"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?

Let's celebrate the 1000xRESIST release with a poem! Hekki ALLMO words we read And boy did we scratch our head But Sunset's dream now we know Can only make you say: bravo! Many thanks to @sunsetvisitor.studio for trusting us with this gem. Hekki grace!

Coordinating with the Warlocs on these localizations was an absolute dream! Highly recommend working with these incredible folks if you can!

Très fière d'avoir contribué à la traduction française de cette petite pépite ❤️

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 🥊

Excusez-moi, parlez-vous Français ? Ça tombe bien parce que 1000xResist aussi ! En tout cas bientôt : c'est le 4 novembre que l'immense banger des canadiens de Sunset Visitor déploiera sa traduction. Hekki Grâce ?

Une citation importante, en effet, dont voici la VF en avant-première Valable là-bas comme ici, alors comme aujourd'hui. ✊

We're also so excited to reveal that additional localizations are on the way! The game’s text will be translated to Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and French. Hekki grace, thank you to our friends who speak those languages for their patience. 💙

You are a clone named Watcher, and you’ve made a grave mistake. 💠 Surface a 1,000-year-old lie from the cosmic shadows 💠 Discover the forbidden truths about your god 💠 Unravel a tapestry of familial pain, love and revolution 1000xRESIST is coming to PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass on November 4.

Machine translation post-editing.

Omg, someone made Toasty from Little Rocket Lab with Lego First time someone has Legoed one of our games haha

Beautiful illustration of Morgan & Pico ❤️ I had a blast working on the French localization of Little Rocket Lab (AKA the love child of Satisfactory and Stardew Valley), go play it now!

Come on, constructive peeps! You heard what the Mike said! Grab your wrench and your gloves, and get building! 🤘🚀🤘

Hekki National Hair Day, sisters! Hair to hair. 💙 Be sure to perform your functions meticulously today, just like Watcher does. 🫡

Aujourd'hui, c'est la Saint-Jérôme, saint patron des traducteurices. Et ils sont un paquet à être en grève aujourd'hui pour protester contre la dégradation de nos conditions de travail, mais aussi contre l'usage de l'IA. C'est l'occasion de partager ce billet : clement-martin.fr/fr/posts/et-...

We can finally share that… 🐭❄🪓❄🐾❄🍄❄🥧❄✨ WINTER BURROW RELEASES NOV 12 🥧❄✨❄🐭❄🪓❄🐾❄🍄

It’s been a pleasure working on the French translation with @jaufrevf.bsky.social ❤️❄️

Just a reminder, but ChatGBT is NOT a search engine. It's a statistics based random word generator. The results you get are not guaranteed to be accurate. Please don't use it. (Same with Google's generated results.)

We're delighted to have 🛬crash-landed🛬 into this exciting and mysterious adventure from 🥇Goldfire🔥 Studios! Our skillful👨‍✈️pilots👩‍✈️ have worked on the German, French, Spanish, and Simplified Chinese translations, and they even managed to survive the 🧊cold❄️!

Si j'étais vous, j'achèterais ce jeu exceptionnel dont l'écriture remarquable n'est que l'une des grandes qualités, même si vous ne lisez pas bien l'anglais, car la VF arrive très bientôt… Mais vous faites ce que vous voulez, hein ! (Faites-le.)

Je vais monter un tribunal spécial pour les personnes chez YouTube qui ont décrété que le doublage automatique par IA n'était pas désactivable côté utilisateur.

Congratulations on the launch of Silksong, @teamcherry.bsky.social! However, it is a shame to see that the care with which the game was crafted does not extend to the French localization, which is riddled with errors. (Descriptions of the mistakes provided in the ALT text.) (1/3) #Silksong

This is precisely what the translation industry has been doing for years…

🍒 CHERRY RUSH has begun! 🍒 50 games, 50 cherries, 3 days of UFO 50 and fundraising for charity - organized by the community! Come watch! cherry-rush.org

👏👏👏 I wanted to select a quote, but there are just too many good ones. Just read the whole thing, I promise it's worth your time.

