Wandering Adventure Party

@juergen_hubert So you share your work on your wiki and your life ambitions revolve around wikis? xD

@juergen_hubert Yeah the very specific details like opening and closing windows, the times involved, and the ritual built up the truly horrifying reveal and brought the whole thing to an awful kind of life. There's even a mini-folklore of its own tucked inside with the young monk not being morally pure enough to withstand the ghost's challenge and the old monk having to take over. A masterclass in horror storytelling.

@juergen_hubert That was genuinely horrifying omg...

@juergen_hubert So I guess this is one of those "If you do something blasphemous something supernatural and bad happens to you" stories? I guess swearing is a lesser offense than hunting on a Sunday, at least...

@Firlefanz @steaphan As an author and translator who has also wrestled with more than my share of this slop, trying to edit LLM-generated text is like an exercise in learned helplessness: I know I could do so much better if I translated from the ground up but I'm given neither the time nor money for that kind of effort, so I have to settle for "barely readable" with minimal edits and it almost physically hurts to let such a bad job pass through my hands.

LLM probability-translation can be a way to scan large amounts of foreign-language text, keeping the limitations of the technology in mind, but it doesn't do a good or even passable job of getting the fine points across accurately. Authors and readers deserve better, and so many works that could have been discovered and enjoyed by new audiences in translation will never get the chance now because they will have been reduced to rote reads bled of all originality and color, and often badly mistranslated as well.

@juergen_hubert I remember reading how poodles' reputation for being fancy pampered dogs is a pretty recent thing and they were actually bred as hardy, rugged retrievers, with their distinctive grooming originally designed for their work splashing through water and mud.

@juergen_hubert how convenient xD

@juergen_hubert charming! 🥴

@juergen_hubert You've heard about the monkey on someone's back, now get ready for: The cat on their back.

@juergen_hubert Well, that escalated quickly!

@juergen_hubert what I got out of the article was mainly that there are people with too much money they're willing to throw at useless gadgets.

@juergen_hubert Sounds lovely She could make a career as a collector, translator, and scholar of folklore, or any combination of those roles!

@juergen_hubert @androcat shelter vaults, ravaged castles, sleeping kings, dwarven homes, dark foreboding forests as arboreal dungeons--so many possibilities!

@juergen_hubert That does, in fact, seem like an excellent subject for a collection, and may be of interest to historians as well as folklorists.

@juergen_hubert The early plot of Dracula xD Also I hear the gup.pe domain has been stolen, I don't think there's any use in @-ing these groups anymore.

@juergen_hubert I thought you were doing folklore translation full-time until you mentioned your day job!

@juergen_hubert that's a great habit. Do you plan to take it up yourself?

@juergen_hubert genetics are a powerful determinant so you have a fighting chance

@juergen_hubert German bread culture, the supernatural edition!

@juergen_hubert he's a spry old guy! My 80-year-old dad couldn't hike 100 km a week--hell, I'm not sure I could xD