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I’m seeing a lot of negative reviews on games along the lines of “this isn’t exactly what I wanted, even though it was exactly what was promised”. I can’t overstate how much more joy you will have if you allow art to unfurl in front of you, instead of demanding it be what you imagine you want.

submitted 8 hours ago • 6 comments

Virginia service worker Jennifer Piggott voted for Trump knowing others would suffer she just never thought… 🐆💀

submitted 15 hours ago • 153 comments

One of the worst aspects of these outrage grifters like Grummz is just how much they manage to dominate online discussions, going from one manufactured controversy to another, and how many people get drawn into that discourse by having to correct and counter their BS, it takes up so much oxygen.

submitted 13 hours ago • 49 comments

I think about this tumblr post a lot. Avoid the tar pits.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

The phantasmagorical game Overlook Trail is now available on Steam with a psychedelic localization by @thewarlocs.bsky.social into 12 locales. Enjoy! #TranslatorsInTheCredits

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Merz sagt: „Wir müssen die Bürger entlasten.“ Und alles, was dann kommt, sind Steuersenkungen für Unternehmen und Reiche. Mich belasten nicht Steuern. Mich belastet wachsender Hass gegen Minderheiten, Arbeitslose und Migranten. Mich belastet die immer größere Schere zwischen Arm und Reich. 1/x

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

Just a quick reminder that when Miyazaki said that AI-created animation was "an insult to life itself" he was speaking not just about humans abdicating the act of creation, but also of the moral obscenity that flows from the work of a robotic "creator" with no understanding of human dignity or pain.

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Where is the Voice of reasonable business on this one? It is just so uninformed, short-sighted, and a blow to all the pioneering actors that deserve Frameworks valuing social & ecological resilience. Not to mention the „German vote“ trajectory of unreliability for our European partners.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

If you want to get better at translation, get into the habit of looking stuff up. Look up word definitions in JP-JP, JP-EN, and EN-EN dictionaries. Look up images a word might be connected to. Look up weird phrases and word combinations. Don't just assume you're right. Always double check.

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Although I dislike the idea of instructional art, or art having to tell people to care about something, I don’t want to hear about it not being important ever again

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Hop into the world of Mudborne! 🐸🌿 The ultimate frog management sim from @ellraiser.dev / @tngineers.bsky.social is here! Thrive in your very own swamp kingdom! Can you lead your froggy friends to success? Oh, and it's available in 8 croaky languages, too! 😁 store.steampowered.com/app/2355150/...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Hat die Polizei in ihre AI Pferde ein Tapir mit reingekreuzt?

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

Wenn die Regierung Begriffe verbietet & bestraft, wer sich nicht dran hält, dann „cancelt“ sie nicht. Das ist Zensur. Und ich raste langsam aber sicher aus bei diesem „was die Linke gemacht hat macht jetzt die Rechte“-Quatsch. Das ist 1 komplette ideologische Verdrehung.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

Not Tonight 2 flew a bit under the radar but a game about your friend being disappeared after a protest and a trek across a fractured United States to help him sort out his documentation is... gestures at everything kind of prescient? And well worth a look. store.steampowered.com/app/1600370/...

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

"Gen AI" from the perspective of a sociolinguist: As a language and data nerd: So cool!!!!!! How does it work? let me play with it. Look, I can break it! As someone whose job it is to put data in larger social contexts: STOOOOOOOOOOOOPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!! you're doing it all wrong.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Today on "context is king in localization, even for the simplest humanly possible sentences"

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

I feel sorry for young people who will never experience the intense satisfaction of pressing a CRT monitor degauss button

submitted 12 days ago • 20 comments

Now say it with me one more time: ChatGPT etc are not reliable search engines arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/a...

