Elden Ring Fortnite Messages Meme confuses Japanese players

You obviously noticed that Fourteen days Joke messages in elden ringNon-English speakers have noticed it too, and they don’t laugh.

elden ring has been out for a week and its players are still exploring the Lands Between, discovering new secrets and sometimes embarking on pointless expeditions because of other players.

Just like previous FromSoftware games, elden ring has a special messaging system. Players can leave messages for each other using given words. It feels a bit similar to the notebooks that used to be in arcades in Japan, where players could document secrets and leave tips for each other.

Many English speakers elden ring Players have used the words “Fort” and “Night” together to make a Fourteen days Pun; The problem is that all messages are shared with all regions of the game and these messages are machine translated into the player’s native language.

Japanese Elden Ring fans confused by ‘Fort, Night’ news meme

As pointed out by @DistantValhalla, Japanese elden ring Players were initially confused by the “Fort, Night” messages everywhere elden ring‘s world because the joke is lost in translation.

@ETC_Only, a player of the Japanese version of elden ring, explained in a viral tweet how they spent quite a bit of time looking for a special event triggered in fortresses at night, only to finally get the joke and realize it was a pointless effort.

Japanese players aren’t the only ones confused as well, as Fort Night’s messages are machine-translated into all other languages elden ring is available in.

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Conversely, in Japanese internet slang, “lol” is written as “w” as a shortened version of “warau 笑う/laughing”. Because “w” looks like cartoonish weed, the kanji for weed “草” eventually became net slang for “lol”.

Whenever Japanese elden ring If fans spot something funny, they leave a “草” message, which the game automatically translates to “weed” instead of “lol”. This is why you happen to see so many “weed” messages in-game.

@DistantValhalla is a prolific Japanese game translator who has mostly translated Stein’s gate. Be sure to follow him for more cool knowledge about Japanese games.

It’s quite interesting that this has revealed one of the many limitations of machine translation. What do you all think? Tell me in the comments below!