Hal tries to blog

HAL/20/several dogs in a trenchcoat This my personal blog! There's no theme. I reblog things. Sometimes i say things. Some asks go here too. Idk what else to say man its a blog if u like what you see ur welcome to stay my friendo. ~May contain occasional nsfw and soft metal gear aesthetic.~ My monster girl art blog is the important one tho. Go look at it. I keep it v neat and tidy for u.  

[raisinchallah]

literally thank god sex isnt real and was just invented by big fiction to emphasize greater social and psychological themes i was getting scared id have to do all that

[contemptible-scoundrel]

[syrenki]

i have a bunch of disgusting ideas if anyone's interested

[godivaghoul]

quick sketch to inform you I'm still alive

[tockthewatchdog]

this scientology hq as real life roguelike is hilarious

[tetratheripper]

My android oc Moss (M-055) in different states of degradation.

[reallyreallyreallytrying]

my buddy says the craziest stuff when i make him plead for his life

[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]

What do you mean I'm just using the browser versi-

I AM SO SICK OF DEFAULT AI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[artemisiasea]

[straightrevolverocelot-deactiva]

april 12th is a national holiday btw

[metalgearheritageposts]

MGS Heritage Post

[fashion-runways]

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[calware]

i really love this genre of image

[lunarthesugarglider]

[villaqueen]

The best part of that video is that the owner found the ORIGINAL plush later on the beach and took another video with it after their grandmother stitched it back up

[i-am-a-lonely-nerd]

I love the death grip after the toy was fixed up. Lessons were learned. Try to steal it this time you fucking bird. I dare you.

[bathroomcube]

back from the hospital

[bathroomcube]

only reason im telling you this is because on the wristband they gave me they had a pronouns section but instead of just putting down my pronouns there was a barcode you could scan

its just a very funny visual. probably real as fuck for some of you

[kushblazer666]

[digitalgrav3]

FUCK.... GOTTA BE ANOTHER WAY AROUND.

[mgsshitpostgenerator]

“Blowing each other, torturing each other… that’s how we can change the world.”

[rubyredjoy-blog]

[stealthrockdamage-deactivated20]

i just realized this is funny every month of the year actually