Alejandro S.
@spanishloc.net
Translator (🇯🇵🇬🇧 → 🇪🇸)
«Me levanto, me tomo un café, procedo a degradar zonas turísticas con mi presencia autóctona».
«Me levanto, me tomo un café, procedo a degradar zonas turísticas con mi presencia autóctona».
Mesa plegable de comedor que monté este finde (bien linda, a ver qué sillas le calzo).
January 25, 2026 at 12:27 PM
Mesa plegable de comedor que monté este finde (bien linda, a ver qué sillas le calzo).
Agréguenme a la Switch, que me gusta cotillear lo que juegan los demás: SW-1035-0322-2450.
January 24, 2026 at 10:05 PM
Agréguenme a la Switch, que me gusta cotillear lo que juegan los demás: SW-1035-0322-2450.
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This is what Hayao Miyazaki meant when he said all anime these days are made by Otaku (negative)
I've always been a firm believer or looking what inspired your inspirations. Instead of just being inspired by Dark Souls, look at what inspired that team and try to gain more knowledge & appreciation
I've always been a firm believer or looking what inspired your inspirations. Instead of just being inspired by Dark Souls, look at what inspired that team and try to gain more knowledge & appreciation
The author of the novels that inspired Shin Megami Tensei and Persona says developers should take more inspiration from other media to invent new gameplay systems.
If they only take inspiration from games they'll just make the same games, he says.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/megami-...
If they only take inspiration from games they'll just make the same games, he says.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/megami-...
Megami Tensei author says devs must take inspiration from other media if they want to invent new gameplay systems | VGC
If creators draw inspiration from games, they’ll just make the same games…
www.videogameschronicle.com
January 23, 2026 at 2:26 PM
This is what Hayao Miyazaki meant when he said all anime these days are made by Otaku (negative)
I've always been a firm believer or looking what inspired your inspirations. Instead of just being inspired by Dark Souls, look at what inspired that team and try to gain more knowledge & appreciation
I've always been a firm believer or looking what inspired your inspirations. Instead of just being inspired by Dark Souls, look at what inspired that team and try to gain more knowledge & appreciation
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Reposted by Alejandro S.
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Ya está disponible la grabación de la mesa redonda con los traductores de Astérix del ciclo "Cómic y traducción".
No os la perdáis, ¡por Tutatis!
No os la perdáis, ¡por Tutatis!
Lo prometido es deuda, @obelixonline.bsky.social: ¡Aquí está el vídeo de nuestra mesita redonda asterixiana organizada por la Cátedra de Cómic de la @universidadgranada.bsky.social y @redvertice.org (@tradurietas.bsky.social) en el precioso Palacio de la Madraza! youtu.be/hCSporO4bxY?...
Astérix en Granada: Encuentro de traductores
YouTube video by La Madraza UGR. Sala virtual 1
youtu.be
January 22, 2026 at 2:30 PM
Ya está disponible la grabación de la mesa redonda con los traductores de Astérix del ciclo "Cómic y traducción".
No os la perdáis, ¡por Tutatis!
No os la perdáis, ¡por Tutatis!
Reposted by Alejandro S.
(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.
January 20, 2026 at 2:00 AM
(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.
Viendo las colecciones que cierro este año:
- The Climber: este mes
- Ao Ashi: ¿julio?
- Ōoku: diciembre
- Rakugo: ¿diciembre?
Se me quedan solo Golden Kamuy y la hipoteca de One Piece (y REAL cuando Inoue saca tomo porque necesita comprarse un yate).
- The Climber: este mes
- Ao Ashi: ¿julio?
- Ōoku: diciembre
- Rakugo: ¿diciembre?
Se me quedan solo Golden Kamuy y la hipoteca de One Piece (y REAL cuando Inoue saca tomo porque necesita comprarse un yate).
January 20, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Viendo las colecciones que cierro este año:
- The Climber: este mes
- Ao Ashi: ¿julio?
- Ōoku: diciembre
- Rakugo: ¿diciembre?
Se me quedan solo Golden Kamuy y la hipoteca de One Piece (y REAL cuando Inoue saca tomo porque necesita comprarse un yate).
- The Climber: este mes
- Ao Ashi: ¿julio?
- Ōoku: diciembre
- Rakugo: ¿diciembre?
Se me quedan solo Golden Kamuy y la hipoteca de One Piece (y REAL cuando Inoue saca tomo porque necesita comprarse un yate).
Reposted by Alejandro S.
