Clephas

Translation Aggregator... I still can't figure out why people like Chiltrans.

To be clearer

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Except for the first time, you don't actually have to constantly deal with tentacle rape (there is a 'good little boy' way of ending things without breaking the heroines).

Preempting questions about the series' most recent entry.

1: Yeah, GoD would be an easier sell to those with a lack of knowledge about either series. However, Venus Blood has the advantage of better storytelling (speaking from experience) and a much better cast of characters. It is also more well-known (at least in part because both Sanah and I have been pushing it here). Frontier is a good starting point to get people interested, because Loki is so typical of the series' protagonists (ambitious, ruthless, but with a trace of compassion and farsightedness) and the characters and story are more refined than Empire.

Because I'm evil (and because people who are interested in the answer might be interested).... All the four main heroines from Tiny Dungeon (especially Ururu-sama) Rin from Reminiscence Amatsu Kanata from Devils Devel Concept Ichinotani Shouko from Ayakashibito (translated) Rena and Chiharu from Otome ga Tsumugu, Koi no Canvas Natsuhi Hikaru from Tenshi no Hane o Fumanaide Akibe Eru, Kamio Ami and Takahashi Sunao from Semiramis no Tenbin Fujina Kanori from Minamijuujisei Renka Teidou Setsuka and Himeno Satsuki from Campus's 'Uso' series All the heroines except Akane in Kin'iro Loveriche (for different reasons) Yamagami Miori from Haruru Minamo ni Shinomori Rinon from Gensou no Idea Faura Linans and Sofia Usty from World Election Asaba Konami and Jinpou Ann from SakuSaku (translated) All the heroines in the Primal X Hearts series Sawatari Michiru from Chrono Clock (translated) Azuma Yoru, Kozakai Aya from Hatsuyuki Sakura All the heroines from Hello, Lady Mifuyu and Mashiro from Tayutama (this has a decent chance of getting localized, considering that the sequel, which makes no sense without it, it is getting a localization) Hazakura Renka from Love Revenge Ichimine Touka from Ojou-sama wa Gokigen Naname Aika, Flora, and Scana from Valkyrie Runabout (recommend this, if you like isekai and school life SOL at the same time) Celia from Walkure Romanze Shion and Takako from Otoboku

Yes, I did this game first. This is one of those games that is a bit hard to define. It is part moege, part nukige and part charage... and part surrealist story. It is about cats being reborn as humans being reborn as cats being reborn as humans (it gets ridiculously complex, to the point where there is no point in keeping track). There also isn't a whole lot to say about this game... it is mostly at-home SOL, h-scenes, and reminiscence of past lives. As a VN, it is a bit hard to read because it jumps around in time so much, and I'll probably forget this VN before long. However, I gave it an extra point for making me cry several times, lol.

My assessment of the Venus Blood series, for those who are interested. This is coming from someone who isn't terribly fond of tentacles, so it is probably a bit closer to the mainstream opinion than Sanah's.

One of the better choices from the series... if I were going to pick one from the Venus Blood series to localize, it would be this one or Hypno.

Understand, even if it wasn't Trump, the grass roots movements on the right would have eventually put some other populist idiot (since populists are either evilly ambitious, stupidly idealistic, stupid, or all three) in the president's office. The results probably wouldn't have been as spectacularly bad, but the GOP has been headed for something like this since 2010, when they made the mistake of thinking that it was a good idea to embrace the Tea Party elements. If the GOP dies in the next ten years, it will be because they got too greedy back in 2010, not just because Trump is in office. Trump himself was a spectacularly bad choice of president. However, the people who make up most of the right's current base aren't exactly known for thinking clearly. I mean, these are the people who believe megachurch evangelists are being Christian pastors when they say 'god loves rich people', lol.

The Skewed Throne series by Joshua Palmatier. The Malazan Book of the Fallen series by Steven Erikson. The Elantra series by Michelle Sagara. The Honor Harrington series by David Weber. The Black Jewels Trilogy by Anne Bishop. The Others series by Anne Bishop. The Vorkosigan Saga by Steven Brust.

