Narcosis

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That would take a few years at least.
Regardless, your life choices seem to be rather... in the lacking department.

Shigure will die alone. Imagine being a crazy cat lady and having your man cucked by all of your cats.  (or all your cats cucked by a man?)

I still feel horrible for being forced by Texy to choose between Azuki and Coconut. There's nothing more adorable than young Nuts.

I'd rather vote for the screaming heat death of the universe, but since that is not a option, I guess I'll cast my vote for Azuki. But, still fuck it right...
Starting with whomever thought this was a good idea in the first place.

I just played Nekopara 1 for the first time two days ago. I'm horrified. It's like the ultimate objectification of women. They're intellectually inferior, children, dependents, sex objects, they don't have goals or ambitions that conflict with your own, their job is to smile and be cute, they are suited to be your lover, play partner, free labor, whatever you want to buy them for, they're just playthings that have no agency whatsoever and they're custom designed to love, lust for, and worship you. They're the realization of the image that oppressed women across the world are forced into reflecting. They're disposable daughter wife sex slaves, and the entire world around them just treats it as normal. It makes me so sick.

Also, I came buckets and my heart grew three sizes that day. I can't wait to play the sequels.
 
 

Fuck my life.

Fuck my life.

Fuck my life.

I think it's about time. We (or better they, *hiss* nonbelievers) have to live with the fact that Nekopara has become more powerful than before it was struck down, with merchandise, OVA and two prequel spin-offs and all that jazz. 
Now that all characters had a lot of screen time to present themselves, it's time for a best girl poll. Votes shall be cast with user names revealed to lay bare all the wrong opinions and no "but I can't pick one"-cowardice. 

And after that's done, everyone can discuss extra (we kind of did in the other thread didn't we? The domestic abuse one?) or speculate what's going to happen in Volume 4 and whether or not the nekopara cinematic universe will merge with Wankopara after release.

Plain experience doesn't make you better. Constant practice does.
If you'll focus only on efficiency (and that's what industry requires), you will stop improving at a certain point, your main task becoming to deliver content instead. You won't have time for improvements or experimenting. Many professionals get stuck at this - they reach a certain level of proficiency and stop evolving afterwards. Becoming complacent leads to leniency. Leniency leads to routine and routine results in mistakes.
Professional TL's aren't better at all. This industry is very hermetic - the same people who used to do fan TL's in the past are currently professionals working for large publishing companies. If anything, publishers at the moment are prodding the grounds checking how far they can get away with producing as lousy releases as possible an still charge the same amount of money. It's irrelevant whether one of the translators or editors does a decent job, if the rest - especially those in charge - are a bunch of incompetent people, with sights set on the prospect of quick gain with least effort included... and it shows.

Plain experience doesn't make you better. Constant practice does.
If you'll focus only on efficiency (and that's what industry requires), you will stop improving at a certain point, your main task becoming to deliver content instead. You won't have time for improvements or experimenting. Many professionals get stuck at this - they reach a certain level of proficiency and stop evolving afterwards. Becoming complacent leads to leniency. Leniency leads to routine and routine results in mistakes.
Professional TL's aren't better at all. This industry is very hermetic - the same people who used to do fan TL's in the past are currently professionals working for large publishing companies. If anything, publishers at the moment are prodding the grounds checking how far they can get away with producing as lousy releases as possible an still charge the same amount of money. It's irrelevant whether one of the translators or editors does a decent job, if the rest - especially those in charge - are a bunch of incompetent people, with sights set on the prospect of quick gain with least effort included... and it shows.

Plain experience doesn't make you better. Constant practice does.
If you'll focus only on efficiency (and that's what industry requires), you will stop improving at a certain point, your main task becoming to deliver content instead. You won't have time for improvements or experimenting. Many professionals get stuck at this - they reach a certain level of proficiency and stop evolving afterwards. Becoming complacent leads to leniency. Leniency leads to routine and routine results in mistakes.
Professional TL's aren't better at all. This industry is very hermetic - the same people who used to do fan TL's in the past are currently professionals working for large publishing companies. If anything, publishers at the moment are prodding the grounds checking how far they can get away with producing as lousy releases as possible an still charge the same amount of money. It's irrelevant whether one of the translators or editors does a decent job, if the rest - especially those in charge - are a bunch of incompetent people, with sights set on the prospect of quick gain with least effort included... and it shows.

I'll defer to those with experience in both fan translation and official translation.  But from personal experience (in life in general, not just translation), effort matters more than experience, and financial incentives often don't reward effort (per unit of production).  Experience certainly allows you to get more done with less effort (per unit of production), if you choose.
I'm also not convinced this is a machine translation, though 3 screenshots really aren't much to go on.  The difference matters because false accusations without any supporting evidence obstruct useful discussion and cause unnecessary polarization.  This is the difference between a deliberate scam and simple incompetence; those who pitch any bad TL as 'machine translation' are making the equivalent of a moral appeal, which is a lamentable persuasive tactic often seen in politics.

Experience makes you more efficient, but not necessarily better.  Think of quality and speed as opposing ends of a spectrum, and efficiency as a bonus that you can allocate to either one or both.  If speed is prioritized, as it often is, then the benefits of higher efficiency could end up entirely "squandered".  Speed could even be so highly prioritized that quality is actually reduced vs. an inefficient worker who takes his time to deliver a quality result.  It all comes down to the incentive structure in such cases.

This is an important point I think. Next time someone tries to translate Cross Channel, they should do it in Trump-speak. No more problems with that complicated prose and snobbish nuance. 
"Our club worked on the roof. It was a fantastic roof. We had an antenna there. A tremendous antenna. No one had an antenna as big as ours."

This translation actually compliments an average american's reading comprehension level.

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I ignored it out of pure bias, because the guy responsible for this piece of shit is listed as a writer. 
Blame Ikikoi. 

>editors not doing their job at SP
That's definitely news.

>editors not doing their job at SP
That's definitely news.