Made some changes, added some more games and may I kindly remind you that I'm available to translate, proofread or LQA your game (and I'm also part of @loctinkerers.bsky.social if you prefer two awesome professionals).
tamaramorales.carrd.co
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Tamara Morales
Your go-to EN to ES (ES) video game translator
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January 19, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Made some changes, added some more games and may I kindly remind you that I'm available to translate, proofread or LQA your game (and I'm also part of @loctinkerers.bsky.social if you prefer two awesome professionals).
tamaramorales.carrd.co
tamaramorales.carrd.co
No hay velocidad: hablen entre ustedes.
Mind the culture gap — America’s Amtrak trains may be slow, but they have something the shinkansen does not: small talk.
Shinkansen vs. Amtrak and the lost art of small talk
After years steeped in the sacred silence of the shinkansen, a Japan Times staffer returns stateside and gets his sea legs with small talk aboard Amtrak.
ebx.sh
January 19, 2026 at 12:52 PM
No hay velocidad: hablen entre ustedes.
Buenas tardes, me compré dos platos.
January 19, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Buenas tardes, me compré dos platos.
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Dudando entre la bici 🚲 y el té 🫖.
¿No ayudáis a decidir la portada para lo nuevo de Sōseki? 🧡🩷
#satoriediciones #soseki
¿No ayudáis a decidir la portada para lo nuevo de Sōseki? 🧡🩷
#satoriediciones #soseki
January 16, 2026 at 11:26 AM
Dudando entre la bici 🚲 y el té 🫖.
¿No ayudáis a decidir la portada para lo nuevo de Sōseki? 🧡🩷
#satoriediciones #soseki
¿No ayudáis a decidir la portada para lo nuevo de Sōseki? 🧡🩷
#satoriediciones #soseki
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The third one, the writerly one has arrived! The one where I don't remember what I actually talked about. I bet it's going to be embarrassing, whatever I said. It's probably also the messiest one, in some ways, as the whole writing section of Disco Elysium is a gordian knot made of titanium.
🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️
Our Disco Elysium series continues with a 72 minute deep dive into Writing. From how characters were created, to the tech the team used, the collaborations between writers and editors, and the struggles they had along the way.
youtu.be/fpjHZc9bbFk
Our Disco Elysium series continues with a 72 minute deep dive into Writing. From how characters were created, to the tech the team used, the collaborations between writers and editors, and the struggles they had along the way.
youtu.be/fpjHZc9bbFk
The Making of Disco Elysium - Part Three: Writing
YouTube video by /noclip
youtu.be
January 14, 2026 at 8:43 AM
The third one, the writerly one has arrived! The one where I don't remember what I actually talked about. I bet it's going to be embarrassing, whatever I said. It's probably also the messiest one, in some ways, as the whole writing section of Disco Elysium is a gordian knot made of titanium.
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There's a section towards the end which talks about Austronesian and Polynesian influence in Japan, including apparent cognates between Māori and Japanese. Here's a few:
🇳🇿 ahi (fire), 🇯🇵 hi (fire)
🇳🇿 awa (river), 🇯🇵 kawa (river)
🇳🇿 inoi (prayer), 🇯🇵 inori (prayer)
🇳🇿 koro (elderly man), 🇯🇵 korou (elder)
🇳🇿 ahi (fire), 🇯🇵 hi (fire)
🇳🇿 awa (river), 🇯🇵 kawa (river)
🇳🇿 inoi (prayer), 🇯🇵 inori (prayer)
🇳🇿 koro (elderly man), 🇯🇵 korou (elder)
Reading a book by a guy called Nenaka Osamu which talks about Ainu inhabiting Kyushu in ancient times - using place names as way of investigation.
This map in the book shows Japanese toponyms containing 牛 - “cow”, but pronounced “ushi”. Ushi in Ainu happens to mean “place”.
This map in the book shows Japanese toponyms containing 牛 - “cow”, but pronounced “ushi”. Ushi in Ainu happens to mean “place”.
