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Thomas Nickel @tapirfortuna.bsky.social · 2d

Dieses Thema liegt mir am Herzen. Bitte hier unterzeichnen: weact.campact.de/petitions/ch...

Die EU-Kommission will Messenger-Dienste wie WhatsApp und Signal zwingen, alle privaten Nachrichten und Fotos in Echtzeit zu scannen. Angeblich zum Kinderschutz. In Wahrheit bedeutet die Chatkontrolle...

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scary tall bart @tallbart.com · 3d

[YTP] Eggseth and Tump declare war on the U.S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jq69...

[YTP] Eggseth and Tump declare war on the U.S.

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 5d

Forgot to share this here.
I unboxed the Beyond Good & Evil 20th Anniversary Edition Collector's Edition by Limited Run. What a mouthful.
I'm actually kinda proud of some of the terrible jokes I came up with on the fly.
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Don't Unbox Beyond Good & Evil Collector's Edition at 3pm

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 8d

I'd be okay with being transed a little if it opened the borders

bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 8d

Since I'm not going/allowed back to the US until orange Hitler is dead anyway, I can say that if I met the guy, I'd spit on his shoes at the very least.

bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 9d

Through the combined powers of high school French and subtitles, I can confirm the French version is a banger.
I don't like when people claim puns were not intended, but I swear it wasn't.

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 9d

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay to all!

I edited for an AI translated game with cute anthropomorphic animals.
The sentence "The kids loved playing with his tail." was translated word for word into German. "Schwanz" (tail) also means penis.
Get a human translator before disaster strikes.

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · 9d

Happy #InternationalTranslationDay! 🪶

To every translator fighting for credits, legitimacy or against AI right now: remember 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗶𝘀𝘁.

Caring for the words of others while making sure everyone can enjoy & understand them fully is art, and it's beautiful.
Your craft is beautiful 🤍

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 9d

I sincerely doubt that's either of them. Nice try, though.

bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 9d

Ah heck, cashapp and venmo don't work in Germany. You guys don't happen to have a PayPal to lovebomb?

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scary tall bart @tallbart.com · 10d

if you label me antifa youre double gay

ⓘ 𝘛𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘶𝘴𝘦𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘰𝘧 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳𝘨𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘻𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘢. 𝘗𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘳𝘦𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘺 𝘴𝘶𝘴𝘱𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘳.

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 13d

Reading this, I had to think about this ancient (and iconic) skit by Dieter Hallervorden. Not gonna spoil why, but I promise, it'll make sense after a minute.

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 13d

I found this one posted without credit and fell down the @falseknees.bsky.social rabbit hole. Turns out I like these comics a lot.

A bird sitting in the forest says, "What a beautiful place," and, upon seeing a yellow leaf fall, continues, "Screw this. I'm going to Mexico".

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 13d

Comedy is so legal guys

scary tall bart @tallbart.com · 13d

Full video since YouTube removed it

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 15d

My face when watching a video about the Steel Soul exclusive content in Silksong and noticing they are using the Fractured Mask.

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SEGA @sega-west.bsky.social · 17d

you can love a character and still admit when they're wrong. we love Shadow but we can acknowledge his flaws (he has none) and we can hold him accountable for his wrongdoings (he has never done anything wrong in his life) and call him out on his actions (which are always correct)

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 17d

So I am typing on Google Docs for a trivia night I'm running, and I swear to glob an AI assistant pops up recommending what emojis to use.
And it told me a dozen synonyms for "you", none of which were synonyms for "you".
It's getting a little silly, is my point.

bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 22d

It is absolutely hysterical to me that after playing Lords of the Fallen for an hour 8 years ago, its overwhelming genericness was instantly recognizable to me from the first image on guessthe.game.
For comparison, it took me 2 images to recognize Beyond Good & Evil, a game in my Top 10 of all time.

bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 23d

Since being shown it by a friend in Spain over 10 years ago, I have spent more time laughing about this image than I have playing The Witcher.

A crude drawing of The Witcher's Geralt of Rivia on his horse. The text reads: The Brujer 3 Gerardo de Revilla y su Caballo Maravilla

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 24d

Ooooh, that explains everything. There's a racer called Pepe, and his car is called Rana, which is Spanish for frog.
Well, glad I got it from a charity bundle, I suppose.

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 24d

Children everywhere made Disney successful, most of whom don't speak English.
For a little extra cash, you can get a localization that these kids will continue to quote for the rest of their lives.
It's better for the artistry, it's better for business. It's better.
Schleimig, jedoch vitaminreich.

𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · Jul 18

Full support to our fellow translators from AVTE.

While not being surprising coming from such a profit-oriented transnational corporation, it is still utterly disappointing and disgusting.

Using MT is a conscious 𝗰𝗵𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲 they make.

$A message written by the AVTE (audiovisual translators europe) saying : "Much to our surprise, we see more and more translation jobs for The Walt Disney Company reduced to machine translation post-editing - and this happens all over the world. We were shocked to find out it's Disney themselves that forces this solution. One can't but wonder if filmmakers - who put so much effort into their series and features and who spend endless hours refining editing and sound engineering - are aware of what happens with their work at the very last leg of its develivery to the non-English viewer. It's hard to understand this policy, since it takes a scant fraction of the total production cost to deliver a high-quality language localization, while MTPE yields a product of much worse quality. Reducing foreign language versions of a Disney production to MTPE is like coating a high-performance sports car with builder-grade paint."$

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 25d

I saw some people saying they want Nintendo to make an open world Star Fox next, and that makes me unreasonably upset.
Yeah, why don't they make the next F-Zero a golfing game while they're at it.
"Fatal Drive", it'd be called. Fans will love it.

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bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 26d

If you'd like to be a petty smart ass (we all do sometimes), I recommend calling it Halma going forward, which is what we call it in Germany. Halma being ancient Greek for the noun "Jump" (which I didn't know until googling it three minutes ago).

bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 26d

Some lunatic at Nintendo: *kicks down door* "We makin' Balatro now."
Everyone is visibly confused.
"The Donkey Kong Bananza game and the DK Island and Emerald Rush paid DLC", they continue.
The developers look at each other. There is murmuring.
Some begin clap. Soon, they all do.
Obama was there.

bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 26d

Been thinking about how to say this... if Silksong had come out as it did, but as a Hollow Knight update, it would have literally been the funniest thing that has ever happened.

bennet is fine @bennetisfine.bsky.social · 28d

Don't kid yourself, Jimmy. If Charlie Kirk ever got the chance, he'd eat you and everyone you care about!

The Simpsons character Troy McClure in a cowboy outfit kneeling next to a boy.

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