Time to cancel my Crunchyroll subscription. Oh wait I don't have one, I simply torrent my series.
Seriously now. The anime fansubbing scene is one that makes me genuinely happy. It shows me there are plenty amateurs out there that are as good or better than plenty professionals like me.
I don’t see what the problem is with using AI for translations. if the translations are good enough and cheap enough, they should be used.
Because machine translations for any large chunk of text are consistently awful: they don't get references right, they often miss the point of the original utterance, they ignore cultural context, so goes on. It's like wiping your arse with an old sock - sure, you could do it in a pinch, but you definitively don't want to do it regularly!
Verbose example, using Portuguese to English
I'll give you an example, using PT→EN because I don't speak JP. Let's say Alice tells Bob "ma' tu é uma nota de três pila, né?" (literally: "bu[t] you're a three bucks bill, isn't it?") . A human translator will immediately notice a few things:
So depending on the context, the translator might translate this as "ain't ya full of shit...", or perhaps "wow, you're as fake as Monopoly money, arentcha?". Now, check how chatbots do it:
Both miss the mark. If you talk about three dollar bills in English, lots of people associate it with gay people, creating an association that simply does not exist in the original. The extremely informal and regional register is gone, as well as the accusatory tone.
With Claude shitting this pile of idiocy, that I had to screenshot because otherwise people wouldn't believe me:
[This is wrong on so many levels I don't... I don't even...]
This is what you get for AI translations between two IE languages in the same Sprachbund, that'll often do things in a similar way. It gets way worse for Japanese → English - because they're languages from different families, different cultures, that didn't historically interact that much. It's like the dumb shit above, multiplied by ten.
If they’re not good enough, another business can offer better translations as a differentiator.
That "business" is called watching pirated anime with fan subs, made by people who genuinely enjoy anime and want others to enjoy it too.
Se for algum arquivo que pretendo manter sem editar, deixo por um mês. Caso contrário, 120h de upload.
This is not a game, more like a tarot tool, but a really featureless one:
Temporary hacks for broken stuff. If you're poor, you need those hacks to get anything working, since things never break when you have the money to replace them. And as anything else it's a skill you improve by doing, so...
(Warning: nothing lasts longer than a temporary hack.)
Check how the whistleblower phrased it: "advertising posts". If that's accurate they aren't buying reserved ad space in 4chan, they're simply paying people to post this shit there, as if it was content.
In both cases you have businesses using the lack of legal representation to avoid following local laws. But that's it; everything else is quite different.
I don't think Procon organs have the power to ban the sales of an imported good within their states. But even if they do, note that this would only apply to the state (in this case São Paulo). Plus Nintendo is being considerably more tactful than that braindead idiot called Musk.
Clothoff is seemingly hoping to entice more young boys worldwide to use its apps for such purposes. The whistleblower told Der Spiegel that most of Clothoff's marketing budget goes toward "advertising posts in special Telegram channels, in sex subs on Reddit, and on 4chan."
advertising posts on 4chan
Is Clothoff asking to be raided? Because that's what happens when you spam 4chan. Ask Anontalk aka AnT.
As I mentioned in another thread, São Paulo state's customer protection organ is basically telling people to not buy Nintendo. Indirectly, with pretty words, but that's what it's doing.
[IANAL] Also, note some stuff in the Switch 2 user agreement is legally invalid in Brazil. Nintendo is shielding itself with an "ackshyually we don't sell it in Brazil lol lmao", that's why Procon - SP is calling it out.
22 yards in a chain
What. I had to websearch this because it sounds too silly, but apparently it's true.
But, really, even if it used saner numbers (like 12:3:24:8:3), it still feels nothing like a "metric dozenal" would look like. It's missing the two things the metric system did right:
A lot of the Switch 2's UA is also illegal in Brazil. For example, check section 7 (Dispute Resolution) - IIRC law protection is considered an inalienable right in Brazil, you can't simply sign it off.
However Nintendo has been shielding itself by saying "ackshyually, we aren't conducting business in Brazil". That's why São Paulo's Procon is calling it out.
The factory must ~~grow~~ rule.