me when my girl takes her top off

perhaps this website attracts 38 year olds because its no problem for us to post on a forum where all the mods are huge pieces of shit that everybody hates

I think of this often

Felt like I was going insane watching people accept an AI model's explanation for why that same AI model committed a war crime.

i for one am shocked that the "i go in the pool to cool down, why can't my phone?" guy is bad at programming and offloading his job to the anthropic api

Anyways.

This article aptly captures the real state of Japanese game dev right now. For years, companies have prioritized outsourcing/contract hires because of fewer legal obligations. But as this piece describes, it also lets them skirt around layoff laws by ceasing to contract that external work at all.

in which people finally learn what it means for the PS5 to have games

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

Batman The Brave and the Bold X Dokidoki! Precure 🦇♣️ Commissioned by @majodyna.bsky.social

lot of things have been said already but “more than 2 million players” immediately followed by “we have not been able to build a sustainable player base” is just insane. what are we doing here.

my tireless work continues

finally catching up with the 2014 FGC and watching Kuroko’s Basketball. yeah, this is that good shit.

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

POV: you've opened up the comments section of a post about Bridget from Guilty Gear made at any point in the last four years

I AM THE MIRACLE GIRL

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie. Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL. More info:

i'm not gonna care about another fortnite collab, but...what song is that? there's no credits given and it has those hollow vocals with nonsensical lyrics...that's gotta be AI, right?

still thinking about media do/7S. I'm 100% confident that absolutely nobody in 7S's loc pipeline would ever use AI/MTL, even when the dipshit tech company inevitably forces those tools into the workflow. Nobody with half a brain is going to ruin their reputation by attaching their name to slop.

中世風 #カヲシン

fuck, I’m sorry, I can’t compete with this

Gender euphoria win! 😍 The state can unilaterally declare you to be a fa

I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the *most* cursed. Grammarly is generating miniature LLMs based on academic work so that users can have their writing ‘reviewed’ by experts like David Abulafia, who died less than two months ago.

incredible 24 hours where some dumbasses with business degrees drop 80 million bucks on a company only to immediately learn they absolutely cannot do the one thing they presumably bought it for, masterful gambit sirs

Not Alone 🧸 [ #Art #Digimon #DigimonBeatbreak #Beatbreak ]

Many have asked about AI and translation following the acquisition announcement. Seven Seas remains committed to human translators and the high editorial standards our readers & creators expect. Nothing about the acquisition changes how we translate our books. More info shortly.

the way manga publishers will throw their authors to the wolves and treat them like they're indispensable but as soon as one gets outed as an actual pedophile they gladly welcome them back with open arms

So who does that $80 million go to? Because it sure as hell isn't gonna go to any of the people who provide the services that give the company its value.

all-timer sports graphic dropped

it's been a long week... hang on, i am just being informed that it was literally the weekend.

MangaOne has revealed that the writer of “Act Age” Tatsuya Matsuki is writing the series “Seisou no Shinrishi” under the name of Yatsunami Itsuki. Matsuki was arrested for assault on a middle school student August 2020, and subsequently received a guilty verdict (1 year and 6 months in prison.)

【発表】マンガワン、逮捕歴ある『アクタージュ』原作者を別名義で起用していたと公表 作画担当には過去を説明し了承の上で連載 news.livedoor.com/article/deta... 小学館は2日、『星霜の心理士』の原作者について説明。起用に当たって判決の確定及び執行猶予期間の満了、反省の姿勢などを確認したとし、二次加害に繋がらないよう名義を変更したという。

Anyway, for people who don't know the industry, every editor and project manager I've worked with on a translation, both in and out of Seven Seas, has had a clear passion for producing quality work that would make fans happy. I can't imagine a single one of them daring to suggest I stoop to MTL.

GIVE US THE LAYERED CSP FILES IF YOU WANT MANGA LOCALIZED FASTER

Like I really don’t think people appreciate how much work you need to find every year as a freelance TL to make anything resembling a livable wage with the rates where they are rn. To hit the median US income on pretty typical manga rates you’d have to get about *50 volumes* a year

I’m p sure the easiest way to get media localized faster would be to raise rates for external contractors so they can dedicate more time to individual series and hire more people on the other end of the process (typesetters/etc for manga, programmers for games, etc) to reduce those bottlenecks

The math is of course completely nonsensical on its face, but even putting that aside, you'll note that they only describe the benefits of this to be a reduction in time and cost. You know, cost, the thing that I pay my rent with. :)

To understand what's happening in Iran today, you have to know about the history of Western intervention in the country. In the early 1900s, the British secured oil rights in the country until 1993, where they only agreed to pay Iran 16% of the total profits. This was seen as an unfair deal. 🧵

d-do you think this means they’ll raise my rates

あじゅ姉デビュー2周年！おめでとうございます！！！🎉🥳🎉 （再掲です🐥） #あじゅばむ

みくるちゃん

On top of all the reporting that this war of aggression was planned well in advance, it seems that the reporting also indicates that the US political leadership are quite literally too stupid to understand basic diplomacy. I mean literally not smart enough.

I’m voting for the candidate who promises to imprison everyone who makes money insider trading on war.

I can’t recall another politician ever expressing this direct of a sentiment before. (depressing! it’s so simple!) it’s difficult to explain how it feels to wake up and find your country is bombing the place your family grew up. again

I lost my keys last week and Ive been stressing since. the dealership wants 260 for a new key(that shit feels like a scam but whatever). my car is either gonna get towed again or booted on monday so this is kind of urgent. please donate or boost venmo: ladyprospera cashapp: $ladyprospera

Nothing is surprising about the US starting another war. Nothing is more dangerous to Earth and mankind at large than the United States and its complete and utter failure to curtail the worst excesses of humanity. The US oligarchy and its influence on global politics must end.

You can't hide behind the semantics of the source material and claim greater authenticity. That's fearing the job. Translation is a collaboration between you, the work, and the creators and unless you own your choices, you're not holding up your end of the bargain and you're misrepresenting theirs.