I finally lost my shit about so-called AIs, LLMs, enshittification & everything fucking evil that @officialgrammarly.bsky.social is doing. I'm fucking furious, and not just about what 1 company has done. An open letter to Grammarly & the rest of the LLM hype machine www.moryan.com/an-open-lett...
I've spent the past few months reading Dune in English, and in the first two volumes alone, I probably learned about 300 new words. It's one of the most enjoyable parts of the process, why would anyone rob themselves of that :(
As a reminder, Digital Hearts is a company that worked on the localization of several blockbusters over the last decade. They are also known for not crediting their translators in many cases. By staying silent, or by giving them your business, you keep encouraging these abhorrent practices.
Whatever happened to respecting your customer's intelligence? Hell, your own translators' intelligence? Why the hell would I need a BS machine to expand my vocabulary? None of this makes any goddamn sense!
Every time you think this industry can't get any worse, they still find ways to dig even deeper: Digital Hearts is now offering MCQ-based translations, so you can just take your pick from a selection of AI-generated garbage TLs for each line instead of, you know, properly translating them.
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Je travaille sur le verrouillage du doublage de JV en France et les รฉditeurs qui dรฉlocalisent cette รฉtape pour ne pas sโembรชter avec les questions dโIA dans les contrats.
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And sorry for making your life hell lol bsky.app/profile/occu...
When we first got the brief on this project, I was absolutely terrified. The prospect of having to edit a novel's worth of intricate 17th century prose was daunting, but our incredible translators managed to pull it off. Shoutout to Violaine, Marie, Thomas and Fรฉlix for their work!
La charge de travail s'en retrouve mรชme doublรฉe, puisqu'il faut non seulement relire le texte source, puis la sortie IA, puis la comparer ร la source avant de retraduire la quasi-intรฉgralitรฉ du contenu (source: locdandloaded.net/2025/05/13/h...)
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I say this as a professional who came up from fan translation and has friends at Sega who will likely never get to work on this officially: when you fan translate ANYTHING that was previously untranslated, you have a deep, heavy responsibility in setting people's first and typically only impression.
Of course! We got a whole collection of those ๐
From God of War (2018). Think of how many opportunities they had to fix the credits to include actual people over the last 8 years. And yet, to this day, translators are still not included. #TranslatorsInTheCredits
The Dungeon Experience demo is outโ @punnymercenary.bsky.social and I only worked on the French loc but we can vouch for the quality of the scented candles! Why not buy a few ๐ come on do it ๐ซถ you know you want to ๐ฅฐ do it
Thanks @michelpimpant.bsky.social for the trust & the delightful crab jokes
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Today is the day of days. The Killing Stone has released in Early Access on Steam!
The Svangรฅrds await your arrival in Vรฅkenatt where they rot under the weight of a dark inheritance. Are you ready? Do you have what it takes to beat the Devil?
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รa me fait penser ร l'interview de @jkermarrec.bsky.social (uhedp.lepodcast.fr/une-heure-et..., aux alentours de 37:30), comme quoi les clients qui รฉtaient autrefois extrรชmement pinailleurs sont devenus 1000x plus laxistes parce que "boah allez c'est de l'IA, arrรชtez d'รชtre perfectionnistes"
โ"Hiโ"
โญ"Hinaโ"
have to consider the splice point when translating a word/name that's cut short, especially when
-the isolated chunk constitutes an ENG word on its own ("Hi!")
-the vowel of the chunk could mistakenly be read with ENG pronunciation
solution here: add more of the full name (Hinako)
I often work for a translation agency with their own translation tool that sometimes "locks" strings that have already be translated. They are not paid, but you can display them for context. You can also see the full history: when it was translated, who worked on it, etc.
It often causes issues โคต๏ธ
Haha unfortunately you can't just embed it anywhere, if you import a HTML page with the embed code, it should show up in the preview, but you can't do that with (most) other file formats
Yes, you can rickroll your colleagues through a MemoQ embed
On one hand, I kinda get it, trying to police the use of GenAI on every single game is a nearly impossible endeavor, on the other, self-disclosure is far from ideal either...
I can't speak for the Chinese version, but even without the stupid prompt left in, many other localized versions of the page also read like ass. It's not engaging. It doesn't sell me your game. All it does is telling me you don't care.
So work with people who care.
This is why you cannot trust AI disclaimers. And since Localization tends to be a prime target for corner-cutting, those mishaps are always painfully obvious.
Still working on this #FFIV translation thing to stream someday
Originally, I wanted to study the old fan translations and get screenshots, but after some tests, it seems like it'd make more sense for me to play & read the original Japanese aloud
Not sure anyone would find that entertaining though
OH, Look! Another game translated by magic!
This right here is quite dangerous in these times. Why? By erasing us translators from our jobs it makes it easier to replace us with GenAI.
We've always been invisible. That gave them a leverage in introducing MTPE and lowering our rates.
Title image from the Sega Master System version of Ys 1
Announcing Localization Lore, a new series dedicated to learning more about the history of video game localization! ๐Featuring new interviews personally conducted by me, this first entry is on Ys 1 and the people behind its first three English translations. lizbushouse.com/localization...
