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>What difference does it make to you or me what language they speak at home? >at home? That's not what he was asking, though. There are people who literally can't speak English despite living in an English speaking country.

And? There are a bunch of people living in Japan who barely speak Japanese, for instance.

Do you know a company / website that imports raw manga to Australia? I checked jlist but they had nothing but hmanga ><

Amazon or something?

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What's your take on refugees or just people who move into a country and refuse to learn the local language/culture etc?

They can do whatever they like as far as I'm concerned. What difference does it make to you or me what language they speak at home?

Not that guy but don't you remember when Nyaa played 80s music and fucked all the colors last year? It was fun.

Nope

"or lines which need to be split for dramatic effect" any examples?

There are tons, really. I remember one notable one in the Madoka movie where they drop Mami's knowledge of the wraiths on you right as the camera cuts to a dramatic closeup. The line was already short to begin with and didn't really have much of a pause, but not splitting it would have ruined the effect.

when some old shows got BD treatment, Ghibli movies for examples, aren't they use DVD master which has lower resolution than BD in general? Doesn't that only makes the quality worse because the upscale?

Depends how they do it. If they do a new transfer from analog film it should be fine

Australia is a good country, but the sad fact is that the majority of its negatives consist of things that its people could do something about – as opposed to immutable ones such as climate or proximity to a thuggish neighbour.

Yeah, exactly. We're really lucky to be here (or well, really lucky to have invaded the place :/) but we're being really selfish and stubborn about not improving it. Australia could be so much better.

Our cuisine is a bit boring. Even with all the cooking TV shows and foodie culture, most of our restaurants don't live up to the hype.

Such is life

To the anon asking about refugees: have you considered sponsoring a refugee?

Also a good way to make a difference. The very least anyone can do is not vote for regressive governments that lack humanitarian policies, though.

>the skills required for fansub editing are rather specific. Care to elaborate? I've got the memes down, so please refrain from mentioning those

Well, being able to write in natural, grammatically correct English that preserves the correct characterisation is only part of it. Subtitles are an audiovisual medium, so you also need to be able to match the audio appropriately in terms of structure (part of why I don't understand how anyone can edit without A/V...).
You need to be able to shorten lines that are too long, bulk out lines that are too short, split lines with huge pauses and/or scene changes in them (or lines which need to be split for dramatic effect), and you need to write your lines in such a way that those splits don't read awkwardly.
Basically, just because you can write good prose doesn't necessarily mean you can write good subtitles.

Well, magnets are operated by little gremlins inside that run on peanut butter crackers. When there's a lot of negativity though, the peanut butter turns sour and they go on strike.

That just makes me wonder how magnets ever did work

With all the negativity directed at you, how do the magnets still work?

Yeah... Fucking magnets, how DO they work?

Why aren't we saving more refugees? These tragedies are heartbreaking. Seriously, this is a humanitarian crisis and it's making me so damn sad.

Like I said, empathy is in short supply. People will find whatever reasonable-sounding moral justification they can (like "we're actually saving their lives by discouraging them from getting on unsafe boats") and use it to justify not caring about stuff that doesn't personally affect them.

Man, there is nothing worse than working on something anime/manga related and getting it wrong and having to do it all over again.

I should think this applies to everything really

Why is it that you have sand in your lungs after 2 weeks in Melbourne?

You've been eating the local sandwiches, haven't you? Here we take those things seriously.

Would a good, invested writer make a good editor? (specifically for fansubs, in this case)

Sure, though the skills required for fansub editing are rather specific

Ooh, magnetic boots are intuitive. Though, how do you manage to drink out of a glass without it getting all on your face?

Magnetic water

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