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Alex Lorente

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Audiovisual translator / Video game localizer. ES/EN/CA Learning Japanese!

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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
De verdad que la banda sonora de Santificación de The War Within me pone los pelos de punta cada vez que la escucho. Qué barbaridad. Me parece criminal que se limite a solo una zona de una expansión. Ojalá más oportunidades de escucharla de nuevo en el futuro. youtu.be/t6Y-w75aJuc?...
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Arathi Memorial Music | Hallowfall Music | World of Warcraft War Within Music
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Oferta de trabajo en Tokio: No aceptan visados de turista, pero ya me dirás tú cuál aceptan, si el de estudiante implica tener que estar yendo a clase, cómo te lo montas con su horario de 10:00 a 19:00, que encima tienen la jeta de decir que es a tiempo parcial.
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Cat Cats
ALT: Cat Cats
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Iván / イバン @ivaframos.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Los fachueces y los facholíticos, de la mano de ciertas... pseudocosas, siguen dando guerra, no paran. Lo de siempre, en este país hay personas poderosas dispuestas a lo que sea si los que Gobiernan no les gustan. Y mira que solo queda un añito para las Generales, ¿eh? Qué impacientes.
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Eugenio Viñas @eugeniovinas.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Si la huelga indefinida en la Educación valenciana estuviera ocurriendo en Madrid™, ni Zapatero, ni Andalucía, ni Andic. No se hablaría de otra cosa desde hace una semana. Como con el desamparo de la dana (etc,etc), Madrid™ no calcula la desafección social de su indiferencia *Escrito desde Madrid™
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Rafa Ferrer AKA MonoSimio @rafaferrer.eurosky.social · 18/05/2026
Still believe that is just exactly what any (decent) translator does with any creative text since forever. How you can translate a movie, a TV show or a novel without checking all those boxes is beyond me, unless you're a fansubber who does the old keikaku thing. But I did say "decent" translator 😝
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Vale, acabo de caer, este no es de una campaña que esté jugando ahora mismo. No sé si cuenta :(
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
¡Uno de los primeros personajes con los que roleé al que le tengo mucho cariño!
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Miku Hatsune se levantó un día y dijo: Voy a cantar Artifact. Y cambió mi vida para siempre 😔🤘
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
El brainrot que llevo con Miku no es ni normal.
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Javier Bardón 🤸 @javierbardon.com · 02/05/2026
¡Qué decir de esta mujer! A mí me tiene ganado 😍. Fancesca Albanese dándole una lección de dignidad (otra) a los burócratas de la Eurocámara. Yo quiero políticos como Francesca Albanese.
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Jenn Odd @jentranslations.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
More and more I see people say "it's ONLY used for translation" when it comes to genAI in games. As if the act of writing into another language is not worth respecting. As if people in other countries (both gamers and workers) don't matter at all. Translation IS writing. Translation IS art.
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zoraidazaro @zoraidazaro.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
El ministro de cultura actual es a la cultura lo que la ministra de vivienda está siendo para el problema de la especulación con la vivienda.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Está tremenda la serie. Disfrútala! :)
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 29/04/2026
No matter how loudly they say there are only two genders… Every soul is a precious, one-of-a-kind story🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Let’s wrap hate gently in love. Let’s embrace love with open arms and bigger hearts. Chiitan will love all transgender friends forever and ever. No matter what, my heart is always with you.
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Hokori ✨ @niallswishes.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
⚠️ Holi porfa no ignoréis este post ⚠️🙏🥺 Estoy buscando información de cómo alimentar y en general cuidar a tres gatitos callejeros de dos semanas (ojos ya abiertos). Han estado bien cuidados hasta esta noche cuando su madre desapareció de repente y la hemos encontrado ahora en muy mal estado...
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Ryan T. Brown 🎮🩷 @toadsanime.lostincult.co.uk · 29/04/2026
Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.
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Verkiston @verkiston.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Hora de desempolvar mi mejor meme.
