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Wannabe amateur game dev who swears a lot and memes on occasion.
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Shred @Shred-VII11/30/2023, 12:14 AM

Belarius @belarius

Aura @MOOMANiBE11/29/2023, 6:07 PM

man it really must be a miserable time to be a localization person in games when a microsoft exec is saying this

Look forward to a new generation of incredibly shittily translated games I guess

https://kotaku.com/xbox-exec-ai-localization-translation-code-replace-devs-1851058180?utm_source=press.coop

X @xkeeper11/29/2023, 7:43 PM

if you want a look at the future

clyde mandarin of legends of localization fame did "funky fantasy iv", which google-translated the game's script. they actually did this right when google was switching models, too, years ago

spoiler: it is quite bad.

that whole site is honestly a gold mine of what actually goes into localization efforts

to be honest i'm surprised they managed to get a nice picture of mr. tom stuart considering how far up his ass his head is

Belarius @belarius11/29/2023, 8:00 PM

Another compelling piece (warning: spoilers) describes how unbelievably laborious it was to localize Return of the Obra Dinn because its core mechanics rely on a very particular subject verb object structure and relevant vocabulary.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OMi6xgdSbMA

#Return of the Obra Dinn (2018)#Localization #game localization

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connor sheri shaw @Sheri11/29/2023, 6:08 PM

i don't want to be in the games industry anymore

Max 🦈✊@sharkfists11/29/2023, 6:18 PM

same hat but for autogenerated closed-captioning. as someone with hearing difficulties (and hearing aids!) they fail specifically at the point where I need them the most. actually useless.

Fy @fyscuit11/29/2023, 6:26 PM

It should be prohibited for gaming journalists to parrot anything an exec that has never been down in the trenches says

Yaodema @yaodema11/29/2023, 6:27 PM

my last job was literally working on a voiceover / localization import tool. I was considering if I should make something similar for others to use (building from scratch, because corpo agreements from an investor meant I had to destroy everything on my own computer when I got laid off) but seeing this...

I guess it'd be useful to people who aren't in a company with C-level dorks spouting stuff like this? maybe?

SWIMMY @swimmy11/29/2023, 6:27 PM

The brazenness of this quote, along with him describing live service as some sort of exciting "technology shift" has just kind of had me at a loss for words all morning. In a just world, this guy should be facing a chorus of Boos and a storm of tomatoes being hurled at him.

Chris Tihor @Chris-Tihor11/29/2023, 6:50 PM

Alternate headline: "Xbox Exec Shows His Entire Ass."

transbian snepsbian @lunemercove11/29/2023, 7:41 PM

"instead of writing thousands of lines of scripting to get from A to B the AI just does something you have to try to debug later" cool, great, sounds like it definitely won't be a net drain on productivity even if it works exactly as described here.

BugStyle @BugStyle12/2/2023, 8:47 PM

Look forward to a new generation of incredibly shittily translated games I guess

Tbh that is basically how it has been most of the generations for most languages.

in reply to @xkeeper's post:

Jess🌺@CyanSorcery11/29/2023, 7:59 PM

whys this guy look like the architect in the matrix

@NotMiki11/29/2023, 11:58 PM

"to be honest i'm surprised they managed to get a nice picture of mr. tom stuart considering how far up his ass his head is" - they didn't, that's the AI output for "my shit sack boss in a suit with a waistline above the navel"