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

UFO 50 is 20% off for the #SteamSpringSale! Verified on Deck ✅ and recent winner of the Best Retro and Play with Friends (local multiplayer) DIGY Awards. 🏆 Get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/1147860/...

submitted 15 days ago • 6 comments

I could write an entire thesis on how the Dead Internet Theory also leads to the total collapse of any language that's not English (translation in ALT text)

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

Deshalb funktioniert Factchecking auch nicht.

submitted 16 days ago • 4 comments

As a newly-turned vampire, your survival relies on a thirst for 🩸human blood and...undead politics? 🤔 Meet Evgeny: once a prolific poet, now a troubled man on YOUR hitlist. Befriend, feed, or use him to increase your rank in 🦇 vampiric society in 🍷Cabernet by @pintroverts.bsky.social

submitted 16 days ago • 3 comments

all scrolling is doomscrolling under fascism

submitted 17 days ago • 6 comments

I have been doing entirely too much earnest posting about deep things recently, I need to do a proper thread about hippo testicles or something just to keep myself sane. Oh by the way hippos have migratory testicles.

submitted 18 days ago • 129 comments

We can upload 3 minute videos now. YOU KNOW THE RULE

submitted 19 days ago • 175 comments

submitted 22 days ago • 3 comments

200+ projects finished with @thewarlocs.bsky.social since we started. Wohooo! warlocs.com

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

2 AfD-Interviews innerhalb der ersten 25 Minuten nach der Prognose, obwohl die AfD schwächste Kraft geworden, das ist eine seltsame Planung, liebe ARD.

submitted 27 days ago • 84 comments

Já saiu no Brasil, então eu posso falar: EU TRABALHEI NO MONSTER HUNTER WILDS!!! ✨ Vocês não fazem ideia da alegria que é ver um jogo que eu traduzi com as minhas próprias mões (e uma equipe linda demais) receber uma dublagem tão bonitinha como essa. Espero que gostem <3

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments

social media needs to be regulated and treated very much like we currently treat drugs. that's long term. in the immediate term? focus on the 75% of men who aren't voting for fascists. you will have more luck reaching and organizing them than deradicalizing Andrew Tate fans.

submitted 34 days ago • 70 comments

Cabernet is in GameSpot's "Best games of 2025 so far"! 🤩🖤 Still can't believe it... Dear vampire friends, if you happened to play our little game and enjoyed it, please consider leaving a Steam review- we can't tell you just how much it means to us! 🦇 www.gamespot.com/gallery/best...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

Wir erinnern uns daran, was aus Teilen der CDU der Bundeswahlleiterin alles unterstellt wurde, als sie vor der kurzen Vorbereitungsfrist der Bundestagswahl gewarnt hat. Turns out: sie hatte halt einfach Recht. 🤷 (screenshot: @spiegel.de)

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments

Friedrich Merz ist mit Umfragewerten um die 35% nach dem Ampelbruch in den Wahlkampf gestartet. Ein seriöser Kandidat hätte bei diesem Zustand der Regierung locker 40% draus gemacht. Friedrich Merz hat 28,5% draus gemacht und ohne Not weite Teile der Zivilgesellschaft gegen sich aufgebracht.

submitted 34 days ago • 38 comments

Es braucht jetzt keine „Wir bauen die Mauer wieder auf“-Witze, sondern Solidarität mit all den Menschen, die in Gegenden mit rechtsextremer Dominanz leben und trotzdem ihre Stimme erheben.

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submitted 34 days ago • 18 comments

Es kann keiner mehr hören, ich weiß. Aber es sind nur noch wenig Tage, daher noch mal der kurze Impuls: Ich werde am Sonntag die Linke wählen und würde mich freuen, wenn einige von Euch das auch machen würden. Es geht besser als immer nur defensiv den Niedergang zu verwalten.

submitted 36 days ago • 5 comments

by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

submitted 37 days ago • 31 comments

Friends, FRIENDS! 🧛‍♀️Cabernet, our Vampiric RPG, is OUT NOW.🍷 This piece of our hearts has been years in the making, and we couldn’t be more grateful for this wild, spectacular journey. You can buy it now on all major platforms!👇 (And reviews mean more than you can imagine🖤)

submitted 37 days ago • 22 comments

Agora saiu pra valer. Foi um baita orgulho trabalhar nesse projeto aqui com gente tão incrível, espero que gostem <3

submitted 39 days ago • 6 comments

I'm going to talk about some things that I think are misconceptions of translators. 1) We're mostly freelancers, there's no such thing as poaching. 2) The rate you get paid is imposed by the agency. Each language has a different rate. If you ask for more, they stop contacting you.

submitted 51 days ago • 2 comments

Holy shit

submitted 53 days ago • 34 comments