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  • d.fish
    Finally found out why the MTL Pokemon stories have "pretty, young girl" as "Stephanie", it's because Stephanie, the character of the day in Pokemon episode AG034, was not named in the Japanese version and thus was labeled "Girl" in the credits, so these MTL of Chinese Pokemon stories turn many of the instances of "少女" into "Stephanie".
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    d.fish
    d.fish
    Similarly, Mitsumi has the name "小美" in the Chinese translation of Pokemon Adventures, so sometimes the phrase "小美女" shows up as "Mitsumi" and sometimes it shows up as "Stephanie", when it should just be "young beautiful girl".
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    Not young stephanie? XD
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    That'd be too easy. Remember, these are MTL using a glossary to find+paste before using a direct translation with google or whatever. It's not intuitive or self-correcting like how we might see machine translation will be in a year when it's integrated with this gen's chatbots' learning algos or whatever.
    d.fish
    Character bloat is a serious problem in crossover type stories. Is there a means to solve this problem outside of just reducing the amount of actors in each story arc, or is this just gonna be a problem that plagues the majority that caters towards multiple settings?
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    There's the high-mortality solution that I hear ASoIaF uses. Pick-up harem where there's a yandere continually thinning the herd is a version I haven't seen (Mirai Nikki seems like it should be an example, but Yuno only actually kills one of her three rivals; Yukiteru himself kills the other two).
    d.fish
    I used to think "murderhobo" is bad story telling, but I've come to realize it's bad dungeonmastering instead. If people know that you kill all your problems and you cannot be stopped, then they stop trying to be your problems and try to be your solutions, or they plot deeper. Showing that interaction is great, but boohoo off my rails.
    d.fish
    From the two meetings this year, it seems like they just gotta print more cash
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    d.fish
    So the only outlet might be stocks, especially since US and EU economies are down short term, which might mean that only Chinese stocks will rise mid term
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    d.fish
    or whatever I guess
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    Biigoh
    Nods...
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    The true name of the Detective Conan series is actually "Shinigami Elementary Schoolboy".
    d.fish
    It's hilarious, all the Chinese Naruto fanfics have a uniform naming scheme for Inuzuka clan members. Inuzuka Fang, Inuzuka Woof, Inuzuka Paw, Inuzuka Fur, Inuzuka Big Fang, Inuzuka Bite, Inuzuka Tail, Inuzuka Howl...
    d.fish
    魔兽 and 兽人 are "magical beasts"/"fantasy creatures" and "beastmen", but it can also be translated as "orcs". So when they translated World of Warcraft as 魔兽世界, they were saying that Azeroth is the "world of orcs".
    d.fish
    You ever wonder if the internet came twenty years earlier, we'd have handles like "x.X.x_Akira-Atreides-Snowcrash-God_x.X.x" floating around in some forgotten corner of message boards?
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    Yes. Cringes at old user names
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    Atreides is like one of those cringe last name that people used before they used Potter or Emiya or whatever.
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    Why did the SI story seem to stay on rails of canon despite the author being aware of the problems of stations of canon? I can only say that this is related to a perversion of humanity, the downfall of morality, and it must be the choice of Stein's Gate!
    d.fish
    Wizards who don't have melee mastery, dualwield sword and staff while riding, capability of shooting swords from bows, cleaving a galleon in half with a greatsword, ability to catch bullets and run faster than trains, use ripple and summon a stand proficiently, dress fashionably, lift tall buildings... are subpar wizards.
    d.fish
    I think I could twist the background lore of the story a bit more, that the chaos gods were like the titans in Greek myth, with Pangu being the same level as say Gaia
    d.fish
    So if Sarutobi Hiruzen's dad's name is Sarutobi Sasuke, and Fugaku named his second son Sasuke, then Fugaku is indirectly telling Hiruzen, "I'm yo grandpappy, kneel down, grandson!!!"
    d.fish
    Found that a lot of those apocalypse/zombie/etc. web novels are basically describing breaking out during the zero-covid lockdowns, just with monsters and game elements, lmao
    d.fish
    Anyway, even though Inuyasha is so much more tolerable than, say, Issei, abusing them is still just as fun.
    d.fish
    Beauty pills, youth pills, and shaping pills are just cultivation/wuxia/xianxia version plastic surgery. Though honestly, nothing inherently wrong with that. People just wanna be pretty.
    d.fish
    Time to make up a whole clan of inaba bunny youkai clan characters who live in the bamboo forest. Should they be named after bamboo? Their fur? Maybe mochi...
    d.fish
    "It's not popular to be tsundere anymore, don't you know there's no market for tsunderes? Tsunderes in the modern era are just defeated dogs who don't get love. So stop being tsundere already!"
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