My opinion of Trump hasn't changed a single bit since before he became president... anyone who looks at his past can see that he is someone who is fundamentally incapable of telling the truth when it is inconvenient for him, has an ego the size of a blue giant, and cares for nothing but himself and those in his immediate circle. He wants adulation but he isn't willing to actually work for it, so he drags others down to make himself look better in comparison. Worse, he deliberately poisons the world around him, uncaring that what he is destroying is more important than any one man's ego. He isn't a conservative, he isn't a nationalist, and he certainly isn't a leader. I don't even like so-called 'conservative values' as they are currently defined, but it is fairly obvious he doesn't have a value system other than narcissism. This is a man who didn't even pay his own debts. This is the man that bankrupted contractors, ruined lives for no better reason than because he could, and found his only real success in business as a reality TV show host. If it weren't for the talents of people within his organization and the massive amounts of capital his parents and his own children have managed to build, he would have been in the poor house decades ago. Since he has become president, cronyism and nepotism have become the norm, and this is proven by the sheer number of his appointees who have indulged in various types of personal corruption (and got caught at it) since he became President. Worse, this was all preventable if he had just taken the time to actually properly vet his appointees for such character flaws in the first place, rather than handing out important positions like candy to his personal supporters. This is a man who desperately wants to protect his own ego but is sabotaging himself constantly because he is a terrible judge of who can be trusted. ... also, I had thought we learned with President Grant that appointing cronies and family to positions in government is always a bad idea... And his bad habit of putting the fox in the henhouse got old months ago.

Congrats... and sorry, my image of mahou shoujo is inevitably involved with tentacles due to the fact that ninety percent of all mahou shoujo heroines submit to tentacle love in VNs.

Re-download agth. AGTH gets corrupted with disturbing regularity, so you should be prepared to re-download it every year and a half or so. Note that AGTH will now only work by starting the game with it. Insertion after start is no longer possible under Windows 10. There is a version of the original ITH out there that works with Windows 10 (I have it). If you search the forums, I think there is a similar thread with a link to a download for a version of ITH that works on 10.

Generally speaking, I'm not terribly involved with DRM that doesn't prevent me from playing legitimately purchased copies of games. My biggest complaint is DMM.com's DRM, which makes it where I have to use a VPN the first time I play any Japanese game I buy from them for the verification. This is annoying to an extreme degree, and I'm tired of having to find new ways to get past their attempts to prevent Westerners from buying or playing content from their site... I've never actually hit any issues with DRM in Western gaming, but that is probably because I don't play multiplayer at all. Without the need to use online functionality, the issue of deliberate obsolescence is generally moot for me. I'm not interested in the sort of games that have that issue in the first place, lol. Denovo... I did have some issues with a few games where I had to spend some time working around locale restrictions, similar to DMM.com. I found that a few of the VNs I'd purchased that used Denovo also tried to prevent me from unlocking them for play because it picked up on my IP's region during the verification process (again, I had to use VPNs to get around this). This was unbelievably annoying, because I hate using a VPN for anything other than the shopping itself...

You have to keep in mind that people who believe in the distant past being a 'golden age' for their 'conservative points of view', regardless of the reality, don't exactly have a solid sense of reality. People like Erdogan have a tendency to believe their own propaganda... Nationalism isn't necessarily a bad thing, but nothing good comes from excessive nostalgia for a past that's never going to return (and was never what you think it was). NK has similar problems... except worse. The leadership has been reassuring itself of its correctness and the inevitability of a glorious future for so long that separating out reality from the dream is now impossible. This is true of any country that starts spouting idealism of any sort, but it is particularly true for nations going into a period of xenophobic nationalism (or who never left one). You can see signs of similar behavior in just about every nation on the planet right now... the only difference is whether the wannabe directors of those forces are in charge or not.

