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DUBB ![]() 07:08:22 Fri Dec 30 2016 Offline 1399 posts BBMG MASTER BLASTER +1000 ![]() Reply |
I had several Japanese PS2's over the years, developer's consoles, mostly, and they have an English language option in their bios. Aside from the fact that they only want to play Japanese games, the big difference is that they reverse the functions of "X" and "O". When people would ask me why that is, I would tell them, "Well, 'X' is 'execute', right? Well it doesn't rhyme when you say it in Japanese, so I guess to them 'X' says cross it out, and a circle represents completion." "Oh", they would tell me. Then I would break it to them, "Actually, I haven't the slightest why, I just made that up since it sounds like it makes sense." But the funny thing is that usually, they would agree, that does sound like it makes sense, and probably is why. At any rate, it was good enough to satisfy their curiosity, always, fiction or not. And just to be a gigantic penis, I would leave it in Japanese language mode, and not tell them that the buttons are reversed, once they can no longer read that on the screen. I wouldn't bother telling them that there is no way on god's green earth their games are ever going to play on it, either. It left them dazed and confused. I know, I'm a penis..... Or when they ask me why my ps2 won't play dvd's, and I'd tell them flatly, "I don't own a ps2." That would fuck with them. When they finally got to "then what the fuck is that, then?" "That's a ps2 software developers debugging tool, can't you read? Does it say 'ps2' on it anywhere? YOURS says 'ps2' right on the top of the cover. If you were paying attention, you would notice that mine says 'TEST', instead. And why doesn't it play dvd's? Because it's not an entertainment console, it's a tool, and the people that use them at the software companies don't get paid or go to work to watch movies, they go to work to work, to develop and debug software, there is absolutely no reason for that machine to do that, that's why". That really messed with them.
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