Where now the horse and the rider?

Meanwhile, Final Fantasy Tactics with the translation-so-bad-it’s-might-be-a-masterpiece.

Actually interesting and novel ability names

Japanese: Dance with knives

1997 Localization: Wiznaibus

WotL Localization: Mincing Minuet

Dialog that pulls no punches

Japanese: My bad, but it’s between you and your god

1997 Localization: Tough luck…Don’t blame me. Blame yourself or God.

WoTL Localization: Forgive me. 'Tis your birth and faith that wrong you, not I.

Other gems lost in the improved localization:

• “heavens wish to destroy all minds”
• “the doom of a planet”
• “evanescence, such a sad word”
• “time, save your kindness for the worthy”

All that being said, the final fantasy gang is generally spectacular with English mastery. It’s like you can tell which books they like to read when they choose obscure words like Eidolon.

Hey I’m actually growing a black sapote!

Here’s a blurry pic of the fruit forming

Watching the two on the left go from hardnosed atheist commandos to saying “Praise Sol” with conviction, what a wild fucking trip of a show.

Every time

If “ish bin ein Berliner” translates as “I am a jelly donut” (favorite anecdote of mein lehrer)

Then does “ich bin ein amerikaner” translate as “I am a loaf of sliced bread”?

Edit: thanks fam 🤙

Amerikaner is a cookie but not a chocolate chip cookie, never ever would have guessed 🤣

When we fix the irregular verb sing we will create a new heteronym between singed-as-past-of-sing and singed-as-past-of-singe 🫠

Wow, I guess this is like UK schoolhouse rock? Not bad

Oh I’m in good company, this is my kinda rant 🤙

Delivering this feature goes against everything I know to be right and true and I will sooner lay you into this barren earth than entertain your folly for a moment longer!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y8OnoxKotPQ

Sorry for the wall of text

It was enlightening, thank you 🍻

I gave it a try on mobile and my general feedback is I think the game doesn’t work on my phone/browser.

My specific feedback is that I can’t tell what’s interactive and what isn’t, except for the giant arrow buttons to sidescroll the stage.

Great work getting the game up and out there 👍

A lot of “we brought the receipts” energy in that paper 👌

Kampfradler. I read War-Roader -> Roadwarrior but Google translate says Combat Cyclists… So… Battlerider? Sweet👌

Is it that battleriders are taking the streets away from drivers? and that since only drivers carry the taxburden then battleriders don’t deserve their own rideways?

They are a boomer because their “cure” (give them no roads!) just feeds the “disease” (they took muh roads!)?

This looked way way easier to decode when I first scrolled past it 😂

Reminds me of learning German

Once you learn that 1/8 == 3.5g it’s a slippery slope to:

• 1 oz == 28.3 grams
• 1 kg == 2.2 pounds

Slangin sacks without the metric system? Not even once.

the traffic light coalition

a road in dustbowl conditions, the whole east has that problem

lots of German flags and judging by the colour an AfD one

Damn, thanks for bringing the context! Never heard of a traffic light coalition before, TIL

Thanks for clarifying! I went and looked up umweltshutz and I tell you hwat “worlds protection” is a fuck of a lot cooler than “environmentalism”

How did I do?

Four years later in mecklenburg-vorpommern

Panel 1. spring: travelers must go

Panel 2. summer: where travelers?

Panel 3. fall: knifemen must go

panel 4. where knifemen?

Is it a joke about immigration critics? That they fucked around and now they’re finding out?

Sage advice. In the meeting I will assume positive intent, like he’s protecting me from mummy’s curse.