Embrace The Weird! :D

Im planning on making a google form for day theme ideas later today or tomorrow so look out for that!

Edit: here's the form!

I think we need to acknowledge that more. I don't think we really got the full enough scope of just how much humanity, and probably Raf in particular means to Ratchet. I think we need to remember that scene and let it sink in for a good while. I'm basically marinating my brain in that scene.

D'you think Ratchet thinks about how he owes his continued life, every happy moment he's had since, to this kid who cared to form some kind of bond with him from the very start, despite how much he hated him at first? D'you think Ratchet ever remembers the encouraging things that Raf has told him when things get tough?? D'you think whenever Raf has a bad day, Ratchet picks him up in his big metal hands and holds him close and lets him cry as much as he wants because Primus knows the kid was there for him at his absolute worst??? D'you think they and Bumblebee all sit together in wordless understanding of how important they all are to each other????

The major ones:

Duel Masters (was on original design team)

Star Wars TCG (on original design team and led first set)

Cheering up 'Leets'

Mech 2: yeah? What?

Mech: a lot of the animals have this thing called a tapetum lucidum. It’s a a layer of tissue in their organic optics that gives off that reflective glow when light hits it just right. Works as a retroreflector, helps ‘em see in the dark.

Mech 2: uh, yeah? We’ve all seen those four-legged things crossing the road out on patrol. Hound gets real upset when he finds one dead.

Mech: …have you noticed the humans don’t have one?

Mech 2: course I did! Humans can’t see for scrap in the dark, it was in Ratchet’s briefing. One of ‘em, anyway.

Mech: so humans can’t really see in the dark because they don’t have a tapetum lucidum

Mech: …but without a tapetum lucidum, they don’t have that optic glow to give away their position. Not only do they still roam around in the dark mostly blind, but they don’t want anyone knowing they’re there while they do it.

Mech 2: …huh

Mech: they evolved to be like this on a planet full of things that could eat them. It makes you wonder

Mech 2:

Mech: what kind of creature evolves to prioritize stealth in darkness, over being able to see? what kind of creature evolves the ability to detect and hunt organics in the dark based on their optic glow, while not possessing that glow, themselves?

Mech 2: …our optics glow.

Mech: they do.

Mech 2:

Mirage and Noah continue to live rent free in my brain…

Fanart for Ouroboros by @prttart

I’m really really into it, it updated again a few days ago!!

That first chapter hooked me SO fucking good

Ugly Bonus:

Just a little something I noticed...

The all-time worst dub-ism I've ever heard in my life is when Dragon Ball Z said that Bulma can sense ki.

Specifically, during the filler arc of DBZ when Captain Ginyu takes over Bulma's body, he declares with shock that being in her body's given him the ability to sense Goku and Frieza's power levels from their battle.

I can kind of see the logic in it, from a "This was dubbed without anyone having seen the first Dragon Ball" perspective. By the time the manga gets to Raditz, it assumes you already know a lot of things, so the Z dub had to do a ton of winging it to figure out what the fuck anyone was talking about or anything meant.

So there's kind of a logic chain where. Like. The humans can sense ki, and Frieza's forces cannot sense ki. Bulma is a human. Erego, Bulma can sense ki.

I see how you arrived at that conclusion, Dub Team.

On that note, I've got a rare example of a sub-ism name issue. Subs don't get the kind of scrutiny that dubs get even though subs and dubs are ultimately the same thing. It's generally accept "Dub bad, watch the sub" but the Japanese language does not map over onto English 1:1 like other European languages do, and is often context sensitive.

So dubs and subs represent two different localizers' attempts at offering their best translation of the material from its original language. They're both essentially accessibility features, but subs are ascribed more dignity than dubs are because a lot of us grew up in the 90's with bad 90's anime dubs.

But subs can be irksome sometimes too.

The subtitles for the Ranma 1/2 Netflix reboot consistently refer to Tatewaki Kuno as Tatewaki. "Oh no, here comes Tatewaki. Go away, Tatewaki!"

To anyone who's grown up with just about any version of Ranma 1/2, this is a microaggression every time his name appears on the screen.

The all-time worst dub-ism I've ever heard in my life is when Dragon Ball Z said that Bulma can sense ki.

Specifically, during the filler arc of DBZ when Captain Ginyu takes over Bulma's body, he declares with shock that being in her body's given him the ability to sense Goku and Frieza's power levels from their battle.

I can kind of see the logic in it, from a "This was dubbed without anyone having seen the first Dragon Ball" perspective. By the time the manga gets to Raditz, it assumes you already know a lot of things, so the Z dub had to do a ton of winging it to figure out what the fuck anyone was talking about or anything meant.

So there's kind of a logic chain where. Like. The humans can sense ki, and Frieza's forces cannot sense ki. Bulma is a human. Erego, Bulma can sense ki.

I see how you arrived at that conclusion, Dub Team.

On that note, I've got a rare example of a sub-ism name issue. Subs don't get the kind of scrutiny that dubs get even though subs and dubs are ultimately the same thing. It's generally accept "Dub bad, watch the sub" but the Japanese language does not map over onto English 1:1 like other European languages do, and is often context sensitive.

So dubs and subs represent two different localizers' attempts at offering their best translation of the material from its original language. They're both essentially accessibility features, but subs are ascribed more dignity than dubs are because a lot of us grew up in the 90's with bad 90's anime dubs.

But subs can be irksome sometimes too.

The subtitles for the Ranma 1/2 Netflix reboot consistently refer to Tatewaki Kuno as Tatewaki. "Oh no, here comes Tatewaki. Go away, Tatewaki!"

To anyone who's grown up with just about any version of Ranma 1/2, this is a microaggression every time his name appears on the screen.