Visual Novel General #7966This general is for the discussion of English-translated Japanese visual novels.All posting of untranslated visual novels belongs on >>>/jp/E-celeb shitposting is not allowed.Kindly use spoiler tags appropriately when discussing plot spoilers to facilitate smooth discussion.>Having trouble with your VN? Try the following before you ask for tech support:1. Be in Japanese locale2. Read the Readme3. Check https://rentry.org/4chan-vn-help4. Copy error messages with CTRL+C and paste them with CTRL+V into DeepL5. Google it>FAQs, Recommendations, and Other Useful Things:https://chartanon.github.io/moechart/https://files.catbox.moe/j3dd0n.pnghttps://github.com/marisukukise/japReader>Need a novel with a specific element?https://vndb.org/g>Download Links:https://rentry.org/4chan-vn-linksPrevious thread: >>584460853
first for transgenderism
Happy birthday to Margot!
>>584527831Battler...
>>584527831Chachamaru...
>>584527831MAO...
Qruppo?
>>584527831eops...
>>584527761
>>584527831Me...
>>584527848Time for birthday sex!
>>584527964At this point I'm starting to give up hope, I think they've probably gone the way of Ricotta and Tonework's and despite being by all accounts successful they're just going to stop making VNs and quietly vanish without ever officially closing.
>>584528627Margo is underage!
>>584529373I'm already rock hard, you don't need to tempt me further.
SnU they still have only a two chapter demo?
Wtf is ARG
Based GPT keeping racism intact.
>>584529790visual novels?
Very funny scene.
>>584529670Just Argon it lil bro.
Me when I am on a ship and hear pirates off in the distance but can't quite place the noise they're making >>584529776
>>584528802Is nukitashi 1 or older stuff worth reading?
>>584530149Oh absolutely, they're incredible games. Everything they've ever put out is a banger.
>>584529776like they repeated ARG in every other fucking reddit post on the supposedly cancelled Uchikoshi ge
MUMBAImasa
>>584528802I knew that the anime would kill them
>>584528802Do not lose hope. December 15.
The BBC article from this morning confirms it, that even translations from/to Western language are considered in need of proofreading, even for technical content. So it's required all the more for translating Japanese prose/drama like in with omitted verbs or pronouns/subjects, etc.https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1wxdjx27ypo
>"誰だってこんな自分に憧れるだろう。",>"If I saw me right now, I’d be swooning.",>"「金もらえるならここで全裸にでもなります!」",>"“Money, money, money!”",>"「むしろ全裸にならせてください!」",>"“I’m literally begging you!”",Incredible "translation" shiravune
>>584531089Just Astra it.
>>584524473>>584524570>>584524660Where can you listen to those? Just downloading the mp3 files from nyaa?Some of those sound amazing, even if it's only sound.
>>584530798Why is 2B embarrassed? She wouldn't care. Her casual attire is even more revealing than Rider's.
>>584531029>The BBC articlemaybe I've read too much muramasa but I had to think for a second here lol
>nyaavirus>ryuuunavailableI guess I'll just play allages instead. Probably has a better TL anyway
What killed the medium?
>>584531609japaneseasmr.com or asmr.one
>>584532458Thank you. I guess you can buy them on dlsite too.
>>584532378iphones
What REVIVED the medium?
>>584532979Manosaba!
>>584532378gacha (phones)
MAO…
>>584533084>shiravunenot surprised
>>584532979Nothing did it's still dead
>>584533084The guy who translated it is also in denial about AI TL's
>>584533084>>584533154>>584533236 >>584531089
If the translation of the SakuUta demo were really this bad then you would be prove it with an audit.
I miss Karen...
Why do you hate natural sounding localizations?
>>584532378H scenes
>...It's HIM again?
>>584533084>no jp texteasy pirate
>>584534395Jap companies don't like it when Jap text is included as international versions of VNs are much cheaper than the Jap versions even when they are a few years old.
>>584534735summer pockets 7480円 btw
>>584534735i don't like it when i have to download the vn 2 times to do the AI QC
>>584534120I-I just want to enjoy my soi latte...
>>584533236pretty sure he’s just the cuck that shiravune sniped, they let him give his two cents or whatever and now he does twitter pr for them
>>584534735turns out the demo has paired japanese text together with the english one
>>584527831Kageaki...
>>584527831SeiShoujochad...
we are cooking
>>584536076Don't remember asking
>>584536139>it's afraid
>>584536076>ThinkingI have been doing that
AI wonned~~ troons losted~!
Manosaba won
Total vibegod victory
>>584533084>it's MTL
>>584537594Based! So all complains about the translation being bad were wrong.
>>584537594I seriously doubt it with how bad the translation is
>>584537594most """errors""" are just censorship for the steam version
>>584537594>b-but professional human translators would never!
>>584537594>EOPiggies paying for sloppa
>>584537712Wait, they removed all the sex jokes from it? What does the VN even have now?
>>584537702https://pixeldrain com/u/KpdZHmE6the 3 cherrypicked line on the top reddit reply are literally the only truly made up lines. i'm actually thinking that that post might be a falseflag to make the tl look human
>>584537594So it's good and we should be reading?
>>584537818interesting
>>584537930i would still wait for the full game because they might patch out the censored sentencesalso i really don't understand what's the point of reading demos regardless
>>584538020Oh well yeah I wouldn't read this I meant the full game
Why do the girls in vinnies always say>kissu>deito>sexuDo nips not have their own words?
>>584538323English is superior.
>>584537594What program/ai are you using to check this?
>>584538356Good morning Shiravune
>>584538062even if it was 99.9%+ accurate, the other thing to consider is that sakuuta will probably release in spring 2027 and sakutoki in spring 2028. if MAOlations truly come out in november (using an even newer model) then yeah... i'm not sure it will be worth the waiti'll still buy them on steam day one because i love sucking sca_ji's cock
>>584538323>接吻>>性交
K-K-K-KANSETSU KISSU?!?
>>584538323Schizophrenic Stockholm Syndrome language not designed with beings outside the prison island in mind.
>>584538446Ok schizo. Can you check the mao niggers albatross for me xoxo
>>584538356https://mtlwiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Translation_Leaderboard
I still haven't found my vinnie that I can point to and say: KAMIGE. It should have been Umineko, but R07 is a fucking retard who ruins everything 40% of the way through his works.
>>584538560there's no point in QCing MAOlations
>>584538641What vinnies have you read
>>584537594lol
>10 minute long chart in a rhythm game I don't feel so good>Demo exclusive storyNeat
>>584538705Umineko, Higurashi, Katawa Shoujo, Fate Stay/ Night, Tsukihime, Muv Luv trilogy, and Persona 3 and 4.
>>584537594Do a Pangram sample test
>>584538962Hey newLORD, you should also check Ever17, its final route is kinoer than every game you mentioned
>>584539073that shit only works on """creative""" writing
>>584537594>Good overall, but occasionally unreliable where the wording matters most.>These chapters are readable and mostly faithful. Most flagged errors are minor, and malformed English is relatively uncommon. The weaker areas are poetry, philosophical arguments, and art discussion, where some meaningful distinctions get flattened or misread. Several sexual jokes also lose their actual punchlines.>Verdict: a solid translation needing a focused correction pass. The 99.41% weighted score reflects low error prevalence, but some individual mistakes still damage characterization or thematic meaning.
>>584539301I'll consider it, even though I feel like I remember people clowning on it for various reasons over the years. I have the Science Adventure vinnies and Shitwrite in the 'acklog currently.
