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[rsayoub]

Lionbridge Language AI Unleashed: Transforming Localization with Vincent Henderson

In the latest episode of the Localization Fireside Chat, I had the privilege of speaking with Vincent Henderson, Vice President of Language AI Strategy at Lionbridge, one of the leading global companies in localization and AI-driven language solutions. Our conversation focused on how Lionbridge is leveraging AI to revolutionize localization processes, transforming efficiency, quality, and…

[variousqueerthings]

on the one hand, more due south would probably be a bad idea, on the other hand paul gross is the right age to play a fraser who's around frobisher's age now............ all the Themes that got brought up about no longer being young (and invincible) and the last of a breed and the whirligig of time bringing inevitable modernisation for bad and for good............ his hair all white......................

[rexbolt]

Im offended at the video essay guy asserting amuro is an audience stand-in otaku character and fully setting him aside in favour of discussing char's gayness exclusively. amu is like, the Only default protag lookin guy who stands out as exactly not-that to me... so much so that i thought it was funny. he's characterized a lot in the space between moments (or in the bending to/rejection of societal expectations) which i understand might look like a lack but is personally more compelling to me than the alternative

[mosswolf]

i absolutely know that she will be paired off with one of the boys probably imminently because that's how robin hobb conceptualises life BUT in my heart thymara aroallo rights okay. she doesn't want to settle down!! she just wants to vibe!!!!

[coulsons-left-arm]

So out of need for comfort while I let the NyQuil work it's wonders, I decided to watch 7.09 of AoS for the whimsy and silliness (the beginning part when Daisy finally goes to Coulson and Coulson just goes off while explaining what he's been through just tickles me every time 🤭) bc that's what you do when you're sick.

But then I got to, "SOMEONE KEEPS TRYING TO KILL OUR PEOPLE. Why doesn't that piss you off?! It should." And I'm having thoughts, and they're sad, but they're also v hard to decipher bc my brain is literal soup, so I'm going to have to circle back eventually to try and pull them apart in a coherent manner that isn't going to be complete gibberish.

[snazzycicada]

I bought that open source Tangara ipod and I reeeeeeeealy hope it I can figure it out and it works bc it was VERY expensive. (but im sure, not as expensive as it should be)

[audarcy]

[terriblelizbians]

tonight i keep zoning out imagining the best course of action if i ever encounter a genie, then when i snap back to alertness, the thought of how i just zoned out imagining the genie encounter makes me start thinking about the genie encounter again and i zone right back out

[damienthepious]

am i dying alone on this hill OR is anyone else getting REALLY fucking sick of every goddamn online vendor conglomerating into an enormous shopify ooze. NO i don't fucking care about my shopcash rewardz or what the fuck ever. NO i don't want you to fucking text me a code every time i try to check out. how fucking dare you. what the fuck is this shit.

[isaacathom]

my friends and i have been watching the star trek movies and i have soooo many thoughts about first contact but its been like 3 years since i watched the borg episodes in tng and im like. fuck do i need to rewatch those rq to figure out if my faint gripe with first contact is valid or not? shit, man

[psalmsofpsychosis]

"ew ew why do people write flowershop fluff AUs for gorey angsty villainy ships what could you possibly get out of saccharine headcanons for these bloody murderers who want to murder each other—" hey Karen common culture has curiously created yet another suffering villain that holds some foundational beliefs that i, a marginalised minority, also happen to hold!! many a strange cases actually!! And the stories we tell, the narratives we construct guide our thought frameworks in real life down to very intricate and subtle thresholds of our selfhood, like what we allow ourselves to dream and hope for and feel deserving of!!! so dont mind me while i set to dream happy beginnings and happy endings for fictional characters that share a part of my humanity and in extension of that dreaming better possibilities for my own existence too!!!!!

[nenekobasu]

to me the noa=non-genius idea is held together by how noa's "ambidexterity" is a talent that, combined with his efficient style of play (that kaiser was able to emulate and internalize, see barcha match), he pushed to its limit. here too in the page where isagi reflects on kaiser's words, he thinks kaiser doesn't have an instinctive strength like loki or rin, he just took one weapon (his swing speed) and pushed it to its limit… isagi doesn't include noa alongside loki or rin. in another panel he lumps noa in with loki and rin and claims they're all geniuses, but his attempts to justify noa=genius feel forced to me

that being said, the "genius is self-type" thing (if true) presents a better argument for why noa is a genius, though this also leads to other uncertainties. for instance, assuming noa is a genius, why is he drawn to kaiser (a non-genius)? is noa-kaiser meant to parallel loki-charles again, where loki tries to raise non-genius charles for his own ends? that one feels weird to me as i think noa-kaiser is meant to contrast loki-charles as well, but if noa also reminds snuffy of barou (and non-genius snuffy was effective at shutting down noa), i suppose the association between noa and "genius" becomes stronger

(also, if we're meant to trust "geniuses are self-types", that means hiori isn't a genius either despite being set up as one in ubers match (see the 3-2 panel where isagi jumps on hiori's shoulders, hiori is positionally nagi), but given hiori's absence here i would be able to accept a future development that challenges hiori=genius (come to think of it, isagi was never the one calling hiori a genius either))

[autism-swagger]

Urgh I'm having Thoughts.

