How do people get a taste of strikes and boycotts in the middle of summer?
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The only people that made change my views was Vanillaware. But their Switch release made me angry at myself for believing in digital scarcity. I won’t fall for haggling tactics like these again.
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Games@lemmy.world•I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev JobEnglish
3·2 days agoIt depends on the type of work you’re asking.
If you only want a transcription, with no notes, alternative interpretations, directions, dictions, etc., it can be really cheap on the quality you’re seeking. The requester had asked several additional things than just a transcription: typesetting, font work, editing, translation notes, sfx, 擬態語, 擬容語, hosting, etc… Scanlation was more than he could afford for a singular chapter, even at a salaried rate.For a PSP, it is correct that a single game is cheaper than a whole series, but not many people buy a transcription to a game linearly. Games have options, branches, game lingo, settings, impact, etc… It’s not just asking “does character A do this action Y” but “goal YZK is achieved by the exact complicated arrangements of GOHEDOTN, in order to progress branch Σ of mode O.” Often too, we are requested to reverse engineer parts of the game to make an appropriate working non-hazardous patch file, so the game emulates the origin language narratives as close as the target language can yield. Meaning, game design elements need to be considered as well as testing and quality assurance. Making game localization one of the most expensive media to localize, while also one of the most cut-throat professions that budgetaries eliminate first.
So depending how large and convoluted the game is, you’re asking in the tens thousands and up. Maybe up to a million and some change. It reads like a lot, but recall, every part of game localization needs to be tested, retested, and attested. It’s not as simple as transcribing a visual novel, even if some VNs break conventions and standards.
And unlike most cut-throat localizers, I am politically, financial, and media literate, meaning, I shan’t be asking for Iranian Rial when I know I can ask for Kuwaiti dinar. I want to be compensated fairly, and anyone I hire to work I know I will need to iron out work that I am not strong in.
Say e.g. the game is a rhythm-music game, I already know I will need to hire a sound editor to assure the localized songs emulate more than just voice synthesized melodies, no? I know my strengths and weaknesses. I also know the importance of having another person than a client and I review our work, and mediate conflicts. Last thing I want is to get sued for not owning rights to the work that was commissioned. NDAs cost plenty more than doing open commissions.
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So is cutting power to a building.
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Games@lemmy.world•I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev JobEnglish
1·3 days agoLast time I cited my asking price to localize a whole manga series, the lemmy deleted the thread, and pretend to never have asked.
He still posts on c/crackwatch@lemmy.dbzer0.com. The lesson I learned is that when I can reafford to host mine pylova, I will have «Remote instances cannot delete posts» enabled by default. That way, I can’t be gaslight again.
🤝 thanks for showing our ages🤣
oh hufflepuff, you are right! When can we see you armed to demolish the building?
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Games@lemmy.world•I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev JobEnglish
1·3 days agoyw😊
proper boycotts were outdoors.
C👔s actually fled for their lives.This is a performance.
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Games@lemmy.world•I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev JobEnglish
1·3 days agoAn abbreviation of the word “Thread,” in this particular case “in this thread[ed conversation].”
Emoji for A spool of thread
I don’t see you organizing a demo crew.
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Games@lemmy.world•I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev JobEnglish
3·3 days agoThe gasket that’s gentrifying folks, polluting water, destroying habitats, and it’s overwhelmingly ineffective in it’s stated goal to solve, as we read on this very🧵. Why use a gasket when bombing valleys is more effective?
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Games@lemmy.world•I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev JobEnglish
1·3 days agosure.
But be aware crawlers (search engines), OCR, and even suggestions sorters are trained on data, especially adversarially. Some infringing IP, some self-generated.
OP got smacked for using a LLM, when e could have hired localizers, even 🧵.
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Games@lemmy.world•I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev JobEnglish
1·3 days agoSearch Engine([…]i mean any search engine before 2020), reccomendation systems(many other algorithms too), OCR,
… how do you think these aggregating sorters are trained?
The OCR argument is contradictory.train them with data collected legally
Fascists are already colluding to make their breaches legal.
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Games@lemmy.world•I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev JobEnglish
2·3 days agonot all AIs are LLMs
Pray tell what AI isn’t trained on ❝large contested data❞
LLMs are what y’all are hating)
🧵, blatantly. But asset diffusers from stolen assets are also highly discouraged, as they are illegal, and it demonstrated the planet the two classes than ever before: corporate power can lobby copyright infringement, while everyone else cannot. Many hate it for quality reasons. I hate it because it’s fascism in its purest form: appropriating assets without consent.
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Games@lemmy.world•I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev JobEnglish
1·3 days agoIt was still made with neutral networks trained on <u>research papers</u>
Deepl was around way before LLMs…
What makes one think NNs are not LLMs?
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Games@lemmy.world•I'm A Game Dev Who Got Layed Off From His Non-Game Dev JobEnglish
9·4 days agowhat in blazes do you think is a «large language model»?








Then be sure to tell the organizers to set the record of indefinite consecutive weeks of protest.