#this is really exciting

[suzists]

gleb pugachyov whenever you are brought up, you should know you'd be our finest employee with arber xhekaj ramming into the other team

[bumblebee-official]

OH MY GOD THERE'S TFA SHORTS AND I JUST FOUND THEM WOAH

[the-final-sif]

Okay, so just coming at Dream's mod from a technology standpoint, this is actually a really really cool setup and beneficial for basically everyone.

Like, live translation has existed for awhile, but there's a fundamental issue of it being rather expensive to access, and not particularly great. In order to really improve live translation features, you need to do a shit ton of testing with all sorts of people with different accents, using different styles of language.

The problem is then you need to get a whole bunch of people beta testing, in a situation where they'll use live translation a lot, but it can't be for anything important because there's going to be lots of bugs. Plus the whole expensive of getting it set up, and the fact for most people day to day, they don't need live translation.

Dream using it for an open source minecraft mod that allows for self-hosting the translation APIs is basically a perfect use case. The more people that use it, the more feedback and refined the translation can become, and it will experience a lot of different usage contexts. When there are bugs, it won't be particularly serious since it's just being used in a video game.

Live translation as a concept has the possibility to do a shit ton of good once it's well developed and mostly functional. Human translators will always do a better job, and I doubt live translation will be a significant factor for human translators in the near future, but live translation can help fill in the gaps. Particularly in emergency situations where it's not possible to get a human translator in time. Or in situations where having human translators just isn't feasible, but quality of life could be greatly improved with having some translation ability.

Anyways, I expect the live translation to be super messy at first and I'm really excited to see it improve and the content creators have a fun time with it!

[primulcalator]

[cgtrailsandtails]

My first digital drawing is done!!

Just a practice really, but I learned about the app and how it works, so I can start doing characters now!!

[emahriel]

now that there's a mod that separates tav's tattoos and makeups from NPC's, i wonder if ppl will manage to do the same for body textures... IF THEY DO, IT'S OVER! i will be making a thousand diff body tattoos

[janet-snakeholt]

I'm so glad we've had two queer coming of age stories/rom coms in the same(~ish) week (Heartstopper and then Crush). And they're both really good and wholesome (and not sad or tragic)

And i'm especially happy for young queer people who get to have that now instead of the crumbs we had.