What things bother you the most?

bmwracer wrote:
Really bad if you're on a motorbike. :sweat: :sweat:

i understand that bikes are harder to see so i make myself visible, such as headlight on and bright coloured vest, but still people try to knock me off. :grumble:

bmwracer wrote:
I've been editing/spellchecking the softsubs myself lately as well... I can understand some of the grammatical errors, but any decent spell checker would've caught all the errors that I've found. :sweat:

I've been thinking of writing a new Softsub tool for Mac OS X (since I'm a Mac developer by trade). I could tie into some development libraries for spell checking and other things which would allow me to softsub at my leisure and maybe make one of the (conceited moment here) better sub tools around.

I do some sub work with different groups. I was with Mugen for a while, now I'm with SARS. I had done Anime for a few groups and helped in on a couple episodes of Ace wo Nerae for JTV as well.

I really enjoy watching Doramas, but I'm always so tempted to correct the subs, but hardsubs make it impossible to corrcet without going to the group to do so. I'd much rather they just include the sub files so I can alter the subs if needed.

Danji wrote:I've been thinking of writing a new Softsub tool for Mac OS X (since I'm a Mac developer by trade). I could tie into some development libraries for spell checking and other things which would allow me to softsub at my leisure and maybe make one of the (conceited moment here) better sub tools around.

What about Windows? :puppydog:

I'd much rather they just include the sub files so I can alter the subs if needed.

Total agreement.

I find that some subbers overdo things with too many parenthetical references and use oddball fonts or ones that are too small to read on a large TV, so I adjust them accordingly. :)

bmwracer wrote:
Total agreement.

I find that some subbers overdo things with too many parenthetical references and use oddball fonts or ones that are too small to read on a large TV, so I adjust them accordingly. :)

Haha, I'd code for Windows if I knew the right libraries to use. I'd hate to write a softsub app in Visual Basic or RealBasic just because I'm unfamiliar with the libraries.

Thankfully I won't have that issue on the Mac since I've been developing software on the Mac since 1995.

bmwracer wrote:
Total agreement.

I find that some subbers overdo things with too many parenthetical references and use oddball fonts or ones that are too small to read on a large TV, so I adjust them accordingly. :)

Not that i know Japanese even remotely well, but I also find that some subs are too literal a translation from Japanese - using the same sentence structure etc, which is a bit offputting. Perhaps it's native Japanese speakers who can also speak English who are doing those.

Anime Dad wrote:Not that i know Japanese even remotely well, but I also find that some subs are too literal a translation from Japanese - using the same sentence structure etc, which is a bit offputting. Perhaps it's native Japanese speakers who can also speak English who are doing those.

I can understand that, but some subbers try to turn the subtitles into a language lesson: "gohan (= rice)" etc... I mean if you're translating for subtitles shouldn't you translate everything?

Also, anything and everything spoken gets translated: "Eh?" "Oi!" "Ha?" There are times I think the subs are for the hearing-impaired... :beaten:

Nitpicking aside, the subbers do a fine job... As I've said before, beggars can't be choosers. :sweat:

bmwracer wrote:
I can understand that, but some subbers try to turn the subtitles into a language lesson: "gohan (= rice)" etc... I mean if you're translating for subtitles shouldn't you translate everything?

Also, anything and everything spoken gets translated: "Eh?" "Oi!" "Ha?" There are times I think the subs are for the hearing-impaired... :beaten:

Nitpicking aside, the subbers do a fine job... As I've said before, beggars can't be choosers. :sweat:

Oh, I agree! Without them i'd only be guessing at what's going on. I suppose i'm used to watching professionally-subbed programs on our multicultural TV station SBS.

Any subbers that read this: You guys are great ;)

Anime Dad wrote:I suppose i'm used to watching professionally-subbed programs on our multicultural TV station SBS.

Same here: the translations for foreign films released by Criterion (Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Tokyo Monogatari, etc.) are excellent and unobtrusive... :)

bmwracer wrote:

I find that some subbers overdo things with too many parenthetical references and use oddball fonts or ones that are too small to read on a large TV, so I adjust them accordingly. :)

My Kuitan was like that. There were loads of "notes" flashing up all the time. It really got on my nerves.

Keps wrote:My Kuitan was like that. There were loads of "notes" flashing up all the time. It really got on my nerves.

If I recall, that's what got me started on editing the softsubs before I hardsubbed them into the video... Those guys overdid it.

Speaking of that, one of the dramas I hardsubbed for Geezer had all these little girlish parenthetical comments along with the subs like "he's cute" or "eeek" what a disaster. :shakehead:

I think I plopped in my own softsub at the beginning: "dopey comments removed by bmwracer" :beaten:

fangirls dominating my favorite thread!!! :banghead:

bmwracer wrote:
Speaking of that, one of the dramas I hardsubbed for Geezer had all these little girlish parenthetical comments along with the subs like "he's cute" or "eeek" what a disaster. :shakehead:

I think I plopped in my own softsub at the beginning: "dopey comments removed by bmwracer" :beaten:

I think I'd puke copiously over my tv screen if "he's cute" came up on there. :shocked:
Any subbers that put stuff like that have got to be fangirls, ne?

Speaking of which @ Usagi - may I suggest a fly swatter, to bat the fangirls away? :hehe:

Keps wrote:Any subbers that put stuff like that have got to be fangirls, ne?

Yup, with a capital "F." :bleh:

Keps wrote:

I think I'd puke copiously over my tv screen if "he's cute" came up on there. :shocked:
Any subbers that put stuff like that have got to be fangirls, ne?

Speaking of which @ Usagi - may I suggest a fly swatter, to bat the fangirls away? :hehe:

Oh yes! thanks for the tip!!! :victory:

wut bother me the most?

when my internet connection gone sucks.. :cursing:

&

i dont want my heart to be broken..
girl must help me. i need their help! :mrgreen:

what bothers me..

cowardice to point out to these fangirls' faces that you are bothered by them.

Usagi Yojimbo wrote:fangirls dominating my favorite thread!!! :banghead:

Talking about the Anything Pinoy thread?

evil_zai wrote:what bothers me..

cowardice to point out to these fangirls' faces that you are bothered by them.

How is it being a coward if you tell them that they bug you? :headscratch:

If it makes you feel better, some of the fanboys bug me as well.

obentou wrote:

Talking about the Anything Pinoy thread?

Nope, I'm talking about my favorite thread in another forum. The fangirl talk in the anything pinoy thread is nothing compared to the die hard fangirls in the other one. :shakehead:

on topic: A spoiled baby's loud cry. :mad: