never have, never will. I don't even use spellcheck or autocomplete (on phone) anymore, b/c they started getting things egregiously wrong 🤷‍♂️ LLMs pickle the brain in kool-aid, and the boosters are evidently desperate to believe that we're all ethically/artistically bankrupt fraudsters, like them.

The results are in: 0/4 of the recent Tales Remasters/Ports have credited the English localizers who worked on them. This has been an ongoing issue since 2014, when Tales games suddenly stopped crediting English localizers in both remasters and new entries. #TranslatorsintheCredits (1/8)

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upsettingly good, life-changing game, in my top 10 of all time, up there with Dark Souls 1, Majora's Mask, Metroid Prime 1 etc. for a third of the price of a latte

Shin'ichi Sakamoto's lefty Dracula gets even wilder vampire Jon Harker clocks two lesbian nuns and is like "your awesome lgbtq+ status reminds me of my dead trans friend, who was my osanajimi's lover, and who I need to avenge by killing MJ Drac" and the boss lesbian gives him a kukri to do the job

v3: the ghost of Van Helsing seems to use the word "ajito" when summoned by the Ouija board. v6: Mina notes Jo casually using "ajito" while otherwise speaking English. v7: Mina accuses Jo of faking the seance(s). He thought ajito was an English loanword in JPN, but it's from the Russian agitpunkt.

made a Shuckle amigurumi (pattern from www.loopycathrine.com ) #shuckle #crochet

Dwarrowdelf (in Moria) could've merely been a boring 38 x 38 x 30 hollow vault at the bottom of the world, but I added an infinitely-looping, segmented lazy river mechanism that plays echoing orc drums via motion sensors and floodgates, which will self-trigger once activated

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instructions unclear; made a jumpscare Bilbo

勝つ丼だから... >"Winner, winner, katsu-dinner," as they say... it's either that or write a shameful footnote about ~cutlets~ (hork!) and "kanji characters" (a sliver of my soul sloughs off)

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never thought our patio-sheltering tree would give me so much joy goes from "I shouldn't walk around naked in the kitchen lest lookie-loos see" to "nah that's fine actually" in two weeks flat

Ew Moleskine used genAI for their Lord of the Ring collection by mentioning they used it, then entirely removing the claim after some backlash. Incredibly shitty of them for a brand that claims human creativity. cjleo.com/blog/moleski...

mill + Green Dragon + party tree venue are done! that's a good deal of the substantive work on Hobbiton, besides random hobbit hole facades and Bag End, with its ~6~ rooms

working on a tome where a good day means maybe ~3% progress (vs. daily rate for tanko, between 33 and 100%) and I dunno how the game translators bear it. I'd see that bar tick up 0.02% or w/e and be choked by the thin air on that climb. prolly helps morale to get $$$-per-moji, instead of flat rate!

as promised, motion-activated Eye of Sauron in Mordor (listen for the click of the chain of hatch windows as I pass those final rocks) Rest of the tower to come later, including an interior w/elevator, reception, cubicle floor, cafeteria, server room, etc.

I TL the Otaku x Gal manga and even this author goes meta and waxes philosophical re: this ankle-deep sub-sub-genre (the gal see a "Gal x Otaku" manga and ask if linking arms counts as being "sweet" to someone, and otaku MC is like don't roast this premise pls, and the crowd is meme-savvy about it)

It's #portfolioday! I'm a freelance manga letterer who has lent his design skills to the art of localization on close to 300 books. You might recognize a few of the things I've worked on!

"The Ring Goes South" snippet is done! Will play right after Lothlorien, on the way to the Argonath Didn't have much room to work with since I didn't want a bunch of switchbacks (already had to do 1 unit = 1/16th note, vs. 1/32nd with Hobbit theme), but this gets the job done

dynamic laser-activated Eye of Sauron is a go. Now I just have to construct it hundreds of feet in the air at the top of Barad-dur, triggered by a laser chain starting near the exit of Cirith Ungol, on the other side of Mordor

game looks great but them giving Mademoiselle d'Arc the first name treatment somehow reminds me of weebs being like "my GOAT Akira really cooked with the Namek saga"

first finished chunk: the Hobbiton mill my kingdom for a thatched roof option!

