🚨 EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS 🚨
After some recent personal developments, I’m in a bit of a bind financially. Not that much of an artist but I hope someone somewhere will have some use for what I can provide!
Prices are negotiable if you really can’t afford it, anything helps!
There is never going to be a proper exchange on this website about Japanese localisation because people cannot be normal about the Japanese language.
Japanese in particular seems to attract a specific strain of people you don't get with other language learners and media consumers
I’m going to take this opportunity to bring up the best English→Japanese localisation I’ve come across: was watching an episode of Dr Who in Japanese and they turned a mention of Tesco (UK supermarket chain) into a convenience store (regarding the lack thereof on a planet) lol
The thing that’s weird about these guys is that their profiles tend to be entirely just defending AI with some random bigotry sprinkled inbetween like transphobia
Like I’ve yet to see a shill with genuine interests and passions
Do you realize how stilted and immersion breaking having to read TL notes for every goddamn idiom would be? Just because the translator doesn’t have the mental horsepower to find a fitting idiom in the language they’re translating to?
@hopelessmaxxing I am not in a debate with you or trying to argue with you. You don’t have to pull up your fallacies list, this isn’t a Reddit discussion thread
@Neurolimal@Bobofbobofbob Yeah I can't help but feel that the plain "I'm happy that we'll be together forever." loses all the personality in "ずーっと、一緒にいていいんだね。"
That "ずーっと" especially has a touch of childishness and energy that should be conveyed
Some political ideas age better than others.
When I proposed a new model of national service in the 2024 election, it quickly became the butt of jokes. Now France and Germany are taking steps towards it, and in Sweden places are highly prized by teenagers and employers alike.
What I’d seen as prime minister – the constant probing by our enemies, which didn’t distinguish between civilian and military – had convinced me we would soon need some kind of resilience corps. The cyberattacks on European supermarkets, with fridges remotely set to 50C so the food spoils, show this is our new reality. Defence spending won’t stop that. Responsibility for our security can’t just be subcontracted to the military.
In a world in which the government feels obliged to tell us to stockpile tinned goods, our culture needs to change. It will take more than well-stocked cupboards to meet this moment.
A new, universal national service scheme should offer people options. A few might join a small, selective military cadre. Others could serve with search and rescue, St John Ambulance or Meals on Wheels, or train in cybersecurity.
It would make us more resilient and more cohesive, give the almost one million young people not in education, employment or training a sense of purpose, and remind us all that citizenship brings responsibilities as well as rights.
My @thetimes column today 👇 https://t.co/gvrFNCTzRd
Seeing AI images with my art style freaks me out so much. Feels like someone made me draw while I'm unconscious and that's why I don't remember doing it. It really gives me an ick