I'd like to see this be a real end for the troubles on the Korean Peninsula... but the likelihood of this being a permanent solution is very, very low. Part of this is that NK can't afford for peace to visibly break out. It is only the existence of the 'virtual enemies' (the US and their Southern neighbors) that has allowed the regime to hold onto power for so long. As such, cynic that I am, I'm suspicious that he might just be using this to give him a chance to rebuild while immediately going back to his old policies the first chance he gets... Realistically, NK has to find a way to stabilize its food and fuel situations, above all other things. This provides an opportunity to do so, and if sanctions cease, they will also have a chance to legitimately obtain technologies that might allow them to make strides toward resolving those problems in the long term, as well as the short term. Unfortunately, it is questionable whether the regime will have the patience to take the long view on things, and their stated goal of 'reuniting the homeland' has not been officially set to the wayside, despite the talks. Another issue is that I honestly can't see Trump keeping his mouth shut. He is constitutionally incapable of not claiming credit for anything positive and spreading blame for anything negative. He is also incapable of just being quiet for long, in general. If he leaves it to his Secretary of State (the new one), there might be real progress to repairing (or just building) the US as well as SK relations with NK. The likelihood of that is abysmally low, however. As for issues with Japan... while the Imperial Household itself has a stated (indirectly and in a generalistic fashion, as has become traditional since WWII) aversion to historical revisionism, the government and society in general isn't. Nationalism and historical ignorance are on the rise in Japan, and the current leadership are sadly very much in line with that trend (probably because they've gone through so much effort to create it). While we can depend on Japan's government to want the US presence there as a shield for the foreseeable future, if SK agrees to throw out the US presence (something a surprising number of citizens want), you could see things become a lot more unstable there rather quickly. Worse, China might decide to take drastic measures in order to reduce the US presence on the mainland of Asia (to be specific, they might encourage territorial ambitions from NK if the US withdrew from SK). In other words, peace on the peninsula is a potential powder keg for the region... at least, that's how I see it.

Hapymaher... though I also like Aoi Tori and Amatsutsumi (despite the use of the ladder story structure, which says everything about how good they are).

Raw translation requires at least a solid grasp of Japanese grammar (grammar being all-important), the ability to write comprehensible English prose, and the ability to transfer the meaning from the Japanese grammar system to the English one. I'm going to be straight with you... if you can't at the very least play the average charage without even once referring to a dictionary, you shouldn't be translating VNs. I don't mean skimming it either... I mean understanding every sentence without having to spend a minute thinking about it. There are plenty of people who play VNs in Japanese who don't have this level of comprehension, so don't think that just because you can play the VNs while using a parser and occasional mechanical translation aids that you can translate a VN. If you want to one day become a translator, your first task, above all other things, is to master the grammar. Just learning words doesn't mean anything when it comes to translation. In addition, even if you don't memorize all the kanji (something very few Japanese ever manage), you need to be able to grasp how kanji go together to form words on a gut level, not just an intellectual one. If you can't tell by the context and the kanji when a different meaning of the same phonetic phrase is being used, then you will repeatedly make the same mistakes.

The editor's job is to turn the half-assed 'Engrish' a translator inevitably produces (due to difficulties with grammar transferal) into real prose and English dialogue. Very few translators can write anything decent when translating, regardless of training or experience, and what is demanded of an editor, above all things, is the ability to transfer what the translator was trying to to say into readable English (preferably well-written English). In addition, in some groups light QC becomes part of the editor's job, and he also ends up asking translators to restore the internal consistency of scenes (when a scene is obviously internally inconsistent).

I tend to head for strange personalities or nonhuman heroines first and put the others after.

Have you tried using VNR? To be honest, I can never remember which hooker I use with each game, but I know it worked with one of the four (AGTH, ITH, ITHVNR, or VNR)... Edit: Oh wait... I think I used AGTH, lol. Try VNR if it doesn't work, but I'm pretty sure AGTH with /x3 was all I needed to get it to work (use TA functions to start the game with AGTH attached). I sometimes resort to AGTH when nothing else works, and I think I remember one of the games from that month being a serious pain in the butt...

That pic isn't an error caused by ITH... that's something weird wrong with the game or your system. As for your questions about ITH and Siglus games... I rarely have trouble with Siglus games in particular. It worked fine with ITHVNR for me. Have you updated to the latest version of ITHVNR? The original ITH I never tried it with, but there are a number of games that have error windows pop up if you use ITH on them (mostly later-era Akatsuki Works games).