Mr Poltroon

Woo-hoo stalkers!

What happened to the Dharker Studios post? Did that go up unintentionally?

My soulmate.

"It should be possible to easily derive meaning from what is written, that meaning should reflect the original in some way, and what is written should be written correctly as according to the rules of the language it has been translated to."

Storing my baseline for translations here for posterity, and see how much it changes, if it does at all, in the future.

A brother to be envied.

On the topic of cooking manga:

'Everyone bursts out of nowhere' is probably among my favourite typos.

Sometimes, I look at my open browser tabs and wonder what the hell I was doing earlier for that to be there.

How to sell me a Visual Novel with one line:

I have no idea what this game is, but if this is the first image I find it can't possibly be bad enough to pass up.

That's how I respond to drunk people, too.

https://myanimelist.net/manga/4632/Oyasumi_Punpun

MyAnimeList is giving me that as a manga recommendation.
If you know the least bit about me... you know recommending me that is nothing but sadism.

I like it when games have some amount of self-awareness.

It may be a small, worthless thing, but adding these small bits of personality into an options menu just make me happy.

This is just one school, right? What's with the uniform variety?

I know they allow various sets of clothing combinations, but this seems a bit weird.

I have to admit that Chrono Clock probably has the translation that has been the most to my enjoyment out of anything I've read.

I mean, 70% of it is probably the VN being good, but maybe the TL really is responsible for all these lines rendering me breathless... from laughing too much.

Wow, this image truly represents what I believe more protagonists should be like.
Instead of narrating stuff they don't know the first thing about as if they were professionals, they make sure to note that their eyes are those of an amateur.

Shots fired all the way from Japan.

Wow, I advanced three text lines consecutively by executing an unintended, but dexterous, movement.

I picked up my keyboard, accidentally clicking 'enter', whilst moving my mouse, and I accidentally hit said mouse in the keyboard, clicking the left mouse button in the process, and by hitting the keyboard my finger slipped, scrolling down the mouse wheel as well.

Therefore, I clicked 'enter', 'left mouse button' and scrolled down in quick succession, advancing three lines.
You've got nothing on these skillz.

Well... that's certainly one way to go about conveying information to the reader...

I appreciate the choice of wording. Might adopt it myself.

I'm sure that, at the time, that line at the end made sense in the translator's head.

I hate when this is done.

An argument can be made that thinking about your own emotions or attempting to rationalise what you think will make you understand said feelings/thoughts better than if someone else explained it to you. I don't like it, but I accept it.

Now, when it's a matter of making a deduction out of facts, why the bloody hell are they still holding out on sharing?! Imagine Sherlock Holmes told this to Watson every time. It's a waste of time. The girl knows the solution to the problem (I actually do too but I've been trained in Da Capo BS by the too previous games, and it's not like the problem is particularly hard) but now the protagonist needs to figure it out on his own because Ricca thought that's how it should be. Flipping unicorns, in the wider context of the scene she probably could have resolved the whole drama of the route on her own before Kiyotaka even appeared if she gave more of a damn about it.

This isn't a problem of emotions, this is a problem of noticing the mistaken assumption. In no way would the impact and consequences be reduced if you flat-out explained the misconception.

/rant

Now this is the Yoshiyuki-like dialogue I was hoping to find in Da Capo 3. A bit of a shame that Kiyotaka's usually too nice for it, but he's got other good aspects about him too.

You know, that is one hell of a mental image.

Not to mention her has the perfect follow-up: