chillin.

whatevs. *credit to photo owners*

[the-arcade-doctor]

PRESS Ⓐ TO BE WEIRD AND UNSETTLING

[gintamayorozuya]

[segamascot]

not feeling very hundred emoji flame emoji today

[palmer]

well I am so 💯🔥💯🔥

[segamascot]

🧯💨

[palmer]

0️⃣🌫0️⃣🌫

[scoes]

Grace is one of the most classic things to fall from

[scoes]

That and the monkey barrrsssss

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

[tam--lin]

Everyone needs three hobbies: one to give you carpel tunnel, one to leave you sore and bruised, and one for your distant relatives to insist you monetize

[godisafujoshi]

Jerking off. Falling down the stairs. Fixing the wifi.

[starbittie]

wanted to show off my acpc camper interior 🌱

[justsomeguycore]

the fact that i still have to unlearn shame… like come on that’s literally the most embarrassing thing to not have unlearned yet

[taxidermychrist-deactivated2025]

do it for the faggots who never got to btw

[crittaslink]

[hiding my old man bite from the rest of the group] o-of course I'm fine! let's just keep going. the survivor's camp is right ahead and [spots someone I know] heh. I guess they let ANYONE in here!

[crittaslink]

#dead serious this is knd operation zero

what

LOL

[heppileppi]

the mighty nein show reminded me of my love for essek so i went back and rewatched all my favorite essek moments from the stream. suffice to say i am excited to see jester and essek interactions becomes ✨animated✨

[drempen]

Had all his fingies out for No Reason

[morvay]

[ponkolo]

[desidesidesi]

Big!!! Steppy!!!

[redfagdiver]

Taking her job very seriously

[the-secondborn-of-seven]

[bonivers]

pushing back against oldest child stereotypes by making unwise choices and not being dependable

[skelotan]

This is what happens when you say yes to everything at the checkout.

[sedoretu]

wore a cowboy costume to the gay bar and went home with a guy dressed as a gladiator and it was really fun but the whole time i couldnt stop thinking about how we looked like those two queens from night at the museum