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Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by Blikkentrekker »

Hamuko wrote: post #68
jsheard wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just watched a fansub recently where they replaced some environmental text in the background, and they used the ASS format to render the english text out of focus and seamlessly match the depth-of-field effect used in the show. Some groups really go above and beyond.

Definitely. For example, MTBB's subtitles for Kimi no Na wa are very impressive. There's a short showcase of them on YouTube (spoilers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_c-eKTisI0 It's a shame you basically cannot get anything close to the quality of fansubs from any commercial/legal options.

I honestly find the idea of the English text inside of the picture as such, blending in perfectly with the scene to be most disorienting.

It suggests that the character itself is writing the English text, or that it magically appears.

If it were simple subtitles, it would be clear that these were translations, and that in the actual story there is only Japanese text.

Notwithstanding the impressive technological nature of it, but that also seems the reason they did so. Methinks it's a case of using cool technology because one can, even though it doesn't produce a more convenient result, however cool it might look.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by rtkwe »

Blikkentrekker wrote: post #182
rtkwe wrote: post #169

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In a general sense yes. The instant there's a (female) nipple on screen there's basically no way you're going to show up on broadcast TV and largely get relegated to paid cable or internet streaming. You don't get onscreen rape but a lot of sex on TV is really rape adjacent and perpetuates the kind of "when she says no you really need to keep asking" thing that's messed up so much of the US's sex culture.

> when she says no you really need to keep asking I must say that I find it rather tame compared to Japanese fiction. Though, I suppose there the perspective is invariably reversed. It is almost always the perspective character that is the defending party, so perhaps it doesn't have the same influence. It's an interesting difference. I find that in U.S.A. romance fiction, more often than not, the protagonist is the p…

> I must say that I find it rather tame compared to Japanese fiction.

It's definitely shades all over the world. I only really know about Japan's culture 12th hand honestly so the only thing that's really filtered down is that it seems kind of repressed in public having gotten a big infusion of US laws and ideas post WW2 and there's some issues with creeps in public?

> I find that in U.S.A. romance fiction, more often than not, the protagonist is the party who falls in love

I think a lot of that is due to the target audience being largely women so it's written from and towards what the audience wants to read. Most TV and movie romances show a predominantly predatory almost (sometimes explicitly) coercive romance especially in media aimed at men.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by kuroguro »

hatsunearu wrote: post #69
jsheard wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I just watched a fansub recently where they replaced some environmental text in the background, and they used the ASS format to render the english text out of focus and seamlessly match the depth-of-field effect used in the show. Some groups really go above and beyond.

The few groups that used to do that have stopped making fansubs. Mostly because HorribleSubs took a lot of the market share by just ripping CruncyRoll subs and re-packaging with RAWs. But now that HS is gone, I'm not sure what's happening to the scene. There is a power vacuum and I'm not sure if anyone took up the space.

Subsplease seem to have replaced them.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by Triv888 »

ironmagma wrote: post #164
bambax wrote: post #150

> Your app contains content that doesn't comply with the Sexual Content and Profanity policy. What the fuck is "profanity"? Are we a religious society? Why shouldn't we able to say "ass" (!) or show nipples?? The ban on porn is defensible outside of any moral framework because once you allow porn then all what's left is porn (although it would be useful to think about why that is). But "profanity"? Come on.

Yes we are a religious society. Our roots are in puritanism, in fact that's one of the main differentiators from the (Catholic-based) European countries from which we sprang.

They need to take god out of politics and public schools... from the dollar bill, for example.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by jowsie »

ihuman wrote: post #186
jowsie wrote: post #173

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Erai-raws has been at it for a while now.

They rip the subs too? I assumed they just ripped the raw video because of their name.

The few anime I've watched from their releases all had subtitles.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by nitrogen »

ttt0 wrote: post #156
nitrogen wrote: post #136

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Because they like the channels they watch and want them to get ad revenue?

Do you mean all those channels that have been demonetized and have Patreon accounts? And if this really is the case then stop complaining about it.

Everyone is well within their rights to want to support creators by tolerating some ads, while simultaneously complaining about ads they do not tolerate.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by horsawlarway »

dgregd wrote: post #199

I run a small company and offer an app to monitor sales reps work. Managers use it also to see how much time employees spend in the field. To count how much time is spend in some specific location my app uses background location updates. 10 years ago I was distributing just the apk file. Then I moved to Play store. It turned out that most people on their company owned Android devices don't configure Play Store. App u…

Good - There's a clear theme in the motivations of both major mobile OS companies here:

You, a 3rd party developer making custom software products for a mobile platform, are no longer allowed to have customers yourself.

Instead you must grovel and beg and pray that our lords Apple/Google consent to allow you to rent their customers.

This consent can be revoked at any time, you will pay through the nose for it (20%+ of total mobile revenue), and for basically all but the largest of customers - this consent is machine based and you will never be able to get a living person to so much as glance at any content you put into the process.

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Fuck em both.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by emayljames »

Kim_Bruning wrote: post #2

I guess the Scunthorpe problem is still a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

The example where the AFA filtered a news article about Tyson Gay, to replace any instance of his surname to 'homosexual' is an hilarious example of why you need context.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Post by ttt0 »

handoflixue wrote: post #203
jaspax wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Religion's got nothing to do with it. Racial slurs are a subset of "profanity", and I wager that you support Google's desire to not have apps in their store which prominently feature racial slurs. Every culture has its "bad words" which are forbidden to use in polite company. (Of course the actual app in question is still completely innocent, because Google's vetting process is a trash fire.)

It seems disingenuous to bring up racial slurs in the context of profanity. They're two very different categories, even if they are both subsets of "words that can get you in trouble." As you acknowledge, the app in question was blocked for profanity, not slurs. As parent comment says, profanity seems to be mostly a religious issue. I can say "fuck" on TV, or in my novel, or even in my Hacker News comment. But I doub…

First of all, do you think that promoting LGBT would fly in a church? I'm pretty sure it's far more offensive to a religious person than saying "fuck". Second, before this issue got so big and everyone started talking about it, the official line was that they need to be "advertiser friendly". As stupid as I think it is, it seems far more likely than your explanation.
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