Anonymous asked:

I am a noob who doesn't know anything about translating VN so I am genuinely asking even if this seems dumb.

I thought translators would just extract the text, translate it based on it, put it back into the game and call it a day. What is (roughly) your workflow? You said you can't listen to high pitch noises anymore, so I assume you listen to the vn while translating. Is it only for testing if what you wrote shows up at the right time or do you use voices for translating too since the tone might help understanding what they say better? Or do you just play it first so you know what happens?

You have to do multiple passes. This is my version:

Translation: I go through the script blind, and as I translate the lines, I leave notes for myself to follow up on. I don't have to care too much about phrasing at this stage, as it's only a rough draft.

Editing: I go through the translated script, looking for mistakes, adjusting phrasing, doing research for things I'm not familiar with, and dealing with issues such as untranslatable jokes, things which need a TL note, etc. During this, I refer to the audio files in a lot of cases, such as when there are slurred lines that are hard to decipher through text. I do an entire separate mini-passthrough for lines with transliterated "f" sounds, because there's no way of telling on paper whether they're supposed to be pronounced as "f" or "h", and this can affect character reactions. (e.g., Did that character exclaim "Fuah" in surprise, or did they sigh "Haah"? If it says "Fuaih", is that a squeal, or a slurred version of "Hai"?)

Proofreading: This is the last chance to catch problems, as well as the QA test where I make sure that lines aren't getting skipped, and the game doesn't crash. I play through the game/scene twice, trying to catch typos, errors, or phrasing which might be misleading to the reader. When lines do deviate from what's strictly in the script, this is usually the phase where I introduce those changes, to in some way facilitate readability.

My issues at the moment are that (a) my ear is reacting badly even from me typing small amounts of text, and (b) because I'm supposed to avoid noise at the moment, listening to all the high-pitched wailing is a really bad idea. At one point, I tried continuing the Asuka scene, and had to stop after three lines because it was triggering spasms.

Anonymous asked:

I may be wrong but didn't you prepare a patch in the past for koutetsu majo annerose to import animated scene from another game? Would it be alright to ask a link?

Yes.

Anonymous asked:

Are you feeling any better? Is your ear actively hurting? I hope a specialist can help you out soon.

Ears don't really heal, which means the best I can hope for is to wait (weeks and weeks) for it to stop being reactive and inflamed. It only hurts sometimes, when it's been exposed to too much noise, but there's no consistent pattern to what constitutes "too much", or what kind (pitch, volume, etc.). Fortunately, now that I've been able to get a high-frequency hearing test, I've determined that the only significant hearing damage is in an upper range, which I would have eventually lost with aging anyway. At one point, everything in that ear sounded like it was coming out of a broken drive-thru speaker, so things could have been a lot worse. But I've still got the percussion sensitivity, middle-ear muscle seizures and probably permanent tinnitus. So life is really fun right now.

Anonymous asked:

Have you played any of Pin-Point's games? Regardless if you have or not, do you have any interest in them?

I haven't, but I've been interested in some of them.

Anonymous asked:

Did they already offer MAID to you?

No, that would imply that I've been able to get medical help, which has proven unbelievably difficult. I don't have an opportunity to see an ENT who specializes in otology until the end of this month, which is way outside the treatment window. None of the walk-in doctors or emergency doctors considered my ear trauma to be an emergency. The doctor at my local hospital didn't know why I had turned up, and my audiologist was appalled when I told her this. I actually went to a hospital an hour away specifically because they had an ENT on standby in the emergency room, but the actual doctor I got refused to let me see them. All the memes about Canadian health care are real.

Anonymous asked:

Do you characters from eroges ever show up in your dreams? I think they have for more, like the other night in which the female leads of SaDistic BlooD showed up in a dream I was having (despite the fact I haven't played the game).

I barely seem to have dreams, so no.

Anonymous asked:

Do you think eroges have at least some "forbidden fruit" appeal to you? In other words, do they appeal to you at least partly because other people view it as immoral or whatnot?

No. Why should I care what those people think?

Anonymous asked:

I will dedicate every orgasm i have to your translations to you, is there any other way we can help?

Well, if I don't end up killing myself, I may have to start squeezing you suckers for every penny you're worth. This isn't just ruining my ability to work or translate; it's ramping up my expenses at the same time. As of today, I'm probably going to have to go get a couple more specialized tests, totalling hundreds of dollars that I didn't really have to spare.

Other than that, send an angry letter to the inventor of ears, and tell him to get off his ass and repair mine. I at least want to get to the point where I can type for long periods again.

Anonymous asked:

Remember when Lilith ventured into JAVs under their ZIZ label for a bit? I wonder why they abandoned that.

Probably because they were terrible.

I wonder if there's any chance of seeing them return now that VR JAVs are incredibly common. (While suboptimal compared to a proper vr headset you can use your phone and a shitty cardboard headset.) It's leaving money on the table when the chance to have vr sex with Asagi would have people throwing money at them.

I would actually really like to see them try again once AI matures a bit more. I don't want to see people in unabashedly bad Halloween costumes. The way things are going, you could replace your male actors with photorealistic orcs, or do other hentai-ish things that would be impossible in real life, such as huge insertions.

Anonymous asked:

Is Trudeau to blame for all this?

I don't see how, but I wouldn't put it past him.

Anonymous asked:

I saw someone on Reddit say they find the way Yoshi's lower body looks to be arousing and, in that post, they added a picture of the character with the text "(Take a closer look if needed)". I also heard of a copypasta about Yoshi that involves the writer wondering if Yoshi gets embarrassed when he creates eggs, asks people for pics of Yoshi when he "poops out" an egg while looking nervous or embarrassed while claiming it's for laughs, and then asks how the eggs smell while also claiming it's for laughs but also saying they want to smell them. (In case it's not obvious, the implication is that they're... attracted to that stuff.)

Do you think those two people could collab and make great pornographic media starring Yoshi?

Yes, but it would be live-action porn of two fat men wearing Yoshi costumes, and if you ever came across it, you would have to burn your computer.