rursta

@rursta@retrolemmy.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  set the record for consecutive weeks

  Then be sure to tell the organizers to set the record of indefinite consecutive weeks of protest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  How do people get a taste of strikes and boycotts in the middle of summer?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The only people that made change my views was Vanillaware. But their Switch release made me angry at myself for believing in digital scarcity. I won’t fall for haggling tactics like these again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends on the type of work you’re asking.
  If you only want a transcription, with no notes, alternative interpretations, directions, dictions, etc., it can be really cheap on the quality you’re seeking. The requester had asked several additional things than just a transcription: typesetting, font work, editing, translation notes, sfx, 擬態語, 擬容語, hosting, etc… Scanlation was more than he could afford for a singular chapter, even at a salaried rate.

  For a PSP, it is correct that a single game is cheaper than a whole series, but not many people buy a transcription to a game linearly. Games have options, branches, game lingo, settings, impact, etc… It’s not just asking “does character A do this action Y” but “goal YZK is achieved by the exact complicated arrangements of GOHEDOTN, in order to progress branch Σ of mode O.” Often too, we are requested to reverse engineer parts of the game to make an appropriate working non-hazardous patch file, so the game emulates the origin language narratives as close as target language can yield. Meaning, game design elements need to be considered as well as testing and quality assurance. Making game localization one of the most expensive media to localize, while also one of the most cut-throat professions to that budgets are eliminated first.

  So depending how large and convoluted the game is, you’re asking in the tens thousands and up. Maybe up to a million and some change. It reads like a lot, but recall, every part of game localization needs to be tested, retested, and attested. It’s not as simple as transcribing a visual novel, even if some VNs break conventions and standards.

  And unlike most cut-throat localizers, I am politically, financial, and media literate, meaning, I shan’tbe asking for Iranian Rial when I know I can ask for Kuwaiti dinar. I want to be compensated fairly, and anyone I hire to to work I know I will need to iron out work that I am not strong in. Say e.g. the game is a rhythm-music game, I already know I will need to hire a sound editor to assure the localized songs emulate more than just voice synthesized melodies, no? I know my strengths and weaknesses. I also know the importance of having another person than a client and I review our work, and mediate conflicts. Last thing I want is to get sued for not owning rights to the work that was commissioned. NDAs cost plenty more than doing open commissions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  pissy
  now u

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So is cutting power to a building.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Last time I cited my asking price to localize a whole manga series, the lemmy deleted the thread, and pretend to never have ask.
  He still posts on c/crackwatch@lemmy.dbzer0.com. The lesson I learned is that when I can reafford to host mine pylova, I will have «Remote instances cannot delete posts» enabled by default. That way, I can’t be gaslight again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  🤝 thanks for showing our ages🤣

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  oh hufflepuff, you are right! When can we see you armed to demolish the building?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  yw😊

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  proper boycotts were outdoors.
  CEOs actually fled for their lives.

  This is a performance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  An abbreviation of the word “Thread,” in this particular case “in this thread[ed conversation].”
  Emoji for A spool of thread

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t see you organizing a demo crew.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSBLACKOUT (boycott of PlayStation)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  baton protest, but this time, PSN kiddies

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The gasket that’s gentrifying folks, polluting water, destroying habitats, and it’s overwhelmingly ineffective in it’s stated goal to solve, as we read on this very🧵. Why use a gasket when bombing valley is more effective?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  sure.
  But be aware crawlers (search engines), OCR, and even suggestions sorters are trained on data, especially adversarially. Some infringing IP, some self-generated.
  OP got smacked for using a LLM, when e could have hired localizers, even 🧵.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Search Engine([…]i mean any search engine before 2020), reccomendation systems(many other algorithms too), OCR,

  … how do you think these aggregating sorters are trained? OCR you shot your own argument.

  train them with data collected legally

  fascists are already colluding to make their breaches legal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  not all AIs are LLMs

  Pray tell what AI isn’t trained on ❝large contested data❞

  LLMs are what y’all are hating)

  🧵, blatantly. But asset diffusers from stolen assets are also highly discouraged, as they are illegal, and it demonstrated the planet the two classes than ever before: corporate power can lobby copyright infringement, while everyone else cannot. Many hate it for quality reasons. I hate it because it’s fascism in its purest form: appropriating assets without consent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It was still made with neutral networks trained on <u>research papers</u>
  Deepl was around way before LLMs

  …
  What makes one think NNs are not LLMs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  what in blazes do you think is a «large language model»?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev Job⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s called syndicalism. Learn it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  in peace

  🔪🦢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t tempt me🫦

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls appears to block SteamOS / Linux⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is this cheating?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ……
  ok ninton.
  I have games to clean.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Then you should have said 7479.T Șareholders. 古川 俊太郎 is just a highly waged worker. He doesn’t own the IP.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re also threadiverse illiterate🤦‍♀️.
  Downranking comments does not mean “I disapprove.”

  Just reply back why you disagree, or get in pylova, and react it instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m actually politically literate enough to tell you you are wrong too.
  When is Miyamoto going to quit, form a syndicate, and pay syndicalists what they yield?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Miyamoto: Games based on developers’ personal interests resonate around the world, not those aiming for global appeal | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  says the guy censors the fudge out of consumers & fanwork.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo says users voluntarily paid higher prices, have no right to tariff refunds | Nintendo says Switch buyers got what they paid for, urges court to dismiss lawsuit.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  robbed their lunch money thrice
  bully robbing kid stockimage