Claude talks a developer out of learning Japanese just to enjoy games in the original

rudrank · x · 2026-09-13

Developer rudrank decided to learn Japanese because the games he loves sound far more expressive in the original voice acting — and got a blunt reality check from Claude: 'learn Japanese so games sound better' is a weak reason to sustain a multi-year effort and would collapse fast. The model explained that game dialogue is among the last things you'll understand — fast, slangy, archaic in samurai settings, and full of made-up terms — with payoff after hundreds of hours.

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