I'm fascinated by my local Japanese tailor.
Them: It'll take 10 days.
Me: Well, I'll be on vacation so I'll need to come in 12 days.
Them: Do you need these for your vacation?
Me: Well, if it can't be done, I understand.
Them: For $4 more, it'll be done in 2 hours.
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Katch・キャッチ@glovesalwaysup
Writer working in video game localization.
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日英翻訳・編集者 (日本語OK) (he/him)
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日英翻訳・編集者 (日本語OK) (he/him)TranslatorTokyoJoined December 2013
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I don't think I have ADHD but I keep seeing posts like these, and I really do start to wonder.
I'm suspicious as well, but remember HR is there to protect the company, not the workers. If a bunch of heads decided it was what was best for the company, HR was gonna be called in to mediate if at the very least for company politics.
I learned a lot of cooking technique from restaurant-style recipes, and over time the amount of butter I've had to learn to scale back on including is... gastronomical.
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My Japanese wife was in the next room over and burst out laughing about halfway thru overhearing me watching this.
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I told them they could've easily asked for $100...
I'm trying to imagine any other job where you're not forced to leave after threatening a coworker's kid. Let alone a job where you're looked to for leadership.
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Best way to reinvigorate tourism... Openly mock people on TV who probably didn't consent to be filmed.
"Ben Shapiro proves he can be competent when unchallenged, having recently walked out of an interview because he didn't like having to respond to the questions."
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Still busy laughing at "You wanna take some sucker shots at my banana cage, Bilbo?!"
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I've written some reviews for poetry and short stories, though never at the level/full-time as you do. I would've been stoked that you said you'd even consider squeezing it into your schedule. How could he not expect such vile comments to backfire?
Popped the case off my phone & found ¥10,000 stuffed in it. I have no memory whatsoever of why or what this stems from.
Bloomberg is definitely the last person who should be critical of accumulation of assets.
She states in the 3rd video that she's listing all the ones that made the news. If there were a drag queen convicted, it'd make the news.
I have a joke about translating Japanese video game dialogue, but... I...
I mean, I would trust the people who own and run a shelter, using the experience of caring and finding homes for innumerable cats.
In the next 2 months, I will be moving to Tokyo. I am now accepting any and all advice with regards to where to live and what to take into consideration when selecting an apartment. I'm just beginning to really learn Tokyo geography, so by all means...
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That just sounds like a fun writing prompt in general.
I love Japan & my friends here, but whether or not to stay seems to be a daily topic of consideration—not that Japan is entirely at fault. Coming up on 13 years...
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That's next level! Although, a number of my Japanese friends have almost never heard me speak English, so when I speak English, I occasionally get English jyouzu'd.
One of my favorite things in Japan is being able to but volumes of manga for so cheap. ¥110 per is hard to beat.
Perhaps, I've simply grown accustomed to staying in cheap business hotels when traveling, but I'd have little objection to a room like this, unless it stank of old cigarettes.
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Crowne Plaza Narita really needs a refurbish 
Definitely not staying here with the wife.
(I appreciate the upgrade and all but this is pretty shocking for the brand in Japan)
Definitely not staying here with the wife.
(I appreciate the upgrade and all but this is pretty shocking for the brand in Japan)
Saw a Fox News clip of some old guy complaining about how we'll all be enjoying plant-based beer on the 4th of July, and all I can think is... all beer is plant-based.
I work on over 100,000 lines of dialogue a year as a given, & I've never made an onigiri into a jelly donut. Neither I nor the people whose content I help bring to an English-speaking audience feel we should be paid less because of something someone remembers from the late '90s.
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More than 2 days on Japanese Amazon presumably requires some Herculean effort of ascending a mountain bearing a sacred flower.
#PhantasyStarOnline2 involved the largest overall text volume and translation team I've had the pleasure to work with. I hope the incredible dedication and teamwork make this game an experience new players and old fans will enjoy.
pso2.com
#PSO2 #Sega
Is people who don't speak Japanese telling translators they have bad Japanese something new or had I just the good fortune not to come across it until now?
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Yeah, that seems apparent. The part I found remarkable is that it was only $4 to jump the queue.
The only vehicles that should be permitted to make announcements from a megaphone should be those that sell food. If candidates want to announce their campaign while vendoring yakitori or baked sweet potatoes, that would be okay.