Également dizzponible en français, ainsi que Mudborne 🫶🐝🐸

Disponible en français 🌼🤗

Also people keep asking me if I find AI translation helpful in my work and AI TRANSLATION IS NOWHERE NEAR COMMERCIAL QUALITY and NO I DON'T EDIT AI TRANSLATION BECAUSE IT'S MUCH FASTER FOR ME TO JUST DO THE ACTUAL TRANSLATION THAN EDIT CRAP because PAINTING CRAP WITH GOLD DOESN'T TURN CRAP INTO GOLD

Herdling is OUT NOW! We’re stoked to finally invite you on this journey 🐐🦬🐏⛰️ Get the game now on Steam, Epic Game Store, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X|S or Game Pass, links below! We’ll give away 5 Steam keys among everyone who reposts this 🎉🎉🎉

Since 2023, translators and interpreters have seen work dry up, rates plummet and their jobs reduced to editing AI-generated output. Some are leaving the field, others are considering bankruptcy. All despite any major upgrade in translation quality. This is how AI is killing translation work:

We finally have a release date after 5+ years of development! 🥳 Arctic Awakening is coming SEPTEMBER 18 to Steam, Xbox Series X|S and PS5! ❤️ Wishlists and ❄️ shares help us thaw out the algorithm: store.steampowered.com/app/1275550/... #indiegame #gamedev

25 games to get to know me 🎮 I tried to make a somewhat logical order👾 topsters.org

If you’ve ever thought ‘I want a game in which…’ 💠 god is a teenage girl with generational trauma 💠 there is doomed yuri galore 💠 you’ll resist a 1000-year-old lie that shatters an entire society Then 1000xRESIST is waiting for you, 30% off until August 9. ⬇️ s.team/a/1675830/

If anyone still thinks MT is somewhat decent for narrative games just because there's a ton of dialogue and descriptions, read this dissection by @katrinal10n.bsky.social of an AI-translated game. tl;dr: 👑context & culture👑 are kryptonite to machines. (Flashbacks to anime fansubs rushing releases)

If you see this, quote post with a robot that isn’t from Star Wars, Star Trek, Dr Who or Transformers.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

Post yourself from another era. From cat goddess to translator's assistant.

Le temps est tellement lourd qu’il passe des heures sur Facebook à poster des commentaires anti-woke en signant “à bon entendeur”.

Paved with Love Happy Pride month! 🌈🏳️‍🌈 I spent a long time thinking about what to paint for this year until I saw a photo of flagstones covered in chalk art of various rainbows. It made me realize that the path to equality and a better tomorrow is paved slowly, step by step, and with love.

Imagine demander des conseils juridiques au clavier T9 de ton Nokia 3310

We're so excited to share Botany Manor won the Accessibility Award at the #GamesForChange awards! The team put a lot of work into accessibility features, colour-blind legibility for clues and designing the game to be gentle to the player. As a small studio, it means a lot to see it recognised 😊💚

We are so excited to announce that @botanymanor.bsky.social just received the Accessibility Award at the 2025 @gamesforchange.bsky.social awards! A HUGE thank you to our Accessibility team for making Botany Manor a game for all! #gamesforchange #gamesareforeveryone

In denial about Summer. #TinyGlade #Queensestate #CantWaitForWinter #CantWaitForStairs

Tout est dit : - Précarisation du domaine - Épuisement moral des traducteurices - Gain de temps quasi inexistant de la post-édition - Ignorance des responsables qui l'imposent - Appauvrissement de la langue - Risque d'erreurs graves dans des domaines sensibles - Disparition d'un savoir-faire ancien

This is who runs this account.

Mudborne has hit OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE on Steam (500+ reviews!!!) 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you everyone! If you’ve played and haven’t yet then please do leave a review for me to peep my froggy eyes on 🐸

« Et l'IA, alors ? » À force qu'on me pose la question, j'ai fini par mettre à plat mon opinion sur l'usage de l'IA générative en traduction. Ce n'est pas un article pour spécialistes, mais j'espère que ceux qui n'y connaissent rien en sortiront mieux renseignés. clement-martin.fr/2025/06/05/e...

surreal, so hekki surreal

Translation isn’t simply plugging words into a dictionary and spitting out the “same” word in a different language. It requires knowledge of grammar and context. It’s a skill that AI simply cannot replicate because a good translation drips with humanity.