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Cake day: June 5th, 2023

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  • The text is translated to English, yes, but the original art was drawn for Japanese text which usually flows top to bottom, right to left. The entire visual design of a manga or comic book is structured around the reading direction for the language it was originally written in. When adding translations, you can’t just change the bubble locations since they’re almost always incorporated into the artwork directly.

    With the above in mind, you effectively have two options with manga: flip the artwork before adding the English translation so the bubbles flow left-to-right, or leave it alone and just explain the reading direction differences. There are often artistic, logistical, and financial reasons for the latter approach, so it tends to be more common.

    When on physical paper, most manga books are also read by flipping the pages right to left, and most of them explain this to English-language readers trying to read it the “normal” way on the last page.













  • What’s crazy is that he could have had a 10-20 minute convo with whoever set up the character to determine how it worked and what makes it good, and he probably could have faked it. Instead, he decided that he was just such a special and talented boy that he’d be able to wing it and just intuit correct information by looking at one number in a very complex game. Him calling the best unique gloves in the game trash because they weren’t “high level” was just the cherry on top 😂

    It would be extremely funny if not for the fact that he runs his businesses (and wants to run the US) with this same mentality. He thinks because he figured out how to make more money than anyone else with a public net worth, that he can become an instant expert on anything without the slightest bit of effort.