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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-10-07 10:24:35 »
Okay, cool. Glad it's unambiguous :)

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-10-07 09:09:52 »
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Zax
“Oh wait,those girls still
  live with their parents.”
I know singular versus plural isn't always obvious in Japanese, so: don't you think he's talking about Aerith here? She was his girlfriend and still lived (lives) with her (adoptive) mum, after all. If so, maybe the following? (was Aerith's foster father still alive at this point?)
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Zax
“Oh wait,that girl still
  lives with her parents.”

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-09-27 12:07:20 »
"Sephiroth-type process"? Still a bit too verbose, perhaps. But I feel like there's nothing innately 'Sephiroth' about what they achieved, at least from Hojo's perspective, except that Sephiroth represents a successful completion of the process (he's an exemplar of what they're trying to achieve). Although actually, isn't Hojo trying to reproduce the results more than the process? (what with Sephiroth being injected while still in the womb, IIRC) I guess you could call it "Sephiroth-model" in the sense that what Hojo is trying with the other subjects was 'modeled' on the way Sephiroth turned out. But when I see the word 'model' I still think of a type of machine or action figure that they copied. The words 'reproduction' and 'emulation' also come to mind for what we're trying to describe, but I'm not sure those are any better. I guess they're trying to achieve a "Sephiroth-type fusion" or "Sephiroth-like fusion" in the sense that they're trying to produce soldiers who can innately control Jenova's cells, rather than being controlled by them.

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-09-25 14:51:53 »
Either way this seems like a fairly story-central confusion to clear up - good stuff :)

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-09-23 13:24:32 »
Either that or conquering the stupid, because it looks pretty good IMO. But then I'm not sure I'm focusing on the right elements.

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-09-17 18:38:54 »
Yeh, even those articles I linked said there's no real consensus here, and I think it differs on a case by case basis. For instance I agree that "It was 5 years ago" looks fine, perhaps because 'year' is a unit - but e.g. "There were five of them" looks more natural to me than "There were 5 of them". Either way it's pretty minor and I have a lot of confidence that you're giving this all the attention it needs :D

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-09-17 17:48:44 »
I have never heard of this "lower than 10" rule before either, do you have any source for this?
Here's a few:
Rules for Writing Numbers
10 Rules for Writing Numbers and Numerals

It's definitely something I've heard before and noticed in novels. Using numerals where they aren't needed tends to break the flow a bit.

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-09-02 19:56:45 »
"I wasn't being serious.  Don't worry about it."
That looks good to me :) I don't remember the full scene that well, but if it seems like she's at all exasperated by the fact that he took it so hard, you could do "I wasn't being serious!  Don't worry about it."

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-09-02 13:09:51 »
"You really shouldn't take it to heart" sounds a bit odd to me. She's basically saying "I really didn't mean anything by it", right?

I think I've only really seen 'taking to heart' used in the context of advice - as in "Please take this advice to heart" or "Don't take that advice to heart, I'm just a bitter old man".

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-08-18 17:20:30 »
Yeah, that error is often caused by corrupted data. Other than that, you usually only see that error when you try to install an older game on a 64-bit system. The game executables themselves are often still 32-bit, but the installers they used were 16-bit. An example of this is C&C: Red Alert. And of course, even older programs did use 16-bit executables.

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-07-04 19:06:21 »
While it is true that the Cavity has a cave system inside it, the original Japanese is referring specifically to the hole.  If you think about it logically, the NPCs don't know what it inside the crater, no one has been there.  Why would they be calling it a cave system if they don't know that there are caves there?  Clearly, the translator didn't realise it was a big hole that was being talked about and chose cave (which the kanji can also mean).  It's a stone wall mistake, caused by lack of context.  No one told Baskett it was a big crater...  He likely thought "Well... cavity sounds unlikely" and chose cave.  I would have done the same if I didn't know there was a huge motherf*cking hole up north.   :P :P :P
Great Northern Crater Cave? :-D

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-07-04 01:31:44 »
Regarding 'was' versus 'were', this might actually be an AmE versus BrE difference (not necessarily in that order). Here's the relevant part of the Wikipedia article - with all the usual warnings about using Wikipedia as a source (but this one does cite sources at various points, at least).

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-06-20 22:08:07 »
Yeah. I was thinking more along the lines of 'tickle its ear tufts'.. but Chocobo models and concept art don't really show they have those :P

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Releases / Re: The Reunion [IN PROGRESS]
« on: 2013-06-19 09:51:16 »
Screech owls can also have prominent ear tufts:

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