Derek L.H.
@derekexmachina.com
Writer, Localization Editor, Game Dev, JRPG Enthusiast. He/Him. 28.
Love yapping about games, movies, localization, and anything else that catches my interest. Open to writing/editing/localization opportunities, DMs open!
https://derek-lh.com
Love yapping about games, movies, localization, and anything else that catches my interest. Open to writing/editing/localization opportunities, DMs open!
https://derek-lh.com
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Derek L.H.
@derekexmachina.com
· Jul 28
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Hi everyone! I'm Derek L.H., a localization editor, writer, part-time streamer, and full-time nerd that loves video games, anime, and movies!
📝 Portfolio / CV: derek-lh.com
✍️ Blog: derekexmachina.com
🎮 Twitch: twitch.tv/derek_ex_machina
🖥️ Socials + Discord: linktr.ee/derekexmachina
Hi everyone! I'm Derek L.H., a localization editor, writer, part-time streamer, and full-time nerd that loves video games, anime, and movies!
📝 Portfolio / CV: derek-lh.com
✍️ Blog: derekexmachina.com
🎮 Twitch: twitch.tv/derek_ex_machina
🖥️ Socials + Discord: linktr.ee/derekexmachina
I wish junior and mid-level workers weren't considered a liability by employers. It keeps all of us miserable.
November 11, 2025 at 8:34 PM
I wish junior and mid-level workers weren't considered a liability by employers. It keeps all of us miserable.
The worst part about looking for game writing work is that there's literally no reason to hire me over the hundreds or thousands of great game writers that have shipped multiple games.
So many writers looking for work objectively deserve it more than me.
So many writers looking for work objectively deserve it more than me.
November 11, 2025 at 8:33 PM
The worst part about looking for game writing work is that there's literally no reason to hire me over the hundreds or thousands of great game writers that have shipped multiple games.
So many writers looking for work objectively deserve it more than me.
So many writers looking for work objectively deserve it more than me.
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“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
If Kristen Stewart gets cast as Rosalina, this movie will be immensely peak.
November 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
If Kristen Stewart gets cast as Rosalina, this movie will be immensely peak.
Dang, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is pretty fun.
November 11, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Dang, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment is pretty fun.
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🗣️📣 NEW BLOG POST ALERT!
This week, I review Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and discuss what makes it a great modern JRPG as well as its shortcomings that result from its ambition. Spoilers in the review are tagged.
Likes, comments, and reposts appreciated!
www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2025/11...
This week, I review Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and discuss what makes it a great modern JRPG as well as its shortcomings that result from its ambition. Spoilers in the review are tagged.
Likes, comments, and reposts appreciated!
www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2025/11...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Review: A Turn-Based Marvel Punches Above its Weight, Flaws and All — Derek Ex Machina
Not only is Expedition 33 a fun RPG, it’s an unflinchingly courageous one. It tackles ambitious narrative themes, has tantalizingly deep mechanics that lead to boundless customization and player exp...
www.derekexmachina.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🗣️📣 NEW BLOG POST ALERT!
This week, I review Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and discuss what makes it a great modern JRPG as well as its shortcomings that result from its ambition. Spoilers in the review are tagged.
Likes, comments, and reposts appreciated!
www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2025/11...
This week, I review Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and discuss what makes it a great modern JRPG as well as its shortcomings that result from its ambition. Spoilers in the review are tagged.
Likes, comments, and reposts appreciated!
www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2025/11...
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BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
November 10, 2025 at 2:46 PM
BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.
🗣️📣 NEW BLOG POST ALERT!
This week, I review Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and discuss what makes it a great modern JRPG as well as its shortcomings that result from its ambition. Spoilers in the review are tagged.
Likes, comments, and reposts appreciated!
www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2025/11...
This week, I review Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and discuss what makes it a great modern JRPG as well as its shortcomings that result from its ambition. Spoilers in the review are tagged.
Likes, comments, and reposts appreciated!
www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2025/11...
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Review: A Turn-Based Marvel Punches Above its Weight, Flaws and All — Derek Ex Machina
Not only is Expedition 33 a fun RPG, it’s an unflinchingly courageous one. It tackles ambitious narrative themes, has tantalizingly deep mechanics that lead to boundless customization and player exp...
www.derekexmachina.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:13 PM
🗣️📣 NEW BLOG POST ALERT!
