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Anna Cairistiona 🌺 @annacairistiona.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

When I went to look up the OG JP versions of my fave Leon one-liners from RE9, I quickly discovered that the JP was actually translating the EN. In March's blog, I decided to flip the script for a change and see how an EN game is brought to life in JP. annacairistiona.wordpress.com/2026/03/25/c...

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Comparing Leon’s One-Liners from Resident Evil Requiem in Japanese and English

SPOILER WARNING The following article contains spoilers for Resident Evil Requiem. I was so excited when they revealed Leon would be returning for Resident Evil Requiem. He had quickly become one o…

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

@lordsoflimited.bsky.social Hi! Liked the Izzet podcast, but I'd love to see context re: how strong the individual colors were. Like, if Blue + Red were a set's two best colors and Izzet was #1, it doesn't mean much. But if Red and Blue were middling yet Izzet was #1, that's worth going deep on.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Man, nothing beats a good Spanish Coffee. Wish they were easier to find!

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Ooh! Those are some pretty sweet pick-ups!

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 22/10/2025

This drives me insane. The deadline for Japanese manga creators is barely a week before their print date. WHY?! Scale it back two weeks and localization gets easier and better and there's no more last minute one-week "hiatuses" because a manga didn't make it in on time. What's the downside?

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Oh, cool! Yeah, Devil's Crush was great! Lemme know if Xenotilt turns out to be any good.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

Is this something I should be aware of?

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Hmm... Mechanically it's a pretty good game! But it's targeted at a younger demo than most Tales games, so you need a decently high tolerance for power-of-friendship storytelling and contrived 90's anime melodrama. It did have some fun moments though. (I think I translated the skits?)

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Translating puns is really time-consuming but I (usually) enjoy the puzzle of it. It makes me sad when translators just do it literally and let the joke die. (Although to be fair, sometimes you have no choice.) Thank you for noticing and appreciating that, it made my day! :D

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

And when I found "plosives" it kind of wrote itself! But I do remember searching for and finding an actual study about how dogs interpret human sounds and they really DO prefer plosives, which made me very happy because of course Loid would have read that and remembered it.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Yeah, the Japanese was a pun where Yor misheard "distinguishing between consonants" as "picky about causes of death." I think I just made one column with words about types of sounds and one with words related to manners of death and tried to find anything that could sound similar.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Oh! Thank you for noticing that! I was really proud when I came up with that and kind of sad that barely anyone seemed to notice. (Which was weird, because just a few missions later I got a ton of feedback on the "Swole Chihuahua" pun.)

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

Yooo! I do check in from time to time. Feel free to ask away, and thanks for the kind words! ☺️

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

LOL, this is so accurate. Kuon, Anna, Grea & Norman sitting at the Rune board table before each match going "shall we defeat them by annihilating spacetime or just tell Lilanthim to eat them?"

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David M, translator ordinaire @deijoubu.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

My best client that constitutes 70% of my yearly income has stopped giving me work, so uh, if anyone needs some translating, boy howdy my schedule is WIDE open now.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

"Let's form the greatest expedition in history!" [6 seconds pass] "Okay, done." Yeah... Love the game but Act III is a mess.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Listen up, health article writers. You can order me to eat soybean powder mixed with unsweetened yogurt, but don’t you DARE refer to it as a “midday treat.”

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 31/05/2025

I'm curious how they handled the lines where the characters randomly throw in a "putain" or "merde."🤔

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

I can smell them through the picture! About to head outside, lift my nose to the sky and follow the scent Scooby Doo style.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Yeah, I feel you. I'm really enjoying Act II but Verso is just not the same. (And he better not be creeping on Maella!)

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

This is utterly horrifying.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

That is wild. Do these games benefit in any way from being on the VB? Or is it a make-Doom-run-on-my-toaster sort of clout thing?

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Whaaat? Is there a Virtual Boy hacking scene or something? I'm so out of that community!

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

These are really interesting! I hadn't considered the degree to which Milchick's vocabulary would be a localization challenge. Dylan's voice casting sucks, though. They made him way too goofy. Curious to hear what they do with Burt.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Wow! That's awesome! How much work did it require?

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Ooh, nice! Which Grixis deck will you be splashing it in?

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Imagine how impressed the actual game designers he employs must be when he declares he can intuitively understand everything about their game by watching it for a few seconds.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

Is that adorably condescending ball of floof a Lhasa...?

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

That episode was the peakest of the peak.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

You too! All's well here—and I hope the same for you and yours! (And that you're enjoying the snow—even if it's just a little.)

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

What sort of whimsy-deprived sociopath could possibly root against our charming little PNW snowstorms?!

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

If you don't get enough of me whining and ranting about AI translation in real life, now you can enjoy it in text form with this fine article, written by non-AI human being @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social !

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Those sociopaths know EXACTLY what's going to happen to those poor, poor plushies and they still released them to the world. *shudder*

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

I am convinced she was deeply enjoying her Scooby Doo adventure with Mark in this episode.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Such a shame. It was an interesting system that definitely had its own unique direction, which I appreciated, but its niche was a little (a lot?) too narrow. Pick up any other titles?

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Hell yes! I never played it either, and always wondered if Nick (sigh...) really loved it or was just desperate to justify his wildly expensive purchase of a PC-FX.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Looks like Expedition 33 found its way to bluesky! Check out this sweet Finale Fantaisie game if you missed the Microsoft show.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I was in even before they showed the world map!

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I was hoping for 3/3 but I'll take it!

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

YES! Incredible that this is the team's first game...!

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

"Sharebox"...? In Europe (?) you're not supposed to eat all 20 by yourself?! Oh...

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

You're bluesky famous! Thousands of people eagerly read stories about you draining your dogs' abscesses! That's gotta count for something.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Awww, that sucks. I hope there's some viable plan B for you.

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Huh! Interesting choice to put all the effort into the region-locked Japanese localization and give the largest market short shrift. :/

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Casey Loe @caseyloe.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

30 hours in and Stellar Blade is pretty fun, but wow the English localization is a mess. I can't believe Sony was fine with releasing it in that state. :/

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