leveling up your build periodically from a randomly selected set of options

The bosses are also randomly selected

Those are neat and trendy features, but I don’t see how they make it anything like Rogue or its ilk.

These days when people say roguelike they just mean a game that divides its gameplay into short, disconnected runs instead of one long, continuous save. It unfortunately has nothing to do with whether a game is anything like Rogue.

I’ve heard a few people say this, but I think that’s incredibly rare these days. At the very least, I almost never see it. In fact I can only think of one instance I’ve seen in the last 10 years.

He’s not the only character Gundam has done this to. Here’s Mr. Ral in the original Mobile Suit Gundam vs Gundam Build Fighters:

He’s supposed to be 35 in both images.

how difficult is it to take a joke in one language and make it into a joke in a different language with the same vibe?

It can be extremely difficult. Often there are weird constraints like needing to preserve the first letters of one of the words, or two words both sounding similar and having similar meanings. One hour is completely believable to me. When it’s done right though it can really elevate the experience. My favorite example I’ve seen recently is from Yakitate!! Japan when they were making a Fist of the North Star Reference and the localizers changed “You are already germinated brown rice yeast” to “You are already bread”.

I assume that if a native English speaker used machine translation to translate something to English and it sounded unnatural they’d correct it, but who knows.

I assume those are mostly done by people for whom English is not their first language.

Sounds expensive tbh.

Hell no, I switched back to Arch so my system would stop breaking!

Was this the transition from the (so-called) bazzite-arch distrobox to layering Steam into the image?

It likely was. Can’t remember the details unfortunately.

One of the breakages was caused by an expired signature or something from Universal Blue, which hit all users. I’m surprised that one doesn’t get talked about more. One of them was caused by Bazzite changing how Steam itself is handled and not transitioning my system over properly. Can’t remember what the third one was caused by.

He mostly retired. He no longer posts videos regularly, though I think there’s a podcast he’s on.

I’ve had Bazzite break its own update utility such that it needed manual intervention at least 3 times now. I see no point in a “just works” distro that doesn’t actually just work.

Yeah but in Bazzite’s case one of those issues (the one from about a year ago) hit over 99% of their users. I really think that all these people talking about how great Bazzite is either haven’t been using it for long enough for the devs to have fucked up or they just haven’t noticed that their system hasn’t been updating for the past year.

The problem with using Bazzite as the solution to new users bricking their Linux installs is I’ve had Bazzite’s update utility break itself 3 times now. I couldn’t possibly recommend this distro to someone after that. I literally switched my desktop back to Arch for reliability reasons. Ridiculous.