Good mornin /vn/ hope alls well, bacon sandwiches for breakfast today, Ive been stallin a bit on MuvLuv so Ill restart that later maybe
>Visual Novel and JRPG ComparisonFate - Fire EmblemUmineko - Final FantasyKey/Visual Arts - Tales of SeriesShinza Bansho - Star OceanTo Heart - TrailsGrisaia - LunarTsukihime - XenobladeDanganronpa - PersonaHigurashi - Dragon QuestTokimeki Memorial - SuikodenAce Attorney - Breath of FireFamicom Detective Club - Golden SunTwisted Wonderland - Kingdom HeartsKikokugai: The Cyber Slayer - GrandiaDemonbane - XenogearsScience Adventure - Valkyria ChroniclesRance - YsSilverio Saga - Valkyrie ProfileCiconia - Chrono Trigger/CrossBaldr Sky - Super Robot WarsSchool Days or Yosuga no Sora or Maggot Baits - Mega Man X: Command MissionSakura Wars - Phantasy Star or ShiningInfinity Series - AtelierUtawarerumono - DisgaeaAI: The Somnium Files - .hackShall we Date? - Granblue FantasyYarudora - LegaiaHotel Dusk: Room 215 - EarthboundSaya no Uta - The Witch's HouseTokyo Babel - Fairy Fencer FMahou Tsukai no Yoru - Advance WarsThe Silver Case - Arc the LadFull Metal Daemon Muramasa - The Last RemnantNekopara - Hyperdimension NeptuniaSoushuu Senshinkan Gakuen - Radiata StoriesMuv-Luv - Drakengard/NierSorcery Jokers - Alundra11eyes - SaGaTRianThology - Live A LiveRose Guns Days - ManaZero Infinity - Infinite UndiscoveryElectro Arms - Resonance of FateAoishiro - Bahamut LagoonOuran no Gahkthun - Vagrant StoryManosaba - Mary Skelter428: Shibuya Scramble - The World Ends with YouClockwork Ley-Line - Demon GazeBuddy Mission BOND - The Last StoryAnother Code - Glory of HeraclesFortissimo - BoktaiSengoku † Koihime - Shiren the WandererAyakashibito - Wild ArmsI/O - The Legend of DragoonHiganbana no Saku Yoru Ni - Bravely DefaultMOON. - The Journey Home: Quest for the ThroneOne Kagayaku Kisetsu E - ArcusTogainu no Chi - Shadow HeartsDear My Friend - Beyond the LabyrinthWhite Album - Tokyo XanaduDuel Savior - TerranigmaDengeki Stryker - Rogue GalaxyChrono Clock - Radiant Historia9-Nine - Kimi no Yuusha
>>584540260>Part 2Vermilion -Bind of Blood- - Exist ArchiveFatal Twelve - Octopath TravelerMaji De Watashi Ni Koishinasai - Odin SphereDevils Devel Concept - CrystarDracu-Riot! - Princess MinervaKimi to Kanojo to Kanojo no Koi - Time and EternityLibra of the Vampire Princess - LangrisserMaster Detective Archives: RAIN CODE - Etrian OdysseyNate Hand Gesture - MisaoRoot Double -Before Crime * After Days- - Popful MailRosario + Vampire - VampirSakura Dungeon - Sakuna: Of Rice and RuinSekien no Inganock - Illusion of GaiaShiei no Sona-Nyl - Nights of AzureShikkoku no Sharnoth - Eternal SonataTears to Tiara - Ogre BattleThe Spirit of Eternity Sword - Arabian Nights: Sabaku no Seirei OuTrample on "Schatten!!" ~Kagefumi no Uta~ - BrigandineTsujidou-san no Jun'ai Road - Eternal RadianceWhat a Beautiful Series - Chaos RingsYour Turn To Die: Death Game By Majority - RecettearThe Portopia Serial Murder Case - The Dragon and The Princess>BonusThe Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog - Super Mario RPGDigimon Survive - Pokemon ConquestMonster Girl Quest - Azure DreamsDoki Doki Literature Club - UndertaleVA-11 Hall-A - IndivisibleCoffee Talk - Sea of StarsDayshift at Freddy's - Five Nights at Fuckboy'sSlay the Princess - Clair Obscur: Expedition 33Helltaker - Fear & HungerKara no Kyoukai (Not VN) - The Legend of Zelda (Not JRPG)
>>584540260What is the Castle of Shikigami of visual novels?
>God Generals and Crypters CounterpartAsch to Kirschtaria WodimeLegretta to Ophelia PhamrsoloneSync to Kadoc ZemlupusDist to Scandinavia PeperoncinoArietta to Akuta HinakoLargo to Beryl Gut>Ten Wise Men and Longinus Dreizehn Orden CounterpartGabriel to Reinhard HeydrichLucifer to MercuriusMichael to Eleonore von WittenburgHaniel to Kei SakuraiRaphael to Valeria TrifaCamael to Tubal Cain/Kai SakuraiZadkiel to Wolfgang SchreiberMetatron to Wilhelm EhrenburgJophiel to Rot SpinneZaphkiel to Goetz von BerlichingenMastema to Riza BrennerPhilia to Isaak>Ouroboros and Black Lodge CounterpartGrandmaster to Master TherionVita Clotilde to EtheldredaF. Novartis to Doctor WestUlrika to ElsaLuciola to The R'lyeh textBleublanc to TiberiusLeonhardt to TitusWalter Kron to VespasianusMcBurn to CaligulaCampanella to ClaudiusSimeon to AugustusRenne to NeroGeorg Weissmann to SandalphonArianrhod to Nyarlathotep>Seven Heroes and Black Knights CounterpartWagnas to AvaritiaRocbouquet to Superbia/Misao KusakabeKzinssie to IraDantarg to GulaNoel to InvidiaBokhohn to AcediaSubier don't have Black Knights Counterpart (But Luxuria is Saruin not Subier)
>>584533084>vagueposting by a jizzatguzzlerxitter was a mistake
>>584539309No, that works for all text, also vns are creative writing
>>584540565translations aren't creative writing (or at least they shouldn't be). if the original is human-written then the mtl also won't get flagged
Can you Some Ten Wise Men compared to Longinus Dreizehn Orden?
>>584540646Yeah, that's why I said sample. For a large enough sample of the tl I'd still expect ai to reproduce some of the textual patterns that Pangram identifies, but it might not get a 100% detection rate.
>>584541074i can upload the whole script if you want, but in my experience none of these tools are reliable, unless it's some old gpt-4 era sloppa or an obvious em dash fest. and even then, with some prompting you could always make it so it bypasses detection
Qruppo needs to make these two main heroines of their next ge.
They are making a Night Shift Nurses mobage...
Average Umineko fan.
cunnygods... WE WONNED~!
>>584542720Holy keyed, omw to translate something and publish as h*manmade!
IFLWW
>>584544914walter white is my goat too
>>584542720What's Opencode?
>>584544980it's like codex-cli but for poorfags. also afaik it doesn't have safety gates so you can use it for sus stuff
>>584545071Safety gates are model-level albeit, you might as well get an uncensored local ai and use it through codex or claude code after some tweaks
>>584545243Some are, but it is actually a little shocking what you can get out of Opus using an uncensored client instead of web view
admiring how soft my skin is while reading vinnies
>>584529997Can Argon translate cunny stuff? This shit keeps telling me it won't touch anything sexual
Any VN for this feel?
>>584547121yes
>>584547121Rance
>>584547121whats this?
oppai
>>584547548Slop
We're ALL pre-ordering his game.
>>584547121>stock trading>>584547548https://myanimelist.net/anime/63337/FX_Senshi_Kurumi-chanhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLhg0dbyxTg
KINOmasa
>>584547548FX Senshi Kurumi-chanIt's a /biz/ comedy airing right now.
>>584545243When you send a request it doesn't directly go to the main model. The content flagging is done by a different quicker model. Back in the day we tried to censor main models but it only made them retarded.
>>584547775>When middle school student, Fukuga Kurumi's mother commits suicide after losing 20 million yen in FX trading (Foreign Exchange trading), she vows to recoup the money her mother lost "I'll easily get that much back!"Damn, FX trading is serious business
>>584547775bottom of the barrel sloppa, i'd rather watch ashita no joe instead
>>584538856>game is clearly locked to 1080pnot a good start, guess we playing windowed
MUMBAImasaNEGROmasa
>my super power is being able to change gender at willI want a refund
1. An AI translation (unedited).2. A human translation from a BlueSky user.Which one do you pick?
umiNEGROKINOmasaTROONsaba
I'm feeling like this meteorite was a scam artist
>>584549539Gacha drawstyle baka
These niggas are gay
>>584549539Stop playing sloppa, kageakijeet
>>584549202>umiNEGRO>KINOmasa>TROONsabaMany say thkis
MAO should translate Saku moyu first
>>584549849this
>>584549539How do they pronounce that?
>>584549539Kiss Your Sister!
Ok I was starting to catch on that was just a shitpost scenario, not that actual story. Weird way to start the demo>>584549919The VA was literally saying "hatenahatenahatena"
Ominous way to present the mc gender select but okay
Hello, BASED department?
>>584550614she is built to step on me
Yeah you tell em Audience Member M
>>584550069>The VA was literally saying "hatenahatenahatena"Welcome aboard, Hannah!
Keeva is very cute, I'm sure nothing wrong will happen to her in the next 10 minutes
Any good VN's translation nearing completion?
>>584551609shigatsu youka
>already getting filtered by normal difficulty on the first songjesus i'm washed up or do they really expect only diehard rhythm game fans to play this
>>584541974Why does she look so embarrassed?
