとかエロゲみたいなオタク界隈に深く密接に関わってきた文化は君の言う西洋における芸術品の保管のような感覚が日本にもあると思う ただ一般的なゲームはちょっと微妙なラインで、日本ではゲームはあくまで娯楽品って感覚の方が大きいと思う

少しずつ日本と西側の違いが分かってきた。 どうやら西側ではEAのトラウマというものがあって「大企業=インディーズの天才クリエイター達を潰してゲームで儲けた悪の帝国」という共通認識があるっぽい…？ その悪の帝国が勝手にサービスを終了した=作品が殺された　という認識なのかな、多分。

@XOz97lsnQ14RRJf @kmtkmt12 People absolutely have put in the effort to restore EOS Disney games. One obvious example, just look at Club Penguin. There are dozens of community servers that have popped up since the official servers went down with thousands of players.

@kmtkmt12 結局日本企業が舐められてるだけなんでしょうね、彼らだって殴り返してくるディズニーの懐には手を突っ込まんでしょう

いますぐ訴えられて多額の賠償金を請求されて欲しい。こういう権利侵害するやつらがいるせいで他のゲームでも移植や翻訳が遅れがちなんだよ。海外版出してもお前ら買わないだろって思われてるんだぜ？ほんと自殺行為だよ

@MikeMumbelz @Pirat_Nation They have. You just described the Alliance for Open Media. AV1 has been out for years and slowly growing in adoption. They are actively working on AV2

@Pirat_Nation Wouldn't surprise me if the main platforms all coordinated on investing in a new universal standard to circumvent this nonsense. Proprietary warfare is a cancer on all industries.

The Licensing Alliance just changed H.264 video royalties for new licenses starting in 2026. Big streaming services used to pay a maximum of $100,000 per year. Now the cap is much higher up to $4.5 million for the largest platforms. Old 2025 licenses stay the same. Small or new services still pay the lower rate.

Depends on how you define demonic, I guess. It's definitely a more explicit form than it used to be and gone further, but what they make now I would really just say express the same values as what was made since the 70s but progressed further and with less talent. Not that a gem doesn't still come out every now and then, of course.

@ember2528 @zundamotisuki ハリウッドの最近の映像見たけど凄いね。昔は悪魔的では無かったんでしょ?

純粋な疑問なのですがアメリカ人はなぜそんなにカリフォルニア州を嫌っているのですか？ 日本人はみんな不思議に思っていると思います

It's a combination of factors though "copy blue states" Isn't a real solution as the states at the top of the net contributors in New York/New Jersey and California have the structural advantages of being the main financial hub of the US for historical reasons and being the majority of the West Coast and having Silicon Valley, neither of which can just be replicated in other states, Red or Blue. And raising taxes and imposing more regulations would just have the effect of making businesses more shy to enter in the first place. And since you brought up education, again there are a lot of reasons for that but education is not something that you can fix by throwing money at it. To focus on the South, we were hit particularly hard by the Whole Language trend which was particularly damaging for teaching black kids (of which we have a disproportionate amount of) how to read (AAVE is different enough from written English for it to cause real problems with that method), and Mississipi has done an extremely good job reversing that trend by returning to phonics, which is a curriculum change that wasn't meaningfully more expensive that the old model.

@ember2528 @bishopsankey057 @CargoShortLife @ABC Or is it due to a combination of factors, reliance on lower-wage industries, lower educational attainment, and policy choices. These states frequently prioritize lower taxes and fewer regulations, which lead to limited public funding for education and social services.

The Trump administration must restore the legal status of potentially hundreds of thousands of immigrants who came to the United States legally through a Biden-era pathway, a federal judge ruled Tuesday. abcnews.link/iAn9X3o

Yeah, Red states generally have more military bases and old people, if you're wondering where that money is going, plus generally being poorer. There is a whole history on that, but the government isn't about to move its military bases any time soon and old people aren't going to stop moving to where it is nice and warm. Not quite sure what that has to do with Trump's failures though, it has been a thing since Bush and his predecessors were in power and they were about as happy letting immigrants in as the democrats were back then.

@ember2528 @bishopsankey057 @CargoShortLife @ABC I hear ya. But the top ten states that take more federal money than they pay in are majority red states? And those states that pay in more than they receive are majority blue states? Yup he did betray everyone, except the rich and himself.