What kinds of scripts require how many changes? Like is official subs/fansub original a major factor? How much does translator quality matter? Is it normally distributed given a set of factors? What's the variation?
poor scripts require more changes good scripts require less changesi hope this was enlightening
because lol everyone who settled Australia back in the day was a convict lol xD
Do you customise or customize? Is is same IRL and subbing?
customise is the British English spelling, customize is the American English spelling most fansubs I work on are in American English outside the occasional one like Unbreakable Machine-Doll or Haruchika but outside of fansubbing I usually write in British English because that's what we speak here in Australia
How much Japanese would you say is necessary to be able to comprehend the basics of Precure?
well I'm N4 and I understand most of what's going on if not every single line note that precure is aimed at 6-year-olds so welp
You said something on Twitter about needing to practice watching Precure... can you explain?
Japanese practice
What mildly annoying would you wish upon Senketsu in lieu of instigating the Senketsulypse?
may their DNS go down sporadically over the next few weeks
Would you rather have the ability to fully impersonate anyone in the world, but only for ten seconds at a time, or have any plant you urinated on produce gold (metal) fruit?
the second sounds a lot more useful
Is "leechers.txt" a reference to a specific text file or is it like when people say "somespecificfilename.jpeg"?
the latter
What's the single most important stat when it comes to anime fandom?
Are the criticisms of Mirror Moon's Fate VN translation valid?
it is a pretty bad translation but I doubt we'll ever get anything else so rip
Is Naine cute?
oh that naine, he so fine
Do you call any fansubbers by their names?
only if their name is the same as their internet alias
Is the answer to this question "no"?
potentially
What's the longest line you've ever waited on?
probably something at TGS it wasn't worth it
Do you agree that one should never use any adverbs in writing? Quite a few sites claim so.
that sounds patently ridiculousoops
What is your philosophy on translating titles like Erased?
If it works, w/e Trying to shame viewers into using the translated title in their discussions of the show is hilariously paternalistic though
Do you think different groups have different clienteles? Like would Indonesians lean Doremi and Americans lean Commie for Precure (compared to the general population)?
I dunno. Probably not.
Do you know what the country breakdown of the typical leecher pool is? Like are almost all of them from English-speaking countries or do frankfurters and kebabs also in?
no idea. i don't track that kind of thing and i've never run a pollwhenever i glance at the peer lists for our torrents there are usually people from all over
Is there anything ethically wrong with impersonating someone in order to improve their social standing?
i would say so, yes
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