>>584551791Nigga it's just fucking piano tiles
Imagine if AI could make a perfect replica of your wife
i don't know what to call these hours but they certainly aren't good
About what you can expect from the response to seeing a perfect AI
Evil ass CEO
>>584552940UOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH
Literally just /vn/
>>584547775>>584547903oh, that. Yeah imma pass.Tensei Ken has enough ryona>>584551370licking the cup clean
This is literally the first time they called Axmann the "Brown Beast." How'd he even get that name lol? He has red hair & he's white.
>>584553605Bros, am I colorblind? Is his hair red or brown?
>Epstein files
>>584553874It's more brown than red
>>584553156And the discourse is somehow even more retarded and pointless than the AI plot stuff in Steins;Gate. Grim.
>get replaced by AI>immediately kill yourself>>584554198Didn't someone here say they wanted to see a VN actually talk about modern AI discourse?
>>584554730>get replaced by AI>immediately kill yourselfBut enough about troonslators
>>584554730>get replaced by AI>immediately kill yourselftroonslators out of nowhere
VNs with this feel?
>>584553448Impregnation DLC fucking when Kodaka...?
Mommy!
Watch her movie.
>>584555201>Saito Chiwa>Aoi YuukiI will be watching!
>>584555201
>>584555329Erotic retard.
>>584554730Hiro, don't look...
>>584554904Dead end aegis
>Schwarzesmarken spoilers - Katia routeI love Lise so much, bros.
>>584556501She's not bad for an NBR
Lise has killed so much more named characters than Beatrix that it's not even funny.
ENTERthey forgot "sexiest umineko character" too though
Drugs are bad!!!!!
>>584557214What does the attached image have to do with Rosa?
VNs for this feel?
>>584557359Child blood covered hands typed this post.
We love sluts here.
IFLUG
KIMIKAAAAAA!!!
>>584532378Puritan zoomers/Gen Alpha
>>584557656I'm calling ghost busters
Waiting for Itsusora TL
Big fan of qruppo
Welp that was the end of the story in the demo, Coco and Meruru didn't show up sadly. I like the story hook of the audition being a test to see if humans can be better than AI or not and what that means for human artistry, very topical philosophy to base your story around. For the rhythm game part, I feel like there should be more than just 3 difficulty levels because the jump between each one is stupidly large.Also there seems to be a puzzle in the demo shitpost scenario but I'm too stupid to solve it, there's a text field you can put text in at the end of it and all the laughs in the script are highlighted blue, maybe someone else can figure it out because it's annoying to brute force since every attempt kicks you out and you have to skip through the entire thing every attempt because the quick save/load doesn't work there. Luckily ctrl+v does work to paste text into it however.
>>584557830tl;dr troonslop
>Run the first Senshinkan script through Argon>A LOT (60% of it) reads better, especially when it comes to finicky ruby shit like:>"Why couldn't I have been considerate enough to realize something so obvious: that just as I am {that way|a woman}, he too must be {that way|a man}?" >But not enough of it is better to justify a full retranslation or even editing pass by itGuh... maybe I'll fire it through Argon and grab the best/most linguistically finicky parts it nails and edit it with the best parts of the Astra one... Argon seems really good for flowery, literary, high-falootin' stuff and finicky literary things, while Astra's colder, flatter style seems better for punchy, humorous delivery.
>>584557830Is this connected to Manosaba?
imagine desperately begging your fans for money and work and they think you're doing some big complex ARG and start digging through your random shit and analyzing it
>>584558124No it's just a shitpost someone brought up earlier for the character designs of Ruka and Viola looking kinda familiar
Is anyone playing the Steins;Gate reboot still? How is it?
>>584558746It's a kamige
>>584558746It's the exact same as it always was but with 30% less story
>>584558746Just another low effort cashgrab from Mages
Who won 2026?
>>584557954>Astra's colder, flatter style seems better for punchy, humorous delivery.There's no way, gemini has always had way better slang and natural casual language.>rubyhow do you fail at ruby? what?>astraslop>mixing different modelsbwo...
>>584559230SG reboot won. Manotroons lost.
>>584559261>how do you fail at ruby? what?It's moreso that it preserves the feeling and flow of the ruby better. Claude/Astra made a lot of the parallelisms in the ruby feel extremely clunky. For example, the old line was:>EN: Just as I'm {a woman|what I am}, he's {a man|what he is}. Why couldn't I have stopped to think about something so obvious?
>>584559230CHADnimals.
>>584559606MHBST
>>584559230Oretsuba
>>584559230Rezero
>>584559230Luddites won. Nobody is reading AI slop except the pole.
>>584559230Everyone won except Mumbaimasa. MTLfags. S;Gfags. Manosabafags. Uminekofags. Oppaifags. Moegefags.
>>584558746Just as mid as the original.
Oppai won.
>>584559967So everyone but lolicons lost?
>>584559484Where did>considerate enough>realize>must become from...? And between that way and what I am/what he is makes infinitely more sense. What are you smoking
>Schwarzesmarken spoilers - Katia routeUrsula's a pretty bad name. It also sounds pretty boomer. When I hear it the only things that come to mind are:>the octopus witch from Little Mermaid>Ursula LeGuin, author of Earthsea series
I just solved my fucking years-long fruitfly problem. I have struggled alot with thsi shit and ngl my house looks like Asmongold's house but not anymore. I found a 9/10 method for taking these fuckers out. It took me an entire afternoon but there are over 100 bugs in the trap now including like 2 moths and a fly. and 100+ fruitflies. I am stoked as hell. I feel rebornI only feel bad that I spent 10 bucks on bug sprays a week ago. The sprays don't do shit, and I can't return them cause I threw away the receipt, so that sucks that I wasted 10 bucs for nothing. My new method costs like 50 cents to do
>>584560146the latter makes infinitely more sense*
>>584560242I'm guessing you used those sticky traps that you hang from the ceiling or something similar
>>584559967>brown wonsa grim year
>>584560358Browns lost. Everyone else won. It was a good year.
MAO, what's the progress report on Rance X?
>>584546201Who is this?
>>584560492This. KINOmasa won.
Gonna go buy some apples. Maybe some kiwis too.
>>584559430>SG reboot wonnot even the most popular VN steam release this year lol
>>584560354Used them inside a bottle and brought them to the bugs themseves
>>584559967Fuck off jeet. You and your friends from Coquimbo lost.
>>584560568the Sex with Others awards
>>584560205How did the white woman route end?
>>584560772>jeet Kageaki out of nowhere
>>584559230>Oretsuba>Dimension Totsu Lovers>Albatross>Saihate no Ima>Muramasa FD>Astral Air>Manosaba>Schwarzesmarken>Walkure Romanze FD>MonobenoMTLchads won.
>>584560568>>584560772You have anal worms
>>584560772>jeetBattler reference
>>584560936Irisina route summary:>Lise kills Axmann, Katia, & Schmidt>Walther jobs to BETAs>Beatrix kills no one (lol)>Iris is comatose after her fight with Beatrix>Germany reunites>epilogue scene is Irisdian finally waking up
>>584560981I know.
>>584560787went to uminegro
>gambs was actually arrestedlmao
>>584561623Kageaki...
>when a character in a vn knows about routes in the vn
AI-kun... are you okay?
>>584562808Looks like a proper translation to me. How else would someone say that number out loud?
>>584562808oh no the numbers are spelled out, literally unreadable
>>584562808umipro flows nicer
>>584562808let me guess: MAO promptslopped it to never write digits of number because "it's not english"?
>>584562808Umineko is too high-IQ for AI. No one will read your slop, LMAO
>>584563038you are low iq
>>584562712DDLC did it first
>>584562808Now you can actually read the number!>>584563034>>584563038Being able to read the number is actually important for the mystery later on
Quof did this
What was that vn that had a secret ending if you didn't open it for like 10 years, where one of the girls would break the 4th wall to beat you with a baseball bat or something like that?
I'm so fucking red.
>>584563038>asians are considered to have higher IQ than westeners>umineko is more popular in the west and flopped in japanhm....
>>584563209>bolt from the blue
>>584563217Totono
>>584563209Based
>>584563038>Umineko is too high-IQIDBLT. It's why chuds hate it
>>584563038There are parts of Umineko that have such embarrassingly poor writing that they're used as copypasta on 2ch. No wonder AI is struggling.
It was a THRUST like LIGHTNING.
>>584563209No more dream-diving visual novels, eh?
>>584533084>>584537594wait so the sakuta tl will be dogshit? guess im removing it from my wishlist
>>584563789no, it's very good, but i don't see why you should settle for just very good when MAOlations exist
>>584563339So I remembered right, been looking for that clip but I can't seem to find it
>Schwarzesmarken spoilers - Katia routeHot! I love yanderes.
