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Virtual Balboa

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Fighting games. Old games. Weird movies and music. Webcomic "Do I Smell Like Drugs?"

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Virtual Balboa@virtualbalboa.bsky.social · last wk.

Damnit!! There’s an AI produced fan translation of Shadowrun for the sega cd. Pretty sure that means all instances of drek, wiz and chummer are going to be replaced with antisemitism hate speech and child porn.

Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️@sharkabytes.bsky.social · last wk.

I've got some good news about Shadowrun Mega/Sega CD and fan English translations: another one is in the works with some chops behind it in knowing Japanese and the world and lingo of Shadowrun. I reached out to the person that someone in my post yesterday mentioned had already been doing one.

A snap of a post on retrogametalk forum from Agitprop, working on translating and localizing a 60hz NTSC-J release. "Well, fuck.. I've been working on the same game (though, using NTSC-J, so.. it wouldn't have this slow down). Started it a while back, stopped when I found someone else was working on it, then started when that person said their programmer quit. Didn't know anyone else was working on this... Tested it on real hardware too" SharkaBytes said: Hi! Can I just ask if your WIP translation uses any kind of Genai (claude, chatgpt etc) for code or JP-Eng? This translation is human, which is why it's going to take as long as it takes. My friend is a teacher who's worked in Japan for many years as a tutor (do not do that job. The stories she has are a nightmare). I'm going to be doing localization for the setting (all the Shadowrun slang) so if ya'll don't like that, blame me, not her 😂
Virtual Balboa@virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 2w ago

I have two weeks left at my current job. They have been giving Adobe software to people that have never used any graphic software before, trying to distribute my job to others. It's going as well as you would expect. It's actually pretty funny to watch!

Virtual Balboa@virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 2w ago

Do people realize nobody is forcing them to buy a video game they don’t want to buy? I’ve successfully not bought a Dragon Ball game or a FIFA game every year for the 47 years I’ve been alive and I’m fine. I didn’t want to buy either, so I didn’t buy them. Nothing bad happened.

Virtual Balboa@virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Kabuki inspired anime more than I could have realized. The poses, the oversized props and weapons, the head movements, the character design. I went down a YouTube rabbit hole trying to learn about Kabuki and my mind was blown!

unhinged eldritch abomination@rhymeswithk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Friends, #weebwednesday is upon us once again! You know the drill - quote-post with your weebiest hot takes, nothing racist, nothing intentionally inflammatory, have fun with it ♥

Virtual Balboa@virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Microsoft slashed thousands of job this week. Every problem the company is facing is of their own design. Per usual idiot management got made bad choices, got paid millions to fail and us peasants get stuck picking up the pieces.

Virtual Balboa@virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

The filthy casuals we used to ridicule in the 2000’s & 2010’s? They were keeping the games industry healthy, not us hardcores. Folk buying a random game at Walmart based on the cover kept designers employed and funded B tier games. Now all those players are on mobile, not consoles or PC.

Sick Combos@sickcombos.bsky.social · 4mo ago

i've seen too many good video game opinions today, time for some bad ones what is your take that will have you like this?

Virtual Balboa@virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 4mo ago

For shits and giggles I tried the new Concept to Vector tutorial in Illustrator. All I did was click the "Next" button when asked, and Adobes shit AI spit out a bunch of garbled nonsense. They can't even get their new feature demos to work right.

Virtual Balboa@virtualbalboa.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Once I was forced to forgo paying a utility bill because I was required to buy a wedding gift for folk I’d never met. The couple said they were so “broke” they were CONSIDERING giving up their Tokyo apartment, because they just didn’t to to Japan much anymore. EAT MY FUCKING SHIT FILLED ASS!!!!