This week, I review Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and discuss what makes it a great modern JRPG as well as its shortcomings that result from its ambition. Spoilers in the review are tagged.
Likes, comments, and reposts appreciated!
www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2025/11...
This week, I review Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and discuss what makes it a great modern JRPG as well as its shortcomings that result from its ambition. Spoilers in the review are tagged.
Likes, comments, and reposts appreciated!
www.derekexmachina.com/blog/2025/11...
The Expedition 33 review is officially finished and will go up tomorrow morning!
November 9, 2025 at 7:04 PM
The Expedition 33 review is officially finished and will go up tomorrow morning!
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My Expedition 33 review is almost 13,000 words so far and I'm not finished yet.
I'm literally incapable of shutting the fuck up about video games.
I'm literally incapable of shutting the fuck up about video games.
November 8, 2025 at 4:45 AM
My Expedition 33 review is almost 13,000 words so far and I'm not finished yet.
I'm literally incapable of shutting the fuck up about video games.
I'm literally incapable of shutting the fuck up about video games.
Update: pushing this back to release on Monday. Writing it's going well so far, but it turns out that I have a lot more to say than I initially thought.
Putting together my Expedition 33 review. If all goes well, I'm aiming for it to be out this Friday.
November 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Update: pushing this back to release on Monday. Writing it's going well so far, but it turns out that I have a lot more to say than I initially thought.
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🕯️Manifesting 🕯️
October 28, 2025 at 2:21 PM
🕯️Manifesting 🕯️
Back when the internet was cool.
November 6, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Back when the internet was cool.
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😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
November 5, 2025 at 5:22 AM
😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎
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I know it's been seven months, but I've now officially been rejected for the two dream job openings I was gunning for this year.
I've gotten so many rejections this year, but these ones hurt the most.
I've gotten so many rejections this year, but these ones hurt the most.
November 5, 2025 at 1:36 AM
I know it's been seven months, but I've now officially been rejected for the two dream job openings I was gunning for this year.
I've gotten so many rejections this year, but these ones hurt the most.
I've gotten so many rejections this year, but these ones hurt the most.
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Correction! The original credits are accessible from the main menu, and the original English localizers are still credited there as they were before. But the ones who worked on the remaster have been omitted from the remaster credits. (They still deserve to be credited alongside the LQA folks!)
November 4, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Correction! The original credits are accessible from the main menu, and the original English localizers are still credited there as they were before. But the ones who worked on the remaster have been omitted from the remaster credits. (They still deserve to be credited alongside the LQA folks!)
Reposted by Derek L.H.
Unless there is another credits sequence I'm unaware of, Tales of Xillia Remastered also fails to credit its English localizers (both past and present), as well as its English voice actors, continuing the trend of Tales games omitting these people in the credits. #TranslatorsintheCredits
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Unless there is another credits sequence I'm unaware of, Tales of Xillia Remastered also fails to credit its English localizers (both past and present), as well as its English voice actors, continuing the trend of Tales games omitting these people in the credits. #TranslatorsintheCredits
Putting together my Expedition 33 review. If all goes well, I'm aiming for it to be out this Friday.
November 4, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Putting together my Expedition 33 review. If all goes well, I'm aiming for it to be out this Friday.
Man, NaNo's kind of off to a rough start for me. I'm getting my word counts in, but I don't feel super motivated to write that much this month.
Trying to power through it anyway.
Trying to power through it anyway.
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Man, NaNo's kind of off to a rough start for me. I'm getting my word counts in, but I don't feel super motivated to write that much this month.
Trying to power through it anyway.
Trying to power through it anyway.
Just rolled credits on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Overall, I thought it was really good - this game features some of the best turn-based combat I've ever experienced. Really hope this inspires future games.
Overall, I thought it was really good - this game features some of the best turn-based combat I've ever experienced. Really hope this inspires future games.
November 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Just rolled credits on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33.
Overall, I thought it was really good - this game features some of the best turn-based combat I've ever experienced. Really hope this inspires future games.
Overall, I thought it was really good - this game features some of the best turn-based combat I've ever experienced. Really hope this inspires future games.