It's universal in its appeal, translatable to any genre, any setup.
Fantasy: Intercepting a treasure goblin
Sci-fi: putting a glup shitto alien in its place
Romance: you betcha
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80s singer Thomas Dolby on raising queer kids: "the eldest is trans, the middle is a lesbian, and the youngest is a drummer"
The 3 genders
My second printing cover for Absolute Wonder Woman #16 featuring Absolute Zatanna. Because who doesn't like psychotic magical goth baddie?
reminder for people disillusioned by losing heroes to AI slop or supporting trump admin or awful studio decisions or the myriad of things going on that the best way to respond to that is to try to become the role model you thought they were new people still need someone to be how you thought of them
This is why I avoid framing translation as a net loss process. It devalues our work and I just don't believe it has to be the case. A superficial loss in grammatical mechanics can be more than offset with gains made through naturalistic, yet authentic writing. You just need sufficient writing chops.
"They don't have keigo, so it's impossible to convey respect in English. It just can't be done."
In game loc, the question of how to handle Japanese pronouns is always answered with characterization. Especially with games not set in Japan, I don't want or need to hold onto pronouns. I just need to determine what info they convey and then reconstruct it through a character's diction and cadence.
Apropos of "nothing," the refrain of "English lacks our pronouns, therefore any loc is compromised" is such a cliched one monolingual Japanese creators trot out when they're disconnected from the process. And as a translator who Gets It, like, it's just not usually a huge creative hurdle day-to-day?
it looks fine if you open the image in a tab (which allows opening up to the image's actual size)
"How can the industry address legal barriers - like expired licenses or outdated contracts - that block re-releases or remasters?"
"You will not believe how many games are not available because of a simple mistake [with rights agreements]."
GOG gives an example of an unnamed game that can't get re-released because of a mistake in the publishing contract 🫠 #GDC2026
And given that we’re kind of near tornado season, I thought it would be smart to use this time to go over what is a watch and what is a warning.
The first photo is a waffle watch: Conditions are ripe for a possible waffle.
The second is a waffle warning: We have a verified waffle in the area.
WBAL in Baltimore helping viewers understand the difference between watches and warnings
people joke about what experiencing even the banalities of modern society would do to a medieval peasant, but here's a German tourist from a small farming village who says some Times Square salsa verde physically incapacitated him gothamist.com/food/theres-...
Stick around for this guy also suing Walmart for not letting him use a German phone number to access their wifi and the NYPD for asking for an address to respond to
personally i'm just hoping it means my monitor is calibrated properly...
www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
thinking again about the greatest scene in cinema history
it's her...the star of enemy at the gates (2001)
"natural causes"
who called it an american express credit card statement instead of an ae iou
Wrote a little personal essay about
Pokemon Leaf Green and my grandmother
send-news.beehiiv.com/p/send-news-...
i'm trying to stay positive but that's mr lcd to me...😞
AI labs are paying billions of dollars for data on practically any job you can think of: consultants, chefs, private investigators, graphic designers, teachers, archivists, wildlife conservation scientists. www.theverge.com/cs/features/...
This is the "pasted into Obsidian" version of my comment, as I was unsure it would be under the character limit. I hope my comment helps you and the Federal Reserve understand why its utterly ridiculous payment processors can use "reputation risk" to regulate things. CW: for CSE mention
My instant response to Heroes III being the best seller isn't "kids are fine with old graphics", it's "strategy games and especially turn based strategy games have a terminally underserved audience".
"Why are younger players gravitating toward retro titles - and how should studios respond to this trend?"
Heroes III is the top-selling retro game on GOG... and almost half of buyers are under the age of 25.
GOG's theory: for younger generations that grew up with Minecraft and Roblox, graphical/technical fidelity *does not matter*, which is a huge market shift #GDC2026
How do you define retro? Interesting: GOG is defining "retro" from a marketing angle. Specifically, it's a game where nostalgia can be part of its marketing, even if it's only ~10 years old #GDC2026
A slide about the community patches for System Shock 2.
The System Shock 2 re-release was built on community patching work. "We couldn't do the work we do without the support of a variety of communities." #GDC2026
A panel titled "Preservation is Profit: How Retro Games Unlock Long-Term Revenue."
Next up is a panel about the business of retro game re-releases, feat. representatives from Nightdive, PlayStation, and GOG #GDC2026
Almost 11 years have passed since this interview, but of course it all sticks out in my mind.
Yoko's description during our interview of other games being a "steak" but Nier being a "teishoku" will never leave my brain. I thought about this all through my playthrough.
