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Cansado. | Lazy Sundays turn into Mondays too soon.

Video game localizer (en -> pt-BR)
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It’s funny because it’s at its worst with Ys games. I tried to show here where the lines appear, and in Celceta it even starts flickering before opening the game. While playing, it sometimes flashes and fuzzies as if it’s a tv losing signal.
I hope Bluesky compression doesn’t smudge things too much.
October 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
And as per the contract, Arthur Guinness will only be able to rest after the 9,000 years have passed.

[On a more serious note, 45£ must've been a fortune at the time.]
Arthur Guinness started brewing ales in 1759 at the St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin. On 31 December 1759, he signed a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum for the unused brewery. Ten years later, on 19 May 1769, Guinness first exported his ale: he shipped six-and-a-half barrels to Great Britain.
October 16, 2025 at 1:02 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
The LAMBADA of DEMISE !

lol

Well, finally finished the game.
An enemy in Ys 2 saying "Dance for me! Dance the Waltz of Death! Dance the Lambada of Demise!" before a fight.
October 12, 2025 at 6:59 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Ok, I guess I can be officially considered old(tm) now.
Dragon Age Origins on GOG with a seal of "good old game".
September 18, 2025 at 11:24 AM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Bacon sem lactose, o meu tipo favorito [!?]
Foto de uma embalagem de bacon que indica não ter glúten ou lactose.
September 17, 2025 at 11:05 AM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Man, it's so sad that they tried to future-proof the game for sequels that never came.
Text for both images, as they are part of the same paragraph: SEQUELS: Darklands was designed to permit sequels. It is possible to have some additional adventures in Germany. More importantly, it is possible to create entirely new games elsewhere in Europe. The system not only allows moving "saved game" files back and forth, but also allows you to load multiple games onto your hard disk and move back and forth between the nations, in a sort of giant adventure. Let us know what you enjoyed in Darklands, what you would like to see in a sequel, and what setting you prefer. There are plenty of possibilities: the Emperor in Germany has many political problems and intrigues, England and France are busy finishing the last half of the Hundred Years War, after which England falls into civil war (the War of the Roses). Meanwhile, Italy is at the peak of its warring city-states era, Vlad the Impaler appears in the Balkans (the historical figure who ultimately became Dracula), Tamerlane is conquering Central Asia, and much more. What's your preference?
September 14, 2025 at 1:38 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Forgot the alt text for the second image, so here it is.
THE GAME SYSTEM: Darklands uses an innovative game system for computer fantasy. Until now, fantasy games almost universally copied the concepts of "Dungeons & Dragons"®, including various "classes" of characters, who advance through various "levels" via "experience points," acquiring more "hit points" as they go. In such a system, it's quite possible for 20th Level warriors to absorb an entire mercenary company's volley of crossbow fire, simply because the character has so many hit points!
September 14, 2025 at 1:02 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Haha, shots fired.
Text saying: Darklands is an ambitious attempt to expand the "world" of computer fantasy role-playing games. At MicroProse, we have grown tired of "hack and slash" adventures, punctuated by silly puzzles blocking your acquisition of the magic gizmo that dispatches Foobash, the evil wizard. All this happens in a world populated mostly with a random assortment of monsters, sometimes expanded by a similarly random assortment of silly villagers, all of whom sprang from a bad imitation of Lord ofthe Rings. Unlike any other game in this genre, Darklands is set in a real time and place. Darklands is fantasy because whatever people of the era imagined was possible, now really is possible.
September 14, 2025 at 12:57 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Darklands is, conceptually, such a cool game, too bad we'll never see a sequel (as the director passed away in 2020).
Text saying: The sages of the era suggest that you content yourself with the challenges and adventures of Darklands, accept what improvement comes your way, and then await new challenges elsewhere in Europe (in forthcoming sequels).
September 11, 2025 at 7:11 AM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Game manuals are cool. This one is from Darklands.
Pretty much locked in a Groundhog Century, it seems.
Text saying: The year is always sometime during the 15th Century (which never ends).
September 2, 2025 at 5:12 AM
lokeloski.bsky.social
It's weird that "u" isn't considered a vowel here lol
I think I know the logic behind it but, c'mon, what a terrible explanation.
Autocorrect windows saying: Use “a” instead of ‘an’ if the following word doesn’t start with a vowel sound, e.g. ‘a sentence’, ‘a university’.
August 30, 2025 at 1:56 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
This has to be a joke lol
The company responsible for the rise of job insecurity in the translation field is hiring a localization manager with the salary of a tech executive.
Meanwhile, people like me never got any close to breaking 6-figures, and things are getting worse thanks to them.
A LinkedIn post where a freelance worker is showing a screenshot of OpenAI's job listing, with a salary of 315k a year.
August 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
I can't believe the best anti-genAI argument I've seen in months came from LinkedIn.
A LinkedIn post saying: "i never write with AI. i seek intellectual dominance over all my foes. this, i assure you, is a flex i live for."
August 11, 2025 at 11:59 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Case in point, eerily prescient.