[santacoppelia]

Up to last week, there were still a lot of angry reactions about my sweet baby angel going after the kiss.

Thanks to the interpretation from the director, now I have a lot of angel loving posts in here.

100/10, no notes about that. Justice has been served.

But… this is also another demonstration of (HOT TAKE INCOMING) why I don't believe in using "character psychology" as a means to interpret and predict character arcs in series and movies (too many people involved in the CREATION of a character, not even to mention other elements).

I guess I'll make a post about the methodology we developed by being crazy fangirls with weird backgrounds (one analytical philosopher with a knack for maths and one comm sci/social studies nerd with a lot of narrative analysis experience, both into the fandom life), but it will have to wait until my work life gives me a breather.

[noisytenant]

want to make a resources zine/web page for the general intersection of trauma/compassion/vulnerability/dissociation/IFS stuff since like a good 85% of any given advice i have to offer comes from this framing, but due to Being A Person Who Severely Needs These Resources Myself i dont really have the time or energy to compile rn. and idk when i will. so here i find myself telling ppl to search the same terms for the umpteenth time

[little-fandom-gal]

While this is definitely part of the brilliance of how the books are written (and how decisions in the writing room almost always reflect exactly the things Collins warns us of) I think it’s also important to stress that there IS a moral difference to us as an audience interacting with this film vs the capital, and both ideas coexist!

Yes, the commentary Lucky made was extremely out of pocket, and in the theater I was appalled because it really showed how this guy was likely trained to treat it as nothing more than a sporting event. Not only did he get the crowd going and make them fall for this fake framework for the games, but he laid the foundation for the hunger the capital had for the games and bloodshed years down the road. Unlike Caesar, who is stated to do his best to show off tributes to give them a fighting chance with sponsors, he’s solely there for the show (and likely to not be killed because let’s face it no one is free in this world).

That said, when you leave the theater and process the horrors of the games and the message of the story, you can also find some humor in the odd remarks. My sister was a sickly kid, so she’s been coining herself “Ill Dill” since because the remark was so out of nowhere that it stuck. The way he was surprised with how good the “all colors fade to gray” line was genuinely funny. The way he literally spat something onto one of the mentors (forgot which one) and kept rushing them out of their seats because he genuinely didn’t care about ANY kids involved in this spectacle brought some much needed levity (and was likely a tiny dose of the huge helping of humbling those kids needed). Heck, I distinctly remember the “oh look, they’re holding hands…I want them dead” line from snow in Catching Fire circulating for years! He’s referring killing people who stood in unity against him, but it’s a genuinely well delivered, funny line people snagged and made a meme of.

Basically, every time a new movie comes out there’s always this guilt with interacting with the entertainment as entertainment because we think it makes us the capital. That isn’t the message though, and it really hasn’t been. The message isn’t “all the masses who sit back and do nothing are evil and if you find enjoyment in this fictional story you’re just as bad,” but rather “systems of power that are fueled by propaganda affect us in ways we often don’t realize, and if we do not try to use compassion to understand others we risk becoming the kind of people who crave violence in reality and look down on those beneath us as non-human.” Unless you walked away from the movie thinking Snow was 100% right or that there’s a market for actual killing games, you aren’t the capital. You’re a consumer who got hit with a dose of “here’s a mirror for society” and has a chance to further study how that makes you feel (who is also capable of laughing at the “those drones are not good” scene).

As OP said, we are consumers, and the book mirrors our consumption to an extreme degree, but please be kind to yourself and realize WHY it impacted you instead of just blaming yourself or others for reacting the exact way we’re wired to react to media. A huge part of the story is how propaganda works, but you can’t learn from the lessons about it if you’re too busy beating yourself up or trying to sound morally superior to others.

Also, wanted to end by saying this is in no way pointed at OP, just my general thoughts on the matter (and a rant from how exhausting the lukewarm “holier than thou” takes I’ve seen have been)

there was a moment when the people in the movie theatre and the capitol audience in the stands were laughing at the same things, having the same reactions to the games, to the deaths, to flickermans jokes, to the doctor's announcement...i wonder aren't we watching it for entertainment too

suzanne collins' books may exist in popular culture as "dystopian", but they have always been a meticulous and startlingly close social critique of our world. at what point does our own idolization of the movies and the books repeat that story? we watch just as the capitol audience does.

all dystopia eventually crosses a line from realistic futurism to current relevancy. how long will it take us to realize we've already crossed that line with these books? and the very people who need to realize this are the ones in that audience...real or fake, we're the same: consuming and consuming.