March 2012
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February 2012
27 posts
The Marsh (Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, translated by... →
lalage:
A short story about a man who happens to find a painting of a marsh in an art gallery and is greatly moved by it despite having a professional art critic ridicule the artist, the painting and the narrator himself for declaring that he personally finds it ‘a masterpiece’.. Despite being an Akutagawa story and therefore full of a sense of hopeless, helpless doom, I found it strangely...
Why am I listening to random K-pop? I blame Kali. In other news I am engaging in a major translation project, which is going to take like months. Maybe I’m 6-7% through? I guess details on the fandom-related tumblr, to spare everyone.
“Make sure we’re winning” →
marco:
I hope Andy Rubin’s comments don’t reflect Google’s actual Android tablet strategy.
I think the success of the Nook Color and Kindle Fire does show one thing: people want a lower cost tablet. I personally didn’t find either appealing because of the screen size, but many are satisfied by these small tablets. I bought an Asus Transformer, and not an iPad because of cost.
However,...
Realistic Anatomies of Cartoon Characters |... →
ICS (Android 4.0)
Asus Transformer just updated to ICS, and I must say, it’s pretty impressive. Not only for the updated menus, but the home screen transitions from screen to screen have become much snappier. Before, there was a slight lag, which is now much reduced. (The screen also seems crisper, but I’m not sure if there has been a real change there; it also appears more responsive and better with...
Re: readability
Referencing this earlier post.
Various thoughts:
Although the complete quote defines readability partially as film-ability, don’t films have their own version of it? Call it “watchability.” There’s a lot of ambitious film-making which calls attention through itself; maybe call it an art-house feel. Not sure how this would affect transferrability between media. (In a way...
HAUTE POP: How Pinterest can attribute sources... →
minimoonstar:
hautepop:
About 99% of Pinterest items are in violation of its own terms of service, says Josh Davis on LLSocial.
Their TOS:
You acknowledge and agree that you are solely responsible for all Member Content that you make available through the Site, Application and Services. Accordingly, you represent…
Probably won’t use Pinterest until they fix this tbh (although they’re my...
“Readability” is freedom from the actual sensation... →
subdee:
Here’s the quoted article, behind a New Yorker paywall, if you are curious. I am linking mostly for that one line!
Currently I am translating (slowly) to try and patch a game. (Game shall remain nameless currently, while I try to sort out how public I want this project to be. It’s an otome game though, I can say that. I’m currently trying to find more people to help me as well).
Am sort of confused on how to handle the perennial issue of honorifics. It seems nowadays there are people offended if...
Tokyo's rabbit cafes hopping with customers | The... →
I’d go!
Why you shouldn’t make a game (or, why you should... →
On why, if all you can do is write, and all you have is a story/characters, you should make a visual novel and not a game.
Argh, why do I read SO SLOWLY in Japanese. :(
(I’m kind of convinced the speed at which you read a book does have an impact on your evaluation/experience of it, though I’m not sure how to analyze it)
Raph's Website » Narrative is not a game mechanic →
