Random off-topic stuff

[Norbert]

Also, the music somewhat spoils the atmosphere: in a cold dungeon you hear your footsteps and gates and such, not music.

Interestingly, no music for most of the game also helps the Souls games. Someone here also comments on this: "One thing that lends to the dreamlike atmosphere of the game...lack of music. The somber feeling this game gives me would pretty much collapse if there was a pervasive score."

Similar statement from a reviewer about Tomb Raider 1:
"I actually feel playing Tomb Raider 1 with sound effects only might be one of the most immersive ways to experience the game."
From this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@JoshStrifePlays/videos

[Norbert]

[Norbert]

Twitter now requires users to sign in to view tweets.
(From what I'm reading it's because of scraper bots, it's supposed to be temporarily, and for a few days there used to be just limits for unregistered users not a full block.)

[atrueprincefanfrom18]

Crazy how good platforms like Twitter and Reddit change over a period of time

[David]

Imgur has changed their terms of service and will soon delete "old, unused, and inactive content that is not tied to a user account". Hopefully Imgur images embedded on this forum still get enough (user/bot) views to survive.

I just ran into a deleted Imgur image on the front page of a site: https://www.midomi.com/
Apparently their front page did not get enough views, and they didn't upload the image with an account either.

I also wonder why do they even host their button image (logo) on Imgur.
All other images are on their own domain.

[Norbert]

The Campea folks saw the first 30 minutes of Lightyear, and they like it very much, and lots of viewers were in tears, apparently. Given their excitement about it, I'm now slightly interested in seeing the film, where I wasn't at all after seeing the trailer a while back.

So... Campea has 'cancelled' his own show (and is going audio-only). I still watched his channel, but had started skipping a lot of content because of Rob (Robert Meyer Burnett) no longer being there.

The show returned after only a couple of days (if not less), and I see that even Rob has returned - one day a week, according to someone in the comments.

[Norbert]

[Norbert]

[Norbert]

Also, this other channel has several entertaining videos:
https://www.youtube.com/@TheElephantGra ... sic/videos

[Norbert]

It took me some hours to OCR and translate [...]

Probably AI could do this for you nowadays.

[David]

It took me some hours to OCR and translate [...]

Probably AI could do this for you nowadays.

Nowadays Google Translate can work from on images.

I tried that now with the Famitsu 154 article, but as you can see below, the result is a bit messed up.

There are some large gaps between the paragraphs, though I think that's just because the translation is shorter than the original?
Compared with the translation I posted earlier, nothing seems to be missing.

And it seems the furigana confused the code which puts the translated text back onto the image:
Some parts of the translation appear in smaller font between the lines, where the original text had the furigana.
Annoyingly, these can be so small that I can't even read them. Can you read what's written above "In addition"?

Sometimes those are not even in order. For example the first paragraph starts with "of Persia", and the "Prince" part is above "PC version" in tiny font.