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Joined March 2010
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Love it when someone is wrong about something I love
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Replying to @Articfoxgamez @AndyKavna
The translation of "Don't Toy With Me, Miss Nagatoro" contains several of these. Words like "sus" and "gigachad" are inserted into what's supposed to be normal dialogue. And I don't even watch this stuff, we just repeat the same debates every year on this website and this example and others were brought up by others contemporaneously.
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Alright let's do a little localization exercise shall we? The prose thread and the comments on it got me thinking about this so let's pretend that we are English to Japanese translators, and we have to translate: "Its raining cats and dogs" What do we need to look out for?
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If a Japanese author likes to write in run off sentences, or uses a lot of weather imagery, the translator has to decide how important those things are to the experience and they very well might be vital. That means you likely have to sacrifice accuracy from time to time.
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To "just translate the words" does a huge disservice to the writer who worked hard and chose their words, phrasing, sentence structure etc carefully. If you actually respect creators, you should want translators to avoid literally translations like the plague.
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There's something in a corner of town that just might make you pause. If you're curious, take a closer look. Exploration in [AFANTASIA] begins with that simple curiosity. store.steampowered.com/app/3… #IndieGame #PointAndClick
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I watched a video by @murasaki_akio once about a trails localization that was getting dragged for being cringe online, and in his video, because he actually knows Japanese, he realized the Japanese was TRYING TO BE CRINGE, so the EN was actually functional. 1/2
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Because that part of it never comes up, I've noticed. They don't seem to think that "the writer wrote this a certain way for a reason, so the translation should adhere to that reason", they just want it to be the "same" like the writer had no motivation beyond producing content.
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Was it good? That's down to taste. But as a loc choice that focused on the intent of the source, not just the content, it worked. Again, was it enjoyable to listen to? No i don't think so, but I also think that was the point.
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I think part of the reason for the divide on localization might actually come from a... what's the word, a disinterest in prose? Like, treating the writing as content rather than prose. It doesn't matter how it reads or flows, it just has to be the right content.
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Because that part of it never comes up, I've noticed. They don't seem to think that "the writer wrote this a certain way for a reason, so the translation should adhere to that reason", they just want it to be the "same" like the writer had no motivation beyond producing content.
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町の片隅に、思わず足を止めたくなるものがある。 気になったら、ちょっと覗いてみてください。 [AFANTASIA]の探索は、そんな好奇心から始まります。 store.steampowered.com/app/3… #インディーゲーム #アドベンチャーゲーム
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"I compiled all my complaints about ocarina of time remake" Your time on this earth is limited. You will die. You might even die soon. Spend your time with things you enjoy. Attention you gleam from negativity will rot you from the inside out.
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Madison Taylor is my personal onigiri donut
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Replying to @AMiiinaFedora
What we wanted as for dubs to stop Americanizing shit. Removing the Japanese elements, renaming characters, rewriting entire plot points, that kind of thing. Like how Tomoyo Daidouji became fucking Madison Taylor, or how a Church in Drakengard was turned into a Cult. We didn't want voice acting to get worse or to copy the Japanese voices 1:1, we just wanted no censorship and no Americanizations.
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Andy.@AndyKavnaApr 27
So you get the Pokémon dub, the sailor moon dub, card-fucking-captors, because that's the assumption on how you sell japanese stuff to Americans - make it American. Games were part of this too. The Working Designs Saturday-morning-cartoon loc style was a part of this thinking.
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