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[Gregorick]

#31

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 08/25

Last post by bigkev - Aug 05, 2025, 06:42 PM

Gregorick drops Next3 issues 02, 04, 06 and 07 onto our digital laps!!

     

Thank you for the uploads, much appreciated. Never heard of this publication before. How many issues were there of this magazine does anyone know?

[Gregorick]

#32

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 08/25

Last post by Kiwi - Aug 05, 2025, 06:33 PM

Gregorick drops Next3 issues 02, 04, 06 and 07 onto our digital laps!!

     

[All About Space]

#33

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 08/25

Last post by Kiwi - Aug 04, 2025, 08:36 PM

All About Space issues 71-80 have been added to the download area. Shame they discontinued this title. I really liked reading it each month on Readly...

       
       

#34

General Discussion / Re: Good AI Tools to translate...

Last post by IloveCats100 - Aug 04, 2025, 08:26 PM

It's like if I ask if anyone knows any good Chinese restaurants in my area, and all I get are replies telling me I should just learn to cook it myself since I could probably do it better once I know how.  Maybe so...not what I was asking, though! 

Amusingly, would the average American attempt to teach themselves Chinese cuisine they may end up with a very different set of meals than ones marketed in America, as Chinese restaurants in the USA have developed their own distinct menus suited to local tastes. Not a philsophical point, but a funny quirk to our conversation!

[Panzers in Normandy Then and Now]

#35

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 08/25

Last post by Kiwi - Aug 04, 2025, 07:39 PM

Panzers in Normandy Then and Now is a fascinating look at the battles fought during the D-Day invasion between the Allied landing forces and Hitler's Panzer divisions in and around Normandy with images taken during the fighting and what those same locations look like today.

[Ultimate Solutions]

#36

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 08/25

Last post by Kiwi - Aug 04, 2025, 07:27 PM

Also incoming from him is Ultimate Solutions #06 ...

#37

General Discussion / Re: Good AI Tools to translate...

Last post by kitsunebi - Aug 04, 2025, 07:01 PM

That is possible, but I think if the goal is born from enthusiasm for Japanese media and culture, you're going to derive more meaning from it, even if it is longer and more painful a path to walk. If the goal is just finding specific games information then AI can do the job, sure.

Exactly.  The OP made no mention of any interest in Japanese aside from doing research on videogame articles, which by itself doesn't seem to me to be reason enough to put in years of study to learn a language.  At any rate, the OP specifically asked for help finding good AI translators, so advice related to that is what they're looking for.

It's like if I ask if anyone knows any good Chinese restaurants in my area, and all I get are replies telling me I should just learn to cook it myself since I could probably do it better once I know how.  Maybe so...not what I was asking, though! 

By all means, though - I think everyone should study a foreign language if they can (not Duolingo, but rather actual study).  And more importantly, spend some time visiting other countries (if you can manage to live and work there for a while, even better.)  So many of the problems in the world would go away if people had a better understanding of how much they have in common with each other.

[Gregorick]

#38

New Releases / Re: New Releases - 08/25

Last post by Kiwi - Aug 04, 2025, 06:55 PM

Thanks to Gregorick Pure #04 is now available ...

#39

General Discussion / Re: Good AI Tools to translate...

Last post by IloveCats100 - Aug 04, 2025, 04:05 PM

I think if you want to read it casually and in the long-term like that perhaps it'd be more worthwhile to learn Japanese yourself! Sure it sounds scary but it's never too late to learn a new skill and it'd be useful if you ever went on a trip there, you could just pick up any book and read it yourself better than any AI could!

That's a nice thought, but not very practical for most people.  Granted, there are some people gifted with languages who can pick them up quickly, but not so for most people.  Japanese is one of the harder languages for an English-speaker to learn and it would take a SIGNIFICANT amount of study time before you could just pick up a book or magazine and read it better than AI.  (I'm speaking as someone who has lived in Japan for almost 20 years.)

I mean, sure, if you WANT to learn Japanese, go for it.  But it will still be a long time before you'll be able to pick up a book and read it fluently, so in the meantime, finding whatever AI solution you're looking for is definitely where you should start.  The difference between AI translation of Japanese today and machine translation of ten years ago is like night and day, it's improved so much.  So chances are, by the time you could actually master Japanese, AI will have done so as well.  (Of course if you want to actually be able to TALK to people in Japanese, better crack open those books and enroll in some classes!)

That is possible, but I think if the goal is born from enthusiasm for Japanese media and culture, you're going to derive more meaning from it, even if it is longer and more painful a path to walk. If the goal is just finding specific games information then AI can do the job, sure.

#40

General Discussion / Re: Good AI Tools to translate...

Last post by kitsunebi - Aug 04, 2025, 03:29 PM

I think if you want to read it casually and in the long-term like that perhaps it'd be more worthwhile to learn Japanese yourself! Sure it sounds scary but it's never too late to learn a new skill and it'd be useful if you ever went on a trip there, you could just pick up any book and read it yourself better than any AI could!

That's a nice thought, but not very practical for most people.  Granted, there are some people gifted with languages who can pick them up quickly, but not so for most people.  Japanese is one of the harder languages for an English-speaker to learn and it would take a SIGNIFICANT amount of study time before you could just pick up a book or magazine and read it better than AI.  (I'm speaking as someone who has lived in Japan for almost 20 years.)

I mean, sure, if you WANT to learn Japanese, go for it.  But it will still be a long time before you'll be able to pick up a book and read it fluently, so in the meantime, finding whatever AI solution you're looking for is definitely where you should start.  The difference between AI translation of Japanese today and machine translation of ten years ago is like night and day, it's improved so much.  So chances are, by the time you could actually master Japanese, AI will have done so as well.  (Of course if you want to actually be able to TALK to people in Japanese, better crack open those books and enroll in some classes!)