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RandoCard3
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What brought you to that conclusion?
ermousa
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baloneysammich
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If I were in charge of a highly visible platform like Discord, I'd sure as hell have terms that allowed for such a thing.
Like the old saying goes, "The management reserves the right to refuse service to anyone, for any reason."
RandoCard3
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They've been running into problems. The current one is a lack of translator. They're looking at machine translation for now, but BlueCat isn't happy with the result so his supporters need to convince him to just do it and fix it later. Noones sharing the examples here, so we can't really comment on the quality yet.
I think we're all on Skummy's shit list.
Either that or the patreon update is so bad that he just doesn't want to get roasted for two months straight over it. Which is understandable.
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I'm curious how BlueCat judges the translation when his apparently not comfortable with it so how would be able to judge it properly? I'm still in the camp of he could just translate it himself and it would be more than fine based off his English here and on patreon. Wouldn't even be a delay on newer updates if he did the next one or so himself since if his been working the past 18 months he would be plenty ahead anyway...
If bluecat can barely speak in English then he wouldn't be able to judge whether or not it's a good translation. I guess the decision will take until June? Maybe July. Or August. Or maybe December?
And then the discord news will push it back for another year while they remake the game to remove anyone who looks under 18
And then, terrible news-
He'll be put on the wanted list for being the first ever naturally deep blue coloured cat. They'll want to conduct experiments on him. They'll want to take away his beautiful blue fur. And he'll have no access to the internet anymore. The work will be lost!!
But you can still pay towards his patreon of course
He'll be on the run, but bravely still working on updates. All he'll need is a South Korean to German to Turkish translator along with a squad of 5 M1A2 Abrams battle tanks and then progress can be made again
And then the discord news will push it back for another year while they remake the game to remove anyone who looks under 18
And then, terrible news-
He'll be put on the wanted list for being the first ever naturally deep blue coloured cat. They'll want to conduct experiments on him. They'll want to take away his beautiful blue fur. And he'll have no access to the internet anymore. The work will be lost!!
But you can still pay towards his patreon of course
He'll be on the run, but bravely still working on updates. All he'll need is a South Korean to German to Turkish translator along with a squad of 5 M1A2 Abrams battle tanks and then progress can be made again
OctoSky
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Only 5?! This is Bluecat we are talking about. The amazing man that has the writing skills of Tolkien, the love and compassion of Mother Theresa, more humanity than Ghandi, more intelligent than Stephen Hawking, more honest than a lie detecter machine, and more beautiful than any Peoples magazine sexiest man alive. No, no. This gem of a human being doesn't need 5 tanks, he needs 5 regiments worth. He deserves to be protected.
Just lying to myself lol. Trying to be optimistic
ermousa
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Ah, ok lol
I thought you knew something we didn't for a second lol
A janky translation can always be fixed later, but if it's never released, then that's it. Personally, I rather get it out and hope for better later than just give up.
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I'd agree but for the fact that it seems most devs rarely go back and correct language/grammar. At least in all of the games I've played so far. Even the completed ones. Unless the dev is good in English and grammar to begin with, I don't see it happening successfully, especially considering the sheer amount of text in some of more ambitious titles. The more content there is, the harder it'll be to comb through it all later. I'm sure there some out there that do correct them. I just haven't seen it yet.
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The last thing ES needs at this point is more reasons, real or manufactured, for why there is still no content. If Blue Cat is able to release a new day and the only thing holding him back is scuffed machine translation, let's take it. We'd have progress (finally), proof that he has actually done something (finally), and a new surge of support for the project. The translation could be fixed later either by the team or by fans.
On the other hand, if I and others here are right and the varied and often nonsensical excuses given lately are signs that the team is making no progress and that the only content made were the handful of images shared to patrons, then insisting that machine translation is fine will make BC's latest lie/excuse less effective and keep the pressure up.
On the other hand, if I and others here are right and the varied and often nonsensical excuses given lately are signs that the team is making no progress and that the only content made were the handful of images shared to patrons, then insisting that machine translation is fine will make BC's latest lie/excuse less effective and keep the pressure up.
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Well, without machine translations the projected release window is "about a month after they find a translator willing and able to process an average sized novel every couple of months for a fraction of the money a regular translator would make". Which is to say... probably never.
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Its late, I'm tired, I'm not putting more effort than this into this right now, here you go I'm gonna go back to being gone again. Full transparency, I've made it clear that from where I'm sitting, its fine as is and what isn't fine we can fix. I'm of the mind that even if its imperfect, enough proofreaders working together can solve it before it goes to public.
Enjoy.
sdawg1234
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The software actually sounds better than the translator. I don't know German so I can't say for sure, but it seems latecomer does more word for word while the software actually tries to make it more proper.
Judging by these examples, the machine translation is fine.