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ah, you're right! my mistake.
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pictured: the Ganon, MIA since DKC3 😔
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I'm mostly just looking at the ENG text when doing QA on others' work, but sometimes I come across a bit that just *feels* hinky enough to make me check the source text, and sure enough—it's usually a mistranslation. Very much a honed instinct, and yeah, deffo easier on not-your-own-work!
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interesting! all depends where you're coming from I guess.
the graphite felt way too set in stone for me, whereas the eraser slices through charcoal like the eraser tool in MS Paint, so it feels more forgiving of mistakes. lots of push and pull and gradual refinement
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thanks!
currently brainstorming new projects to try at home :)
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the class started with graphite, which frustrated me since it only seemed viable for stubborn lines. then we switched to charcoal, which feels malleable as it's applied, erased, smudged (darker by finger, lighter by cloth). I was like oh this is just sculpture on a flat plane.
It clicked!
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I was lucky enough to be paired once again with incomparable letterer Ace, who gets to DOOT all over the shop
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I've never had a lick of confidence in 2D. only ever did sculpture and other mediums.
but with the rise of vacuous pricks eager to have gen-AI destroy human creativity, I was inspired to try what they never will.
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you and my gf!
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like the world got a lot darker after the election, and I found myself full(er than ever) of seething, paranoiac contempt for the average person on the street, since they could be one of Them. default assumption of guilt.
but corny resistance en masse helps me smother that inner cynic a little
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just called my senators, told them to shut down the senate using parliamentary tricks.
then called my rep, told her to immediately bring up impeachment for Nazi Noem.
exercising the right to yap at them allows me to get on with my day.
takes 5 minutes.
do it.
congress.gov/members/find-your-member
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for 色々/様々な and あの__?
I'd sooner go uncredited than have such baby-tier clichés in a book with my name in it. Translationese is never the way.
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Another issue constituents care about, for sure.
There's almost always a better verb, or an idiom-based workaround, instead of a bunch of "___ly"s.
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I'm never not thinking about it
one of my campaign promises would be to eliminate the if/then scourge
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in manga QAs, 70% of my comments are explaining basic English grammar principles
(vs. 25% dealing w/SFX nuance (understandable), vs. 5% fixing actual mistranslations (hey, it happens!))
I try to be patient and explain predicates, gerunds, single/plural disagreement, the subjunctive, etc., but woof!
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this is primarily the Heartache and Don't Forget leitmotifs, with instrumentation from the Dark Sanctuary level theme.
the man is a musical Taco Bell (non-derogatory), serving a ~dozen ingredients remixed in hundreds of configurations that hit different emotions every time (just like Taco Bell)
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used this recipe (but subbed out 1 tbsp of flour for cocoa powder, and added choco chips)
abeautifulmess.com/one-banana-b...
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👏
only 152 more until majority ownership!
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my mom sends one for every birthday, knowing no other material way to support my work 😌
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easiest example:
I am not a newly-minted Japanese lesbian couple navigating sexual boundaries in my first-ever queer relationship and experiencing discrimination while apartment-hunting in the Tokyo exurbs
but I sure have to imagine what that must feel like to TL those characters convincingly!
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I dunno if the entire TV/film industry deserves those laurels, but it's clearly Andor's secret sauce, and the point resonated with me, since I've gradually come to understand that being an Empathy Machine is *everything* for fiction translation
(See also: this slide from my lecture last month)
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when the Jump mines yield anything with the faintest glint to it, I fire up the stone tumbler!
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my only regret is not getting to put my stamp on the first 164 chapters!
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Ashihara is the dark horse in the running for funniest current Jump author (fierce competition in Fujimoto + Shinohara) who against all odds doesn't rely on the dead horse that is nonstop, inscrutable ボケツッコミ
come for the cast of 300 characters doing homework, stay for the bon mots and dry chuckles
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the very key to my gambit! :)
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platonic ideal really would be to live and translate in a cave in the tundra, with raw pages delivered by carrier raven, infinitely detached from the loathsome audience.
the reader must be abstracted away, lest their visceral animus bleed me of all desire to produce
>me, animorphing into Alan Moore
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support...decided...*pained gurgling*... ME! I! MYSELF! Object...verbed...by me!
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it speaks to the dire state of things that the *best case* outcome (for us, the industry, humanity) is the Orange monorail salesmen executing a successful grift and walking away with a chunk of the bag, having created nothing of value.
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reminder: Orange—which claims to be capable of churning out epoch-making English writing—couldn't produce a mission statement with three coherent sentences.
they could've secretly had a native speaker copyedit this and then claim the machine penned it anyway, but even that wasn't worth the effort
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Dunno! Industry journalists could probably speak a lot more knowingly than I can. At the very least, it won't survive as a loss leader like the $1.99 SJ sub was (presumably, at first), which served as an add-on and gateway to Viz's existing and robust physical/digital distro infrastructure.
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totally the latter.
but it's unfortunately and inherently legitimized on the surface by what is obviously Shueisha/Kodansha/Kadokawa's full-throated buy-in.
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I have no special insight into the backend stuff, but it would be pretty funny if Orange is somehow the one AI company to crack the code of "how to actually make money"
(answer: use me and my colleagues' existing library of work without so much as taking us out to dinner first)
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"b-but we were promised there'd be fully-operational job-killing robots, eliminating the need for those needy gutter trash freelancers and their pesky invoices altogether!"
-the head-ass C-suiters, presumably