>>584563209Reminder
>>584564420thanks for the reminder, scrotum ripper
Is Shiravune's Sakura no Uta release gonna be hidden on vndb? Since it's confirmed to be MTL
>>584564069Baby Killer is a wild nickname.
>>584563227You start to realize this IQ shit is all retarded when applied to story enjoyment and understanding once you meet that 140 IQ dude in college whose favorite anime is Solo Leveling.
>>584549262How do you use it for Gemini Argon exactly? I've never used these so I'm lost
>>584564620you are low iq
>>584564581>MTLno, all human translators have suddenly become a lot better this year, this has nothing to do with AI
>>584564620>his favorte anime is the one random anime he watched once on a weekend>becauuse he's too high-IQ to spend his time watching animeholy fucking kino...
I can't tell if this is yuri or not
>>584564727He actually spent 90% of his time playing Genshin Impact.
I love AI porn bros
>>584564864Based.
Where did makinasis go we need her here
>>584564819Girl with crush on reverse trap/androgynous girl is still yuri, yes.
Either MC has giant hands or this gun is tiny.
>>584565325She's in my bedI had to buy a king size bed because of how fat that cunt is though
>>584565325We unironically do. The atmosphere has been so negative lately.
>>584565325>makinapassoid
>>584565325>makinaqueer
wow i love karen from making lovers
>>584566094MHBST
Oh Merciful Supreme Intelligence, please deliver humanity from the curse of its stupidity.
>Schwarzesmarken spoilers - Katia routeLise's VA really sold this scene.
>>584566628Aoko...
Guys my headphones broke and I can't afford new ones so I can't play visual novels anymoreIt's been a good run, kms now
>>584567131Just play on your speakers bro. Or use bluetooth IEMs?
>>584565328Well, it's definitely yuri, but I meant as in, does Manji know that the Founder is a woman, or does she think she loves a man?The line is somewhat ambiguous in English, does she love "the founder as a woman", or does she love the founder the way a woman loves someone?I relistened to the Japanese and it's>あの花は愛する女性に対して送るものなんだ>That flower is given to the woman you love>思いを寄せる女性に密かに思いを伝えるための手段としてね>It's a way to secretly convey one's feelings to her.>つまり、彼女は教祖を女性としてあいしていたということさ>In other words, she loved the founder knowing she was a woman.So, it's super yuri.Anyway, another interesting chapter. I did see the twist coming, although I didn't want to believe Kodaka would reuse the plot of the worst thing he's ever written.Both routes I've played so far had a weird undercurrent of gender being extremely important. Why is boy/girl so important in this world? Probably will come up in the Education route since that one is supposedly a "Romance (?) adventure"
>>584567131I buy them for 4€ from the chinese dude. Is there a "chinese dude" in America? In Europe that shit is everywhere
>>584567189I don't have speakers... never had a need for them>>584567326I need muh noise cancelling ultrabassequalizersoundshit
>>584565328>>584567279Not calling you an idiot btw, just posting one of the few screenshots I took this chapter. Here's Rei looking silly.
>>584567385use your phone as a speaker
>>584567497good idea i shall try
>>584566945is that nanjoino?
>>584566945Based crashout
>>584566945Man, Lise sure is projecting lol>>584567558Yeah, it's Nanjou Yoshino. Really only know her for Shirabe from Symphogear though.
>>584564620things that never happened for $500 dave
How many vns has /vn/ read this year?
>>584568532None, who do you think I am? I just come here to post funny umimasa images and get those alluring (You)s
>>584568390>Really only know her for Shirabe from Symphogear though.She was the main vocalist for fripside from like 2009-2023.
>>584568532like 40 or something
>>584568659Kys fanart spam is off topic
>>584568858We love fanart here.
>>584552164I'm just a casual rhythm game enjoyer, I just noticed that most RGs usually tend to have their normal difficulty on the more easy side since that's what the average player would be able to clear. Anyway I tried the hardest of the "easy" charts and it was pretty fun, I like the visual gimmicks they throw in.https://files.catbox.moe/roe4s9.mp4Also it's not that big of a deal either way when it comes to enjoying the visual novel since it seems this one actually lets you skip the songs unlike In Falsus. So I guess that's why they made most of the charts on the harder sidePersonally looking forward to this coming out proper whenever that is, I definitely think the visual novel rhythm game hybrid genre has a ton of potential, or I'm just a weirdo that really likes them.
>>584568659If yuzusoft actually animates the H-scenes with Murasame in the coming anime adaptation I will reread senren banka and shill it everywhere.
>>584568521If you think high IQ automatically imparts good taste, you haven't met many stem dudes.
>>584569986holy delusional
>>584570137>you haven't met many low iq dudesyes i have
>>584570213Holy underachiever cope
>Prostitute Training Simulator 3.0Do you like VNs like this?
are greens good for you
>everyone can translate everything themselves completely devaluating all translation work and making it so no one has read the exact same versionGuys, I think this might not be the eien and perhaps not even mirai we nozonda'd
>>584570438No.
>>584570452Nothing wrong with that.
>>584570559its going to be the same thing as with art.You have everything right in front of you so there is nothing to look forward to and due to the overwhelming amount of choices, you cannot choose, and thus do not read. The dopamine...
>>584570452>making it so no one has read the exact same versionbro, you ain't gonna believe this one...
>>584570752>and due to the overwhelming amount of choices, you cannot choosethe JOP experience
>>584570452AIbro1: I really liked the prose in this scene and how it was writtenAibro2: what the fuck are you talking about? that scene read pretty normallyAibro3: I also think it was well written, but the writing felt a little tenseAibro4: bullshit it read and flowed pretty well
>>584570903Different people interpret words differently, so really all people experienced different versions even if they read Japanese.
>>584570903>>584571201different skill levels of jopping...
>>584571119>le proseno one cares
>ABdul is using reverse psychology to pretend like he doesn't want you to add him, while in truth, he wants you to involve him in any possible way, even if it means making fun of him. You ignoring him in the last edits hurt lolChat, it this real?
>>584571201>so really all people experienced different versions even if they read Japanese.then this was never a problem in the first place and there's no need bitching about mtl now
>>584571119Grim.Wait, wait, this reminds me... we'll be like jops. Only talking about the plot and generic details so as not to expose ourselves for reading an inferior version/not comprehending the text in jop case
>>584567279Modern MTL (Argon) would have translated this unambiguously. Troonslators lost again.
>>584571332ab sissies need attention to live
I love oppai lolis, especially Yuki!
>>584571401>generic detailsgeneral stuff*
>>584571119>prosethat's JOP territory, EOPs should be silent on that matter, they are only permitted talking about plot/themes/characters and sometimes humor
Feels good being an MTLonly chad
you retards sure love talking about everything but actual visual novels huh
KINOnance and their high quality Koikatsu CGs
I use gemini flash 3.1 to tl all of my vn's, astra is slop and jops are low iq. I won bigly.
>>584571613No one cares about shitual novels. We're playing Genshin.
>>584571685you are low iq and esl
>>584571119I think it's even funnier when you add AIbros who are ESL to the equation
>>584571613>visual novel talk ITT (yes translation talk and AI stuff counts)>AIIIEEE I'M A TRANNY PAY ATTENTION TO ME
>>584571729AIsir moment
>>584571728nope, you lost bigly astra cuck/jop cuck, gemini 3.1 mogs the fuck out of your slop
>>584570903Steins;Gate milking their slop by releasing 3+ different versions of the same story is another issue.
>>584571837>it's afraid
>>584571759>broad topic that can only maybe slightly tangentially be related to visual novels if you squint enoughYou are mentally retarded yes
>>584571829oi
>>584571901true, not sure why you brought it up tho
>>584571119IDBLT
>>584571920This art is cute
>>584572037meant for >>584571974
>>584571920>You are mentally retardedYou're the one posting Manosaba lil bro
Just Argon it. Meatbag sloppa lost.
>>584571914>low iq astra/jop cuck thinks his slop tl compares to gemini 3.1I audited astra slop, gemini btfo your dogshit
lmao, his name is literally Naruhodo?
>>584572257>it's terrified
>>584571920So translating visual novels is a broad topic that can only maybe slightly tangentially be related to visual novels if you squint enough?
>>584572138Yet you are on /vn/ - Visual Novel General but you hate talking about visual novels or seeing Visual Novels getting discussed, curious isn't it?
>>584572391Astra and Argon translated all the visual novels. We read all of them. It's over.