This is an excerpt I grabbed originally from here: www.theverge.com/c/24300623/a...

"AI" companies are abusing the mechanism in our brain that anthropomorphize language usage, which exists for social/evolutionary reasons, to push their shitty product.
Text saying: Few behaviors trigger the anthropomorphic reflex as powerfully as the use of language, as demonstrated by the first chatbots. The most famous example occurred in the 1960s at MIT, when the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum tested an early dialogue program called ELIZA. It was a simple program, designed to mimic a Rogerian psychotherapist, mostly by rephrasing the user’s statements back to them as questions — “I need some help”; “what would it mean to you if you got some help?” for example. Users were entranced. People familiar with the program’s mechanics nevertheless asked for privacy with the terminal. Practicing psychotherapists heralded the dawn of automated mental healthcare. “What I had not realized,” Weizenbaum later wrote, “is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in otherwise normal people.” The delusion, in Weizenbaum’s view, was inferring from the use of human language all the other capacities that typically come with it, like understanding and empathy. It was not enough to intellectually know how the machine worked; seeing things clearly requires “very great skepticism,” Weizenbaum wrote, “the kind we bring to bear while watching a stage magician.” He worried that failure would lead people, and society at large, to place machines in roles that ought to remain the preserve of humans.
July 21, 2025 at 1:57 AM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Motivo 398573029 pra parar de usar essas merdas de IA: "primeiros socorros" não tem hífen.
Isso foi um resultado que o Google enfiou na minha busca e ficou em destaque acima de todas as outras fontes mais confiáveis.
AI Overview Sim, "primeiro socorro" leva hífen quando usado como substantivo composto, formando a expressão "primeiros-socorros". No entanto, "primeiro socorro" como expressão verbal não leva hífen. "Primeiro socorro" é um termo que se refere aos cuidados iniciais prestados a alguém em caso de emergência, enquanto "primeiros-socorros" é o nome dado ao conjunto dessas ações. Exemplos: Com hífen: "Ele recebeu os primeiros-socorros antes da chegada da ambulância." Sem hífen: "É importante saber como prestar primeiro socorro em situações de emergência." A palavra "pronto-socorro" também é um substantivo composto e é escrita com hífen.
July 17, 2025 at 12:53 AM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Wow, what a combo, the hallucinatory machine is referring someone to my post about a "content creator" who doesn't do proper research before making videos that feed into the far-right narrative of "elections can't be trusted".
Incredible.
The image shows that a visit to the article "I don't trust Tom Scott" was referred from ChatGPT.
July 2, 2025 at 12:51 AM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Spend the last couple hours connecting these two after many months stored in their boxes and making sure they were talking to each other and with the computer.

So far, success.
An Arturia Microfreak synthesizer sitting atop a Waldorf Blofeld synthesizer.
June 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Me lembrou de uma screenshot que eu tenho aqui que era de um spread da EGM Brasil do início dos anos 2000 e chamam tudo de RPG mesmo. (Off-topic que dou risada até hoje das descrições que fizeram das coisas lol)
Um spread da EGM Brasil com uma lista de RPGs sendo lançados (no início dos anos 2000) e suas características, tudo carregado com um toque de humor.
June 13, 2025 at 12:49 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Man, imagine a company having to make it clear that "Nintendo never once sent us deaf kids".

Screenshot and alt-text from here: mastodon.social/@nixCraft/11...
A social media post from Sean Murray of No Man's Sky clarifying, "We did not have a secret room hiding deaf kids... We were hiding dev-kits. DEV-KITS." This follows an apparent auto-generated caption stating, "For the last year we've had this little secret room hiding some deaf kids." Below this, another post from him announces "NMS Switch 2 Edition!" with features like multiplayer, 4K texture support etc.
June 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Well, this is definitely going somewhere.
May 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
I had no idea this could happen, lol.
Funny enough, it's the post about my Twine/Decker project.
An image showing that chatgpt referred to one of my blog posts.
May 21, 2025 at 9:26 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
I think I have a problem.
Workspace in Vivaldi with 101 tabs open.
May 13, 2025 at 1:14 AM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Every time I see this emoji, I think it's an old movie camera with two rolls of film.
Then I have to get really close to see the details.
Emoji of two people hugging each other, but both are blueish-gray and the details are almost imperceptible.
May 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Pretty cool kill screen with heavy bowgun.
The character is walking carrying a heavy bowgun. Rathalos is looking at the camera while something explodes on its back.
May 2, 2025 at 1:18 PM
lokeloski.bsky.social
Here's the original part of this dialogue (my own screenshot, used for an article years ago).
Screenshot of a dialogue from Disco Elysium, starting with You: This place looks bad, why don't you leave? Lilienne, the net picker: And go where? The fish are plentiful here and we get enough orders to get by. It's not great, but it's something. You: Anywhere with better opportunities. Lilienne, the net picker: People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.
April 24, 2025 at 12:12 PM