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izbnart

Dnd animation yayy!

crea-t1v

[Eats]

#wow #dnd

moringmark

#toh

arty-robokitty

This would fix me

average-transfem-robotgirl

>I love [CRACKING] open a [COLD] one with the girls! [^_^]

kumaicecream

Listen to her tell stories about stars

The snack thief

Xena Warrior Princess 3.05 Gabrielle's hope

somethingusefulfromflorida

She dodged a bullet

suppermariobroth

At E3 2003, an official Jimmy T cosplayer took pictures with visitors at the Nintendo booth and gave out in-universe business cards.

Main Blog | Patreon | Twitter | Bluesky | Source: ND (Japan), Issue 92, 2003

#nintendo

viktor-sbor

Off the coast of Australia Macroctopus caught the shark, wrapped all its tentacles around it and soon released it. Most likely, he scraped all the parasites off her.

alkthash

The octopus

multifandom-fanfic-writer

this is how sharks stay smooth

fantasticwolfpenguin

Bro the cuttlefish and everything else checkin it ou

lavenderlion

bunjywunjy

the best part is the rapidly growing crowd of onlooker fish and squids hoping that this event will end in a festive shower of delicious shark guts (it did not. woe to the peanut gallery)

#ocean

melongifts

Hey anyone notice how google translate is being pretty liberal with their translations as of late? Takin some real liberties to infer tone.

melongifts

ask and ye shall receive: When I write in Japanese I usually also throw it in google translate to double check that I'm not using the wrong kanji by mistake, and two years ago it gave me very dry and literal translations.

I was doing it today and noticed it had a pretty strong voice added to the output

For reference, to give a dry translation I would put: Lately I'm into in Hanafuda. Nobody seems to know anything about it here, so they probably wouldn't understand my brilliant jokes. I guess you guys will never be able to understand "Mister November and the Scary Cave".

I have a fluent friend who is able to check my work for me and give me tips on hitting the correct tone (I was going for a comically casual feeling), so I'm confident that I'm expressing the feeling I'm intending. While Google is also hitting the same emotion, I really don't like knowing that it's assigning tone in the first place.

To check if it was editorializing based on informal grammatical choices, I formal'd up the writing to be more polite and remove any non-standard vocabulary.

I'm just like... what is anyone who is translating what I'm thinking into their own language going to think when a translation app decides that it knows my intended tone? When online communication is already so complicated and nuanced? I'm a non-native so I'm spending ages agonizing over 117 characters, but when I'm chatting in English I'm not being so deliberate. How likely is it that tools that 'naturalize' are going to make choices that don't reflect reality and lead to insulting misunderstandings? I spoke with an English learner just yesterday who thought they were being bullied (they were not, the commenter in question was just excitedly infodumping about sociology) because something was lost in translation, and I wonder if it's because of tools making choices like this. I'm just a luddite I don't trust stuff like this. stinks of ai asking me if it can rerwrite my email in a more quirky style.

melongifts