Mood for 2026, (the artist is Ainsley Drew, on Instagram)

Everyone who worked on a video game needs to be in the credits: aftermath.site/video-game-cre...

I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!

Esse é o futuro dos videogames com o DLSS 5

Übersetzung für Synchron von unserem Mitglied Verena Blümner, OmU-Untertitel von unserem Mitglied Sonja Majumder!😀 #HumansNotMachines #NameYourAVTranslator

At a fundamental level, Copilot's designers misunderstand why we play games. Games aren't meant to be endlessly optimized. They're an ongoing conversation between player and game. A third-party telling you the "right" way to do things undermines the entire point of play.

Für genau diese Ersetzung von Geschichte durch Mythos ist generative KI das perfekte Medium: Vergangenheit wird zur Ressource simultan verfügbarer Datenmuster, die sich ohne Rücksicht auf Kontext, Kausalität und Chronologie zu pseudoplausiblen Nostalgie- und Traumwelten rekombinieren lassen

If you're looking for fascism, you should never look for the government to say they're fascists, you just look for when the government says being anti fascist is a crime.

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

what the fuck is going on in Sam Altman’s head

I have many thoughts about it, but I believe his statement was oversimplifying. EN and JP both have tools in their linguistic toolkits that the other language doesn't. East Asian languages' plethora of 1st and 2nd-person pronouns is just one example of this among many. But... 🧵

Languages are complicated, culture-suffused devices that use different tools to express ideas. I get why a director would stick with the instances that come up most frequently in his work, but there's a more nuanced discussion to be had. There's no "better" or "worse" when it comes to languages. ✂️

🎲 Roll the dice in this turn-based roguelike tactical RPG by our fellow Dutchies at Gamepie! Enjoy the island battles with a claymation art syle with localizations by:

Das audiovisuelle Übersetzen ist eine Kunst, für die es Sachverständnis, Kreativität und Empathie braucht. Kreativität & Kunst sind zutiefst menschlich. Und KI tötet die Kunst. Grafik von unserem Mitglied Philipp Techen @philipptechen.bsky.social! #aikillsart #humansnotmachines

Every time you think this industry can't get any worse, they still find ways to dig even deeper: Digital Hearts is now offering MCQ-based translations, so you can just take your pick from a selection of AI-generated garbage TLs for each line instead of, you know, properly translating them.

One of the most daunting projects I ever worked on. Luckily I got to do it with my incredibly talented colleagues @jalapenomunich.bsky.social @nellyneko.bsky.social, Tamara Neiss and Jules Steiner.

When we first got the brief on this project, I was absolutely terrified. The prospect of having to edit a novel's worth of intricate 17th century prose was daunting, but our incredible translators managed to pull it off. Shoutout to Violaine, Marie, Thomas and Félix for their work!

Am 26.2. hat unsere 1. Vorsitzende Johanna Czerny an ihrer alten Schule, dem Theresia-Gerhardinger-Gymnasium am Anger/München, im Rahmen des jährlichen Berufinformationstag ihren Beruf als Videospiel- und Literaturübersetzerin vorgestellt.😍 #loveyourTranslator #askyourTranslator #HumansNotMachines

"Can I plaice you on hold? I'm getting a call on the otter line."

Every professional translator I know has the same position on this and can easily explain the reasons for it when asked. The fact that executives don't even bother to ask and force translators to work on AI/MTL slop regardless makes it clear where their priorities lie: money trumps quality.

Joe Dante and Hideo Kojima are close seconds but no director was more right about the future of war than Barry Levinson with the 1992 box office flop Toys.

If you feel that use of AI art assets at any stage of the process is an automatic out, but ChatGPT translations are fine if they're "checked" by people, it might be worth asking yourself why that is. Because it sounds a whole lot like valuing the work of translators less than other creatives to me.

✅ Puzzle ✅ Time & space ✅ Cute as hell ✅ And the demo is out now! Nomori is a mind-bending adventure game where you control time and space to journey through a whimsical spirit world. LocQuest paired up with @enchantedworks.nl to localize the demo into 10 languages. Get it now! ✨

This month we’re headed to Festival International des Jeux Cannes to immerse ourselves in the latest in the industry. 🇫🇷 While we’re there, we’d love to meet up with: 👾 Creators 👾 Distributors & publishers 👾 Marketers 👾 and translators If you’re there, drop us a DM! 📩

Stephen King has Maine character syndrome

Ich musste berufsbedingt zu afiniten Nebensatzkonstruktionen recherchieren und bin dabei auf etwas ganz Wunderbares gestoßen. ("Lurchi und die afiniten Sätze" wäre übrigens auch ein hervorragender Bandname.)

