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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier

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The Daigo Umehara of dating sims and the Tony Hawk of Tokimemo. Also your neighborhood Japanese game translator for over a decade. DM for work inquiries. 日英ゲーム翻訳者。日本語のメッセージも大歓迎！ 📖 Blog: https://dateemups.com/ ✍️ Portfolio: https://freelansations.com

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · Mar 6

So, here's the deal: if you've got a mid to long-term J>E translation or editing gig for a ten-year vet with AAA, lead translator credits to his name (portfolio link in my bio), let's talk by email or DMs. If not, a share is appreciated. I don't wanna spin my wheels another year. Thanks, folks. 🙏

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 10h

Yeah, I've seen it making the rounds on here! It's definitely on the wishlist for sure! Not every day you see a western dev riff on Mystery Dungeon, so I'm eager to dig into it and see how it fares. 😌

Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 11h

Genuinely one of my most cherished gaming memories ever is getting to the endgame content of EDF2 on the PS2 and having it drop to, at best, 1 FPS at times as it tried to process everything. I don't necessarily wish that on everybody else, but sometimes no frames per second is peak gaming, too. 😌

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 11h

I fear for The Culture when I finally remember one of these years how to actually play another game that isn't Shiren the Wanderer, but that day isn't today, I'm afraid.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 11h

Them: Will FSR4 make [2025 AAA game] look decent and run at 30 FPS on the Deck? Let's find out in a video where the answer is "eh."

Me, the ascetic gamer: Such futility. If you wish to escape the samsara of Deck settings, you need only embrace Shiren the Wanderer as the one game a Deck needs. 🧘

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · 14h

I am covering EVERY First Person Shooter EVER made in Japan.

From 1985 to 2025, that's over 40 years and 70 games of gaming history.

Link: youtu.be/F80Cl6WzBNo?...

This was without a doubt the most ambitious video I've ever made.

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X ΘΔ @xkeeper.net · 12h

i said this a few weeks ago, but a reminder that windows 10 being "end of life" does not mean your operating system will immediately stop working. even if the OS itself doesn't get updates, the apps you use most often (the browser.) still are. more important to have adblock + firewall these days

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 16h

I don't make a point of speaking in public about UK politics, even if I do try to pay as much attention as I can, so I'm just relieved to hear I didn't crack an egg on my own face unwittingly, ahaha.

Hugs from Japan, friend. I'm so sorry your government is failing people, too, time and again. 🫂

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 17h

Anyway, nice to see Downing Street is definitely giving the urgency of that perennial labor crunch exacerbated by a certain consequential vote the seriousness that it deserves. Yes, a language requirement on the people still willing to come and work there is clearly going to bring that relief. 😵‍💫

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 17h

It's so fun seeing both US Democrats and Labour meeting such a precarious moment in history by catering to the people who will eat them alive in the polls anyway no matter how many concessions they're given. Such tremendous embarrassments who only have themselves to blame for their predicaments. 😮‍💨

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 21h

そうですよねぇ。たまには僕は英日の依頼を引き受けることがありますが、その時は主にメールのやり取りみたいな、公開されないことに限っていますね。例外が今までこの10年間2、3つしかなくて、その時のクライントにいつも、専門外であることと、ネイティブのプロフェッショナルと違い、自分の能力でどんな完成品を納品できるかを詳しく説明して、そのリスクを承知して頂いた上でやり遂げましたね。

元々、翻訳という仕事は原文を新しい言語での代表を意味するので、大変気を付けないと、エンタメみたいな資料を母語じゃない言語に翻訳すれば、作成者の能力等が完全に表現されない可能性が非常に高くて、しない方色んな意味で安全ですね😮‍💨

Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 21h

Also, I get that the economy is super shitty out there, but, y'all younger translators I see replying to the thread, if J>E is your primary speciality, taking on a creative E>J assignment of that scope is probably not professionally responsible and could cause serious problems for OP. Just don't.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 21h

この方はアニメーションの脚本作成の経験のある英日翻訳者を募集しているそうです。引用で書いてある情報と違い、作業量は46話分の依頼ではなく、46分ほどのたった一話のようで、興味がある人はBryerさんのスレッドで直接に返信して下さい。

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 1d

Still looking for someone, haven't found a single person so far (that I can contact). I have a 46-episode script that I need translated. This would be a paid job!

Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 11d

Completely unrelated to my 2am doomposting but does anyone know an English to Japanese translator, ideally with experience in screenplays?

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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️, but spooky 🦇 @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 1d

"This is a truly pioneering survival game, one that still stands out as a unique and almost painfully tense experience almost three decades later."

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Septentrion: Found at sea

Septentrion is so unashamedly eager to ape ’70s disaster movie The Poseidon Adventure it doesn’t just broadly copy the setting and flow of its memorable inspiration, the game even makes…

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 1d

Oh, perfect! I wasn't expecting it to still be readily available. Thanks a bunch! 🙏

Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah, I was refreshing myself on their whole deal earlier and between that and their karaoke dealings before they got into games, it sure seems like they had a hell of a unique trajectory to say the least.

I'll have to see if I can track down that doujin, though, that sounds super interesting. 👀

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 1d

While I'm normally not one to go out of my way to buy sealed games for obvious reasons, I'd also be lying if I said I don't have an alert out for this game on the off-chance someone does sell a copy with the sticker because it's just the kind of chutzpah I wanna own for myself if given the chance. 😎

Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 1d

Admirably big Satomi no Nazo energy, which is an infamous early PS1 kusoge RPG whose developer had the idea to put similar stickers saying "recommended RPG" on the cases by hand after manufacturing, tricking players into thinking the stores had placed them, a stunt Sony was none too pleased with.

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Thomas Nickel @tapirfortuna.bsky.social · 1d

The PlayStation-version of Konami's Tokimeki Memorial was released 30 years ago today - and one can certainly argue that it was this version, that made the game a real phenomenon. It's a shame Konami still hasn't offered a localized Version of this highly influential classic.

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 1d

I went like three straight years here without ever seeing a single one (although I did have a gecko sneak into my bedroom, which I'm still trying to figure out to this day...), but this is the second I've had in two months. Fact of life here, but I liked that illusion this area was roach-free. 😩

Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 1d

Man, the dip back up in temperature during the day around here is definitely making the bugs go a little wacky with their behavior. Nothing like a surprise visit from a big ass flying Japanese cockroach in the middle of October to wake me up after feeling sleepy all day long. 😭😭😭

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 1d

Really excited to monetize my reaction to someone else's reaction to someone else's video so that I can make tens of thousands of dollars plying my expertise by just saying "it do be like that" for every camera cut I talk over, yeah. 😌

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 1d

pretty sure the reaction video economy is officially out of ideas because youtube just recommended a video to me that was titled, "[so and so number 1] reacts to [so and so number 2's] linux journey" and rarely have my eyes glazed over more at something google thought i would ever want to watch

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 2d

vita means life, including and especially games that deserve it the least

Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 2d

you ever just remember when you're alone and lying down in bed that they followed up amagami with a pair of vita games that use air hockey as a metaphor for talking to girls

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Tom, Legally Certified Date Simmelier @iiotenki.bsky.social · 2d

That Mamel type in question, the purple one in the video, is basically a glass cannon. It has low HP and you tend not to encounter it by organic means. But if you get unlucky and run into it, it can one shot you dead. Definitely wouldn't have done this without offensive rods to attack from afar.