January 15, 2026 at 9:26 AM
There's a section towards the end which talks about Austronesian and Polynesian influence in Japan, including apparent cognates between Māori and Japanese. Here's a few:
🇳🇿 ahi (fire), 🇯🇵 hi (fire)
🇳🇿 awa (river), 🇯🇵 kawa (river)
🇳🇿 inoi (prayer), 🇯🇵 inori (prayer)
🇳🇿 koro (elderly man), 🇯🇵 korou (elder)
🇳🇿 ahi (fire), 🇯🇵 hi (fire)
🇳🇿 awa (river), 🇯🇵 kawa (river)
🇳🇿 inoi (prayer), 🇯🇵 inori (prayer)
🇳🇿 koro (elderly man), 🇯🇵 korou (elder)
Bien aquí @atrae.bsky.social: por primera vez, los videojuegos que se valoran en los Premios ATRAE son solo aquellos que se hayan traducido desde el idioma original de la obra. Lo que se hacía antes no encajaba con el código deontológico de la asociación.
January 14, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Bien aquí @atrae.bsky.social: por primera vez, los videojuegos que se valoran en los Premios ATRAE son solo aquellos que se hayan traducido desde el idioma original de la obra. Lo que se hacía antes no encajaba con el código deontológico de la asociación.
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We're very sorry you got so mad over us starting an AI studio with explicit genAI purposes so we've decided not to use it on projects without telling you. You should believe this, even though we're moving on with the AI studio. What will they do? Idk man. Interpretative dance?
January 14, 2026 at 1:58 PM
We're very sorry you got so mad over us starting an AI studio with explicit genAI purposes so we've decided not to use it on projects without telling you. You should believe this, even though we're moving on with the AI studio. What will they do? Idk man. Interpretative dance?
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We've been calling them 'words.'
But here's the thing: that's not quite tadashii.
A kotoba isn't a word.
They're something else entirely-
a role unique to Japanese gengo.
And there's no eigo no kotoba that surus it seigi.
So from ima on, wareware tsukau the hontou no kotoba: kotoba.
But here's the thing: that's not quite tadashii.
A kotoba isn't a word.
They're something else entirely-
a role unique to Japanese gengo.
And there's no eigo no kotoba that surus it seigi.
So from ima on, wareware tsukau the hontou no kotoba: kotoba.
January 14, 2026 at 8:28 AM
We've been calling them 'words.'
But here's the thing: that's not quite tadashii.
A kotoba isn't a word.
They're something else entirely-
a role unique to Japanese gengo.
And there's no eigo no kotoba that surus it seigi.
So from ima on, wareware tsukau the hontou no kotoba: kotoba.
But here's the thing: that's not quite tadashii.
A kotoba isn't a word.
They're something else entirely-
a role unique to Japanese gengo.
And there's no eigo no kotoba that surus it seigi.
So from ima on, wareware tsukau the hontou no kotoba: kotoba.
Reposted by Alejandro S.
¡ESTE SÁBADO TENEMOS UINA CITA!
Nuria Cimas Pita ( Magnetic Tape🌈) , traductora de 'Rakugo', estará junto a Ari Periwinkle🧚♀️ y M para analizar 'Rakugo: Historias de vida y muerte'
📆17/01 @ 17H
➡️ youtube.com/@ShojoSpain
Nuria Cimas Pita ( Magnetic Tape🌈) , traductora de 'Rakugo', estará junto a Ari Periwinkle🧚♀️ y M para analizar 'Rakugo: Historias de vida y muerte'
📆17/01 @ 17H
➡️ youtube.com/@ShojoSpain
January 14, 2026 at 10:28 AM
¡ESTE SÁBADO TENEMOS UINA CITA!
Nuria Cimas Pita ( Magnetic Tape🌈) , traductora de 'Rakugo', estará junto a Ari Periwinkle🧚♀️ y M para analizar 'Rakugo: Historias de vida y muerte'
📆17/01 @ 17H
➡️ youtube.com/@ShojoSpain
Nuria Cimas Pita ( Magnetic Tape🌈) , traductora de 'Rakugo', estará junto a Ari Periwinkle🧚♀️ y M para analizar 'Rakugo: Historias de vida y muerte'
📆17/01 @ 17H
➡️ youtube.com/@ShojoSpain
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From late 1999 to 2000, Tetsuya Nomura contributed a column to Japanese magazine Game Walker chronicling his career at Square—from FFIV debugger to Kingdom Hearts director. Thanks to moku_moku131459 over on Twitter, we've now got the complete series. So without further ado, here's Vol. 1!
![Tetsuya Nomura’s Super-Special Journey with Square, Vol. 1
A Graphic Designer Is Born: The Day Tetsuya Nomura Arrived at Square
We’re kicking off a new column focusing on Tetsuya Nomura, of FFVIII fame. This auspicious first installment goes behind the scenes of his industry debut.
