{"id":64,"date":"2005-09-13T23:14:04","date_gmt":"2005-09-14T07:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hamsterrepublic.com\/james\/?p=64"},"modified":"2007-10-09T22:16:08","modified_gmt":"2007-10-10T06:16:08","slug":"piracy-and-fan-subs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/?p=64","title":{"rendered":"Piracy and Fan-Subs"},"content":{"rendered":"

Current mood: bold<\/em><\/p>\n

Today I watched a pirate copy of Final Fantasy Advent Children<\/a>. I won’t provide any spoilers (you can find those yourself easily enough if you want), but I will say that I enjoyed it, and if it ever makes its way to US theaters, I will revel in the opportunity to see it on a big screen. I also intend to drag Non-Final-Fantasy-Fans with me to see it, as I am really curious how people who don’t already know the characters will take it. I don’t believe the story will be confusing to people who have never played the game, but I do wonder how people will react to the large cast of strange characters who appear suddenly with little or no introduction.<\/p>\n

The english fansub was difficult to find, and I had to use VLC<\/a> to view it with subtitles, because mplayer<\/a> couldn’t do it. The fansub was very high quality. A testament to the skill of volunteer translators.<\/p>\n

That reminded me of something I had seen recently, an example of a remarkably bad fansub; of Star Wars Episode III. Apparently somebody made a literal english translation of a Chinese sub, with hilarious results. Visit: http:\/\/www.winterson.com\/2005\/06\/episode-iii-backstroke-of-west.html<\/a> for screenshots of episode iii, the backstroke of the west<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

You cannot miss such fantastic lines as:<\/p>\n

Obi-Wan:<\/strong> “Like, reach the man, Good good good let us counter-attacking”<\/em><\/p>\n

Anakin:<\/strong> “Giving first aid the already disheveled hair projection”<\/em><\/p>\n

Palpatine:<\/strong> “Then his land killed him to let him go to bed”<\/em><\/p>\n

or my personal favorite:<\/p>\n

Anakin:<\/strong> “I was just made by the Presbyterian Church”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Current mood: bold Today I watched a pirate copy of Final Fantasy Advent Children. I won’t provide any spoilers (you can find those yourself easily enough if you want), but I will say that I enjoyed it, and if it ever makes its way to US theaters, I will revel in the opportunity to see […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rambling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/james.hamsterrepublic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}