misfiled as "Keet, Electric" @ElectricKeet@awoo.space

One of my tabletop RP characters has a family tree that's actually relevant to the game. To get a decent graph of it, I'm trying some software called "Gramps" which allows for custom attributes and such, but it falls down in a couple places.

Time to report an issue....

I love it when I paste things into the wrong field. At least I haven't done it with a password in forever.

We're used to seeing food labels with major allergens, an ingredient list, and basic nutrition info. This is so you can decide at whatever level you need whether this is something to pick up off the shelf and eat. Pretty reasonable, right?

Content warnings are like this for your mental health, and precisely as valuable.

them: "This track has the same chord structure as that one song from OverClocked Remix that I like."

me: "Yes, love, because that's a remix of this track."

them: ". . ." (mind blown)

What WorldAnvil says: "Use the Images & Files feature to upload images and files!"

What WA means: "Files? Only if they're JPEG, GIF, or PNG. Which are images anyhow, but we like to call them files also. Cover all the bases, why not?"

What WA says: "Upload files up to 1.0MB in size!"

What WA means: "Upload files up to 1,000,000 bytes in size! You know, not like a megabyte like everyone actually uses the term, but like hard drive manufacturers do. That's okay, right?"

The filesize limit would have been less of an issue if I could just upload this PDF. sigh

georg can have little a spider, as a treat

Watching https://www.twitch.tv/theblacktastic play an SotN rando with a seed named "eat up hungy boi". Is fun!

What counts as a good English translation of a Japanese-only game from two and a half decades ago... when the original game has some problematic dialogue? (Yes, I'm keeping it vague for now. There's a whole bucket of discourse here, but for now I want to explore the issue as far from specifics as possible.)

The translator in this case chose a word they understood to be a "mild slur" intending to keep the meaning and tone of the original work.

Some folks noted that the chosen word is widely considered a slur even worse than the original text, but it could and should be easily changed to something less incendiary as the context itself would be plenty to preserve the insensitivity of the original writers.

The translator then penned an open letter about how they didn't know it was that bad, they didn't want to hurt anyone, and that they were just trying to keep the original derogatory tone.

My argument is that translation exists to open up a work to a new audience. Just because the original work had a bad concept doesn't mean it's acceptable to compound the problem with a translation that's worse. If the goal is "accuracy" there's still no excuse; the translation is from mid-1990's Japanese to 2020's English, so there's no reason to use deprecated terminology anyhow.

I can get to more details later, but first: What're folks' thoughts on this? Does anyone have favorite examples of translations that illustrate the issue?

A-buh?

Via an account on a different server, I saw a post I wanted to boost from this account, so I plopped the post URL – https://hellsite.site/@luna/103574248916750398 – into the search bar like I've done before, but got this response: "Searching toots by their content is not enabled on this Mastodon server."

But... it's not by content, it's by URL. What causes this?