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Is this why rich people keep saying if we just stopped eating avocado toast we could afford houses? Is their avocado toast like $60 per serving? Can't say I've never paid that much for a good steak, but not as a go-to lunch option.
Very telling when even Japanese people find it downright ridiculous.
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In addition to heated, the debate was also called hot and bothersome.
Quick, scoop up the copyright on the word "shoes" and make a killing.
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Haven't been watching the new Star Wars TV stuff. You just sold me on watching this one, though. And it'll probably mean I get around to the rest of it, too.
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I now know the answer to "What's the best use of an engineering degree?"
Although sometimes that food is smaller monkeys they've run down in the trees, caught, and eaten alive...
(Not trying to make a point. Chimps are just cool and terrifying to me.)
Are you a biologist or animal psychologist? Yeah... Yet, you disagree with the people who care for cats for a living as if you are. Yes, the people who train and raise hundreds of cats are a valuable resource when it comes to training and raising cats; it's baffling, I know.
Visa has successfully been extended for 3 years! (Should I've asked for 5?) That's one less thing to worry about for a while.
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It's so normal in Japan to do when feeling under the weather or just for safety during flu season, I'd like to see it normalized elsewhere.
One wonders if being seen to publicly silence dissenters is more or less damaging than her transphobic perspectives, which she can't stop sharing.
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All my non-white foreigner friends, including black friends, have way more stories of getting stopped by cops just to see their resident card, etc. than I do.
Seems like the perfect embodiment of the metaphorical "hoisted by his own petard."
In Japan, they're really not expensive.
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Ya gotta admit, that's actually pretty funny. Love your art! Keep the subopt strats pretty!
I feel like I'm not living up to my privilege... Maybe it's due to the circumstances afflicting many people in my age category who are working, but given the advantages I was born into, I'm definitely not doing as well as I should be.
None of the above. I'd actually bet a lot of people are going to be trying to save money, given how many people lost their jobs or saw a decline in work/pay.
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I'm mixed... I mean it is about living your life, even after such a tragic event, but then again... I never thought a Pixar movie should come with a trigger warning before.
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"Honey, I'm going to teach you a new English word today. It has a few different meanings but one in particular applies to you right now. The word is 'grounded.'"
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Also love how the saw wasn't doing anything but making sparks. If the guy hadn't opened the door, they'd still be trying to saw through.
Iuno, I feel like I can agree with people on certain things and completely disagree with them on others.
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I draw dramatically differently, but nevertheless I hafta admit that she had a massive influence on my sense of character design. Video game design in particular has been blessed to have her.
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Healthy relationships aren't about first choices, imo. It's about the time you spend cultivating that relationship. Just my opinion...
First beer in the new place. No electricity or gas yet, and I slept on a towel with a pillow on a hardwood floor. But I'm in Tokyo.
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So what you're saying is that they're both less popular than a dumpster fire?
I've taught #ESL in some capacity for the last 12 years of my life, even after I stopped needing the money years ago. Today, I taught my last cram school class and am hanging it up. I'll probably still do the occasional thing at the local international center, but that's a wrap!
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Maybe if you're going to be critical of spelling & grammar, you don't want a post with 2 obvious errors in it...
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How long's he been in office with a Congress that is essentially 50% trying to stop him from doing anything? I'm not a huge Biden fan either, but a bit early to declare victory because we all lose, I think.
This has pissed me off so much lately. Shonen Jump has gone out of their way to be extremely accessible to foreign audiences, and those audiences won't stop screwin' 'em anyway.
And TIL that bees have a better perception of time than I do.
Except the guy who posted it doesn't seem to be kidding.
Meeting tomorrow to discuss a book translation. This is a nonfiction memoir type deal. It's published in Japan, but the memoirist (who I'm meeting) has family who don't speak Japanese & he wants to share his story with them (and potentially publish overseas). Wish me luck!
Sure. I didn't say they didn't. And I said I also am suspicious of that exact same thing. My only point was HR isn't reliable as a source of "everyone" being against him.
