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3 hours ago, Satsuki said:
Good job villainize the community for absolutely no reason, mate.
Apparently any translation attempt should be treated equally, even if the translator does not know a slick of the language and will DEFINITELY butcher the whole thing?
It's only villainize when you're an echo chamber. It's called criticism.
What does it matter if it's MTL? Only because it's not up to your standards? But who are you? What if he wants to translate into Mongolian? Do you think someone will come along someday and make a proper translation of the game into Mongolian? Do you see the problem with gatekeeping like this?
Of course, I'm not asking anyone to change the behavior. You do what you do. But I can criticize it. And I'm free to do that, I think
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I just wanted to know if someone knows how to work with Purple Software files.
The problem is after telling people it's an MTL people will not give you tools. It's that sort of community, unfortunately. Super sekrit club
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nevermind
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On 9/6/2023 at 10:36 AM, Fujoneko said:
Idk man, thanks to all those years on the fantl circle, I managed to find a job related to what I enjoy doing. The otaku and VN industry is pretty much based on recomendations and contacts, not only skill or higher education. Hell, most professional translators worked as fan translators for years before becoming professional.
Fair I suppose. doing fantl for clout actually work considering the size of this community. Though how many VN translation jobs are out there? That's what I wanna know. Happy that it worked out for you, but it's not like there's room for 20 or even 10 more like you, I bet
Also surprised to see you're from Portugal, since I'm also from Portugal. Cheers
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Having something on your resume doesn't actually give you anything. It gives you the possibility of giving you something in the future. And even said future can be nary attributed to one specific thing on your resume
You get nothing for being a fan translator of japanese eroge. And that's why no one does it. Sorry to tell you this
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^Why did you decide to be all offended? I don't care why you do or did it. I'm saying why people don't generally do it.
Japanese is not such a sought-after skill on a resume. And you certainly don't wanna put porn games on a resume.
Before Patreon was a thing there were even less translations than there are now, so I don't know why you're making that argument.
"For lots of people, this is a hobby"
If that was true you'd see lots of people releasing translations. You don't, though. Because it's lots of work
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What joke is on me? Translations are rare, and thread question being posed is why things are like that. Only weirdos do what you're describing. No sane person would spend months, often years of their life translating something for nothing in return
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Because it's a lot of work for nothing in return. Pay me and I'll do whatever you want.
Some people set up patreons and try to do what they want to do, but they often get their Paypal blocked and quit. Or they get zero patrons and so they have to translate a bunch of stuff for no pay just to build a reputation in order to get patrons, etc... And for what, like $100/month for a while optimistically?
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The OP has this in it
but the link is invite-only. what's up with that? how to get that tool?
Working on a ChatGPT translation of Mirai Nostalgia - any tool to extract/repack script files from this game (or Purple Software titles in general)?
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I didn't say you were obligated to do anything. You're fighting a strawman. I did however criticize you for picking and choosing who you decide to help or not.
And yes, I do get to criticize the whole community if the whole community does that
Unless you feel like deleting these posts. Which definitely sounds like something you guys would do