Tetsuya Nomura - Profile
A graphic designer on Square Co, Ltd.’s development team. Sprang into the spotlight after his popular FFVII main character designs. Likes to watch TV in his free time. Hails from Kōchi Prefecture.
The Strange and Fateful Path That Led to Square
The job I’m doing now [graphic design (i.e., drawing pictures)] is something I’ve wanted to do ever since I was little. I thought it’d be great if I could make a living off it some day, you know? But so after graduating technical school, I figured the time had come to find a place to work. I walked into a convenience store one day to look at some job listing magazines, and I suddenly caught sight of this picture by Yoshitaka Amano, who I’m a huge fan of… It kind of got my attention, and I was like, “Huh, maybe I’ll apply to this place.” And that place just so happened to be Square, the company I’m with now.
I should add I wasn’t super into games back then. Like, I’d never even played an FF before [laughs]. All I really knew was that Amano did the illustrations for the series, and since I had no hope I’d ever make a living off my own art, I figured at least I should be drawing stuff by someone I like—and Amano’s work is great. So I went ahead and applied to Square.
[Image caption:] Nomura’s first gig after joining the company: debugging FFIV.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nswouy7gwa5nyag4shprsjob/bafkreihut6lxj4ruxhvz4v6gpywawkjjkughgbrq463a6lnowselcw7zju@jpeg)
![For the interview, I ended up talking to [then vice president of Square, Hironobu] Sakaguchi. Problem was, all I’d brought with me that day were pictures of female characters, and every last one of them had long hair. And so he kept being like, “Wow, you’re really into long hair, huh?” And then I remember him repeatedly asking why I applied to this company in particular… My response was something like, “Because it’s got more style than all the other game companies.” Doesn’t seem like a real persuasive answer, does it? It’s still a mystery to me how that all worked out [laughs].
A Surprise Debut Designing Monsters for FFV
And so after this and that, I officially joined Square in April of ’91. But it’s not like they had me doing art right off the bat. When I joined up, FFIV was in the last stages of debugging, so I spent a bunch of days camped out in the office helping with that. And then as soon as that finished, it was on to developing FFV. I got a request to do a picture of a monster, and after that they had me drawing monsters nonstop. It was all pixel art, but still, I’d say that was my debut as a graphic designer.
[Image caption:] Nomura’s graphic design debut: FFV.
I preferred to draw people and animals and stuff, so designing monsters was a pretty sweet gig. Plus I got pretty free rein to draw what I wanted. Back then, it was just me and one other person in charge of monster design, which meant a ton of drawing work… Speaking of which, you know Gilgamesh from FFVIII? He’s a character I drew back during FFV, but at the time I really wasn’t sure what approach to take with his design. I basically just tried to make him look tough. There honestly wasn’t much more to it than that [laughs].
Monster design wasn’t all I did, though. I also contributed a bunch of ideas for the game…but they all got shot down [laughs]. I was still just a rookie at the company, so everyone was probably like, “The hell is this guy on about?” But I secretly swore I’d get my ideas used](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nswouy7gwa5nyag4shprsjob/bafkreicfubx775jgzt7nhdinxhvrci24aqjzpp7bowhhebzsw7xa7vuubq@jpeg)
January 13, 2026 at 6:58 PM
From late 1999 to 2000, Tetsuya Nomura contributed a column to Japanese magazine Game Walker chronicling his career at Square—from FFIV debugger to Kingdom Hearts director. Thanks to moku_moku131459 over on Twitter, we've now got the complete series. So without further ado, here's Vol. 1!
De vez en cuando me llega un correo con que a alguien le ha gustado esta cita que subí de «Flores de verano» (y siempre me hace gracia).
January 13, 2026 at 6:05 PM
De vez en cuando me llega un correo con que a alguien le ha gustado esta cita que subí de «Flores de verano» (y siempre me hace gracia).
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Running into people you like is honestly an underrated part of what makes life feel worth living
January 13, 2026 at 5:11 PM
Running into people you like is honestly an underrated part of what makes life feel worth living
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Otra de las novedades que publicamos el pasado diciembre fue Villano de vacaciones con su número 6 🐼
January 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Otra de las novedades que publicamos el pasado diciembre fue Villano de vacaciones con su número 6 🐼
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Recordad que bajo la sobrecubierta de este tomo encontraréis la sobrecubierta corregida del tomo 5 ✨
January 13, 2026 at 2:58 PM
Recordad que bajo la sobrecubierta de este tomo encontraréis la sobrecubierta corregida del tomo 5 ✨