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[marciaillust]

the memoir of a ghost

[assiraphales]

one of the biggest tragedies of early 2010s tumblr is that the devil (bbc sherlock) took root as the face of johnlock when the guy ritchie films were RIGHT there

[assiraphales]

like come ON

[desomniumlibero]

[jotarora]

The Krile-Estinien relationship is the only chemistry they’ve given her with anyone and I don’t think it’s a coincidence that that all started in shadowbringers

[jotarora]

I didn’t love Dawntrail but I also didn’t hate it. Wuk Lamat is cute and I like her. Her brother was almost an interesting villain. Everything to do with Sphene was criminally boring though.

[jotarora]

My Mii is married to Mrs Queen Deltarune and our family is called Girl Dads

[jotarora]

This is so them

[jotarora]

I love this game

[jotarora]

Sylvendrik got married first (obviously)

[jotarora]

Urianger and G’raha Tia just do exactly what they did in their original game

[sweet-tea-skitty]

Yeah that’s about right

[jotarora]

First couple on my island and Sylv is also my best friend

[lazulisong]

Estininen, the guy who grew up poor in a war zone and lost his younger sib and also carrying the remnant soul of Nidhogg, the oldest possible brother, to a small child desperately trying to scam them to get money for their family: yeah bud you're doing such a good job scamming rich guys. I'm very scammed right now.

[anxietyproblem]

[lustcannibalism]

ok I endured it. now what!!!!!!!!!

[lustcannibalism]

[jotarora]

FINALLY kcd2 won an award for best narrative in gaming. full offense intended to all the other games from last year btw cause im mean

[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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!