also homebrew which reconfigures the screen's refresh rate (like Fire Lancer) can be patched to cooperate with WSC IPS kits but not SwanCrystal ones

no, they're just upset it's Amazon and not them doing it. after all, it's just a bunch of math, why should they be paying Amazon for throwing subtitles into a bunch of math when they can do it themselves without paying a middleman?

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a simple presentation program I developed in an evening for the in-game modding convention BTM15. nothing happened of it since

I haven't used the forums in literal years, and I think I don't get e-mail notifications from there anymore, even. Up to you where you want to continue.

Reuploaded because I made a mistake with the ZIP! Sorry!

But here's the flip side: Dubs have long been one of the reasons for which many more casual American consumers chose to pay extra for anime. Would they still pay if their computer can generate a product of competing quality - I mean, AI dub versus AI dub - for free?

Unfortunately, media licensing is only about what the customer wants insofar as it doesn't interfere with the primary goal: making huge (or, more often, not so huge) amounts of money.

Given the who's who of top manga publishers are already investing millions into AI translation, I'm not sure the change can come from that side, if that's your picket line.

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It is true that they were rushed and something clearly went wrong in production; that was the case for many anime before and since, given a lot of the industry relies on underpaid freelancers and expects tight turnarounds. But not every bad translation from 2023 onwards is an AI.

It wasn't AI-translated! Many translators pointed out that the mistakes made in episode 1 were distinctly human. Wonky grammar and poor capitalization are exactly the type of mistakes an LLM does *not* make, because they're statistically unlikely.

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I remember when "Pop Team Epic" did that, and you had people arguing which streaming plaform's US subtitle track was better. That kind of competition would improve the situation, fast.

The worst part is, Japanese licensors could solve this overnight - by abolishing the policy of granting exclusive licenses to the highest bidder, forcing all these sites to compete on more than just "having the most shows per season, quality be damned".

But that would make them a lot less money.

To be clear, he also made Super ZZT, and it's most remembered for hiding the editor behind an undocumented command line flag, because Tim believed the editor was an unimportant feature and that the included worlds were the important part.

Oh, and don't expect fansubbing to save you. If you're watching pirated anime today, chances are you're just watching ripped Crunchyroll subtitles. Maybe a few big shows will get (delayed relative to broadcast) retranslation efforts, but if you're into more niche stuff, it's boycott or bust, really.