Years ago, I had 50 limited-edition 11"x17" art prints made to raise money that we were desperately in need of at the time. I sold 7. I found the other 43 and put them on eBay because I desperately need to pay some more bills. :( $50, ships internationally! www.ebay.com/itm/26746176...

Because SE's QA people are probably not in a position to defend themselves and their jobs in public, I want to spell out some of what it is they specifically do for us localizers, because nothing I've written here is rhetorical. SE QA acts as a final check on our work after translation and editing.

Making a note to release my one-man Amagami localization on November 18 to give it the best chance of being a chart-topping success for 2026. Gracious of Take-Two to give me that extra runway, I really appreciate it. 😌

If you're wondering how this will go Square Enix handed off their mobile Octopath game to NetEase who immediately started using ChatGPT to translate everything resulting in text like this. When players complained they started asking fans to fix their translations in exchange for in-game currency

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.

No, YOU'RE the weirdo for not buying 16 Black Thunder bars in one transaction at your local Daiso when they go back in stock for the first time in months. What other reason is there to even go shopping there to begin with???

日本語でも聞いてみようかな… 日本人のフォロワーさんの中でスイッチ版のプリンセスメーカー2を今年にプレイしている人がいますか？発売の頃の大変悪い評価で予約したヤツを開けずに返品することになりましたけど、もしパッチで更新されてマシになってきたなら、再び購入しようかと考えているんです。昔のパソコン版も遊べる環境があるとはいえ、やはり今のコントローラの方が個人的に心地よいし、正しく動作してるスイッチ版って一番理想的そうです…うーん、どうしよっか🤔

Fellow raising sim nerds, I must ask: did that Princess Marker 2 rerelease on the Switch ever get patched up to a decent state? I saw such bad launch day impressions that I actually returned my physical copy without opening it, but it'd be nice to play a version of that on a modern controller. 🤔

You can guess what I'm probably talking about based on my recent posts since I'm replaying it to check out the loc while exploring the mechanics more and man, the number of non-AAA J>E locs that skimp on editors now and rely solely newer translators who have nobody to mentor them is a bummer, dude.

made a car. learned a lot ! mostly some bad practises that i know how to fix next time i model anything lol next step: model race queen ascari >:3

Even though the tweet in question is clearly in bad faith, it really is important to never forget much of the Republican landscape is a result of manufactured politics and Democratic failures. I caucused for Bernie in the heart of the Rockies in 2016 and 2020 and he beat Hillary and Biden handily.

Not me looking at old Japanese digital camera listings on Yahoo Auctions wondering if it's time I finally put Vib-Ripple's whole photo import gimmick through its paces while I've got Vib-Ribbon and Vibri on the brain... 😩 (This despite the fact I'm very much not a Vib-Ripple Liker, but....)

Another titan of Japanese games (in my heart) getting repped tonight. Vib-Ribbon is one of the games responsible for inspiring me to enter the Japanese industry to begin with, so, it's nice to finally have a piece of Vibri to wear. If only Sony did more with you after that one E3, old buddy... 🥲

this was for a colorado measure guaranteeing universal free lunch for kids. funny how a short two-column table can say so much in so little space.

Bluesky rn

So glad to see this pass in my home state. What you may not know is the state constitution prohibits the CO government from having *any* surplus. It has to either refund it or ask for permission to spend it. We need to do away with it, but it's nice to see folks do the right thing in the meantime.

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

on cohost we called this "poster's delight"

MY FUCKING MAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!!!!! YOU DID IT! YOU FUCKING DID IT!!!!!!!!

My take on video games with lots of enemies on screen at once is that Earth Defense Force is cool and also more smartly designed than it looks and that you should have to play at least one every year in order to have a license to say "[new, reasonably budgeted Japanese game] is like a PS2 game."

