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    Happenings Halo composer Martin O'Donnell forced to shut down Youtube channel

    Archived tweet from his twitter account, @MartyTheElder (Community post from his own youtube channel in question) In another recent tweet, he also mentions that he is thinking of retiring for good from the games industry. Yet another tweet simply says "Ask Pete Parsons". Background...
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    Megathread Poor Localization Compilation Thread

    We should at least be thankful that a portion of people found it terrible. I kind of regret linking the reddit thread: it created unnecessary anger here when we all already know that there exists people who defend this sort of localization. I would imagine them simply caring more about...
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    Megathread Poor Localization Compilation Thread

    So I just personally finished Higurashi Gou, and was going through some reddit threads about it. Lo and behold, someone spotted another translation error. (Link is here, but I'll explain in the post.) Reminder: this is the person we're dealing with. Now for the actual mistake: In episode 1...
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    Hololive Kiara appearing alongside Vshojo Vtubers at DigiKomi 2021

    Posting because it might blow up. Hopefully not. https://archive.is/DHkeS See title. (Someone who actually recognizes the Vshojo girls might want to post below of who's going.) Reminder that Kiara's apparently friends with veibae of Vshojo, who has allegedly trash-talked Cover Corp. in the...
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    Discussion Pokemon games

    Reject mainline games, embrace romhacks instead. I recommend Gaia and Clover (yes, the 4chan romhack with fakemons based off memes has a surprising amount of quality).
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    Megathread Poor Localization Compilation Thread

    It's quite funny you should mention this, because that's exactly what happened to the Ace Attorney series back in the day. And then Dai Gyakuten Saiban came out and they found that they wrote themselves into a corner because it's difficult to localize a Japanese man in fucking Great Britain...
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    Megathread Stupid Shit You Find On Twitter

    https://archive.ph/e2Fdq Sometimes a person makes good points then goes full autismo. Now the sensible people talking about the actual problems in TLs are going to get lumped in with this deranged, incoherent idiot.
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    Megathread Poor Localization Compilation Thread

    https://archive.is/JtCYV Lunar Archivist gives a possible defense for the usage of "sus" in Nagatoro. tl;dr: it was probably for the memes, but the word "sus" itself is appropriate slang corresponding to the original Japanese word being used
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    Improvement Wishlist

    Suggestion: Add a "Localization" prefix, "censorship" doesn't quite fit Suggestion 2: Allow the use of multiple thread prefixes (if the forum software allows)
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    Megathread Poor Localization Compilation Thread

    https://archive.is/hh0ve Localizer Katrina Leonoudakis' thread on the, well, recent localizations. Defends the use of the word "cringe" to replace "chunnibyou". Any thoughts? EDIT: Previous takes by this translator, just so you know who we're dealing with here: - https://archive.is/2nNLo...
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    Discussion Anime That You Will Re-Watch No Matter What

    Steins;Gate, Madoka Magica (yes), Little Busters, Lyrical Nanoha As and StrikerS, Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. And No Game no Life, particularly the movie. And Kara no Kyoukai. And recently, Railgun's third season (first two are subpar, but that's more the source material's fault) My...
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    Localisation JPN x ENG (Untranslated)

    Archive version of link in case: https://archive.ph/gG1pZ Also, where are you getting all these examples from? Has this been a project of yours for some time?
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    Discussion Web Novels/Light Novels: Like turn of the century pulp fiction but less cool.

    An analogy which I've heard before and like is that light novels are to novels the same way (English) young adult (YA) fiction is to fiction, because they use simpler language and are targeted to young adults/teenagers as well (as people have already said).
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    Discussion Web Novels/Light Novels: Like turn of the century pulp fiction but less cool.

    While we are praising Kamachi the god, if anyone would like to start reading Index/Toaru I would like to direct them here. This preserves the original fan-translated names for various organizations and terminologies. English Puritan Church my ass.
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    Megathread Poor Localization Compilation Thread

    https://forums.j-novel.club/topic/4188/seven-seas-in-trouble-for-heavy-alterations-and-censorship-of-light-novels/20?lang=en-US&page=1 Apparently, apart from Mushoku Tensei, the translation for Classroom of the Elite is also in question, and Seven Seas is to blame. Can anyone else provide...
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