What translation do you prefer?

He could've done worse.

She.

You do have a valid point...

...but that wasn't meant to soften any blow. It's meant to be a statement. Nicalis' translation was not so good, but it's not so bad that you have to chuck the game out the metaphorical (or literal, if you have the Switch version or Cave Story 3D) window; in-fact, it's still somewhat enjoyable. That's what I was trying to say. So, let's try not to blow things out of proportion, yeah?

The point is about the impact of the phrase, saying that when taken literally it's meaningless. Blowing things out of proportion highlights how silly extremes can be, which I think is funny. That's just my style of comedy.

 

The point is about the impact of the phrase, saying that when taken literally it's meaningless. Blowing things out of proportion highlights how silly extremes can be, which I think is funny. That's just my style of comedy.

Oh, okay. Sorry! I have a hard time picking up on those types of things. I swear I'm not an idiot.

 

In other words, zxin is actually a complete lunatic, as stated in their post.

 

Blowing things out of proportion highlights how silly extremes can be, which I think is funny. That's just my style of comedy.

I guess it's just not comedy for everyone.
You're definitely not a lunatic, though.
With this I don't mean to rub salt into the wound or whatever that saying was. I'm just exaggerating to show my point better.

 

Both translations "could have done better".

 

Both translations "could have done better".

Can we move on? We are beating a dead horse here.

 

To be fair we've been beating this dead horse for years.

 

Let's just make our own translation wwwwwwwww

 

Let's just make our own translation wwwwwwwww

I wonder when that'll ever actually be arranged, though... Especially when we have like, 5 active members here who speak Japanese.

 

To be fair we've been beating this dead horse for years.

Duplicate threads are convenient for me because it lets me give the appearance of being super active and engaged in the community's conversations by just lazily copy-pasting what I wrote last time this discussion came up, and anyone who either has a bad memory or hasn't been around longer than a year or so won't notice.

 

I wonder when that'll ever actually be arranged, though... Especially when we have like, 5 active members here who speak Japanese.

Being who? If there are actually like 3 or 4 fluent Japanese/English speakers willing to work on a translation project then it could actually end up being of fairly high quality.

 

Being who? If there are actually like 3 or 4 fluent Japanese/English speakers willing to work on a translation project then it could actually end up being of fairly high quality.

I'm sure the other 4 would speak up, if they're still active.

 

I'm sure the other 4 would speak up, if they're still active.

Wait. The other 4 besides ...?

 

Wait. The other 4 besides ...?

Aren't you one of the 5 Japanese speakers here?

 

Aren't you one of the 5 Japanese speakers here?

Oh, me? I guess I have been studying it on and off for 5 years now, but I'm only really a first year student. I have worked on translating Cave Story a couple of times, but my knowledge of Kansai-Ben being 下手 is a bit of a barrier for me.