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Freelance translator/フリー日英翻訳者. message to all bitches: please survive. she/they
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The bloodbath is global. Everyone hears about layoffs at English-speaking sites like Polygon, but every other language just gets reported locally.

Jovem Nerd is big enough to get a cameo NPC & quest in Cyberpunk 2077. When they fired their game journalists, only Brazilians heard about that... :/
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The whole elephant in the room wrt localization is that “adequate and cheap” is good enough for 90% of companies, and they really don’t care about what the audience outside of Japan gets as long as they make some profit
As the threat of AI translations and subtitles keeps rising, at some point we need to have the conversation about how the push for these are coming more from JP producers and publishers rather than western ones because the reality is Japan generally doesn't care that much about localization quality
Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥
"Turn on the news, it doesn't matter what channel."
Yeah, the Bomberman licensed worked when the marble shooters were a generic thing you molded a copyright-ed little guy around, but after a while of Takara Tomy adding gimmicks and customization options during the Super B-Daman series, they just went and made their own little guys.
the b-daman-inspired war weapons that the villain was selling to america are autonomous, so maybe it's more of a commentary on the drone strike program that would define the obama administration
i'm always down for a good Lovers to Enemies myself
yep, it's a play on ビー玉 and "Bomberman" because who else is gonna shoot your marbles for you
I mean, there were; Hasbro sucks, but even they managed to import two generations of B-Daman (Battle and Crossfight). Bomber ones were a little too early, though. They shoulda tried with Bottleman, though, no excuse there.
"Is Crash B-Daman commentary about 9/11?" I wonder, before remembering that the main game mode of the generation involves players building and then attempting to destroy twin towers.
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i don't get it. omen sushi in nyc is cheaper than nobu in malibu, where you dined last year without your wife
hey yo, i translated this one, it's neat
Cover Debut! - A Misanthrope Teaches a Class for Demi-Humans, Vol. 2 (manga)

The demi-human students of Shiranui High are going to school to learn how to behave like reguar humans. However, their teacher is Rei Hitoma, a human and a self-declared misanthrope!

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ten years of cooking for myself at this point and i still haven't figured out how to cook more than one (1) meal without giving myself a heart attack over nearly burning my apartment down

like yeah this boxed mac n cheese turned out good so i guess it's all right but still
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It is deeply immoral that cashiers in the US are not allowed to sit.
Do you have any extremely niche, but serious, ethical stances?
am i watching the hobbyani version of blood-c's ending
crash b-daman has gone from an arc about kidnapped adults doing forced labor in an underground mine to build secret b-daman war weaponry and is now in a tournament where entrants are put through traumatizing WW2 trench warfare to develop child soldiers before kidnapping them in giant nets.
Cartoons.
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I need a body pillow shaped like a 68000 in a ceramic DIP package
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happy challoween
Serebii Update: The Pokémon GO Halloween 2025 Part 1 event is now rolling out globally.

Runs from 10:00 local time October 21st to 10:00 local time on October 27th

Details are being added @ www.serebii.net/pokemongo/ev...
they really repeated the safety measures of "don't point these things at people" in the first episode just for these kids to fire rocket launchers at each other halfway through. it was really illuminating to learn what this show's tagline was.
To be fair, the JP msrp is ~20k yen/$130 USD, so a good chunk of that price there is just us getting assfucked by tariffs lol
mid-20s? i thought the traditional hobbyani tournament stuff at the start was solid, but this dark lizard arc has just been completely off the rails.
i've come around on Crash B-Daman since posting that. Not in the sense of going back on a single word I wrote, but I think I can at least change the nuance of its insanity from (derogatory) to (affectionate)