Die Synchron-Kunst ist sehr sichtbar und gerade in aller Munde. Auch das Untertitel-Handwerk ist eine Kunst für sich, von der viele aber nur wenig wissen. Daher ab heute endlich auch in deutscher Übersetzung: Das Untertitel-101 von Subcomm @subcomm.bsky.social! #loveyoursubtitler #HumansNotMachines

what even is the fucking point

What if all those years of life were not just an investment in capital growth but were actually the entire point of all of it, what then.

 „Es fängt mit Syn­chron­spre­che­r:in­nen und Über­set­ze­r:in­nen an, aber letztlich betrifft es alle Arbeitsbranchen“.

If you liked this experiment, I published a full piece today in the same vein: a text that gets 100 years older with every section, from a modern blog post to a medieval chronicle. It's a single story spanning 1000 years of English. See how far you get. www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-ba...

Also: man kann eine Website aufsetzen, darin "Fakten" verbreiten, und wer KI als Suchmaschine nutzt, läuft stark Gefahr, diese "Fakten" präsentiert zu bekommen. Ein Glück, dass es keine Technik gibt, die massenhaft Fake-Text produzieren und ins Netz stellen kann. Ha. Haha. Ha.

Die Zeiten sind schwierig, der Druck steigt, die großen Player fressen die kleinen und diktieren zunehmend Preise und Arbeitsbedingungen in unserer Branche. Eins aber bleibt gleich: Solidarity rules! Allein erreicht man wenig, zusammen schon viel mehr! #joinyourlocalAVTassociation #HumansNotMachines

Netflix als Präzedenzfall: "'Wenn wir diesen Vertrag jetzt ohne Kritik akzeptieren, dann werden andere Streamer das genauso übernehmen', sagt VDS-Sprecherin Anna-Sophia Lumpe. Sie befürchtet, dass eine stille Akzeptanz der Klausel einen Branchen-Standard setzen würde."👈❗ #HumansNotMachines

Thank you, Knower, I feel seen #1000xRESIST #gameloc

I really need some work right now. I'm looking for Game Dev (mainly Godot) and/or Pixel Art jobs. Either a position or freelance. I've been doing Game Dev for 7+ years, released a commercial game, and several free games. I've been doing Pixel Art for even longer. Please repost it helps a lot 🙏

Eens www.volkskrant.nl/economie/kor...

Statement Teil 2 2/2

AVÜ-Statement zur "Netflix-KI-Klausel". 1/2 #HumansNotMachines

Hope this is what @on-together.bsky.social and @futurefriendsgames.com had in mind when they launched 😅 Here’s a handful of our talented localizers, taking a class picture together 📸 (Very important work) Remote work is far from lonely. And we're happy that we can give our folks a space to hang 🤗

⭐️ Our 2025 Collaborators of the Year ⭐️ THANK YOU to the talented professionals we get to work with on a day-to-day basis, who live and breathe these games and believe in the human aspect of localization just as much as we do. Here’s to many more exciting projects in 2026 🥂

🐞🪲🐛 Sorry, we were just starting our collection. Time for Kabuto Park! Catch the cutest bugs, train them and win the Summer Beetle Battles Championship in this tiny bug collection game! LocQuest once again teamed up with @dodoot.bsky.social to handle localization for 9 languages.

🚀🐀 It’s a rat race! This one sure had us cheesin’. 😊 LocQuest worked with solo dev Gagonfe to localize Rocket Rats into 6 languages. We’ve been smelling some rats in gaming recently. Luckily, there are still devs out there that care about fair, ethical localization. 🛡️

Interviews with Localizers is back (again)!!! This time with an interview with Japanese to English video game translator and project manager @japantaloons.bsky.social! #InterviewswithLoc j-entranslations.com/carrick-loma...

they should make a movie series about how it’s irresponsible to use technology to mess with the natural order of things for profit

Video game stocks are suddenly crashing today with the launch of Google's Project Genie as investors think games will start magically getting made with AI ➡️ ca.investing.com/news/stock-m... #GoogleGemini #TakeTwo #CDProjektRED #Roblox #videogames

Wir brauchen eine LLM, die alle Nutzer einfach nur beschimpft: KinsKI

Ein Schusswechsel ist, wenn 2 Seiten aufeinander schießen. Das war nicht der Fall. Nicht einmal Trumps Agenten haben das behauptet. Sorry, aber solche Fehler dürfen Medienprofis nicht passieren. Europa hat keinen Grund, sich in den US-Autoritarismus mitziehen zu lassen. Das hier ist Medienversagen.

💅🏻 More stylish than the Beatles 👩‍👩‍👦‍👦 More tight-knit than ABBA 😱 More fearsome than the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 🐱‍👤 More iconic than the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Have you ever wondered who's behind PorcaLoc? Find out their superpowers at porcaloc.com/whos-behind-...