Got something moderately exciting in the mail today... the Spanish version of the 1996 Where in the World game. Sadly, it's kind of a mess. For one thing, they didn't even try to translate some of the puns.))
Got something moderately exciting in the mail today... the Spanish version of the 1996 Where in the World game. Sadly, it's kind of a mess. For one thing, they didn't even try to translate some of the puns.))
Sadly its not surprising PC game translation was pretty lax back then and most of the time it had nothing to do with cost either. Mostly they didn't want to take the time to find someone to do it right simply because they didn't have to.
((So... the folks called me upstairs to help figure out how to get their SSI paperwork to the new landlord... we were discussing it, when the landlord emailed that all three of us are denied... mostly the main thing was "poor rental history; insufficient income (they're on SSI); no credit file; if no judgment was rendered on them after they appealed the initial eviction notice, then they gave their 30 days notice, can they rescind that (this is Minnesota, ya shure, ya betcha) and stay?
Michelangelo wrote a poem about how much he hated painting the Sistine Chapel...One translation of the poem he sent to his friend begins: I’ve already grown a goiter from this torture, hunched up here like a cat in Lombardy(or anywhere else where the stagnant water’s poison).
Something just dawned on me. You know how we went from two digit years to four digit years because of the Y2K bug? In like 9K years we'll have to go to 5 digit years to combat the problem again