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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 1d

yet, I've lived in Portland for 2 years- never seen the guy!!

Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 1d

walked past Keanu, realized it 3 seconds later

also saw Annie Murphy and Bill Irwin, independently, on the sidewalk, in the same 72-hour period. Manhattan is a world of its own

a NYC block near Broadway. Keanu Reeves is in the photo, but turned away from my camera, at a distance of 20+ feet

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 3d

I swear
this native English speaker writes in early-stage J>E English
(not derogatory, just fascinating)

a post from Toby Fox commenting on Sakurai's game dev dinner:
"Sakurai-san treated the judges of the Game Award's 'Game Designers Award' to a delicious dinner. It was fun."

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 8d

been hungry for this number for a bit 😈

now to do precisely 2/3 of one more book, getting me exactly 2/3 of the way to the peak of Mt. 1000.
the climb goes ever on!

a cropped section of an excel sheet listing translated books by publisher (publisher names are censored). Total Japanese books translated is 666, circled in red. Total English releases is 600.5; the discrepancy of 65.5 is because of books that were done in English as omnibuses.

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 9d

the 1999-2006 book series for children obviously wasn't an allegory for what's happening now
but revisiting as an adult, the VFD come off as basic liberals (lofty ideals, zero follow through) who refuse to throw a punch as the bad guys literally murder them and start fires and exploit mob psychology

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 9d

-unrepentantly evil charlatan whips up credulous bloodthirsty populist mobs everywhere
-as villains burn it all down, primary opposition is a passive/ineffectual org
-young people realize the authorities/courts will not save them

good thing A Series of Unfortunate Events is fiction
(just rewatched)

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11d

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 11d

there will be next time 😈

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 11d

Oji gives a whiff of devil-may-care
whereas
Maori got that kansaiben twang

worlds apart!!

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 11d

when the author thinks my stance re: "English does not tolerate repetition" is a bluff and not a boulder of a principle that I've chained myself to and that will drag me off a cliff

go ahead make all 95 characters say 了解 in a row, see if I blink

a World Trigger panel with five characters saying:
Sure, why not?
No complaints here.
All righty.
A solid choice.
Agreed.

two more World Trigger panels, with nine more variations on 了解:
Roger that.
Sure thing.
All right.
Got it.
Of course.
Will do!
No problem.
Orders received.
Sounds good.

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 13d

of course, the amateur mistake would be to equate alien syntax (to us) with the author intending characters to sound like aliens. but no! it says nothing about characterization. purposely shackling the sentence's chunks to those same speech bubbles in target lang. would be a misleading TL artifact

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 13d

average JPN speaker would be like
"what's not to understand?"

concept art from Arrival, showing the aliens' byzantine mode of communication via temporal 4D ink blot circles or whatever the fuck

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Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 13d

i may need treatment after receiving a near lethal dose of

verb-modifiers-object-subject
syntax

a yowa peda panel with the following text (very literally):
-will be waiting
-at Inter-High on our bikes
-for that moment, I!!

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 14d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.