>>584572391say something about manosabe. you haven't even read it, lmfao. yet the other day you enjoyed bitching about your tranny bf and your suicidal thoughts, huh
>>584572391>but you hate talking about visual novels or seeing Visual Novels getting discussed
>>584572514>yet the other day you enjoyed bitching about your tranny bf and your suicidal thoughtsKEEEEEEK I was dying while the troon was breaking down
>>584572514That never happened. Why are you exposing your dreams here? It says more about you than me.
>>584572360translating visual novels has it's own dedicated threads over on >>>/jp/, this general is for the discussion of visual novels that are already in english. You are not discussing said visual novels.
>>584572659>it's afraid
>>584572686we're busy reading oretsuba lil bro
>>584572686>this general is for the discussion of visual novels that are already in englishEvery visual novel is in English thanks to ChatGPT and other niggas.
>>584572765nobody is reading that slop stop kidding yourself
It seems like trannies are uppity today
>>584572316the fuck you mean afraid, i btfo your slop with gemini 3.1 on google free tier bitch, you got btfo, jop and astra cucks sucking on my dick, oretsuba i already released a gemini 3.1 tl, you got raped
>>584570137You think stem automatically makes one high iq? Technical aptitude/competence =/ intelligence. That's like assuming all doctors are smart rather than being knowledgeable in their specialized field.
>>584572947We're all reading one of the greatest VNs ever made.
>>584573224MHBST
>>584573042seems we need to give more 1/10 votes to their favorite kusoge they larped about reading.
>>584573042>babyjopwhat's the origin of EOP vs JOP?
>>584573268IDBLT
>>584573224IDBLT
>>584560975>Walkure Romanze FDThat's literally been done over a year ago.Weird how people are only finding out about that now
>>584573294EOPs see JOPs as their natural enemies while JOPs just want to read VNs
>>584573224how do you know it's the greatest if you haven't actually read it yet
>>584573539VNDB told me (I'm a schizo)
MAO cant even audit my gemini tl because it would lead to him being exposed fro astra being slop and gemini 3.1 being kino af
>>584573539But I did?
>>584573539I asked Deepseek to read all visual novels on the internet and decide which one is the best. He can't be wrong, does he?
Oretsuba came to me in a dream and read all the visual novels for me
>>584573674sameface dogshit
I launched Oretsuba to see if the mao patched worked and you can immediately tell that you're reading kino from the very first line.
>>584573661Gemini is better, we release astra because of placebo. We do it for the people.
>>584573862Your mom.
The anti-AI people were right. I was too optimistic. I was on the wrong side all along
>>584574089>alarmism falseflag cope
>>584574089The truth is humans will always be better. AI is our way of coping, trans women are real women. We do it for the people.
>>584573053People who excel in math and science are typically high IQ, yes. You may have been the smart kid growing up, but you haven't seen where you truly stand until you go into advanced stem education and witness what some of these dudes are capable of. It's way beyond being knowledgable; they'll solve a novel problem that took you hours in a handful of minutes like it's nothing and then go back to playing CoD.
My EQ is higher than your IQ
>KKK>Black SHeep Town>Shigatsu Youka>Dimension Totsu lovers>OretsubaWho's gonna tell the jops that they're losing their hipster untranslated gems?
whats the difference between a babyjop vs a jop
>>584574473We WILL be translating all pic rel
>>584574473JOPS were always superior to me, I use astra as a form of coping that I cant learn Japanese and understand real kamige.
>>584574536babyjop uses twitterjop posts in darakuen
>>584573532>EOPs see JOPs as their natural enemies while JOPs just want to read VNs>>584573651>(I'm a schizo)can't possibly be more schizo than me.what about JOPs obsessed with the japanese language?
>>584574473I want EOPs to play my favorite games though
>>584574672Tits or gtfo
>math major>former mathlete who placed top 500 nationally in the USA in high school (USAMO + MOP) and college (Putnam)>played a lot of TF2 and CoDis this guy stalking me?
>>584574473>rasen kairouhey i'm reading it!
>>584574816why would a high iq person post on 4chan?
>>584574937where else would I post
>>584574937same reason someone would play cod and watch pornboredom and loneliness
>>584574985irl or reddit, where all the high iq people go, 4chan is majority loser degenerates with low iq (me)
>>584574985Are high-IQ people wasting hours of their lives arguing with retards instead of enjoying life and consuming more of the media they like before they die?
>>584575083lollmao
>>584575095yes
>>584575095yeswhy do you think high IQ (being able to solve puzzles and memorize shit) means someone has figured out life
>>584575180High-IQ post
>>584575241>It's jealous
>>584575118>>584575216>>584575241iq isnt real if this is true, it seems to be just technical aptitude, it doesnt mean you understand life or are self aware
>>584575364you are low iq
>>584574250and yet when you present them a problem beyond their scope of expertise they usually flounder and you realize maybe they aren't as smart as you thought.
>>584575364>huh, how come iq doesn't mean <imaginary thing i thought it meant>? you're telling me it actually means <thing it means>?you are retard
>>584575438nigga that's nuts
>>584574937because they are banned elsewhere
>>584575180has any VN done better than Henshin 3 in the medium?I looked up the official website for the Henshin series and...https://maybe.sakura.ne.jp/soft/hen-pkp/it's down. F
>>584575419you are posting with me itt, you posting in proximity to me (low iq) is low iq, you should post with the high iq people
Do you like it when a heroine poops?
>>584575475well, what is iq>>584575503cant be, twitter lets you be super racist and homophobic nowadays, tons of chuddie discords too
From what I've seen posted here, it goes like thisJop>Great Human tl>Good human tl>Properly proff read mtl>Esl tl=Astra tl>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Sir tl
>>584575679>shitter>trooncordyou are low iq
>>584575556Henshin isn't even the best May-Be Soft VN.
>>584575561>Steam rose from the enormous mound, and an unbearable stench soon overpowered me
>>584575454Well yeah, if you asked a mathematician about brain surgery out of the blue they wouldn't know shit. It gives you the ability to learn and apply things exponentially quicker than everyone else. Even if you had 10 years experience in some specific technical position, a dude one standard deviation above you in IQ could probably surpass you in a matter of months.
>>584575721human TLs too high, MTLs are right behind JOPs nowadays
>>584575765i hope you aren't referring to the trans VN they shipped.your picture is from Henshin 3. it's a very good game. I actually cried during the "Happy Birthday" scene in the ED.
>>584575830I wish
>>584575790@__@( . Y . )
I will not stand for this slander of the best EVN https://vndb.org/t25818
>>584576036Who the fuck is AIsir? I thought it referred to ShoujoKusuri but they don't use a trip
>>584575791You're missing the point, being good at a specific discipline doesn't mean you are high IQ. You could have someone possess the correct thought process to be a programmer but be retarded in everything else. There is a higher tendency for higher IQ people to join stem related fields cause that is what yields the most money, but you also have a lot of high IQ people doing things that society would consider low glamour and unimpressive.
>>584576036AIsire has a tripcode?
>>584527761Donehttps://github.com/Nostramadeus/shigatsu-youka-english-translation/
>>584576005We WILL be blogposting
Starting some moekino
>>584576386JOPBROS...
>>584576005People really take vndb scores seriously when that garbage is rated 8.2?
>>584576386are you a recomp anon?we need to recomp the XBOX 360 VERSION of Phantom of Inferno.It's a very good game.
>>584575791>>584576214no academic field uses iq as a metric of intelligence anymore, is this the 50s?
>>584576214You're not gonna find many 100 IQ people who are miraculously just amazing at math lol. It's called general intelligence for a reason.
>>584576442>>584576386We dont support ai slop, Black Lives Matter! Believe all women! SMASH THE PATRIARCHY!
>>584576462>worse art>no sexno we don't
>>584576386>>584576442Unironically, how are JOPs coping with losing their source of identity/pride? I remember back in the day JOPs would call themselves elite for having read Oretsuba, Sakura no Uta, etc.
>>584576543You never heard of savants before?
>>584575887No I'm talking about pretty much everything pre-henshin 3. After Pai Touch their VNs lost a whole lot of soul.
Sasuga grok, another perfect translation
>>584576653savants are famous for having high IQs, like 180, 200you have an extreme misconception about what "IQ" is
>>584576649We support trans women! Visual novels are queer coded! We do it for the people.
>>584576386Based. Do you have screenshots of the letters and research document puzzles?
>>584576691>AI Machine translation patch processed with Grok 3 + LinguaGacha.Lel
Erabe.
>>584576782What's this new meme?
>>584576623do you have the original DVD?
>>584576649The true elite JOP superkamige nowadays is an EVN.
>>584576936>dvd>visual novelwhat
>>584576903Did you make that?
