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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 19:32:30 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   We went to bed early and got up super early, so we could watch the premiere of #MurderDrones episode 7.

   There were no English subtitles, and lots of people speak with glitched voices, so the dialog was pretty hard to follow.

   So we watched the episode without subtitles, and then we watched it with German subtitles and I filled kid in on some of the missing bits. The translation is pretty liberal though, so still couldn't be sure exactly what the English said.

   Halfway through, we discovered that English subtitles had been added, so we started over again with English subtitles. 🤣

   1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 19:34:03 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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      I'm going back to bed for two hours. Kid is staying up to watch youtubers talk about what we just watched.
      1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 19:44:15 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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         It was a stroke of luck that the English was missing and the German ended up the default fallback, because the German subtitles are by far the coolest and we never would have discovered that otherwise.

         Other subtitles (we checked several) are plain text, but the German ones actually glitch when the speech glitches. Tibetan overlays will flicker in and out (you know, like in the eldritch "he comes" in that classic StackOverflow answer about parsing XML with regexes). Terrible for usability, but cool for effect.

         Also the German subtitles are super detailed, translating things on-screen and even making jokes (in English‽) about things happening on-screen.

         1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 19:45:18 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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            We checked German, French, Chinese, Korean, Russian and Japanese audio too, in one key scene, just for fun (I only understand the German well enough). Voice acting is top notch, but the effects don't measure up to the English.

            It's mind-bogglingly impressive how much effort an indie project like this is able to put into internationalization!

            1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 29-Mar-2024 19:47:01 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

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               Official #MurderDrones playlist has been updated and includes today's episode 7:

               farside.link/invidious/playlis…

               youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHo…