Well, I didn't expect such a strong reaction to my last post. Apparently, for me giving my honest opinion about a funneling technique that Nameless Legacy made to give himself power over the Touhou Community, I have been met with distaste from the community. But apparently, a man(?) who deliberately called his automatic patcher Thcrap because he "thought it would be a funny contrast to have a well-made piece of software with a name showing the developer's actual
distaste for the subject matter" is apparently being accepted more and more by the community. How would ZUN feel if he knew that translation efforts by the english speaking community were being placed under the banner of "crap"? If I was a content creator like ZUN, I would find that pretty darn disrespectful.
For the record, I absolutely love all translators who work on anything to do with translating Touhou and helping it be brought to more cultures around the world. If people here felt that I was being insulting to translators who worked on stand along patches or the ones that go into thcrap (ugh! I hate even typing thcrap) then know that that was not my intention at all and that I apologies for misleading people into thinking that.
My point in short: Touhou patch center promised that "translation patches will match fan art speed". So far, they have failed. I'm not pointing this at the translators who contribute to Touhou patch center, Hakurei god bless them, I'm pointing at Nameless Legacy, his staff and his system he created.
But still, as of me writing this post, Touhou patch center took down the little English/American flags next to LoLK under "Languages with >95% coverage". I'm glad to see that perhaps my writings are prompting people to take necessary actions.
If you don't like it, do it yourself
I would **LOVE** to buddy, seriously, I would love to bring out a high quality, Japanese to English accurate, fan community loving and supported English patch. Some problems though:
*I don't know a lick of Japanese
*Writing scripts and codes for things is hard as hell to me. My coding assignments in high school computing needed some serious tutoring from my computing teacher since I couldn't figure heads or tails of anything.
*Hacking? Where do you learn that?
*I'm no expert on Japanese mythology
The best thing I can do is throw money at people who do actually have the skills necessary for a project like this. Not all of us are tech wizards in this world you know.
because you're an entitled bastard
Oh this is rich coming from someone who doesn't know a single thing about me personally. We appear to be reaching Youtube comment levels of mud slinging here. Something to truly be proud of on a dignified messaging board. I could be a careless brute and throw some insults back your way but I consider myself above all this trivial nonsense and blind slander.
huge chunks of ISC menus being untranslated months after release to it's existence killing the hard patch initiative.
My two personal nails on Touhou Patch centers well nailed down coffin. The ISC one in particular is a reason why we have gone a big step backwards in patching.