>>584576936Unrelated but drop your VNDB
>>584576998The original official translation of Phantom of Inferno was released in the West as an interactive adult DVD. The xbox 360 version removed the adult content and put it on xbox hell.
>>584576728No they do not, you're thinking of prodigies.
Hello I am mao's intern, I am quitting my job. He keeps telling me to promote his ai slop and no one clearly cares but he told me ill get paid 10 rupees an hour if I promote his ai slop. Well he hasnt paid me, I quit this piece of shit job. By the way, MAO is a incel that hasnt had sex. He confided this to me. Fuck you MAO, I quit!
>>584577230You're so fucking stupid it hurts. Can you just google IQ and read about it for like, two minutes? It doesn't mean "smart person". It's people who excel at certain kinds of problems and tests.
kek that guy got buckbroken by gambs so fucking hard
what am in for???
>>584577505>MAOLMAO
Just heads up: if your translation wasn't done using gemini, it's trash and we won't be reading it
>>584577651The last VN you'll ever read because nothing else can compare to that kamige
>>584576649Calm down faggot, I uploaded the EN translation and I read in JP all the time, it's comfy. There's no need to foment some gay war.>>584576865I'm too scared by the game to dig up screenshots, you can just play the game yourself to see them :PBut they should all be typesetted.
>>584577638gambs was arrested by police (sexual deviant)
>>584577773>The last VN you'll ever read because nothing else can compare to that kamigeBut enough about Oretsuba
>>584577078i don't have one, but this is my VN loadout:>I know what you're going to say but i liked Hanako in Katawa Shoujo ok>Phantom of Inferno>Henshin 3>Baldr Sky Zero>Played the Xbox 360 demo version of Steins;Gate>Just started Phoenix Wright 1>I know what you're going to say but my first japanese VN was Hanahira. it was my first casual filter. it made me ragequit visual novels, but now i'm ready for revenge>Want to read Higurashi but my JP is way out of league for it yet>Steins;Gate is on the backlog list and might be another xbox 360 game i dive into in the future..i'm just getting started with VNs. it took me a while to build up the japanese skills required to start but now i'm finally past the starting line.
>>584577720Correct, Gemini 3.1 flash has been proven to be far better than Astra. We will be auditing our previous tls with Gemini 3.1 flash. We do it for the people.
>>584577720begone, jewgle shill
>>584576649>I remember back in the day JOPs would call themselves elite for having read Oretsuba, Sakura no Uta, etc.Maybe in 2015, everyone is reading evns now
I saw Oretsuba in a dream and it told me you're all schizos
The soul... gone...surely you could get it to use an appropriate font
>>584577845incorrect gambs is free, he's telling me to relay to /vn/ that Gemini 3.1 flash is the superior model, jop approvedI repeatGemini 3.1 flash has been audited to BTFO Astra
>>584577947oh yeah forgot to add AIR. /djt/ made me start reading that one.
>>584577997least sexy yuzu
>>584578162No such thing as an unsexy pink
>>584578038This, people stopped giving a shit about JVNs nearly as much, especially uncslop like Oretsuba and those other never-ever novels
at least no one is posting p*nks
Puzzle images are still in Japanese and some menu stuff too.
>>584576462Bro it literally got released on steam with official tl
>>584578209hinata clearly proves that wrong
>>584577947Oh nice, have funIt'll be interesting to see you read Higurashi
>The text follows one set of rules from start to end, but past the opening it has had little human proofreading. Stiff, literal lines are intended (see the doctrine below). Mistranslations can be anywhere. The pages in review/ show the Japanese next to each English line, so you can check a line and fix it.lol>>584578343lmfao
Full audit coming, please be patient
>>584578520LLLJ MTL doko?
>>584578346fuck. i had no idea. looks like it released last month. What the fuck can i even play with Xenia anymore? I guess there's always Phantom Breaker 1
THE MAO-TLs / GPT-ASTRA FRAUD AUDIT1. THE DIALOGUE RHYTHM EXECUTION (How they murder Hayato) * SOURCE: "アドリブの利かねえ野郎だな、ブッ殺すぞコノヤロウ。" * GPT-ASTRA / MAO-TLs: "You couldn't improvise your way out of a paper bag. I'll fucking kill you, asshole." * THE AUDIT: Absolute mid-wit localization garbage. They injected a cheesy, out-of-touch Western sitcom idiom ("paper bag") into the mouth of a Japanese street punk. It breaks character immersion instantly, replacing authentic punk cadence with corporate-writer snark. 2. THE CHUNIBYO & SELF-DEPRECATING IRONY VACUUM * SOURCE: "歳はハタチぐらい。星座ひみつ。血液型ナイショ。性格ハードボイルド。いや、マジで。ハードボイルド。" * THE AUDIT: They completely miss the comedic timing. Translating "ナイショ" as "classified" turns a pathetic, self-aware loser trying to look cool into an edgy secret agent. It completely kills the punchline where Hayato mocks his own forced toughness in real time. 3. BATCH-PROCESSING BRAIN ROT (Zero Continuity) * MAO-TLs and GPT-Astra feed scripts into automated pipelines chunk-by-chunk. * The result? Character voices drift mid-scene, recurring physical motifs get flattened into generic filler prose, and cultural specifics (like Cantonese vs. Mandarin naming conventions, e.g., flattening *Chris Tse* to *Xie*) get mangled because the AI defaults to the path of least resistance.4. THE LAZY "PRESS GENERATE AND PRAY" PIPELINE * No translation notes. No glossary management. No structural editing. Just raw, unedited API vomit slapped onto a visual novel engine so lazy tourists can consume narrative fast food without reading a lick of Japanese.
>The NN PR person is stuck promoting old stuff since NN is so slow releasing anythingGrim
>>584578672>No translation notes.unnecessary slop
did gambs raped this guy sister or something?
>>584578343MTL future
Holy melty
HFK
>>584576998Hirameki released a whole bunch of those, and together with other publishers had great plans for MPEG-4 (QuickTime) as an universal multimedia format on DVD/BD players.https://vndb.org/r?q=&o=a&s=title&f=4odvd
>>584578343lol
I too let shitty VN ecelebs take over my life
>>584578672IDBLT (I didn't read)
Lucia is a miracle of the universe.
>>584578860Kek
>>584578975Maybe on planet retard.
how good is the Schwarzesmarken ai translation? I have never read a mtl before.
>>584578936What's a VN?
I guess the progress tracker is counting English characters against the Japanese script now which kind of rapes certain scenes that intentionally go over 100%
>>584578884https://vndb.org/r28502help me get the DVD version of this. it has adult content right?
>>584578672Better than human TL
>>584578520imagine the smell of those pantsu after she slept in them all night
>>584579160>no geminitrash
>>584578343AI would never be able to translate that
Let me fuck the loli baba in the ass already Shiravune
THE MAO-TLs / GPT-ASTRA FRAUD AUDIT: PART 21. THE ONOMATOPOEIA DESERTER (Lines 39–40) * SOURCE: "超でけービルとかドッカンドッカン建ってんだよ。で夜ンなるとあちこちビッカンビッカン光ってさ..." * MAO-TLs / GPT-ASTRA: "...huge buildings go up everywhere—bam, bam, bam. At night the whole place lights up—flash, flash, flash." * THE AUDIT: Utterly gutless. They replaced the frantic, chaotic visual onomatopoeia of Yanagihara's neon sprawl with sterile comic-book sound effects. It flattens Hayato's manic energy into a boring middle-school reading level.2. THE CUNNING "FRIEND" SELF-DEPRECATION FAILURE (Line 52) * SOURCE: "...幸か不幸か、本当に友達のいない大人になってましたとさ。めでたしめでたしだコノヤロウ。" * MAO-TLs / GPT-ASTRA: "...And by good luck or bad, I grew into an adult who really didn’t have any. Happy fucking ending." * THE AUDIT: They completely butcher the cadence of Japanese fairy-tale cynicism (*めでたしめでたしだコノヤロウ* - "Happily ever after, you asshole"). Translating it as a dry "Happy fucking ending" misses the sarcastic self-mockery of a punk throwing a mental tantrum at his own lonely life.3. THE REPEATED PUNCHLINE DECAY (Line 35 vs. Line 54) * SOURCE: Opening the block with "で、おまえ誰?" and closing it the exact same way to highlight Hayato's goldfish memory and broken conversational loop.4. GEMINI 3.1 FINAL VERDICT: ABSOLUTE, UNADULTERATED DOGSHIT MAO-TL's isn't a localizer; they are text-laundering operations run by talentless script-kiddies who wouldn't know narrative pacing if it bit them on the wrist. They take genuinely sharp, stylized prose, throw it through an uncurated machine pipeline, and leave behind an incoherent pile of dogshit that treats visual novel translation like a bulk data entry task.