Parodia de el cartel "Todo a la vez en todas partes", cambiando el texto por PUTA IA DE MIERDA EN TODAS PUTAS PARTES A TODAS PUTAS HORAS EN CADA PUTÍSIMA MIERDA. Se pueden despreciar varios logos de mierda de IA que no me molestaré ni en nombrar.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
HEMOS GANADO
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Judit 🔻 @juditsinhache.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
¿Qué hay detrás de la campaña brutal contra RTVE? TVE lidera el target comercial siendo la única cadena sin publicidad Cada espectador que gana TVE es uno que pierden las privadas, MENOS AUDIENCIA MENOS INGRESOS publicitarios Como dice la mafia, no es personal, solo NEGOCIOS​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ 📹1/2
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
No pasa nada, ya vienen ellas.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
FUA. El bubble de ahí está TREMEBUNDO. El de jazmín está súper rico 🤤🤤🤤
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Ese es el CoCo de al lado de la Fnac??
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Pues si, y no creo que esté el patio como para legitimar aún más a los fachas que se llenan la boca con lo de las "fake news". Que soy el primero que se vino arriba pensando que de verdad se habían negado a hablar. Pero es tan fácil como querer ver la retransmisión completa. En fin.
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mira ⊹ ࣪ ˖ 🎃 @simployed.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
I saw this and I had to share it with you. Im sorry.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
LMAO, of course.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
As much as I wish this was real, it's not. They talked for about 10 minutes with him where they very much replied to whatever he was saying and asking them. This is just a fragmen cut where there's a weird silence, sure, but it's not representative of the whole conversation they had with him :(
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
Sigo flipando con la canción de Raphael en la segunda temporada de Fallout. Y qué escenon.
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Anato Finnstark @anatofinnstark.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Bloodborne
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Oxi the White fox mage @oxkiss.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Dibujin de mi #OC Nerussa
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Lionrae! @lionrae.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Hi, I'm Lion! 🦁 ✨ TTRPG & Furry focused artist 💬 Commissions, conventions, OCs, rare TTRPG talk 🎨 Traditional & Digital art ✨ Thanks for checking out my page! 💛
A scan of a gouache painting featuring a cream-colored sighthound surrounded by greenery, eyes fully white, wearing a collar made of leaves and flowers.A digital furry commission featuring two characters, a lion and a snow leopard, watching the waves of San Diego Bay at night. One side of the bay can be seen in the background, windows alight. The small waves of the bay light up with bioluminiscence when hitting the character's feet in the water and the rocks they're sitting on. A full moon hangs above them.A reference sheet of a Dungeons and Dragons catfolk Circle of Stars druid and his three star forms. He's a brown tabby cat, wearing his druidic garb in greens and browns, made from leather, dyed fabric and dried leaves. At the left he wields a staff and a shield and is conjuring healing magic, accompanied by a spectral cat-like figure holding a chalice. In the middle, he has a hand on his chest and a determined expression. The spectral cat hovers over him sporting a pair of feathered wings, hands placed protectively on his chin and shoulders. On the right, the druid is shooting an arrow as he leaps; behind him, the spectral figure does the same from a constellation bow. A badge for Luca the liger before laminating. It imitates a tarot card, and depicts an anthro liger character in a prayer-like pose, hands up and half-open in front of him as he looks to the sky. He is surrounded by the moon in all its phases.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Pero si la primera imagen parece un cuadro. Qué barbaridad.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
El no estar dispuesto a traducir a otros idiomas porque pretendes revisar tu mismo las traducciones no sólo demuestra que no entiendes como debería funcionar la localización de un videojuego, sino que queda pretencioso y engreído.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Tanto cuando tienes idea del idioma como cuando no tienes ni pajolera idea, lo que tienes que hacer es lo que hace todo el mundo: buscar a un profesional o a un equipo con el que creas que vas a estar a gusto, en base a otros títulos con los que ya hayan trabajado anteriormente, por ejemplo.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
La cuestión es que aunque tengas idea del idioma sigues sin estar capacitado para traducir o revisar nada. Para ello hace falta ser un profesional de la traducción, con formación y experiencia, además de nativo del idioma meta, para poder confirmar si el texto de verdad suena natural y encaja bien.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
La cuestion es que tanto el Concerned Ape como Toby tienen medios de sobra (una pasta gansa a estas alturas) para permitirse una localización de calidad.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Flipando en colores con la movida del Tobías Zorro. No podemos tener cosas bonitas.
