So like, I'm new here
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I guess I should like, make a proper introduction.
So here's my story. I cleaned this THING over the last few days, and posted it on 4chan's /h/, and the response was pretty good. And since I've spent so much time lurking on fakku, but never really created account or posted, I thought I'd change my leecherous ways (hurrr pun) and give something back. Well, it was really more of "eh, I don't have a place to release this or really give it exposure, and it was a shit ton more work than I thought it would be, and those fakku guys seem cool, maybe I'll see if they want it." And so I got on the irc horn and pestered Jacob and he posted it. Cool. Anyways
This was my first translation, and I'm thinking about doing another one of Minato Fumi's works (the only other color one that hasn't be translated yet). It took me a lot longer than I thought it would, translating and cleaning a h-manga is a lot more work than I ever thought it would be. It took a few days actually, probably 16+ hours now that I think about it. But it's winter break, and I'm bored. They use all these slang terms and odd forms, often speak in accents, etc. Sometimes making a definite decision on what is actually being said in English is just impossible. Sometimes I took liberties, in the interest of clarity and because this is an h-doujin and so sexy > accuracy. But reflecting on it, I think I succeeded in being pretty damn accurate. Being enough of a weaboo to have taken some Japanese helps immensely. At the same time though, I was sitting there with densha jisho and computer translators and a second dictionary and a book on particles and my old textbook. I really have a new appreciation for this. It was fun, but a lot of work. When I first sat down I thought "oh well this can't be too hard, I bet I can do this in a few hours." NO. Ya know though, I'm a programmer so I like sitting and concentrating for hours on end, to the exclusion of all else, and I guess I kinda went into the same "zone" I get into when coding and the time flew.
I looked up and I was like "fuck, it's 5am"
tl;dr:
Hi
So here's my story. I cleaned this THING over the last few days, and posted it on 4chan's /h/, and the response was pretty good. And since I've spent so much time lurking on fakku, but never really created account or posted, I thought I'd change my leecherous ways (hurrr pun) and give something back. Well, it was really more of "eh, I don't have a place to release this or really give it exposure, and it was a shit ton more work than I thought it would be, and those fakku guys seem cool, maybe I'll see if they want it." And so I got on the irc horn and pestered Jacob and he posted it. Cool. Anyways
This was my first translation, and I'm thinking about doing another one of Minato Fumi's works (the only other color one that hasn't be translated yet). It took me a lot longer than I thought it would, translating and cleaning a h-manga is a lot more work than I ever thought it would be. It took a few days actually, probably 16+ hours now that I think about it. But it's winter break, and I'm bored. They use all these slang terms and odd forms, often speak in accents, etc. Sometimes making a definite decision on what is actually being said in English is just impossible. Sometimes I took liberties, in the interest of clarity and because this is an h-doujin and so sexy > accuracy. But reflecting on it, I think I succeeded in being pretty damn accurate. Being enough of a weaboo to have taken some Japanese helps immensely. At the same time though, I was sitting there with densha jisho and computer translators and a second dictionary and a book on particles and my old textbook. I really have a new appreciation for this. It was fun, but a lot of work. When I first sat down I thought "oh well this can't be too hard, I bet I can do this in a few hours." NO. Ya know though, I'm a programmer so I like sitting and concentrating for hours on end, to the exclusion of all else, and I guess I kinda went into the same "zone" I get into when coding and the time flew.
I looked up and I was like "fuck, it's 5am"
tl;dr:
Hi
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Moses wrote...
I like your Avatar, anyway welcome.Yea I knew ppl would like that. But you know, its actually from a German anti-sexual-abuse add campaign that kind of went awry. It's like, yea Mr. Graphic Artist, that poster doesn't exactly make me think clean thoughts. The heart is edited in tho
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twofish wrote...
Moses wrote...
I like your Avatar, anyway welcome.Yea I knew ppl would like that. But you know, its actually from a German anti-sexual-abuse add campaign that kind of went awry. It's like, yea Mr. Graphic Artist, that poster doesn't exactly make me think clean thoughts. The heart is edited in tho
I guess the artist didn't think it through.....
Welcome to Fakku!
Is your user-name inspired by "1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" by any chance?
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Gism88 wrote...
I guess the artist didn't think it through.....
Welcome to Fakku!
Is your user-name inspired by "1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" by any chance?
I guess not...
I always get asked about that. Yea. Thank you Dr. Seuss. I first got the idea from the twofish encryption algorithm though. I'm a bit of a nerd.
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twofish wrote...
Gism88 wrote...
I guess the artist didn't think it through.....
Welcome to Fakku!
Is your user-name inspired by "1 Fish, 2 Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish" by any chance?
I guess not...
I always get asked about that. Yea. Thank you Dr. Seuss. I first got the idea from the twofish encryption algorithm though. I'm a bit of a nerd.
O_o
Some of us are. :)
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That was a heck of a couple of introductory paragraphs
xD
Hello and Welcome to the Forums, TwoFish-san!
xD
Hello and Welcome to the Forums, TwoFish-san!
