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Kaylin Briggs

@erothreep.bsky.social

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Just a girl who loves video games, especially otome. Freelance JP to EN translator and editor. Tea lover. TTRPG geek. She/her.

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Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · Oct 17

Hey, all! Nice to meet you! I'm Kaylin, a Japanese to English translator/editor for manga and video games. My hobbies include reading, video games (especially otome), TTRPGs, cooking, and tea. Let's be friends!

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Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 22h

Hi! I'm a JP -> EN translator and editor for video games and manga. I've dabbled in a lot of different genres, but I'm particularly passionate about romance, comedy, and drama.

Big Bearded Spookteller @bigbeardybooks.bsky.social · 1d

Thursdays are for Translators!

If you're a translator why not tell us a little bit about yourself, what projects you've on the go, what you've written, any events in the near future, or just drop your bio and links and follow and support each other

#TranslatorThursday #BookSky 💙📚

alt text please

an icon showing a circular translation from one language to another

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ouinne @ouinne.bsky.social · 1d

The only correct take on a fundamentally anti-human technology.

Screenshot of David Simon interview
SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Friday Afternoon Tea @fridaytea.com · 1d

It's that time again, friends! Our monthly art installation slots are now open for 2026! Have you always wanted your pieces to hang on the walls of a lovely witchy tea house? This is your chance!⁠

Call for PNW artists! Our Seattle-based queer nerd witch tea house is accepting applications for 2026 visual art installations! Email portfolio links to fridayafternoontea at gmail dot com

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Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 1d

👀 Why hello there.

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Gilbert #NewDeal4Animation @discord12395.bsky.social · 7d

This is a warning to every artists and clients using PayPal: Leave the note blank or send invoices. Apparently even saying "commission" makes them trigger happy. #SaveSpeech #StopPaypros

And continue the pressure by calling PayPal. Helpful link here: anti-censorship-campaign.carrd.co#phonescript

@Inker_comics: I JUST GOT FUCKED UP REAL BAD [shared a screenshot of his suspension from PayPal]

@MrQuessos: [quote tweeting @Inker_comics] If you are going to pay an artist via PayPal, please DO NOT include ANYTHING related to commission or nsfw in the payment description. Whether out of ignorance or innocence, you could screw up someone's job.

Mastercard

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Aus: +61 1800 120 113
UK: 0-800-96-4767
All region numbers here (and here )

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France: +33 805-11-19-67

Paypal

Phone (US): 1-888-221-1161
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Visa

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Headquarters: +1 (650)-432-3200
Aus: +61 1800 125 440
Phone (outside US): click here

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Sammi❀ @otomeaddicted.bsky.social · 3d

‘Temirana: The Lucky Princess and the Tragic Knights’ arrives on Nintendo Switch on January 13th 2026 🥳

(EU physical release follows Jan 27)

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 3d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

zeldawilliams
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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 4d

Our first after-dark ren faire experience. We had a blast!

Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 5d

😏

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rowan kaiser @rowan.monster · 6d

is this good

LLMs, he argues, already are at the scaling limits. “We don’t know exactly when LLMs might hit diminishing returns hard, because we don’t have a measure of the statistical complexity of language. To find out whether we have hit a wall we have to watch the LLM developers. If they release a model that cost 10x more, likely using 20x more compute than the previous one, and it’s not much better than what’s out there, then we’ve hit a wall,” he says.

And that’s what has happened: ChatGPT-3 cost $50 million, ChatGPT-4 cost $500 million and ChatGPT-5, costing $5 billion, was delayed and when released wasn’t noticeably better than the last version. It’s also easy for competitors to catch up.

“So, in summary; you can’t create an app with commercial value as it is either generic (games etc), which won’t sell, or it is regurgitated public domain (homework), or it is subject to copyright. It’s hard to advertise effectively, LLMs cost an exponentially larger amount to train each generation, with a rapidly diminishing gain in accuracy. There’s no moat on a model, so there’s little pricing power. And the people who use LLMs the most are using them to access compute that costs the developer more to provide than their monthly subscriptions,” he says.

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Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 6d

🥲

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Sterling Gates @sterlinggates.bsky.social · 6d

Letterers are incredible artists and should be treated/paid better.

Liam McGuire @liammcguire.bsky.social · 7d

Anyone have a particularly hot comic take?

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Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 7d

Feel better soon! 🫂

Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 7d

There is. Highly recommended. 👌

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Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 7d

Does anyone else use ZR to unlock their Switch just because they're amused by the little clown car horn?

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 8d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Daiz @daiz.moe · 9d

I'm writing an article on the new Crunchyroll subtitling pipeline, and at this point I'd really like to get in touch with someone who does subtitle work for CR and has had to deal with said pipeline already to confirm my findings. DMs are open, you can be an anonymous source. Please spread the word!

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Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 9d

This wasn't intentional, by the way. I was getting some snapshots of him in his cool new outfit and this was the pose he chose. 😆

Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 9d

God of Annihilation by day, grocery-getter by night. #LoveandDeepspace

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Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 9d

Yo, congrats!! 🎉 I've never gotten around to playing the original, but I'm excited to check it out!

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Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 10d

Ridiculous and appalling that Open Ai, amongst other GenAi companies, think they can dictate how THEY use OUR works.

No, Open Ai, it should not be authors and copyright holders opting out of your exploitative models. It should be you, Open Ai, asking authors and copyright holders to opt IN.

OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports

OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator that creates videos featuring copyrighted material, unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.

www.reuters.com

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𝐅𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐕𝐨𝐢𝐝 💫 Game localizers @fromthevoid.net · 10d

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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Jennifer/Aster Unkle 🏳️‍⚧️ 🔪 @spookycutewitch.bsky.social · 10d

Tell your favorite artists you love their work

Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 11d

From bravewave.net/interviews/t...

Mo: Do you remember the first time you met someone who said they loved your work on Mega Man 2?

Tateishi: You’re the first, in 2013. No one else has.

Mo: Wow. I’m surprised. I don’t even have a follow-up question… how could no one come up and say something.

Tateishi: …

Mo: Now that you know how big Mega Man 2 is outside of Japan, do you look fondly back at the soundtrack?

Tateishi: Yeah, my thoughts have changed since I met you and became more aware of how people felt. But even when I was at Konami, I didn’t even bother telling anyone I did Mega Man 2. So the fact you came all the way to Japan to tell me these things makes me very happy I worked on the game all those years ago.

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Kaylin Briggs @erothreep.bsky.social · 10d

We should get hazard pay for pages like these. Some of this physically hurts to read. 🤣

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 10d

The House in Fata Morgana: Dreams of the Revenants Edition is $19.99 on US PS+ buff.ly/dDeFtve
The House in Fata Morgana $16.24 Steam buff.ly/FBJ5KnB

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