Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Rivendell progress: 66.51% done (99,762/150k stitches, 36/59 colors) there was no combination of completed colors I could find that would land me at exactly 66.66...666% 😔 0160
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Really appreciate the reposts! make sure you do the survey too, please. Takes like 90 seconds :) 2191
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 13/09/2026they know. they know! no sugarcoating, even! so fucking tell them!! 4654432
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Rivendell progress: 60.05% done (90,068/150k stitches, 35/59 colors) I've since equipped a wrist wrap to reduce the frequency of obligate cooldown periods 1211
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026they do a bit where he says 遅いだが早速 and she riffs on his sentence having both 遅 and 早 in it, which was never going to work 1:1 0110
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 06/09/2026"never translate names" (unless it's one-off pets and it would be funny to) Potechi-> Tater Chip Ume-tan-> Plumbo 2347
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026phase 2 was chaos every time, but while phase 1 wasn't exactly scripted, it was consistent enough, running a cold great katana with Giant Hunt. Trade hits, crit, juggle, etc. Only had to survive Waterfowl like 3 times 😵 010
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 05/09/2026started a fresh Elden Ring file on Switch2, and finally beat Malenia completely solo (no summons or spirit ashes) for the first time 🫡 230
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026moments that make me sit up from my slouch and go "Huh" (complimentary) 141
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 03/09/2026I do enjoy working on this [non-isekai, dnd-leaning] fantasy series but *each volume* has like 50+ new glossary names/terms and that has to be a record for me 2143
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 18/08/2026Rivendell progress (after a 1-year+ break): 51.85% done (77777/150k stitches, 26/59 colors) after 6k in 10 days, my wrist yearns for death 1181
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 14/08/2026of their many crimes, one is this construction that is clearly meant to apply "AI[hyphen]" to "localized" as well, while obfuscating the very fact (almost makes it sound like "localized dialogue" is the thing to be ashamed of!) 080
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026anyway if they want to take my insightful feedback and invent the Manga Flashback Finder and make it free, open source, local, and non-scrapey, by all means 1140
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026some consulting firm found me on linkedin and paid me $$$ to rant on video for an hour about how shoving AI into the manga loc industry to sloppify the process is stupid and evil cons: -linkedin lunatics -had to talk to a robot pros: -got to tell them where to shove it -minor wealth redistribution 1424
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 10/08/2026PSA: consider localization. get help. it doesn't have to be this way. (merch found and photographed by a friend of a friend) 25612
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 07/08/2026latest cross stitch is a kremling group shot🐊☠️ 30k stitches, 105 colors, on 18-count aida, 9.75" x 11". Sprites from spritersresource Started this last year, got distracted by crochet, finally did the remaining 95% over the past month 😅 5275
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 06/08/2026they know it's poison. they know we hate it. their propaganda will obfuscate or outright lie. (mangaplus.shueisha.co.jp/viewer/1030241) 050
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 05/08/2026the Wataru Watanabe Cool Handwriting Award for volume 64 goes to this chigau (違う) 270
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 30/07/2026my first exposure to that tea-sippingly British idiom definitely came via Banjo Tooie, where it was phrased in caveman-talk and therefore even less comprehensible (go back and play the Rare N64 platformers as an adult, and the UK English of it all will really jump out at you!) 280
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 29/07/2026manga translators when there's a scene in a downtown shopping area in Japan 04210
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026later in the volume, Mina turns to the camera and becomes a Marxist 020
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 21/07/2026in which Sakamoto's detached/anthropological explanation of the eucharist (as a curious ritual by an exotic religion) likens Dracula to capitalists and posits that both are incompatible with Christianity (these start-of-volume essays destroy my pace, but they're always a hoot) 184
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 14/07/2026in volume 64 (!!) the MC comes across new terrain that his current equipment can't traverse, and he must acquire a mountain bike to progress Yowamushi Pedal is a metroidvania! 2111
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 12/07/20262 weeks post release, lying in bed this morning, just got the joke 170
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 01/07/2026cool crosspromo with a vile AI-slop company that shits all over official English-language Shueisha releases via their actual youtube channel 🫠 1192
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026sign describing chu-hai products, in the queer manga: "overwhelmingly fruity vibes" 190
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 25/06/2026first delightful task of my day: quasi-freestyling imagined homophobic quote-tweets from fictional bigots b/c the author censored big chunks of the text, presumably as an act of kindness to readers 1102
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026ladies, please get off twitter it's not healthy for anyone, including recently-hatched queers, or translators who need a magnifying glass and high-res .tifs to process your doomscrolling feed 2302
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 24/06/2026She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat (ostensibly a cooking manga) is a stealth PSA about a smorgasbord of progressive concepts related to sex, gender, mental health had to research "amatonormativity" today! (the societal assumption that everyone is better off in exclusive romantic relationships) 24812
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 23/06/2026bought a garage sale grill two years ago, finally borrowed a propane tank from friends last week, did some h-mart kalbi for my first-ever grilling 😋 (paired with a surimi/cuke/avo salad) 170
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 18/06/2026the kind of bonkers choice (likely) hard-mandated by Japan that gives localizers hives how about a different, contextually apt American city name that hadn't been run through a woodchipper— ...Phoenix! ...Phoenixia/Phoenicia? Phoenixvania? Phoenixistan? www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet... 1274
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 17/06/2026also pleased with "for free" for 代償なし (spoiler for RuriDragon ch47 story content) 040
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 14/06/2026got two more for the autograph wall at Fan Expo Denver! big ones left: Liv Tyler (doable), Cate Blanchett (unlikely), Viggo (nigh impossible), Sean Bean (impossible) 190
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 04/06/2026[fuyo~ = ghostly floating SFX] > fuyou = "Unneeded!" (vs. Necessary) >>> "Boo... Boo..." > "Boot it!" (vs. Keep it) sometimes I ask my gf to help brainstorm loc solutions to these Animal Crossing jokes-from-hell, and this is one of hers :) 2152
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 02/06/2026koshi> lower back senaka> upper back proud of this one. went with upper instead of mid (which could be valid too) mostly for comedic flow 1160
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 14/05/2026I don't always make a kitted-out clay figure of the protagonist from an indie game, but Kosugi Lemeza from La-Mulana joined that pantheon 050
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 14/05/2026in this version, the kukri came to the convent via an Indian soldier who, with others, rebelled against the Brits when they gave the locals rifle cartridges (need to be bitten off) made w/paper coated w/beef/pork tallow, thereby violating religious beliefs, so they rebelled with knives 130
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 14/05/2026Shin'ichi Sakamoto's lefty Dracula gets even wilder vampire Jon Harker clocks two lesbian nuns and is like "your awesome lgbtq+ status reminds me of my dead trans friend, who was my osanajimi's lover, and who I need to avenge by killing MJ Drac" and the boss lesbian gives him a kukri to do the job 24411
Cal C @cdcubed.bsky.social · 13/05/2026v3: the ghost of Van Helsing seems to use the word "ajito" when summoned by the Ouija board. v6: Mina notes Jo casually using "ajito" while otherwise speaking English. v7: Mina accuses Jo of faking the seance(s). He thought ajito was an English loanword in JPN, but it's from the Russian agitpunkt. 1152
