fae of the seelie court

@seeliefae

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Small fairy from Neptune. Bad decision maker. Pro translator. Likes magical girls, robots, romances, and wedding dresses. Eats, sleeps, and breathes. Ⓥ

fae of the seelie court @seeliefae7/2/2023, 3:16 AM

Shel @shel

Shel @shel7/1/2023, 11:50 PM

So in Rune Factory 4 it opens with you on an airship and it gives you two ways to react

I'm flying high baby!

Wow! I'm so high up!

I chose the second one and the game says

This choice will make you a female character

I'm cackling. JRPG COGIATI

@seeliefae shared with:

#god stuff like this is so hard to deal with #in the jp the two sentences have different gendered pronouns and grammar #but we don't do gendered grammar in English #or gendered first-person pronouns #so good luck conveying this difference to the player in any coherent way #at the end of the day I think the solution they settled on is as good as any #Localization

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Misty @dog7/1/2023, 11:52 PM

It's great. In Japanese it was a choice between sentences with different gendered first-person pronouns, which English doesn't have, and I can just feel the translator flailing

somewhat nifty @somewhatnifty7/2/2023, 12:20 AM

I love this

X @xkeeper7/2/2023, 3:18 AM

interesting to know that it was a lot... i dunno, less weird feeling in the original language. i remember starting that game and realizing immediately what the dialogue choices were supposed to represent and just going ugh internally