A Story of Star Trek and the Donkey-Ear Man

In 1966, Saigon, during the Vietnam War, this is a true story about how children in South Vietnam were exposed to Star Trek before it officially aired on American television. But since no one spoke English, they called it by another name.

6 Already Practical Uses of AI Generation (in 2023)

New translation pipelines, generic business emails, faster rapid prototyping… and even a new way to make Vtuber models. It seems like AI has an effect on everything. The development of AI Generation software is moving fast – far too fast for any single person to truly keep track of. At the cutting edge, people are

The Source of Creativity in the AI Generation Era

When it comes to the history books, 2023 will likely be remembered as the Year of AI. Well, “AI” is an old term, but it’s back in the public eye with a new-ish meaning, referring to the latest version of it: AI generators. It’s been on the horizon for several years now, but it was

Nijisanji: The Live Online Meltdown of a Billion-dollar Talent Company (Summary)

In December 2023, a top-billing, multi-million dollar internet talent completes her greatest, year-long work. Tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars are spent, with many people involved – and surely those payment delays mean nothing, and her agency will process it all soon and reimburse her and all her subcontractors.  Hours after the release

Understanding Bitrate Settings for (Twitch) Livestreamers

If you’re streaming at 720p, leave it at 2500. If you want to upgrade to 1080p, change it to 4500.If you want a middle ground, try 1536×864 at 3500. Or do 900p.And never do 60 FPS. I think video bitrates for a livestream is a lot like computer RAM. It’s the foundation that a number

The Art of War: A pertinent one-page summary

This version of Sun Tzu’s Art of War is a concise rewrite that fits exactly onto an A4 sheet, and is formatted to fold exactly in half into an A5 size. (So it can be a one-sided A4 or double-sided A5.) Naturally, it doesn’t contain everything from the book, but I have done my best

12 or so Privacy Risks to know for your Livestream

These days, it’s fairly easy for someone without computer skills to start a livestream. With something like OBS Studio on your computer, the simplest way to start is to click through the wizard, login to the streaming site of your choice, and just click ‘Go Live’. But with this, it means that anyone can start

Reference Card: Star Ocean 2 R Secret Character Recruitment

To commemorate the announcement of Star Ocean: The Second Story R, I created a one-page reference card to remind myself of all of the party recruitment paths. The card is written in a deliberately vague way, only indicating the time, location and a clue on what to do to recruit them, as well as indicating

A side-by-side look at AI-Translation: Chapters 1 & 2 of Around the World in 80 Days

I originally hid this in the second half of a prior post, but figured it might be better with different formatting and a side-by-side of only the original 1873 translation and mine, without the French. I’ve also included Chapter 2. Summary ChatGPT was made available to the public in November 2022, and one of the

Ideas for Translating Song Lyrics Well (or, I analyse my English Miku song)

In 2017, Hatsune Miku’s 10th anniversary was approaching. The second version of her English phoneme voicebank – titled “V4 English” – was newly released, and I decided to look at a demo song out of curiosity. I didn’t really follow the scene directly or listen to a whole ton of Vocaloid music; my music preferences