Tom Scullin

tapping the sign

The Japanese game development scene might have a major font shakeup in 2026, as FontWorks gradually ceases their LETS game font licensing for companies in Japan:
https://www.rpgsite.net/news/19055-fontworks-lets-game-font-licensing-cessation-might-affect-japanese-game-developer-companies-in-2026

Saw a screenshot complaining about Gen Z wanting dumbed down Shakespeare like the Xennials didnt have the Lion King or the Simpsons.

There's American/USian discourse happening again and all I can say is, learn different languages? What we call ourselves, each other, and even how many continents we think there are is all culture and language dependent. Using USian in English is like using 6-7, you're part of the group

Wait, how is Amerigo Vespucci Brazilian?

Last Gender Buy books online and find book series such as Last Gender written by Rei Taki from PenguinRandomHouse.com

If you're looking for an LGBTQ-themed manga series which have people of various sexualities and identities actually appearing, I (a trans nonbinary queer Japanese person FROM Japan) translated Vol 2 & 3 of "Last Gender" for Kodansha/PRH back in 2023.

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/1DG/l...

this point really hits the nail on the head of why localization workers are so frustrated by “AI” loc companies.
freelancers have to beg for a single dollar wage increase, while tens of millions are dumped into a machine designed to replace them.
the machine doesn’t even work. freelancers do.

I can't stop thinking about the Suica penguin going to the ticket gate in the sky

for the uninitiated: ヤンキー (yankee) means "delinquent", not commonly "american"

I will stand by, this remains the funniest mistranslation in manga localization history

Humble Manga Bundle: The (Nearly) Complete Nagatoro Collection by Kodansha

Discover your new favorite manga with Don’t Toy with Me, Miss Nagatoro Vol. 1 - 19, the high school rom-com full of heart.

The (Nearly) Complete Nagatoro Collection supports @cbldf.bsky.social.

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein is interesting because he takes parts of Shelley's novel, the iconic James Whale films, Gothic and Romantic influences, and a meditation on fatherhood and stitches them all together to create his own story. It's a great adaptation but still like the book the best

I will never forgive the people who took my daughter's chance to make a cowboy and a spaceman fight a pirate in a Lego castle

New transfer student at my elementary school today. I still can't get over the fact that there is no legal obligation to teach foreign born students. And Japanese as a Second Language is basically not a subject so there's also no way to get these kids up to speed. Dropping out is all that's left

So Medium as a platform is just cooked, huh? Language learning, linguistics, and media analysis aren't exactly the most SEO friendly so I guess I just need my own place to write the stuff I want to write

In EFL teaching we should be talking about why we only teach either American or British English so I don't want to sound too glib. But doesn't the same thing happen with American kids and Peppa Pig or Bluey? My kid says pants, toilet, and footpath and that's not what I say. We both say dude, though

American Kappa whose head is full of diet coke instead of spring water.

a man combing his daughter's hair

Has an anime ever changed the ending of its source material for the better?

www.animefeminist.com/has-an-anime...

Canada I love you (Go, Blue Jays!) but this is just Canadian exceptionalism. It never happens. You think you're "Ahh when we do imperialism we're real sorry about it, eh" image is that different from us? The blood-soaked history that we share is a difference of degrees not of kind. Sorry

Republicans control all three branches of government and yet the US is about to do a Great Potato Famine to itself. You never have to hand it to the British but at least they did it to another country... many other countries

Every single problem other fields are seeing, we saw first because we were deemed most expendable. Machine TL hallucinated. They said it'd make us more productive, not redundant. And more offers became about training and correcting. Loc has always been the canary and not enough people listened.

Picture this exact scenario, but it started happening a decade ago and now every agency you work with won't shut up about you taking more time for less pay to correct their magic machine's mistakes and you'll have just the slightest idea what your games' localizers have put up with this whole time.

Is it a 'Not all libertarians are pedophiles but all pedophiles are libertarian' sorta deal or... ?

An innocent post translating Japanese fillers into English. I cross out the English translations and write I. What I think people actually mean. まあまあ（maa maa） Well, kind-of. Not really, no ていうか （te iu ka） Or rather... /I mear….. I don't actually know what I mean とりあえず（toriaezu） For now.... Stop talking and listen to そうね （sou ne） Well... /I guess... Derp なるほどね （naruhodo ne） I see... / Makes sense. NARUHODO NE! なんだろう （nan darou） What could it be... Wait wut どうしよう （dou shiyou） What should I do...? You do it なんとなく （nantonaku） Somehow This is absolutely a thing but I'd hate to sound confident about it どういうか （douiu ka） How should I put it... You’ll never understand まあいいか （maa ii ka） Well, whatever I'm going home そうだっけ （sou da kke） Was that so..? Yeah no that never happened まあそうね （maa sou ne） Well, yeah I give up. Go ahead and just keep thinking you're right. なんかさ （nanka sa） You know, like The thing you say before everything you say まあいいでしょう (maa ii deshou) Well, that's fine... You need to calm down

Another day, another random post bitterly defaced by yours truly, who only strives to keep it real 😇

大げさだなァ
Ohh, you drama queen.

#AmTranslating

あっホントだ
Oh, yeah, huh.

#amtranslating

そう言えば...
Hey, y'know what I just realized?

#amtranslating

The Frozen movies have been playing nonstop for 3 days in our house. And the core message seems to be, "no matter how much we want to love our siblings, the trauma caused by our parents (and grandparents) doesn't easily heal"
Or am I telling on myself here?

Anyone who's studied computational linguistics wouldn't even be calling these things "AI". But, for the sake of argument, yes, narrow domain specific LLMs used by professionals in that field could be transformational someday.

ChatGPT isn't AI and won't be around in a few years though

Aside from Omusubi, NHK has been on a solid run of interesting Asadora stories. Bakebake has been good so far and Akari Takaichi was great casting. My wife's never heard of Lafcadio Hearn so I'm enjoying it too (sharing fun facts she didn't ask for but, for now, tolerates)