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Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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ASS subtitles are particularly popular in anime fansubbing as it allows for advanced typesetting. You can take it pretty far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9AgMlHJe7Y

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.

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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ASS subtitles are particularly popular in anime fansubbing as it allows for advanced typesetting. You can take it pretty far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9AgMlHJe7Y

Potentially NSFW (heh this is kinda pointless atm). Also wow, I'm guessing you need to adjust the subtitle with every frame, old-school animation style?

The subtitles are basically adjusted every frame but you don't necessarily have to do it by hand. You can for example generate motion data with Blender or Mocha and import that into Aegisub (the software that is used to create the subtitle files).

https://unanimated.github.io/ts/ts-mocha.htm

https://github.com/TypesettingTools/Aegisub-Motion/wiki/Appl...

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

#55
With german word `Ass` for ace, among others. Could as well just be

- playing card name,

- tennis rule

- or some medical advice on acetylsalicylic acid (Acetylsalicylsäure/ASS)

and derived tradenames that also leave german language context as tradenames and the likes.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ass

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Just wanna make sure I got this right. "ASS", automatic instant suspension with 0 human review. "King's Throne: Game of Lust.", with advertised gameplay content such as "I, [the King], shall interrogate this female prisoner privately in my bed chambers", is one of the top advertised games on google play. Got it.

The world we live in is strange. On one hand, it's trivial to find and consume content full of profanity, violence, sex and other things deemed 'inappropriate' yet on the other hand we live in a world where this old George Carlin classic still applies

https://youtu.be/5ssJtD08vCc

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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Just wanna make sure I got this right. "ASS", automatic instant suspension with 0 human review. "King's Throne: Game of Lust.", with advertised gameplay content such as "I, [the King], shall interrogate this female prisoner privately in my bed chambers", is one of the top advertised games on google play. Got it.

It’s not just Google, though.

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=7291

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

#58

I do wonder what the justification for banning apps that "contain or promote sexually explicit content or profanity, including pornography".

Me too.

Where I am from prostitution is not illegal. On line tools are a real boon for the workers.

Pornography is entirely normal, and pornographers need all the protection other workers have, attitudes like this make that hard.

I really thought we were over prurience! Silly me.

Silly Google. If you are going to be Evil (TM) at least be grown up about it!

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

#59

Time for a p2p app store that works on all devices.

Yes. It actually exists and is fairly popular - the web. Unfortunately, Google has squeezed itself into it too and can now block whatever it wants ;( (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25802366)

Re: Suspended from Google Play for listing supported subtitle formats

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ASS subtitles are particularly popular in anime fansubbing as it allows for advanced typesetting. You can take it pretty far: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9AgMlHJe7Y

So the translated “fidget” parts are not hardsubbed but actually encoded in a subtitle format and therein animated to move around with the Japanese text? Quite impressive, notwithstanding the use of bourgeois harem as example material.

That's correct.
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