The GabeCube is real

"This use of GenAI is fine because VAs signed contracts to relinquish their rights". Well yeah, have you seen what happens to those who don't want to sign off on this? Can you really call that consent when the alternative is losing (or never getting) a job?

So, hmm... the great @locdandloaded.net just finished compiling ALL of Hades II's MULTILINGUAL songs. This is an insanely precious resource for anyone interested in lyrics localization. Many thanks to her for this amazing effort 🤍 locdandloaded.net/hades-ii-mul...

One more for the pile (original credit: bsky.app/profile/bolt... ; reposted the screenshot in higher res)

My Wordpress instance is starting to get so bloated that my media gallery is collapsing on itself and half of my plugins are one update away from breaking the entire website

Merci à @killylog1.bsky.social de m'avoir longuement laissé la parole dans le nouveau @jvlemag.com pour décrire la dégradation des conditions de travail dans la traduction de jeu vidéo à cause des délires autour de l'IA. J'ai pu placer ma meilleure punchline 🥊

Japan's "Mundane Halloween" costume contest is back! Each year website DailyPortalZ holds a contest where people dress up as something super duper ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2025 contest! #MundaneHalloween

Halloween draws near, and you know what's truly scary? Being made as invisible as a ghost by a bunch of corporations, buried under literally everybody else in a credit roll. Such as here in The Quarry (2022), a title localized in 19 languages. And of course, no #TranslatorsInTheCredits... 👻

New article on ★ daiz.moe ★ Crunchyroll is destroying its subtitles for no good reason daiz.moe/crunchyroll-... A ton of research and effort went into this one. This is the article to read to get to the bottom of Crunchyroll's subtitle changes! Replies here will show up as comments (eventually)

My worst nightmare

I had the opportunity to help @casting-whispers.bsky.social with the launch trailer! youtu.be/8bu5QAmqrFI Go check it out on Steam right now! (It's 10% off!)

Picture this exact scenario, but it started happening a decade ago and now every agency you work with won't shut up about you taking more time for less pay to correct their magic machine's mistakes and you'll have just the slightest idea what your games' localizers have put up with this whole time.

This was spotted at Gamescom Asia last week. 0,01$ per word to edit AI slop. DMM's website says: "Average cost reduction: Appx. 75% Translation time reduction:50%" They forgot the most important stat: "Quality reduction: 100%"

TDs have always been one of my fav genres (ask me how many hours I wasted on DOTA back in WC3...), so when the good people of @locquest.bsky.social offered me to translate Repel the Rifts into French, I just couldn't resist! Glhf, Commanders :)

Honest, some of my best-performing posts are the ones using the crunchiest MS Paint illustrations. It's genuinely a better tool to attract attention that anything GenAI could shit out. Embrace your inner doodler.

Started a new Hades 2 save file; I've been switching the language to Japanese now and then out of curiosity, and the localization team absolutely knocked it out of the park! Lots of smart, hard-hitting reformulations, and clever handling of tricky wordplay—it's really inspiring stuff 😍

From my book about #Undertale 's official English-to-Japanese translation I'd like to expand on this for an article on my site, so if you have any examples of "imprinting" situations in fandoms, please let me know Some quick examples include FF4, FF6, Trails in the Sky, what else?

Good stuff, see you in 7 years 👍

Localization budgets tend to be a very well-guarded secret, but thanks to SGG's transparency, we can at least make an educated guess for Hades II: The cost of localizing the game's 380.000 words into 14 languages was approximately $1.5m. Read more: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

Undertale fête ses 10 ans aujourd'hui. Le jeu existe en anglais, en japonais... et c'est tout. Faute de réponses de la part des intéressés (Toby Fox, Fangamer ou 8-4), j'ai interrogé l'équipe de talentueux fans qui ont traduit en français eux-mêmes (et GRATOS) ce jeu vendu des millions d'exemplaire.

You can be anything in this life. I recommend happy. Xox MASSIVE canvases now available at electric gallery! Xox

Finally got confirmation that Testronic closed its studios in Madrid and Belgrade. The company shared those details while also announcing an undisclosed but ‘significant’ investment that will enable ‘accelerate growth.’

Btw, Silksong's script stands at about 90.000 words total. A pro TL would need about 2 months to translate that much, and that's with an additional editor pass.

Hell Is Us by #RogueFactor and published by @nacon.bsky.social does not credit its translators. Only this year, ACE Agency has failed to provide the names of its contractors in two more games: Architect Life by Shine group (@nacon.bsky.social) SONOKUNI by Don Yasa Crew (@kakehashigames.com)

Sometimes I wonder why people say Reddit is a cesspool. Then I read things like this, and I get it.

And final update on the matter: Palworld credits now feature 40+ new names across a dozen languages :) #TranslatorsInTheCredits www.pocketpair.jp/palworld/pal...

I know asking people not to react to clickbaiting headlines is like asking the sun not to shine, BUT The reason it's phrased as "3 devs and a few contractors" is because it'll drive engagement. That's it. They know it's inaccurate at best.

I'm looking for stories about how AI is killing creative work, and I'd love to hear from you—artists, writers, illustrators, actors, designers, editors, voice actors and narrators—if your job or practice has been hit. This is going to be a big one. [email protected]

This is what Palworld's Communications Director had to say on the matter. As of the time of posting, they have yet to follow-up on those questions. (Source: www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...)

When someone aks what we think about the use of AI, the first question that comes to mind is always: But why? Why would we, or anyone really, want to use it? Here's @mittovac.bsky.social's piece about this very topic. Please share to anyone who needs to read this ⬇️ fromthevoid.net/blog/ai-in-g...

Thank you, @bcmerchant.bsky.social, for giving translators a chance to speak their piece. I see a lot of replies and QRTs along the lines of "I'm glad I didn't finish my translation degree" or "This is all I know, am I really doomed?", so allow me to share a few thoughts:

Here's one for all the game devs out there www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Spotted off the coast of Iceland... #wplace

🫵 GAMESCOM GANG 🫵 Do you like to hear me yap online about localization? 🗣️ You haven't seen nothing yet, for I'll be heading to Gamescom from the 19th to the 22nd. Come say hi! PS: I'm told there will be a little surprise for those asking about #TranslatorsInTheCredits... 👀

The Gameloc Directory 2025 update is live! It now features a marker (★) highlighting entities with strict no MT/AI policies. locdandloaded.net/2020/10/22/g...

I've looked at a lot of resumes for aspiring translators and everytime I notice they have the relevant experience but they don't make it clear, meaning vendors are more likely to overlook them as potential freelancers. Here's some resume advice if you're looking for freelance translation work.

Ah oui quand même

Shoutout to this guy who got the free advertisement of a lifetime

Casual reminder on Final Fantasy IX's 25th anniversary that while Alexander O. Smith is credited for the English translation of the song Melodies of Life, he did not actually work on the game. Rather, these fine people are responsible for the English translation. #TranslatorsintheCredits

Breaks my heart seeing massive layoffs hitting our industry again ☹️ In @cdprojektred.com we have a lot of openings, from The Witcher 4, to Cyberpunk 2, and other projects, across Poland, US and Canada. Please share it with your collogues and join us! 🥺 cdprojektred.com/en/jobs

Now people, we just had one drama with garbage AI translation complete with leftover prompt, but at least we're good for a whi—

In #DeathStranding2, translators and voice actors are credited. Unfortunately, @playstation.com fails to credit the Localization Project Managers, as we've seen in #StellarBlade and #Helldivers2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NL7u2vOICKw&t=1063s

Huge win for the #TranslatorsInTheCredits movement - the PC version of Stellar Blade's credit roll now includes all contributors! After Days Gone Remastered, this is the second time SIE properly credits everyone. @locincredits.bsky.social

Got a new editing task for an upcoming narrative game, and the translator left a comment: "Get ready to bawl your eyes out with this one"... She wasn't wrong.

when you accept the linkedin request but turns out he's a genAI techbro

RAIDOU Remastered: The Mystery of the Soulless Army is out now - Our team worked on this behemoth of a project for several years, so it's a delight to finally see it hit the shelves! Now go and undertake the case of the century 🕵️‍♂️🐈‍⬛ #TranslatorsInTheCredits

Wizards has released a fantastic series of articles on the development of the #ffxmtg set and they've done a piss poor job of actually telling folks about them. So I will do them a favor and say that you should read this great article on localizing the cards! magic.wizards.com/en/news/feat...