#i think i've posted this before

[another-lost-mc]

Happy birthday Mephisto (with bonus Bathin <3)

[diino8081]

bitch that did NOT happen

[leoneedincorrectquotes]

Honami: Do you see yourself as a glass half-full or glass half-empty kind of person? Ichika: Half-full, definitely. Ichika: Half-full and constantly rising. Ichika: Soon the water will escape its container and consume us al

[blazehedgehog]

Have any favorite retranslation hacks?

This will get me in trouble, but I don't think I've ever played a good retranslation hack. Never ever.

Translation patches for games that don't have translations I'm less picky about because they are the only option. Like there's a translation hack for Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension on SNES. Is all the dialog super stiff and stilted? Yeah, at least in the one I played! Does it matter? No! Because at least it's in English now.

But, like, I've looked at retranslation hacks for different RPGs and stuff and it's always the most nitpicky people on earth trying to right some wrong because they think the translated text veers too far from the original meaning.

And I'll straight up say it, but the retranslation is almost always worse. Because even if the official translation isn't accurate, it often (not always, but often) flows better. It reads better. It sounds more natural. Decisions were made as to why it was translated (or more specifically, localized) like that and accuracy to the original text was probably priority #2 under "make it sound like native English." Balancing readability with accuracy is extremely difficult and to some degree I think people who get picky enough to produce retranslations are setting things back.

Because now we're starting to get producers at big game developers who are starting to claim that ChatGPT and AI text engines can automatically localize games into English without the need for translators or localizers.

You want accurate translations? You're going to start getting things that are accurate to a fault. You are going to get the flattest, least interesting, least energetic translations on earth because a robot is not a human and, especially for a context-heavy language like Japanese, is not going to understand anything beyond the most literal interpretation of the text.

Good localization is an art. Translating meaning instead of raw text takes creative writing skills beyond the binary of "this means that." Frankly, I'm in awe at good localizations. Translations that are too raw shake me out of the experience really hard because I get obsessed with whether or not something sounds natural. When I don't have to think about it like that, it's akin to magic.

It'd be a huge undertaking, but I've often fantasized about being called in as a "fixer" for particularly bland localizations. Like, getting to punch up a script, make it read better, so on and so forth. I'm not, like, the juiciest or best writer on earth, but I think I could do okay. I've often thought about things just within my periphery I could "clean up" somebody else's translation, but that's often a tricky, prickly thing to consider. I'd need express permission before I could release any of it.

[andillwriteyouatragedy]

nandor hand hook car door

[clouds-of-wings]

I like this kind of music video best. A singer with acting skills can carry a video all by themself.

[amiaaa-official]

Honse

[avenging-fandoms]

the way i'd beat the shit out of tiffany haddish to be the one to shake my ass on pedro

[egophiliac]

should've just let Vil be the one to fly, it would've gone SO much easier. 😔

also HEY how are everyone else's pulls going, because I have had the most RIDICULOUS luck, seriously, halloween magic is 100% real

[tempo-takoyaki]

"Are you satisfied yet?"

[allthegothihopgirls]

from the stories dick tells people about his little brother, everyone expects him to be this loving, sweet little guy, with a little bit of a mischievous streak. dick tells them he's a little shy but when he warms up to you he's the best.

but then people meet this little ankle-biter gremlin who's targeting death threats towards anyone who will listen. and everyone's completely taken aback, like "THIS is damian???"

[grayeet]

I love the pale garden and how it's like a parallel to dark forests. I love how the two divert expectations.

Dark forests, despite their name, are saturated and full of life. Even compared to regular forests, there's a lot more biodiversity than many of the "basic" biomes. There's three whole different trees found there, giant mushrooms, and plenty of flowers. They're one of the biomes capable of spawning a lush cave underneath it. It has its dangers just like any other overworld biome, obviously, but it's nothing overly more than anywhere else. Traversing it can be tricky sometimes and illagers may take residence in the biome's woodland mansions, but it's ultimately a very colorful and lively environment.

Opposing it is the new pale garden. Usually white and light colors are seen as pristine and good, but the pale garden takes it the opposite direction and goes right into uncanny valley territory. It has none of the color of dark forests, none of the biodiversity, none of the liveliness. It has trees and moss that look familiar, but something is off. It has a signature mob, but even the creaking is just a puppet of the trees, not really sentient, not really even plotting against anything. There's "life", but, once again, it's wrong.

I think the pale garden is a wonderful addition to Minecraft's world building as it is, but the deliberate parallel to dark forests? Delicious.

[matchabot]

here comes trouble

[stargatebarbie]

If you feel comfortable please tell me about your middle name in the tags too! I'm nosey and don't know what to do with my own middle name lmao

[dootznbootz]

Penelope is also Athena's pet/blorbo/special little mortal/etc. and if you think otherwise you're straight up wrong.

You're also wrong if you think Athena only likes Penelope because of Odysseus and/or Telemachus. As if Athena didn't see a young Penelope pull some shit and immediately think "Oh! Another mind to mold! C'mere you! Let's do some riddles and weaving!". Athena was happy that two of her favorite pets have met and fell in love!