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Yonkou dos mares da Ira @luckyluke94.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Huh
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Haru 🌠 @harucchi3boshi.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
I'm sorry toby but your take on translation is either ignorant, arrogant, or even both. It seems to me you have no idea how localization works, professional translators are professionals for a reason. Their job is to ensure the translation matches the original author's vision.
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cero404.bsky.social @cero404.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
You don't want to pay a translation team because you wouldn't be able to guide them since you don't know the language. But you'd rather have fans do the translations themselves, without your supervision, leaving everyone with a version that lacks “your vision of the work.” Okay.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Esto es: si no eres capaz de encajar un juego de palabras, chiste, insulto, etc. en una frase, asegúrate de hacerlo en la siguiente. Si el juego de palabras no te encaja donde debería, introdúcelo en otro lugar donde sí funcione.
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Aunque estoy seguro de que todos esos ejemplos tendrían una solución, incluso si no se pudiera traducir manteniendo el juego de palabras, en la traducción audiovisual y la localización existe algo maravilloso llamado: compensación.
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🕊️ @gretchen.sailor.li · 30/03/2026
so i can only conclude that the actual reason that undertale and deltarune aren't in any other languages is because toby simply doesn't want them to be. why did he not say this? who knows
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🕊️ @gretchen.sailor.li · 30/03/2026
primarily writing english language notes on his intent for specific lines, his jp knowledge use in the notes seems to be looking up matches for words and references, and the actual work of translation and localisation was done by... 8-4, led by keiko fukuichi
- !!I
- - > see MOTHER/ MOTHER2/MOTHER3 for a good impress ion of the t one of the game a nd i ts text.
-->Another ins piration for RUINS and some of the l ore is BRANDI SH ( SNES/ PC98), t he r e a re wall
plaques whose tone 1 tried to imitate within the plaques of this game.
- POSSIBLY mainly use hi ragana/kana with only a smattering of kanji to achieve a similar
f eeling to those games .. . ? unsur e if good i dea LOL, j ust throwing that out t here.
I get a lot of emails to me professing that the characters in this game "felt like r eal people"
to them. when the game's translated, the biggest thing is that it still needs to be able t o
achieve thi s . A lot of the char acters DO say absolutely cartoony, anime-y, game-y things ... but
then they' 11 turn around and say something extremel y casual, Kind of like someone you knew in
real life would say . I believe it's this contrast that makes people care. I really don ' t know
how to express it. Just don't worry about making it sound li ke an RPG all the time I guess LOL
undertale j s f ull of wei rd things and jokes. If t here· s a funny line in t he EN version that
doesn't work in the JP version, it's obviously better to change it to something funny rather
than try to make it faithful. I 'd be glad to help with any of these changes if necessar y .
CHARACTER PROFILES - - --- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
note: "age" doesnt reflect anyones actual age, it 's basically just a random met r ic to s how
social standingrandom thoughts about character names.
pronunaaoons:
flowey's first syllable ts like "flower"
un-dain
alpheez (could be changed to "alfy' if its too much?)
az-gore
az-riel
nap • sta • blue • k
-There's a point where Temmie says "You will regret this," it might be funny/possible to do some sort of pun with teme" / "temmie" there
- if Tsunderplane can be made into a better pun in JP, definitely do it. In fact, a lot of the enemy names are kind of puns thet could be changed.
