~you are the ocean's grey waves~

He was a very avid gamer, had always been since his youth. However, like many other people of his generation in Spain, he only spoke Spanish (and Catalan, but that's besides the point). A lot of early games never got translated to Spanish, and then some started to arrive with very shoddy translations. FFVII's Spanish translation is infamously bad (thankfully, these quickly improved, and FFIX's Spanish translation was pretty excellent).

So there was this margin of time where he had a lot of games to enjoy because translations to Spanish started to become more commonplace.

... Up until, well, I think 2015-ish or so, where suddenly there was a growing influx of games that went back to not being translated. I did not mind it for indie ones, translations are costly, but you got games like FFXIV which simply never considered it worth having a Spanish translation. So, there was this growing list of games I really wanted to show him that were never translated. Sure, some had fan-translations, but he didn't really play much in his computer, so most of them were off the table.

He started to learn a bit of English during 2020 in order to be able to eventually try some of these games. Covid hit, he had some time for it. I was away for college and I could not help him much, but he would text me English questions every now and then. He had never finished even basic schooling (pretty common for folk born and raised in francoist Spain), so his progress was slow as he did not know how to... Learn something like a new language.

I did finally come back home after college, and for few months, I was able to help him with his learning. I think he would have eventually got the gist of it. But he ended up passing away very unexpectedly.

It's always been a sore point for me to see all these games I wanted to play with him that we never got around to because of linguistic barriers. Sure, younger folk tend to have higher levels of English literacy, and for many it is not as much of a gap. But there's still many that don't talk it. There's a lot of older folk who will never get to experience certain games due to a lack of localization. And I truly understand it for indie games with limited budgets, but there has been an increasing trend of games with high budgets that do not translate to anything just because there's enough young folk with English knowledge who will play it regardless.

I don't believe Aang was a bad father in the way the show said he was because it's contrary to his entire personality. Someone who helped form the Air Acolytes would never neglect his son because he's not a bender or his daughter because she's not an air bender. Just like I don't believe Luke "There Is Still Good In Vader" Skywalker would try to kill his nephew, it's contrary to his entire personality, Luke would not see his nephew any differently than he saw Anakin, especially when he hadn't yet done anything wrong while Vader had genocided half the galaxy and murdered a bunch of children.

I believe that Simba struggled to raise his daughter because he was overprotective BECAUSE he knows how fucking easy it is for someone to die in the savanna. It happened right in front of him. He also didn't get raised to adulthood with his parents so ofc he's not the best as knowing how to talk to his daughter or explain things to her, he got raised in the wilderness by two gay weirdos. Of course he's insanely hostile to outsiders including the lionesses that decided to follow Scar, Scar killed his dad and nearly caused a collapse of the local ecosystem. And during the course of the movie he has to actually come to terms with how he's letting his trauma control him and it's drive his daughter away. He gets to apologize and admit he was wrong, he gets to grow.

And yeah you could argue we don't really get to see Aang or Luke interacting with their families because that's not when the story is set but there are still ways to make sure your characterization is consistent, and I'd argue in cases like Aang and Luke where you don't get to see them when they were raising/interacting with their young families it's even more important for you to keep the characterization consistent because we don't get to see the character grow and change we just see where they started and where they ended up, so if you change too much it's gonna feel weird.

Not true, Chrom. Your son would also do that <3

There's been more info given on the World Championships and Pokemon XP events in San Francisco!

There will be unique HOME medals located thru-out the venue, and a special Greninja distribution for the attendees.

A pin rally has been announced with 12 pins, plus a list of their locations locations. Each pin will be one per person for the weekend:

Kirlia - Moscone North, Level 1

Tornadus - Moscone South, Upper Mezzanine

Charizard - Moscone South, Level 1

Hydreigon & Pawmi - Moscone South, Level 2

Incineroar - Moscone South, Level 2

Greninja - Moscone, Lower Level, Exhibit Halls D-E

Jirachi -Moscone, Lower Level, Exhibit Halls D-E

Umbreon - Moscone, Lower Level, Exhibit Hall F

Elekid - Rayquaza Road

Flutter Mane - Rayquaza Road

Amoongus - Yerba Buena Gardens

Ferrothorn - Yerba Buena Gardens

Events/activities include:

An art gallery featuring art from TCG artists (TCG Pocket and the regular TCG), Pokémon GO loadscreens, and Pokopia.

A Book Nook with a selection of Pokemon books to read at the event

A video game lounge where you have the opportunity to play some of the older Pokémon video games

Smeargle's art wall (you can post your own Pokemon art here!)

The Toyota Miraidon and Honda Koraidon will be at the event!

There will be a diorama from Pokémon Tales: The Misadventures of Sirfetch'd and Pichu