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This isn't riveting, insightful information. I just figured there were enough Linux nerds on Lemmy to find this funny.

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[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 7 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Don't forget the shadow realm, because americans are such snowflakes, they can't handle people dying.

[–] abigscaryhobo@lemmy.world 5 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

Hey now it wasn't on us (the people watching) this was at a time in the US where everything was about "protecting the kids". 4kids whole marketing scheme was "it's safe" so of course they edited it out. People weren't complaining, they were proactively censoring to get corporations and networks online.

You can see from this post how many people didn't know that the shadow realm was actually just death. We assumed it was close but we didn't know that the losers of the games were getting dropped off a building or sent straight to the afterlife.

Adult Swim, which was cartoon networks "late night" channel had plenty of death and much better English dubs. But they wanted to market stuff to kids, only way to do that is to show it during the day. You can't sell trading cards to children if their parents see someone's legs getting chopped off (look at yugioh, one of the battles had actual buzz saws that would cut off the losers feet).

[–] Wbear@lemmy.zip 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Wait wait wait the shadow realm wasn't canon?

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 hours ago

No, it was just death. Instead 4Kids gave you the horror of being stuck in Limbo which is a way darker/better punishment.