i totally forgot about this genre entirely and I have decided this post is wrong, authors should play less video games actually. never mind. i'm trying to delete it. computer how do I delete posts on the blue sky website

unfortunately yes

yeah lol it's kind of hard to pick up when you don't have a strong frame of reference for life in the country even if you do speak the language? I don't have a particularly great grasp of japanese politics either. I remember a bunch of artists getting pissed about some change to tax law once??

bluesky shouldn't hide non-english posts by default that's wack anglo-centric horseshit that seems to entirely discount the concept of bilingual people. but also you're not a participant in Global Discourse because you sometimes scroll past german posts. we all live in little bubbles.

idk if I like in-app machine TL because the number of times I saw insane mistranslations of things high profile japanese creatives said on twitter was irresponsibly high

but yeah bsky automatically defaulting to english only is fucking weird lol

yeah and as a brit I also find that annoying but also Americans account for like around 40% of the entire world's population of english speakers so just as a function of the numbers most platforms accessible to the english speaking internet are gonna be majority American

i get tired of being surrounded by a US-centric internet a lot too but like, unfortunately there's several times the number of americans than there are most european nations and I speak the same language so unless I pivoted entirely to posting in japanese that's just, gonna happen. it is what it is.

sorry this is a subtweet about a strain of discourse going around that bluesky is somehow less meaningful as an abstract representation of sentiment because the majority of its users are american? like it matters to that type of person at all that there are fewer spanish posts they can't read lol

like y'know obviously I'm not against more people using the website, sure, why not. but outside of Japanese, the only other language I can read, I'm not exactly invested in it? like if you're actually interested in the goings on of other places, microblogging shouldn't be your sole insight into them

also frankly even when it's not true, do you even care? Does it mean anything to you that something like 50% of YouTube users are from India? Probably not unless you can speak Hindi. You probably didn't even know, at all? Why we acting like more French users matters for your monolingual ass.

like ok, mobile? still bad but whatever, I get it, there's like nothing worth a damn on the phone, phone is where caring about what you're consuming goes to die.

your *computer* though? what the fuck? why? you could do literally anything else. you know they got all the kingdom hearts games on here?

not untrue but I don't know if I'd consider doom 2 or plutonia better than doom. everyone loves a super shotgun but doom 2 has the many many bad levels of sandy petersen. of the official things built off doom I would suggest that doom is in fact, the best doom.