We've reached the point where saying the translator changed a text has been claimed on a text that doesn't have a Japanese version because the translator worked with the Japanese writer to produce the final as a team--with no extant Japanese version. #translation #critics
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Not gonna name names, but my favorite review for DEMON DAYS says there are some "noticeable differences" between "Momoko’s original and translations by Davisson." Bitch please. You have NOT seen the original. No one has except for me and the editors. Why you trying to pretend?
This makes me think of Eddie Izzard's bit asking "Do you have a flag?"
youtube.com/watch?v=_9W1zT
I'm sure the raising taxes on the middle class and lowering them for the super rich while pushing jobs overseas and bankrupting farmers had nothing to do w/ POTUS.
#4Games
Each of these was an experience with a fun team doing fantastic work that I'm grateful I got to be a part of.
#translation #editing #localization #Japan #freelance
Romancing Saga 3
Final Fantasy Dimensions II
Senko no Ronde 2
Phantasy Star Online 2
Maybe it's because I work tangentially adjacent to the industry or I'm just getting older/worrying about different things, but while I'm happy to discuss a game's shortcomings and moan a bit, I don't get taking it this far.
#Japanese #subtitles of the day, from the movie The Judge--
ENG: Everybody wants Atticus Finch till there's a dead hooker in a bathtub.
JPN: 正義は理想だが現実は別
Literal but a bit poetic. It's an interesting choice for getting around the literary reference.
#translation
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Seriously, just find a friend and do manzai professionally already.
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If the dude thought there was a shortage before, I doubt this won him a lot of people that want to work for him. The number of CEOs unfamiliar with "you get what you pay for" is astounding.
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Yeah, that's true. Though if a client asked me to shave 10 days off of a translation, I might ask for more than $4.
I translated on #RomancingSaga3 from #SquareEnix with & Hiro. While it's a hard series, 3 is a little more forgiving and a fan favorite. If ya dig classic JRPGs check it out. (Mistakes are Mel's fault.) youtube.com/watch?v=Yllzq7 #gameloc #RPG #videogames
Tokyo has Dr. Pepper in vending machines?! What other riches has this city kept for itself?!
The best of friends fight sometimes, so it can happen in marriage, too. Characterizing it all as it has to be one way or the other is misleading, I think. The aftermath of how it is addressed seems more important to me.
Just remember my fellow non-inhouse localizers, we can say we're ronin and only be slightly cringey!
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The term "freelancer" originally meant a knight not sworn to any particular lord's service - whose lance was free.
Hey, I translated The Rumble Fish 2! With the unparalleled & ! It was great getting to work on such an exceptional fighting game, and I hope it having an official release means it'll garner more of the attention it deserves! #FGC #translation
Also you have a premium box seat to go see the opera whenever you want!
After a day of trudging literally /around/ Tokyo, an apartment has been selected. If all the paperwork goes through I'll be living in Musashisakai.
Yoshiko, my wife, took a tumble into an irrigation ditch in the countryside late at night, not being able to see. She's a bit banged up, but it's turned into a 3-day hospital stay to make sure she doesn't have an infection. I probably would've gotten gangrene & not gone in.
Curious as to the level of appeal that Uber Eats branding has. Would you buy an Uber Eats bag if you didn't work for them?
Japanese immigration held a 33-year old Sri Lankan woman from August to March for OVERSTAYING HER STUDENT VISA. She died after applying several times for provisional release and/or medical care for months and being denied it, despite being obviously ill.
Okay, 5 year visa attained. Now, time to put in for my Permanent Resident visa. No idea how it will go, but it would be a big weight off my shoulders long term. #Japan #immigration
I'd not been to Osaka Castle since ~2017 & for my first 8 years in Japan the museum inside had included little English; however, today I discovered they'd added English to almost everything! I'll certainly recommend 大阪城 more highly to those coming to Japan from now on.
TIL that the Korean equivalent of "Netflix & chill" is "ramen at my place?" I would be so easily lured by the prospect of noodles...
It does give you massive, undeserved advantages in certain forms of employment and arenas of business. It can be an impediment in others, but it can also introduce impediments to others in those select fields.
Okay, the serious apartment hunting continues today. Areas to investigate in Tokyo: Mitaka, Kasai, Musashino, Akabane, Musashisakai, Kita/Minami Senju. Also, the Seibu Shinjuku line in general. In a perfect world, Yokohama. Any strong feelings about these places very welcome.