The Choctaw word for "shoot / fire / emit" is super-close to Chinese (Southern Min) & Japanese - hear it for yourself! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClQS... #放射

While studying Choctaw last year, I decided to revisit this comedic & stereotype-heavy JRPG about Native Americans Unfortunately, this game remains Japanese-only after all these decades legendsoflocalization.com/videos/tenga... #nativeamerican #retrogames

- "If the shoe fits..." - "This game stinks" - "More fun than a ferret down your trousers" What are some other crazy game marketing quotes?

Years ago I made a bare-bones "EarthBound with Smash Bros.-style battles" game in a day or two - mostly to get it out of my system & to teach me basic Unity animation #gamedev #earthbound #smashbros I don't intend to revisit it but here it is if you want to try it! tomatogame.itch.io/fartbound

A while ago I posted this "What is Localization?" PDF thing It's a full chapter from my Undertale localization book if you're interested! cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/00... #translation #localization #undertale

A true classic of #nostalgia youtube.com/clip/Ugkxrao...

I recently started watching One Piece with my wife, starting from the beginning, it's been fun revisiting the series and sharing memories I have from helping to officially translate it around 18 years ago #onepiece #anime #translation

I forgot about this, I wonder if it was the same in Japanese #earthbound #mother2

Humanity's words for "bird" - we can faintly start to see underlying patterns as we plot them on a map 🍅 (this is from my halito.tomato.game - this Rosetta Stone wall of words is interactive, so YOU can make hundreds of your own maps too!) #linguistics #gamedev #nativeamerican

Back in 2018 I wrote an article about "political references added to video game translations" Then I did it again, a few weeks ago in 2025, so here is PART 2! legendsoflocalization.com/articles/pol... #translation #politics #翻訳

Every couple of years I get the urge to make more games again. Here are some games I made back when I was in high school - some games were for school projects instead of doing boring written reports #gamedev #nostalgia #gaming

Hey it's been like 7 years since my MOTHER 3 Timeline article: legendsoflocalization.com/articles/mot... Has any new stuff happened in the years since? I've been super out of the loop the past few years so I'm curious to know what's been going on in my old hometown of EarthBound fandom #earthbound

Testing testing, hopefully this works? I started to study the Choctaw language last year - it's fascinating how it seems to connect to ALL of the world's languages, stretching back 1000s of years. I hope to keep studying it in unusual, modern ways: halito.tomato.game #日本語 #choctaw #translation