This reminds me: While not as nationally reported on, there are two other progressives running for mayor in major US cities. I have seen them compared as the Zohran of their races. We have Omar Fateh for Minneapolis & Katie Wilson for Seattle. If you can vote in those cities, I’d recommend them!

no matter your politics it’s disrespectful to joke about someone’s death. don’t say dick cheney died when he was out hunting and tried to shoot a bird in a tree but missed and hit a big branch which fell on his dick and smashed him flat and then the bird pooped on his head. don’t say stuff like that

Me, iceberg enthusiast and Internet preservationist extraordinaire: When you think about it, every meal becomes lost media as soon as it's eaten.

Out here in Japan tonight repping only the most relevant and beloved of gaming mascots on Definitely Official Merch. 😎

My company is doing donation matching for organizations assisting with food insecurity in local communities in light of SNAP's partial cut-off (11/1). If you'd like your donation to count double, DM me to coordinate. Lmk which of the listed orgs too. I'm donating on 11/6.

A better world is possible and absolutely within reach if we all simply agree as a species and global society to stop posting on LinkedIn for any reason whatsoever.

I got good news, y'all: even when you work as a translator for over a decade and you otherwise navigate a transaction in Japanese fine up until that point you need something minor repeated, you still get to have this experience on a regular basis. 10/10, only feels better every time it happens. 🙂

When Digital Foundry went independent, one of the new things we wanted to do was a brand-new retro podcast. Thanks to the massive efforts of John and his friends, the DF Retro Super Show goes live today, revisiting the launch of PlayStation 2. youtu.be/DqtLH0MOkgI

Y'know what? I think I spoke prematurely. I'm reaching the top of the tower with my first character and I've come to really appreciate the depth and polish Full Metal Schoolgirl's combat actually has. There's good weapon variety and you have a wide arsenal of moves that have practical applications.

Yuke's: We have 1/20 the budget to make Full Metal Schoolgirl, but that won't stop us from sneaking in the most Nier Automata-coded boss to be put into a video game since 2017 while nobody was looking. As a treat. 😌

YouTube hitting low quality videos with AI upscaling sucks cause it means they might come after my best video, top 10 ryus

It haunts me every single day that there are Japanese 7-11s out there that sell fresh cookies, but none of them around here have them because they don't like fun. 😭 No disrespect to oden, but I would sacrifice all their germ-ridden oden stands for fresh cookies in Japan that don't cost 500 yen. 😩

STOP THE PRESSES. The ROM for the unreleased Famicom RPG Splatter World has been released (in a thread on 4chan, of all places). I've tried it myself, and it does seem to be genuine. If it's a fake, it's a damn good one. Expect (more) coverage on West Mansion soon. @hg101.bsky.social

Full Metal Schoolgirl isn't doing a whole ton to reinvent the wheel outside of basically D3-ing up TPSs and roguelikes alike, but it's definitely interesting seeing Yuke's do their homework as to which western games they're studying and, credit to them, I didn't expect Serious Sam to be one in 2025.

Skinballs always makes me chuckle.

We need to start selling and making PC-98 games again with a vengeance so all of my super cool and talented artist friends can take a crack at making their own iconic adventure/galge/VN/whatever CGs that are marvels of 16-color palettes.

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)

Every game studio should have a Skinballs motivational poster, this is not a joke

I just wanted to see Ascari and Catherine in fancy dresses 🥺🥺

googling how to become a consultant so sony can pay me five figure invoices to shrug my arms and tell them, "maybe ya should've held onto japan studio for a rainy day" when asked what they can do about their release slate for the back half of this decade

And available now for everyone is this piece on PC Engine idiot 'em up Galaxy Fraulein Yuna! Absolutely delightful stuff: kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/10/31/g...

For gamers who aren't in game dev, you should know that we are in one of the worst periods in game dev history in terms of industry stability and the reason you're not seeing that play out through products is because the average development window of games is 3-7 years so it hasn't reached you yet.

where are the stories in the tech press about the brave, everyday women and men who actually stay current with the k-lite codec pack updates when the nice pop-up reminds them every month they can watch mp4s and mkvs even better than ever, that's what i wanna know