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Some people didn't like being called "unskilled" (programming.dev)
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Context: Working Designs was a studio that localized several Japanese games for western markets in the 1990s. Besides translation, they would often increase the difficulty of the games they translated

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[–] brsrklf@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago

Between that and the "gold vortex", looks like they thought "just" translating was boring (no matter how much of a messy process it really was back then)... So they just thought they'd mess with the game as a challenge and for the hell of it.