Naem's the Name, Lame's my Game

32 / she/her / bi / some kind of social phobia About Me | Throw me a coin?

[postsatthepeakofperfection]

I like playing tomodach Life because it gives me new ideas for silly things to make blorbo wear

Anyway I haven’t made you look at shelly for like a week so here

[mistytpednaem]

[scroogemcduckair]

Which colour FEELS more correct for the coins in the money bin?

Gold

Silver

I truly have NO opinion either way / I don't know what a "money bin" is

Voting ended onJun 5

I'm adding context under the cut, but please vote first! I want to know what your instinctual responses are. Feel free to let me know your reasoning!

Disney comics are reprinted & produced all over the world (especially in Europe and Brazil - not so much in the US anymore) and they have specific ways in which they are localised. Most of those changes are fairly standard (like translating character names), but one notable thing is that - despite pretty consistently still setting the comics in the US - they often localise the money bin as well.

So when famous duck comic artist Don Rosa said this, it really rubbed me the wrong way:

I've always assumed it was ordinary pocket change, because that's what it looks like to me. I'm used to euros, which are made of metal that looks like gold or copper. Making the coins silver would be weirder!

(An additional note on the colour differences: back in the day, publishers only got the lineart. That meant that each publisher did the colouring in-house and developed their own standards. Even now, with comic artwork shared as digital files, most publishers will still recolour the characters to make them better fit the style their readers know.)

[mistytpednaem]

directly related followup to the last post: so one of the coolest things i've ever done (translating nearly every string in an indie game) might as well not have happened as far as Verifiable Work Experience goes, because i can find no evidence that the game in question has a european portuguese localization. it's possible that it's somehow exclusive to the netflix mobile port, but i cannot verify this. don't ask me how i'm coping with this

[mistytpednaem]

this is basically just a vent post i'm tucking away into a corner instead of directly bothering anyone with it lol. sorry

i was looking at reddit (classic mistake, i know) last night and i got uhhhhh. bummed out. because there was a post asking, like, "hey, why don't more games get translated into european portuguese," and in the comments there was someone whose username i recognised, because i still have her on my steam friends list, and she iiis someone who followed the exact same academic pathway i did - we were in the same class, i think, pretty much from start to finish - but whereas i am unemployed and desperate, she is a successful freelance translator with an active specialization in videogame localization

and then, you know, that whole comment thread spun off into folks telling her how cool that is and asking her to do an AMA and so on and so on

the way i am phrasing this makes it sound like the feeling driving me is... envy? jealousy?? but i don't think that is actually why i'm upset. i think what i feel is Profoundly Inadequate because i can't see this as anything other but objective, concrete proof that there is something wrong with Me.

in therapy literally the other day i was talking about this kind of sentiment, and. like. my therapist, whom i love btw, she is very sweet, pointed out that my reasoning Seemed logical but it was actually emotional, because the job market sucks ass etc etc etc and I don't think she's wrong. of course there's something wrong with the job market, i know i'm not the only one struggling. but now This (gestures at this post) is making it... really really really hard for me not to think, "someone else had the exact same background and opportunities that you did, and she made it and you're stuck. there is something wrong with you. you don't work hard enough, you're not determined enough, you want everything handed to you on a silver platter,"

and okay wow i guess i'll stop there before i spiral further whee!! sorry if you actually read this

[mistytpednaem]

oh yeah i finished salem's lot, here is my review: there was a lot more hypno kink than i was expecting

[deathinaugural]

[o] In case I don't see you, good afternoon, good evening, and goodnight.

[mistytpednaem]

I'm reading Salem's Lot and the most upsetting part so far has been, of course, the infant punching. The second most upsetting part is this bit where you could clear out a grocery store gor thirty dollars back in the 70s

[eudaemaniacal]

TBT!!! with a crop of something i may or may not finish. had an idea for a fantasy/mystery/romance that's EXTREMELY a riff on their Dynamic so (pointing emoji) (hi @mistytpednaem). basically "what if Strong Poison but dawning realization shes guilty af"

[mistytpednaem]

HELLO?????????? EATING THIS IN MY TIME OF NEED

[strangestcase]

Good news! This story exists, it’s called The Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

[nashikichi]

[vichi60]

THE STOLEN TURNABOUT POSTER!

[mistytpednaem]

b-birthday santas in my inbox...

[mistytpednaem]

Happy Naem Day!!

THANK YOU FRIEND

[mistytpednaem]

HAPPY BIRTHDAYYYY I hope you eat something delicious today!!!

i uhhh. uhhhhhh. the cake was pretty nice

[mistytpednaem]

happsie birbay

thank you...!

[mistytpednaem]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️ may you have a beautiful day week month year lifetime thank you for being in my life!!!

UWEHHH THANK YOU that's really sweet of you my friend 😭