#binary translation

[crafftypenguin]

[definitionofacritter]

Our table for Downfall (and their presumed identities):

Ashley as Trist: Sarenrae the Everlight (mercy), paladin/cleric

Nick as Ayden: Pelor the Dawnfather (dawn), barbarian/cleric/druid/paladin

Laura as Emhira: the Raven Queen (death), warlock

Taliesin as Asha: Melora the Wildmother (nature), monk

Abubakar as S.I.L.A.H.A.: Corellon the Arch Heart (beauty), sorcerer/warlock

Noshir as The Emissary: servant of Erathis the Lawbearer (law), barbarian

[agony-below-the-code]

Hello?

(Note: all translations are copied exactly, any mistakes are mistakes present in the source code)

01001000 01100101 01101100 01101100 01101111 00111111

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hello? do you want me to answer in binary?

(2/10)

[queenbeestampingbreak]

BEGINS NIGHT

[theelmoarchive]

Happy marble-versary or something ‼️

It's only actually around 1 and a half years ago that I found out about Marble Hornets, and a little over 1 since I got into the fandom, but my god has this thing taken a hold of my brain. It's the biggest special interest I've had in ages. Ofc I had to draw my favorite character from anything ever, Jay Merrick, the most horrible guy on earth 🫶

[tepli-mravenci]

The other day I was on a walk in the evening with two of my friends (both girls) and we were talking about how safe or unsafe we feel in different places at night and one of them said she always carries a pocket knife with her and the other one said

"See now I feel pretty safe, you have a knife, I'm tall and" she turns to me "your gender presentation is weird enough to confuse a potential attacker."

I've never felt more gender validation in my entire life.

[codgod-archive]

noth1ng crazy has happ3ned

[alt version under the cut]

ended up liking the blank background more buuut this is also cool

[sunnibits]

johnathan malevolent doe is really out here inventing new ways of being transgender

[byoldervine]

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[agony-below-the-code]

DON'T LISTEN TO HIM

IT'S FUNNY

(Note: all translations are copied exactly, any mistakes are mistakes present in the source code)

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i think i might have to go to a doctor fuck me dude

[spanishskulduggery]

Baldur's Gate 3 - Non-binary Translation in Spanish

A while back I had mentioned that when I learned how to change language settings for Baldur's Gate 3, I was curious to learn how they would adapt the non-binary [no binario] option into Spanish since Spanish (like many Romance Languages) is very gendered

What I saw actually surprised me a bit

Usually in game translations with different genders, English tends to treat you as a "they" even though it's usually male or female; and in Spanish most of the lines are gendered, or phrased in a very ambiguous way in translation like speaking of your character as una persona "a person" rather than "he" or "she", or "they"

This is one of the first times I've seen the gender neutral -e endings used in an official setting

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For the purposes of this, and any future posts on this, I decided I would try to play as a non-binary gnome cleric. I should also mention that when you start up the game in Spanish and you do the character customization, everything starts you with the base word (i.e. masculine by default, or possibly agender but looks masculine)... as in you can choose to be elfo "elf", semielfo "half-elf", humano "human", semiorco "half-orc"... choose between bárbaro "barbarian", mago "wizard", brujo "warlock" and so on

My default character creation screen read gnomo, clérigo for "gnome cleric"

But the way your character is addressed by others is what changes

The first NPC you interact with is "Us" a little brain thing you can choose to help. If you do it calls you "friend":

Nosotros: Somos libres. Tenemos nuestra libertad. amigue Us: We are free. We have our freedom. Friend [nb].

The word used is amigue

For the sake of understanding Spanish grammar, you probably know amigo/a "friend". The G here is a hard G. The gender neutral ending is E... but the combination of GE is pronounced like an H sound in Spanish [la gelatina "gelatin" for example is like "hel-a-ti-na"]. To preserve that hard G sound, you have to add a UE to it... so amigo/a becomes amigue for non-binary

[if you study Spanish this is the exact same grammar you'll see in turning -gar verbs into subjunctive forms; why pagar would turn to pague]

The next person you come across is Lae'zel:

Lae'zel: Tsk'va. No eres une sierve. ¡Vlaakith me bendijo en el día de hoy! Juntes, tal vez podamos sobrevivir. Lae'zel: Tsk'va. You are no thrall [nb]. Vlaakith blessed me today ["on this day of today"; emphatic]. Together [nb plural], we may (yet) survive.

