So before I went to bed I knew exactly what I wanted to talk about today, but then I had a bad nights sleep and I have totally forgotten!
I had some weird dreams though, part of the reason I didn’t want to wake up and ended up being later than usual today!
Anyway, I hope you’re all checking out the new anime this season.
Bakarina (Destruction Flag Otome) is one of the best adaptations of a favourite novel of mine so far. The OP is insanely fun.
Bookworm and Kaguya return for a second season and Railgun is still ongoing.
So I got sent a new assignment as part of my proofreading work, but this time I got sent an epub!
It’s my first time working with a finished product like this so I’m a bit worried.
Also epubs are written in html which makes them really annoying to read for editing.
I mean the font is either horrible or you have to use visual mode and then things get screwed up when you make edits.
The only real option is switching views but that’s awkward in its own way.
Well I’ll figure something out!
But it’s scary to think I’m looking for errors in a book that will be going to stores soon!
If you pick up a copy and see a typo then I have failed my job!
How terrifying!!!
It’s a tiny chapter this time!
I hope we get something for Rei-sama’s perspective soon to shed some light on things.
Anyway as things stand I should have some time to play Stellaris…or read some more…
I’m absolutely not running away from the complicated work of adding the new volume information!!!
Okay?!
The farming for Fate has grown intensive once again.
I successfully summoned Anastasia…yet another Caster for my bloated roster.
Of my five star servants literally one third of them are Casters.
They seem to like me!
I still have yet to summon a Berserker or Assassin though.
Not to mention next on my summon list is Skadi, yet another Caster.
Anyway Anastasia needs lots of Ice and Gunpowder to level up…not looking forward to it.
One of my roleplay groups is trying to put together a shared universe for a modern superpower setting.
But we’re a bit stuck on the primary explanation for superpowers.
I proposed something styled after Chaos;Head and Scientific Railgun but they shot that down based on the grounds of the historical information of the setting. (That small numbers of superpowers have always been present but in hiding)
So we only really have the generic explanations like mutations and stuff has options at the moment.
I want to come up with something that has more flavour though.
If it was more scifi it’d be easier but trying to keep the explanation aligned with real world history gets tough.
Heyy guys, so a discovery has been made that some Kengo’s and Kensei’s had been mistranslated as the opposite since Snoring Dragon took over.
Now quite frankly I don’t want to go back through each chapter and work out which ones are which…
But if you happen to spot an obvious mistake in any chapter leading up to this (or after, but we’ll try to catch those in advance) then just flag it in the comments and we’ll set it straight.
I’ve been relatively civil in these posts but editing has become a chore since the switch, so hopefully things improve in the future.
I feel bad for saying that though, I know every translator has to start somewhere.
This is also technically the April Fool’s release depending on where you are in the world and I was planning on writing a short story as a bonus chapter, where Lily accidentally spreads a modern illness to the other world and they end up getting locked away for a month. But apparently there are snowflakes on the internet that wouldn’t like that and as a result I was advised not to.
Dex keeps saying he never has anything to write about in these little publication sections.
I guess this just means he doesn’t have any hobbies?
There’s always something to talk about.
In my case I actually had a few options.
I’ve been playing Minecraft with a new friend lately.
I started playing Stellaris with Federations installed. (I got a good start but event chains have been screwing me over going towards the mid-game)
I’ve recently finished watching the Azur Lane anime. (I gave it a 6/10 maybe 7/10 for the shipfus and 8/10 for Unicorn)
And of course continuing Fate/Grand Order with Cosmos in the Lostbelt.
So I just got reminded of that time years ago when World of Warcraft accidentally had an in-game plague due to an infectious raid debuff.
I like to think that the research done on that is being used in modelling Covid now.
Quite the story there though.
The debuff was for an instance only and was removed when you left, but it spread to every entity, player or npc. Which meant that pets and familiars could also be debuffed and they weren’t checked when you left the instance.
So they turned into carriers that brought the debuff out of the instance and infected players and npcs in the persistent world.
It turned into a huge deal with groups of high level players attempting to quarantine the starter zones and people resorting to terrorism to spread it to as many people as possible.
The ending was a bit of a let down. They just rolled back the servers.
I know they were probably more worried about resolution speed than anything else, but a cure event would have been pretty cool.
Editing is a little rough this chapter…I got about two hours sleep for various reasons.
(Quarantine seems to be getting to my other family members)
The UK finally entered lockdown, too little too late honestly.
In the meantime maybe it’s a good chance to use that Lucozade delivery service?
I wonder if that’s still going.
So the AD&D campaign I’m in started up again.
It’s a bit of a strange experience because this is the first time the scenario has been based around my character!
The other people I play with are more experienced so I tend to sit on the backline more often, plus my social awkwardness.
However I really love this character.
He’s the son of a knight that grew up on stories about grand heroes, and has set himself out to be someone brave and honourable.
The only problem is, he’s like someone roleplaying a character (ironically) and thus he never thinks about the consequences of his actions.
Interpreting everything like it exists to make his story more grand.
Danger Will Robinson, Danger!
Sorry I couldn’t resist, you’ll understand why in the chapter.
This is the last thing I have to edit for a few days! Rejoice!
Now I can finally relax and throw myself into my games and writing!
I actually helped a friend put together a new roleplay character the other day, I’m quite fond of them.
Alright now this is scheduled I can finally go and play Stellaris Federations!
I’m super hyped for this expansion, since it finally adds the mechanics I most love in strategy games!
Alliances!
There is just something satisfying about becoming a political heavyweight in games. Knowing you can achieve your goal without having to go out of your way.
In Stellaris before I used to do this with roundabout techniques, like creating a hub that links wormholes, gateways and l-gates to make travel around the galaxy really fast. But by doing so I could cut off access to my systems and thus force some empires to travel the long way while the ones I wanted to win had my shortcuts.
Also Origins! Finally background flare for my empires!