Vulkin, Woshua, etc. Though some work seemingty (ice cap=hyobo)
- "Aaron IS the name of my friend, so don't change that"
- Jerry could be kept "Jerry" or turned into generic name of the annoying kid in your middle school class (like "Takashi" or something)
- "Snowdrake" IS a pun on drake (dragon) and snowflake, if it helps to localise a pun you can also refer to it as a bird
• "Astigmatism" =literally 非点収差  in JP i guess, it could be good to change it to katakana and change a letter to make it into a pun?
• "Lemon Bread"= Reference to "MELON BREAD" from Gunstar Heroes (and other Treasure games). I've looked and every time It appears in
a JP Treasure game it's referred 10 as MELON PAN" in romaji, so might just want to localize it as "LEMON PAN" in romaji as well.
A thing to think about with all the dog puns, do JP people know the word "dog" or should we change all of them to inu puns? Either way is
fine, just as long as 1 word is used consistently
Doggo = http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/doggo
Dogamy =Dog + Monogamy. So marriage or husband related?
Dogeresse = female version of "doge" doesn't translate well...
Greeter Dog + Lesser Dog = It's hard for me to find info on this, but the idea is that it's a reference to like "Greater Fire Elemental" or "Lesser
Fire Elemental" from Dungeons and Dragons. "Dog Elemental and ·Greater Dog Elemental" could be potentially funny ways to localize these.
Endogeny = But basically anything "cell" or biology/sci fi related would be good
That's all for now..Spreadsheets like this ~
are what translators
stare at day after day -
luckily, Toby provided
lots of notes ahead
of time to ensure the
localization stayed
close to his original
intentions

There's a table with some of Undertale's script. I don't really have the wherewithal to try and transcribe it in a readable fashion...Uncommon Help
Because the entertai nment localization industry relies so heavily on agencies,
middlemen, paperwork, and tigh t deadlines, creators and localizers are often
separated by a wall of bureaucracy. This separation makes it difficult for both
sides to communicate w ith each other. And even when bureaucracy isn't an
issue, some creators simply don't care to be involved in the localization process.
Either way, it's rare to see a creator actively participate in a localization project.
In Underta/e's case, Toby was directly involved with the English-to-Japanese
localization process from the very start. He provided 8-4 with all of his
development files and copious translation notes ahead of time. He remained
in constant contact with the team via e-mail, answered question after question,
asked question after question, and even met with the localization team in
Japan more than once.
Toby chats with John ~
Ricciardi - co-founder
of 8-4 and Undertale's
localization producer
- in Roppongi in 201
As the localization neared completion, Toby also brought in outside help to
critique key parts of the localization and explain their Japanese nuances to him.
Toby then sent these critiques to 8-4 to improve the final script before release.
In short, although he's understandably not listed as a member of the
localization staff, Toby undeniably played a major part in Underta/e's Japanese
localization.
On a side note, sometime near t he localization's release, Toby mentioned
to me that he'd met with the translator at least once before and t hat
they'd discussed localization concerns in person. He later told me that he
was genu ine ly impressed with her work a nd that she reall y "got" his style.
was surprised - it's rare for e ntertai nment translato rs and creators to ever
meet at a ll, much less be o n t he same wavelengt h!
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🕊️ @gretchen.sailor.li · 30/03/2026
3. actually reading legends of localization undertale revealed that toby wanted to translate undertale into japanese specifically as early as 2015, before he knew the language, and that the translation was completed /as he was beginning to learn the language/. toby's contribution was
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🕊️ @gretchen.sailor.li · 30/03/2026
honestly the toby fox statement is a joke 1. i won't translate this statement into es or pt. do it yourself 2. i won't apply pressure on easy-to-work fangamer to see if concerts can be organised into latam. it's very sad but it's in God's hands and not mine
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Anoche cuatro personas diferentes me dijeron que mi chaqueta de Charizard estaba muy chula uwuwuwuwuwuwu
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Alex Lorente @alexlorente.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Un besito a todos los autobuseros que en un carril bus sin semáforo alguno se quedan parados viéndote correr media calle y sólo arrancan cuando estás a dos metros de las puertas ✌
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