Hanlin Academic

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21+🔞 | CN to EN TL | Translating: 追声与循途 (Trace of our harmonies), Poyun extras | Reading: Lovely Allergen, Vanity Fair 裝相, Tunhai | Fandoms: 从万米高空降临/The Approach, Poyun, Saye

I am very proud to announce that our English translation patch of London Spirit Detectives is now done and released on GitHub. Thanks to aishsha, bigbanana23, Cash Ogawa, Pennywise, Ryusui, TheMajinZenki and vervalkon What a wonderful project! See reply for details.

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While working on the translation for Dirge of Cerberus Lost Episodes, I found out that for the English text, they made some sacrifices to how the game displays text to make more room and left out some QoL stuff like colored speaker names. So I went ahead and reimplemented that.

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A hidden terribleness about the AI translations of older games that keep popping up lately - in this case Tricolor Crise for the Dreamcast - is the way they knock the wind out of the sails of the people who are trying to actually do it properly. LLM version didn't even use the right character names.

Yuvi@yuvi.app · 3w ago

I have been working on this game with a real proper translation for quite some time now. This whole thing has just been a slap to my face for all the time and effort I've put into making something great for this great game. This person gives zero F's about this game; they just chose it because.

Huge new class action lawsuit filed by big publishers and authors against Google this week over AI training. It accuses Google of taking millions of books / articles provided to them for use only in Google Books, Google Play Books, and Google Scholar, and secretly using them to train LLMs. 🧵 1/4

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Chapter 42 of Ning Yuan's historical cyberpunk baihe To Embers We Return now up! (in which Shen Ni gives Bian Jin what every jiejie wants, Li Si tries and fails to hack a random guy, and we finally learn what He Lanzhuo's Talent is) 🔗 read here: douqi.blog/2026/07/13/t...

Cover of the JJWXC version of To Embers We ReturnExtract from Chapter 42 of the English fan translation of To Embers We Return: 

That had been exactly what Bian Jin wanted to bring up. At the same time, she’d been loath to saddle Shen Ni with the task of picking up the pieces she’d left carelessly scattered in her wake. But Shen Ni had still agreed to do it, and with no question asked at that.

It was as if Shen Ni had looked straight into her heart, piercing cleanly through the mists of her own doubts. In a single graceful swoop, she’d swept all of Bian Jin’s burdens into her own pocket, taken Bian Jin’s place on the path of thorns she trod, and pointed at the broad, smooth, open road that ran alongside it. Walk there, and don’t look back, she was telling Bian Jin.

And Bian Jin, who was used to taking care of everything on her own, suddenly felt as if someone had held up an umbrella over her in the midst of a snowstorm.

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