the Hearth @Felthry@awoo.space

we're reading a book about how machine translation works using the example of when the author put the script of final fantasy IV through google translate, both before and after they switched to a neural network translation model in 2016

seeing all the absurdities that came of that makes me want to see someone who's never played final fantasy iv play the machine translated version and see if they can ever work out what the hell is going on
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in the majority of final fantasy games, blue mages just have to be hit by the attack to learn it (which leads to some interesting difficulty getting healing magic from enemies, as they don't use it on you normally)

but then you have final fantasy ix, where quina just learns enemy abilities by just straight-up eating them
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miraidon is a Friend
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Other tools in this category (at least for those of us who don't have jobs or hobbies that mean we use them everyday): Screwdrivers with the weird bits, a level, a kill-a-watt or equivalent, a sewing kit, a battery tester (specifically a battery tester, not a multimeter), certain software tools like http://shapecatcher.com/
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There are some tools that you almost never need, but when you *do* need them, they're indispensable.

Today's discovery: we don't actually have a stapler at the moment.
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Kuja from final fantasy 9 is trancegender
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we were at the store today and saw a seasonal flavor of jones soda.... turkey and gravy flavor

what the actual fuck
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random thought: supposedly jesus (the christian son-of-god one) was a carpenter, so were there ever any chairs or dressers or tables that were claimed to be his work? if so, why do you never hear about them? if not, why not?
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hey @ziphi, i found some airplane friends https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49889218/
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what did the japanese version say he was, anyway?
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you ever just think about how the english translation of aria of sorrow made soma a high school student, despite the fact that plot reasons mean his birthday *has* to be in 1999 and the game takes place in 2035, making him 36?
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it's one of those things that you never generally think there would be a word for but actually there is and when you know there's a word for it it's obvious there would be a word for that, just not something people generally think about that much. unless you work in the textile industry probably
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incidentally, if you didn't know, pilling is what it's called when fabric develops those little balls of thread on its surface! it just kind of happens over time, mostly from rubbing against things. some fabrics are more prone to it than others.
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now it says 100% with 2 votes so i'm wondering if a second vote came in as it was updating somehow
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