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Message: [QUOTE="Gingervitis, post: 6899, member: 1920"] I know I already brought this up, but I don't think AI will fix this. You'll still need at least one translator to go through the dialogue and clean up any jokes, idioms, cultural norms, or other language quirks that don't make the translation gaps. With that in mind, what's stopping an ideologically driven translator from getting the job and changing the dialogue to remove "homphobia" or "sexism", or just spicing up the dialogue on a whim? [automerge]1733117560[/automerge] Sorry about double posting. I'm not sure how to add quotes to a post I'm editing. As terrible as Working Designs' localizations are, I'm willing to give them credit for one thing- they brought over a ton of games we would not have gotten if they weren't around. I know you're suspicious of that argument (and for good reason, considering modern localizers misuse it), but if Working Designs hadn't worked on Lunar or Popful Mail, would these games even be talked about in the anglosphere? Or would we have just forgotten about them like all the other Japan-only games laying in obscurity? Of course, that doesn't work with modern localizers. If Nintendo Treehouse goes tits up (please God, let it happen), they can always use NISA, or Xseed, or form a completely different in-house localization group made of normal people. [/QUOTE]

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