Decided to join in the lettering stacks with the first four chapters of One Piece vol. 111. Sound effects only, because cobbling together my InDesign and Photoshop files is more work than I'm willing to put into this. Also did it as spreads, because One Piece has a ton of two-page spreads.

While I understand people are skeptical of the Steam Machine as being too wonky to make a dent in PlayStation or Nintendo, I absolutely see a scenario in which it replaces Xbox, which does not seem to be difficult at this point.

Yup!! A mutual keeps posting this line. unfortunately YT doesn't have a full clip youtube.com/watch?v=yU67...

Over 1500 (!?!) votes so far and steadily growing. I was hoping to hit 3000 but with a week and a half left, I think we could easily hit 4 or even 5000. Please keep spreading the link and lets get as wide of a sample as possible!

Should be roughly just a bit above PS5 performance level.

I was trying to hold off, but I caved and bought the RG Wing Zero TV version 😭 oooough and Barbatos Lupus MG is this month, help....

"heh I bet the chuds are real mad about this one" your reaction to something cool happening should not be worrying about what the worst people think

Finally, Brie Larson can play a blonde with cosmic powers in a good movie

Completely missed that this is out now. Lettering this new series and my first time getting to work with @distantvalhalla.bsky.social 😎

I wrote more words about how it feels to be a translator watching the games press report on AI and labor, coming from a field that's fought these battles for decades. It may look like I'm beating up on one outlet, but it's not about them; I've been trying to write this for me and my peers all year.

I promised some samples of lettering from the manga Hope You're Happy, Lemon by Mizuki Kishikawa, so here we go. It's now on sale! Kishikawa's style is really fun, and super busy at times, and I had a lot of fun trying to match it.

Who else remembers a few years ago when the Jujutsu Kaisen movie made almost 200 million at the box office and the dub cast got like $300 tops

hyrule warriors age of imprisonment

Kingdom, Vol. 1 is now available in print and digital! Read a free preview: https://bit.ly/43BZOOj

It’s our new longest episode to date as @brandonbovia.bsky.social and I finally talk about the end of Whole Cake and the beginning of the Reverie! Oh my god there is so much good stuff in here to digest in terms of character. Love it! youtu.be/S_Sz1ocz8-A?...

Some of my anime friends don't follow politics as much, so let me explain it this way: Chuck Schumer is like the guy in every One Piece flashback who says we should trust the bad guy, and then in the next episode, the bad guy has hit foot on Chuck's back while Chuck says "BUT...BUT YOU PROMISED ME!"

I sorta feel like as a black dude, if someone accused me of performative reading, I’d have to go punch their parents in the stomach and pray for an all-black jury

Reminder that, unless a creative freelancer has a spouse with a day job that offers health insurance, they likely have an ACA plan. And with the hits to creative industries the past few years, I'm guessing many qualify for subsidies. Related reminder that comic creators are freelancers.

New list. Movies that kinda have my name in the title. boxd.it/Q1e9s

The cheapest plan available to me (a Georgian) is over $1,000 a month. Healthcare is no longer an option for me. I will ration the medication I take for as long as I can and then I will wait to die.

In many ways I'm grateful to do these silly Top Games polls. People enjoy them and while it's a ton of work, it provides a small escape for people from whatever's happening in the world. Sincerely, thanks for watching, spreading the polls, or voting even once.

Delayed air travel is probably the only element of the government shutdown that actually inconvenienced dems in Congress, unsurprising that they folded basically immediately

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maybe the Senate has outlived its usefulness

About to finish lettering my third volume of manga in 7 days and I'm not quite sure when I'm going to able to squeeze in a day off next lol. I'm tired of hustling!

No, but seriously? Over 30 people supposedly leaking information? All "coincidentally" from workers trying to unionize? With no widespread release of information in the rumor mills? The more you think about it the more it just cannot add up.

people measurably don’t want to pay for AI-generated content. you can’t grow a business off of a product no one will pay for. you don’t need to be an AI skeptic to understand that using AI like this will kill your business.

If you don't want gen AI in your manga, anime, game, and light novel translations, now is the time to make your voice heard. Write to your favorite publishers and developers and ask if they are incorporating LLMs into their process. And most importantly, tell them you will vote with your dollars.

Extremely proud and honored to have been part of the 8-4 team on Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment as an English Translation Producer and Editor! Huge huge thank you to Nintendo, @thehalpnetwork.bsky.social, and all our incredible voice actors for helping us bring this story to life!

It was really cool to have a small part on this alongside such a talented team! Congrats all! 🎉

Words cannot express how surreal it was to be asked to sign the wall at 84 HASHI and have my name displayed up next to so many legends 😭 Massive thank you to @84chokan.bsky.social & @sephazon.bsky.social for treating us to such an incredible evening!! ❤️

Happy to lend my expertise to this article. Light Novels are already being pirated with machine translation. Publishers have been beaten to the punch — and will need human translation to earn their readers’ dollar.

this has been one of my hardest sells when i've been pulled on to a project for a mock review, consulting, and loc editor. because consumes don't care and continue to spend $$$ on titles w/ really messy loc, it's hard to convince the devs to invest in better loc overall. but i always fight for it.

My rewatch of Gundam X is definitely an interesting shift in my thoughts on the show from when I last saw it, but I've also found the meta commentary on Gundam as a whole to become far more obvious near the end. The SRA and UNE basically are Gundam otas and Bandai bickering over what defines the IP.

You don't need me to tell you this is yet more good money being burned after bad. But as someone who's worked with that QA team, I'll say they're unsung heroes who truly play a huge role in maintaining SE's reputation for high quality locs and to attempt to replace them with AI is deeply insulting.

This month is beating my ass already

it's wild that anime is a worldwide, constantly growing, billion dollar industry and yet many of its junior staffers can't afford rent without assistance

Young Magazine is holding a contest for which titles they'll localize next, and one is a sequel to Boys Run the Riot--a fashion manga by and about a trans guy. You can vote once a day until November 10th--please give him your support! young-magazine-usa.com

They wont But studios & workplaces should be paying for your licenses

Just finished recording our longest One Piece at a Time Episode ever at just over two hours with @brandonbovia.bsky.social where we covered Chapters 906-910. Great great stuff, but even better is all the election news we saw afterward. HELL YES. One Piece pairs so well with all this.

"no longer can New York City be a city where you can traffic in Islamophobia and win an election" BASED BASED BASED

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It's weird to think that @brandonbovia.bsky.social and I are within 300 chapters of catching up to One Piece. That's still a lot, but with 900 behind us now, we're over 3/4s of the way there. But it's another incredible set as we near the end of Whole Cake! youtu.be/kKkRX028uwA?...

When you see Mamdani looking all normal doing normal person things—petting bodega cats, riding public transport—you realize just how bizarre and estranged our average candidate for public office is. Rich martians in flesh suits

More Beyblade Saturdays at my LGS 🙏

This is so demented and hurts my brain. I guess it was time for a right-wing "this hand gesture is offensive for some extremely obscure reason" freakout to match the six-month-long left-wing freakout about the "OK" sign