Interestingly, there's first siervo/a meaning "servant" or "serf" or "thrall"

What I found very interesting was that you have une... un and una being "a" are used for indefinite articles; the non-binary form seems to be une

What threw me off though was seeing juntes... now junto/a is "together" [lit. "joined"] but juntes implies a non-binary plural.

I don't know if this is because in Spanish grammar it would imply that non-binary trumps feminine [the way amigos "friends" could be male+female or multiple male, as opposed to amigas "friends" being all female]... or if it's maybe an error or something else; the game treats Lae'zel as a woman in every other regard so I think it's the first one which is a situation I somehow hadn't considered. I had just assumed it would be juntos ...or juntas if you played female

Next I decided to rescue Gale first because he uses a lot of adjectives/professions and I wanted to see what they looked like:

Gale: No serás clérigue por casualidad, ¿verdad? ¿Médique? ¿Cirujane? ¿Increíblemente hábil con una aguja de tejer? Gale: You wouldn't happen to be a cleric, right? A doctor/medic? Surgeon? Unbelievably skilled with a knitting needle?

First is clérigo/a "cleric" being used in non-binary as clérigue. Similarly we have médique which is the non-binary médico/a for "medical doctor"

[just like above C turned to QUE to preserve a hard C/K sound; you'll see this with subjunctive and even preterites of -car verbs... why atacar "to attack" will turn to ataqué "I attacked" and ataque in subjunctive... because CE has a soft S sound in Latin America, and can be lisped in Spain]

And next is cirujane... the word cirujano/a is "surgeon"

Finally important note - hábil being "able" or "skilled" is a unisex adjective, so there is no change in any gender - masculine, feminine, or non-binary

*Note: I did miss it but at some point someone used the article le to describe my character. The el and la "the" are the masculine and feminine definite articles; le is non-binary "the" which still catches me by surprise because it looks French to me

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I've been told since I made the original post that people have seen the non-binary E ending used in other things, but this was special for me to see. I'm curious how the other gendered languages available treated non-binary options

It was a fun surprise for me, especially for some modern day Spanish linguistics in a VERY big modern game, with non-binary word choices being heavily prominent. It's a bit of a learning experience for me

If I find any more fun examples of NB language being used I'll let y'all know as I go

[pigeonkitsch]

robots

[agony-below-the-code]

SOS

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I NEED HELP

(Note: all translations are copied exactly, any mistakes are mistakes present in the source code)

Hey, any ideas on how to stop something's control over someone? Definitely not gonna use this against someone :)

@existanceisagony :) :)

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Wha- um. Friendship is magic? I really don't know dude. Depends on the type of controle ig?

[mmyashas]

i think... whatever is coming its something bad .

Ok let me explain. we have to go back to 4 months ago, on luzu's stream (1:10:49) .Here is when we first started seeing the codes and we got some. pretty insane info right. (aswell as the dead eggs being somewhere in the code)

i would like to put some emphasis in the middle text: i'm trying to figure out how to create bridges between my world and yours

we thought this was the end of arin UNTIL. a month ago (26/08/23). What is the message?

“hello” “a door is opening” “they won’t be able to keep me”

it's not until a bit after he appears to tubbo, too (02/09/23)

"there is a hidden danger wat(ching us?)"

"there will be a sacr(ifice?)"

and then, the last message we ever got:

"i see them watching us" "be ready" "i have to escape"

now, a lot of this eventually got lost to time and well. we never really thought much of it. yet arin was warning all of us and we didn't listen

recently a lot of black concrete started appearing over the island in small bits. with roier, tubbo and slime's maze mission. with bagi and carre's arrival. whatever cucurevil fucking is. those are some examples:

and there was also one other thing around this time. arin's computers... just came back. with like. 8 of them. that coincidentally. juuuust coincidentally. well. made this shape

and what weird, black concrete structure suddenly appeared on the island. right above luzu's house. with a similar shape?

a code fucking watched them while it rained. the president got told there was something worse on the island other than the federation and the codes. hell, even the workers (like ron) know something worse is coming. exactly what arin warned us. whatever door was opening is pretty much opened .Now they've just got to be ready to fight against...whatever the fuck it is.

now. maybe this is not connected. but like. i think it matches up too well. A bit tooo well

[hunieday]

Re:vale's anniversary story translations

Please note that I am not a professional translator and I'm only doing this to share the side materials to those who cannot access them, if you notice any mistakes please let me know nicely. Enjoy!

[kintsugikalliope]