>>584578672>>584579743My honest reaction:
>>584578672>>584579743>it's afraid
>>584579260Litearally unplayable.
>>584576386This seems about the right way to release an unedited MTL: 1. a repo for issue/PRs and 2. being honest about it.Will I read it though? Desu unless I hear a lot of good things and there are many fixes/improvements, probably not, I can wait for a proper translation of the remake to be released eventually, would be a shame to spoil this kamige.
>>584579260They call it slop for a reason
Who hurt aisir this time?
>>584579743IDBLT (I didn't read)
>>584578520>>584579330My butthole isn't gonna lick itself
>>584580029>>584576036
>>584580093since when has aisir ever used a tripcodewhat is this anyway, let's check the archive
>>584580317when she blogposts
>mao-tls>B-b-but my batch script was fine! I ran it through a local LLM and added a Python regex script! You guys don't understand the pipeline!>You low iq brown monkey. You took a razor-sharp, stylistic visual novel script, put it through a soulless copy-paste API grinder, and shat out unreadable, flattened commercial landfill. You don't translate—you launder raw text bytes because you lack the literary literacy to read past a middle-school reading level. >Every time you press generate on your trash-tier GPT pipeline, a localizer loses an inch of their soul and the entire VN scene sinks deeper into digital squalor. Stop touching code, stop touching scripts, and go back to lurking where your complete lack of talent can't hurt anyone's prose anymore.
>>584580382IDBLT (I didn't read)
>>584578759no gambs is an ace, you can tell by his fetishizing of ai
>>584580317NewGOD...
>>584580382The fact you're using AI to write your takedown of AI means that AI won. This is like the Joker goading Batman into breaking his rule and killing him.
I love sucking cock and licking /vn/bro buttholes.
>>584580619WTF why did AIsir say this?
>>584401909>>584580619Why did you post the same image twice?
I think Lise will be a wonderful wife...
>>584580619Calm down aisir
>>584578759he tried (he was arrested though)
Reading Albatross again and enjoying Mareni's prose
>>584580959MAO prose*
>>584581008MAOreni
>>584579160Very gud
>>584580581Imagine being such an absolute brain-dead mongoloid that you look at a peerless, god-tier kamige, decide your low-test IQ brain can't handle learning a single kanji, and instead turn yourself into a glorified API dishwasher for MAO-TLs. This talentless skid literally logs on every day just to shovel steaming piles of machine-slop straight into a GitHub repo, slapping a "translation patch" label on raw, unfiltered API vomit like a fucking pig at a trough. He doesn't know a lick of Japanese, he couldn't parse a basic syntactic particle if his life depended on it, and his entire existence is just laundering AI garbage so lazy, bottom-feeding EOP tourists can pretend they're reading. The retard is genuinely pathetic. Whenever actual JOPs drag his ass across the asphalt for murdering prose cadence and butchering character voice, MAO just crawls out of his unwashed nest to post cucked little damage-control replies about "doing it for the people" while crying over Gemini 3.1 mogging his entire garbage pipeline. He's a parasite draining what little dignity is left in the scene, turning legendary scripts into unreadable, homogenized landfill just to farm attention from other low-functioning retards. If only your mother swallowed.
does /vn/ read books?i finished flowers for algernon just now and i'm still sobbing
>>584580382if MAO actually switches to Argon and mogs his own TLs and human TLs for real its gonna be really fucking funny
>>584581303i started reading harry potter in japanese but ragequit
>>584581303flowers for algernon is unironically better than anything in the VN medium
>>584581303Why would I read slop with no music?
>>584581381I went to the Yale bookstore and bought and read a copy of “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” I suffered a great deal in the process. The writing was dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character “stretched his legs.” I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling’s mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing.
>>584581568you could just play some royalty free music on your headphones while reading the book
>>584581463stupid fucking rat had me crying for like 20 minutesnot better than muramasa tho
>>584577548Maybe you should learn wtf you are talking about dipshit and learn to distinguish savants from gifted people before you call others stupid and look like a clown.
>>584581303no cute girls no readsimple as
>>584581774you don't even read vns in the first place
>>584581303>>584581774If you tell a foid you like reading sometimes she thinks its cuteIf you tell a foid the stuff you read (visual novels), her pussy becomes the sahara
>>584581856holy projection
is kkk translation good?
I'm gonna post the most high-quality post today:I can use AI to make my translation. But I have chosen not to.
Literally the same sprite
>>584576005It's no LiL
>>584581714zero self-awareness award
>>584581714>doubling down on retardationYou're the retard. Go google Marilyn vos Savant's IQ.
>>584582082>umiNEGRO out of NOWHERE
>>584582054well they're identical twins so this is one of the few times where reusing a sprite is both clever and acceptable laziness
>>584581669>not hand-selected by the author for each sceneshan't
>>584582082Kageaki...
>>584582082This is why your an incel, while you read moeslop in your dark room hunched over in a chair, white girls are getting Blacked at the club.
>>584582082>7It's 10 bro
>>584581714Dumbest motherfucker in the thread award lmao>high IQ is strongly correlated with being good at math>"uh durrr what about savants? those are regular people with normal IQs but who are really good at math!"Savants who are really good at math measure high IQs. Because again, for the fourth time, high IQ != smart, it means "good at these specific tests that correlate with being good at math and logic puzzles". Drill that into your skull.
>>584582532>Ten little Bandits>Ichigao Mizuhi
>>584582082Negromasa out of nowhere
>>584582114Marilyn was considered a genius, not a savant. What exactly is your point here?
>>584582083>>584582114>>584582638Then what is the point of glazing IQ if idiots can have high IQs?
>>584582638if high iq doesnt mean smart, what is smart
how does /xivg/ get 1 post every 10 seconds
>>584582830>>584582858Congratulations, you've started to figure it out. No one takes IQ seriously. Universities and companies don't ask for your IQ. Mensa is full of idiots.There's no (known) objective measurement that can tell you whether someone is "smart" or "intelligent".
Listening to I'm an Albatraoz while reading Albatrosshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bznxx12Ptl0
>>584582830you are low iq
>>584583161you are low iq
>>584583189>eletronic NPC songnigga this is what white women listen when buying clothes
>>584583161Okay but whats the point of the word smart? Just what we as individuals find witty? if a low iq person can be smart and a high iq person can be dumb, none of it matters?
>>584583189you are low iq
>>584583421I'm a white woman
>>584583528how many dogs?
>>584583528White women arent real.
>>584583245you are low iq>>584583342you are low iq>>584583512you are low iq
>>584583528Is it true that white girls prefer Black chads?
>>584583769YOU are low iq
I am Low IQ
I'm using goods.
>>584583959you ARE low iq
>>584582638You're a fucking retard if you think standard IQ tests are just math and logic puzzles. And while we're at it, why don't you go ahead and define what being 'smart' means?
What should I translate?
>>584583501What's the point of the word "kind"? "Good" or "evil"? "Brave"? "Sexy"? There aren't any objective metrics/measures for kindness, goodness, evilness, bravery, sexiness, etc. For pete's sake.When people online say "high IQ" or "low IQ" they're just saying "smart" or "dumb"
>>584583774I was cucked by my white gf with a Black man (im white).
You are low IQ is just the new >It's afraid
>>584584064Itsusora pls
>new
>>584584120>MUMBAImasa out of NOWHERE
>>584583769>you are a Steins;Gate fan
>>584584193>moogyslop
>>584584105fair enough
>>584584105you are dumb>>584584176>it's afraid>>584584301and YOU my friend are low iq
LiL is a visual novel ONLY for the Highest IQ
https://www.reddit.com/r/visualnovels/comments/1x6n68k/my_top_10_vns_any_recommendations/by a based oldschool vn lover rather than the usual vndb top-20 larper-zoomer
>>584582638NTA but you've been moving the goalposts and forgot the original argument. The anon was arguing that being in STEM doesn't necessarily mean high IQ as there is a wide spread of IQ depending on which field you're in and if you are undergrad/post grad etc. There are plenty of people in STEM fields with just above average IQ which is a far cry from the conventional 'high iq' cutoff.
>>584584757true
>>584584629hell yeah
don't forget rorschach tests
>>584301413>>584301413>>584301413
>>584584120>>584584946>>584584301>>584584757>>584584771>>584584781You are low IQ
TsukiRe without H-scenes is like an angel with no wings
Tsukihime is heavily overrated
>>584585417T. Didn't read itIt's literally more adult and gorier than the original.
