Mel Ok

ridiculous name for an apple LOL

good anime has been scarce this season, so i've resorted to watching k-drama ahhh i'm turning into my grandmother

Nurse lands Daigo counter. #hirose #streetfighter

Got my official SNK track jacket! Excited to sport it at the next event after TGS.

curious how much of the script they changed! hopefully they edited the prof intro to actually match the music as intended www.youtube.com/live/B_QJ4BY...

cooking with these voice lines. the VAs can adlib, but i'm writing them some options so they don't have to feel too pressured on the spot.

SNK is hiring! We are looking for: Localization PM recruit.jobcan.jp/snk-corp/job... Traditional Chinese (Taiwanese) translator recruit.jobcan.jp/snk-corp/job... Simplified Chinese translator recruit.jobcan.jp/snk-corp/job... Brazilian Portuguese translator recruit.jobcan.jp/snk-corp/job...

After googling something about Gen Z I was called the “elder generation”. Wow. Unc don’t like it.

Attempting to get fancy with plating. #sousvide #steak #chimichurri #japan

Hey kids, unc used to buy software in physical format!

Weird I can make suggestions for changes to the game I’m working on. I think they’re adopting both ideas!

For the second time in as many days, I’ve had people question whether something I posted was real. Sure, fact checking is important but having to constantly question whether something is AI is exhausting.

There is quite a big disconnect about how devs think loc goes and how translators feel about the process…

Saw a post that said ‘hire bilingual, not for their linguistic ability, but the mindset they possess’ and that got me thinking.

What a weekend! Finished off the deck, got all the curtain railings ordered and installed, and cement goes in next week! We’ll do the big move the week after next.

Have always given my best to my projects, but being in-house means longer timelines before games I’ve contributed to are released. Not sad, it’s just different!

I love helping translators learn the trade, but now I need to learn how to train devs about loc.

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Look at our Overwatch baby!

Worklog 0611: spent half the day reworking char limits and line breaks.

Worklog 0610: 2.5 meetings in Japanese turns my brain into jello.

Joining me at work—Haruhi and my Aeropress! This is where the madness and magic happens!

Worklog 0605: Devs know so much about game dev! Game loc on the other hand…

Inhouse worklog 0602: officially starting my first multilingual project, and am taking charge of a second one too!

Inhouse worklog 0601: delays, delays, delays…

inhouse worklog 529: actually translating something! it's going to be a good mix of TL/editing work and project management.

inhouse worklog 528: i got to watch most of this recording take place. it's an exhausting process! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZVL...

My new coworker! 😂

Cooking at the apartment. Maybe a cafe will be the retirement plan.

Finally have the さしすせそ of Japanese cooking. Do you know what they are?

Frieren has officially followed me to work!

“That’s cap” means different things to a rei investor and Gen Z 😂

I’m just trying to work but this fellah insists on being a lap warmer.

Freelance scheduling in a nutshell: "We can't tell you exactly when we need you or if we need you at all, but keep your schedule open!"

Kids: “what’s a possum?” Me: (describes one, looks up Japanese) huh, 袋狐/ふくろぎつね… pouch fox?

there seems to be some heat around a certain title that was "localized" recently, but one post mentions that multiple agencies are credited. I can confirm that producers often use different agencies for different parts of the loc process--from in-game UI and dialogue to marketing and ads.

was at a nomikai when an older Japanese guy said to a girl "despite being vegetarian, よう大きくなりましたね" and it took a few iterations of clarifying he did NOT mean "big" but rather "healthy" and in retrospect I think even "normal" would've worked.

Now that’s a double shot!

this is an interesting look into naming titles, which is a totally different beast in the translation game. Even Disney titles between English and Japanese are wild. I once came up with "The World is Your Weapon" for 武器集め because you could literally use anything in the game world as a weapon.

probably unintentional ragebait but still.

Over a decade being in game loc, I've come to a similar conclusion about Japanese dialogue. Several characters can have the exact same line, and I think j-audiences will hear/imagine it differently in their minds while western audiences need it to be different. high vs low context.

One client: Be faithful to the Japanese. Do NOT change the meaning! Another client: Transcreate, deviate, add/change whatever you like to spice it up!

Hello fellow linguists! I'm putting out this post to see if there are any JP to EN freelance translators who are interested on working on a relatively small Japanese game. Please leave a comment in this post or send me a message, and I can assist in getting you connected.