>put packages inside neighbor's place, using her door code, for 3 years, mostly w/o being asked, often multiple per day, b/c I'm home all the time and she never is >do this b/c I know the misery of a stolen package >receive box of artisan cookies from her today >fetch quests are real, and rewarding

"senpai's back" is a ubiquitous trope in battle/sports shonen and shouldn't be translated literally b/c the gist is not intuitive and it makes for wonky phrasing in English ex: this chapter title "A Back I Want to Overcome" >"A Mentor to Surpass" mentor may not always be 1:1, but it works here!

well fuck! here I've been, writing "road race" for the past 40 volumes. wouldn't have happened if I'd had mangaka access... 😔

the grown adults who lived in this unit before us never emptied the dryer's lint trap, leaving the entire system gunked up with 2+ years' worth of a damp, semi-rotting, sludgy husky fur/dander mélange that triggered devastating allergies in me hot take: lint-forgetters go straight to jail

fantasy series where I had a literal alien say [i]magick(s)[/i] (vs. the standard "magic") for funsies, but now they're on the alien planet so I guess I've shackled myself to the magic<->magick(s) bit excuse-in-retrospect: it's like when JPN puts a key term in all-katakana to show unfamiliarity!

"Concerning Hobbits" (Shire theme) is done! Each of the 10 measures takes 32 units of track, so integrating it into the Hobbiton landscape wasn't realistic. Instead, it'll play before the cart emerges into the town. Hard to believe this music method was intended, yet, it's used on the dev island

music proof of concept! this is one measure's worth of Concerning Hobbits, out of a planned ~12 or so measures that will play as the cart roves about the Shire (the game offers 8 music mats (C to high C), each can play (X), (X)#, high-(X), or high-(X)# depending on its cardinal orientation)

continent 1 (the small one!) is mostly leveled and ready for construction of the Hobbiton -> Weathertop leg. back at my HQ, pokemon-staffed factories are busy pumping out in real-time actual mountains' worth of resources for this endeavor (label abbreviations spelled out in alt text)

big fan of this 図 the Porygon2 of 図s, if you will

Shuckle may be absent from this game, but not from my heart (you can create any image--and then place a screenshot of it in a frame or on a monitor--if you're willing to create it block by block)

at first I thought "game that pops open" meant...a standard clamshell game case? except that no modern games have *square* packaging? then it occurred to me- this is an ancient YowaPeda book from an age when the DS was still relevant (it's a "console" that pops open, not a game case). Hence "DSS"

human translation is knowing that this microscopic したァ is an otsukaresama deshita

need a way to activate the Eye of Sauron (a clear vessel that will fill with lava) upon stepping into Mordor, and it seems there's a solution—hundreds of laser sensors and sash windows, daisy-chaining up through the tower (proof of concept by someone on reddit: www.reddit.com/r/Pokopia/co... )

haha I'm in danger (of getting my 70 bucks' worth with this game after spending the next few years recreating Frodo's journey as an on-rails minecart thrill ride with fully-realized environments and motion-triggered setpieces, including note-by-note music and light-up Balrog)

manifesting a scene in the next Baki arc where Baki's dad throws this dude out a 10th-story window for mouthing off we need a little treat, Itagaki. a little wish fulfillment

Lately, I have so few words due to burnout but I have so much thanks for the mutual aid given to me so far. I'm still in need in order to secure my housing, but my gratitude for what's come my way is immense, and it's important to me too just my limited words to say that.

this one's me! also, now that I'm neck-deep in pokopia, this comparison seems so obvious that I have to wonder if "tiny ebullient femme blacksmith with twintails, pointy ribbon, and giant tool/weapon" is actually a trope

we get plenty of WcDonalds and Futarbucks, but rarer are the likes of PlayStage and Nintado (rest in piss xbocks)

rather than constructing towns and houses, I sure do enjoy silly shit like turning the Altar of Flame into a tourist trap. Moltres even showed up for the paid roller coaster photo at the end (everything here is bespoke besides the prefab pyramid itself)

on the one hand, bad loc makes a lot of TL'd JPN media unbearable, because the uninspired choices are transparent via translator x-ray goggles on the other, playing 100 hours of Pokopia (w/its fantastic loc) in a week is wildly inspirational. I sit down on Monday excited to level up my own work

obviously the criminals getting their sex crimes routinely handwaved by management don't deserve any success, but also imagine how many talented non-men/non-pedophiles over the years have been passed over by the boy's club in favor of propping up monsters. you can't! it's an unknowable loss of art

The Shogakukan editor came in with a proposal: create an official notarized document in which the creator pays 1.5 million yen ($10,067) and the victim agrees never to speak publicly about what happened to her. buff.ly/xZsWcD6

like all of us, porygon2 needs a better work/life balance...

Portland takes pi day and line-waiting to olympian level got on line at 830 (line already down and around block) in 38 degree weather, shop opened at 9, placed my order at 1135. Dude was wheeling a cart around selling coffee and breakfast burritos. Portlandia brunch sketch is real!

started manga translation in 2013 some pubs never give across-the-board rate bumps, some do, but even with those, it's rare/sporadic/doesn't keep up with inflation. the majority of boosts I get come from negotiating on a project-to-project basis Otherwise, more money has to come from more series

def recommend putting a security camera 100 pokefeet in the air