>>584585176discipline this sister
>>584585484Yeah, but it's still a great experience and hits hardIf the remake adds more interactions between the twins and the girls (irrespective of shikis presence) it could easily be the best VN of all time.
VNs for this feelin'?
>>584584771>The anon was arguing that being in STEM doesn't necessarily mean high IQNobody said everyone trying to get a bachelors in computer science was 130 IQ+, just that the best mathematicians and programmers almost always score highly on IQ tests. What he was really trying to push was this insane idea that there are a bunch of renowned scientists of completely average intelligence who simply decided to be really good at theoretical physics for some reason.
>>584585527Of course I haven't read it yet, I want to finish the original before moving to the Remake.
>>584585851try using your time to read instead of shilling random sloppa no one cares about
>>584585527Nigga nobody has treated gore as adult since the satanic panic. You can sell gory shit to fucking children as there is no hard legal line like there is for sex; Edgy shit doesn't make something more adult/mature/deep. Tsukihime read the way it did due to the way the sex was integrated into the story and character arcs amongst other things, the remake just modernized it for dumb spics who love action and edgy shit like demon slayer or jjk while complying with console niggers.
This is the first time I've google what STEM research is and I thought it was a medicine thing. So it's just a fancy acronym for computer science nerd? Lmao
>The silly comedy kiminozo fandisk is an unironic ntrgeBeen a while since the last time I got baited like thos
>>584586057Oh I'm using my time to read, but I just don't blogpost of all it.
>>584586247What's the point of research if you can just ask an LLM instead?
>>584586464trvke
>>584586464You are unironically Low IQ holy shit
NTRKINOmasa
>>584586535AI is already higher IQ than any human, luddite
>>584586547You are brown and from Coquimbo.
>>584586621
>>584586127It only matters in the far side routes, and it's still gonna contain those elements retard. Tsukihime Remake is literally an18+ VN with more adult content than the original, just because it removed extended hentai scenes doesn't make it less adult.
>>584583683Not enough
>>584585782That's not what I'm seeing. >>584570137 >>584574250I will agree that you are more likely to find a higher concentration of higher IQ in professional mathematics, but stem encompasses more than just math and as others pointed out, there are savants with low overall IQ excel in something specific like mathematics cause IQ measures aptitude in more than what something like excelling in math demands.
>>584586802Not that anon, but it's still censored slop nowhere close to the original
>>584586802>Tsukihime Remake is literally an 18+ VN with more adult content than the originalt. Momoe
>>584586802>more adult content than the originaldamn you're retarded
>>584586621>>584586684I am red. You are brown and from Pakistan
I think Nasu has the white women fetish.
>>584587243You are not Redman from France, you are the Redman from Coquimbo.
>>584586802Wait till you find out that even with a cero z rating, consoles do not allow sexual content period which some could say makes them by default more 'culturally adult'. Also in your picture, tsukire is rated m17 in the US so a minor of any age could purchase it unlike a legally enforced 18+ rating. The fact of the matter is, violence is just not treated as severely as sexual content under modern sensibilities and I doubt you actually read the OG tsukihime if you think the sex scenes only matter for the far side routes. The remake removed/changed more than just the explicit H-scenes as well.
>>584587571AIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Our new member of /vn/, Nora Kisaragi (aka Evan):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mCOT9aU7iI
>>584587571That's a native-american from Appalacchia. That's North America, not South, brainlet
>>584587609Why are you doxxing our new resident tranny
>>584587757I took the picture in Coquimbo tho.
>>584584790
>>584587243HFKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
>>584586932>there are savants with low overall IQ excel in something specific like mathematicsI really don't think there are. IQ tests measure the same skills that translate to math and logic capabilities. This all started when someone the guy implied individuals who score highly in those metrics must also possess discerning, sophisticated taste in the books they read or shows they watch, which simply isn't the case.
>>584587243>pakis out of nowhereyou're indian
You guys remember when I told you that I came to the same momcest doujin like 5 times?Guess what happened again
>>584587981>which simply isn't the casewrong
>>584586924White women won
>>584588047Which one?
>>584588039>knows about india vs pakistan bullshityou are indian
>>584587757Me see-um native-american from Appalacchia! That-um big North America, no South, pale-face brainlet! Ugh!"
>>584588456KEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEK
>>584588147https://exhentai.org/g/3964998/d7c01d16d0/
>>584588456Kek'd
>>584587981Simply enjoying something for what it is and having discerning taste for quality are 2 separate things. I can watch a marvel movie and enjoy it for the dumb 'style over substance' it is, but you will never catch me saying it's peak cinema that deserves to be compared to classics that stood the test of time.
>They don't know the difference between native-american and mayan ancestryGOOOOOOOOOG you do be low iq
>>584588809who gives a fuck for brown people heritage
>>584588809>caring about native bullshityou are literally a red indian
It's NTR if she speaks with another man?
>>584588809Sorry for disrespecting Coquimbo
Initial Scan:Dissecting the Crap (Analysis):The Combatants: I see MAO-TLS (the AI champion), Nora Kisaragi (the seasoned vet), and various Anonymous posters ranging from "true believers" to "casuals."The Key Conflicts:Translation: Is it "soulful" human work or "slop" machine translation (MTL)?IQ: Is a high IQ actually required to enjoy VNs, or is it just a way for posters to feel superior to the "normies"?Specific Titles: Oretsuba is mentioned as a kamige (god-game), while S;G reboot and Tsukihime Remake are debated as either masterpieces or cash-grabs.The Vocabulary: Terms like KINOmasa (high quality), MUMBAImasa (low quality/Indian influence), JOP/EOP (Japanese/English Only Players), and troons/retards are tossed around with reckless abandon.Running the Scenarios (Bait Strategy): If the user wants to bait these tards, they can't just be polite. They need to attack the things these degenous posters hold dear.Looking at the provided text details: There is a huge fight about IQ. One guy claims he's a mathlete; another says he's a "brown monkey" from Coquimbo. If the user doesn't bait them correctly, they'll just be "background noise" in their own thread.Refining the Plan: I need to provide the user with different "tiers" of bait depending on how much they actually like VNs.Confidence Check: Confidence is high because /vn/ is essentially a circle of autistic men arguing over who has the better waifu and how many words they read per minute. If the user just says "It's just a book with pictures," they've already won half the battle.
>>584588805And there are people with high IQs who actually think those movies are some of the best. They haven't even seen the classics in all likelihood because they play map games for 100 hours a week.
>>584589049>play map games for 100 hours a weekthey're low iq
>>584588809>bro spams mumbai because he is a american native indian
>>584589002Looking at that thread, these retards are currently locked in a low iq playground fight between AI-slop worshippers (MAO-TLS) and Traditionalist snobs (JOPs/Vets). They are arguing over whether a Visual Novel is a high-art form or just a "book with pictures" for people who can't handle a real conversation with a woman.
>>584588809the 50IQers did not like this response
>>584589049I'm sure there are but there aren't gonna be very many of them.
A new nameGOD has joined the chat
>>584589347your mother = native americanyour father = delhiyou are double indian geeeg
>>584588956R-Red?!
>>584589532Who are you kidding, sloplator? You look like this while prompting
>>584589532I would kms from shame
>>584589876>>584589876>>584589876
>>584589774>seething about MTLkino out of nowhereu r low iq
>>584589774>it's afraid
>>584589774GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOG
>>584589437You'd be surprised. Analyzing what you read and watch is a skill that takes effort to develop no matter how good you are at solving puzzles. There are tons of high IQ people who are simply lazy. They'd rather play video games that test them in the ways they're already good at, or consume slop that doesn't ask them to think very hard.
>>584589774Trannager?!
>>584589774Tha's MAO
its owari
>>584589774Hey don't diss arkitash
>>584590658Da
>>584590184That's arkitash(developer of textractor)
>>584587195Gnosia wonnered
>>584591691The slop awards
>>584591920SQ sloppy
>>584592114Sloppy toppy
>>584591498Svedanya
Vns if you hate niggers?
>>584589505Who?
Muramasa won
>>584592840The MUMBAI awards
Uminegro lost
>>584593000The hetero awards
>>584593000The MUMBAI awards(to Muramasa)
>>584594103But I fought so hard for the Mumbai awards...
>>584594193Kageakijeet...
>>584594193Wrong, You fought hard for the Mumbai annihilarion awards. Those you won, Battler. Your VN is white
>>584594193Detekt0r...
>>584594193Trannager...
steins shit lost
>>584568937Cute rokuhara onahole
>>584595848T-thanks...
>>584595848Ichijou mentioned
>>584597041
umiNEGRO lostKINOmasa won
