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"Animal Crossing: Wild World" celebrates its 15th anniversary. The game published for the Nintendo DS took the world by storm reaching record-setting sales and introduced internet functionalities to the game. "Animal Crossing: Wild World" first went on sale on November 23rd, 2005, in Japan. Today marks its 15th anniversary. Published by Nintendo, the game presents itself as a communication game.  This is the fourth game of the popular video game franchise, in which you interact with lots of unique animals, participate in various seasonal events, and enjoy a peaceful life. Every Animal Crossing game before this one were updated versions of the first game, Animal Crossing: Wild World being the first entirely new game. The game was an absolute hit throughout the world, maybe because it granted a wish fans had been holding for ages.  It became a longtime bestseller, always topping the sales rankings with over 5 million copies sold in Japan, and over 11 million worldwide...

  Everyone knows about the beauty of snowflakes but when you take a closer look at high resolution pictures, the details in their geometrical structures make them look out of this world. Photographer Nathan Myhrvold used a special home-made camera to capture snowflakes in the highest resolution ever. However, snowflakes are extremely small and fragile in nature, and of course can only be photographed in cold snowy places, add to this the need for equipment, and you have the recipe for an incredibly difficult task. First of all, Myhrvold realized that the best temperature range for the most beautiful snowflakes to form was from -26°C to -29°C, so he headed to Canada's Northwest Territories and Alaska to be able to shoot at that temperature range.   Then, as ice sublimates and melts, snowflakes take their sharp and hexagonal shape for a brief moment, but capturing this on camera requires a precise combination of time, temperature, weather, and equipment. Myhrvold spent 18 months...

  Video: The origins of the AquaMarine lovey-dovey ship: Hi everyone! It has been a while hasn't it? —again— I've been extremely busy these past few weeks, mainly because I've been trying to think of what to translate from now on to improve as much as I can. I've uploaded a few videos on my YouTube channel in the meantime so I'll be sharing them throughout the next few days. I also plan on going back to translating horror stories, and if possible science articles and videogame related articles too, if anything it'll be my way to get used to translating anything related to these fields! In this video Marine plays with Aqua for a bit, and she realizes they could make a ship together on Minecraft! So she harasses   asks Aqua whether she'd agree to partake in this endeavor. Needless to say, this video's title should give Aqua's answer away. As always, I want you to discover the rest of the video by yourself so I'll just leave it at that. That's a...

  Video: Marine explores the Minecraft holoserver some more Hi everyone! It has been a while hasn't it?  I am still alive and doing well, albeit busy. As you may have guessed from the title of this blog post, today I'll be sharing another video I've made that is a direct follow-up of my previous video. In this one we're following Marine keeps on touring the Holoserver. We get to see her explore 'Haachama-land' and many other structures scattered on the map.  As always, I want you to discover the rest of the video by yourself so I'll just leave it at that. That's about all I had to say for today! I hope I'll be able to share my translation from Japanese to English of yet another horror story before the end of next week. I'll see you all very soon, have a very good day/evening today!

  Histoires d'horreur: Horreur en trois minutes: 3)  Le camarade de classe   : Je peux voir les fantômes. "-Mishima ! T'es libre après les cours ? Sortons un peu ! -Non." Fudou, mon camarade de classe essaye souvent de me parler. Je n'aime pas la familiarité dont il fait preuve donc je réponds toujours sèchement mais il n'a pas l'air de vouloir abandonner. Fudou est très populaire avec les autres filles. Il est beau, grand, en bonne santé, il a de bonnes notes en classe, il est athlétique et il est gentil avec tout le monde. Les autres filles l'adorent, mais pas moi. "-Bon... si tu peux pas aujourd'hui, qu'est ce que tu dis de ce weekend ? Je te paierai le repas ! -Non. -Allez ! Pourquoi ?" Après tout je peux voir les fantômes, de ce fait je vois en permanence un fantôme agrippé aux épaules de Fudou, celui d'une fille répétant inlassablement qu'il l'a tuée et enterrée.  "- Allez ! -J'ai dit non." C'est po...

  Horror stories: Horror in three minutes: (3) 3) The classmate : I can see ghosts. 'Hey Mishima! Are you free after school? Let's go on a date!' 'No.' My classmate Fudou often tries to strike up a conversation with me. I don't like how familiar he acts so I always answer coldly but he won't seem to give up. Fudou is very popular with other girls. He is handsome, tall, in good shape, has good grades, he's quite athletic, and he's kind to everyone. The other girls love him, but I don't. 'Well if you can't today, how about this weekend? I'll treat you to a meal!' 'No.' 'Huh, why?' As I said, I can see ghosts. I can always see a ghost clinging on Fudou's shoulders, and she relentlessly repeats that he killed and then buried her. 'Come on!' 'No.' This is why I'll never date Fudou. Hi everyone! I hope you enjoyed today's horror story, it's super short but I have been working on a video fo...

Video: Marine visits the Minecraft Holoserver Hi everyone! It has been two weeks or so since I finished my video on Ayame playing to a horror game, but I've been hard at work on another video for the past week and finally got to upload it two days ago or so. In this one we're following Marine -yet another Hololive member- as she visits the Holoserver for the first time in a really, really longtime. She discovers what other members have built since her last visit, going from a bee shaped house to a majestic temple rising high up in the sky where lovers could share a soothing bath while gazing at the starry sky, our favorite captain gets quite excited - and scared - during her journey. I want you to discover the rest of the video by yourself so I'll just leave it at that. That's all I had to say today. I've been trying to translate two short storie lately, one fairly grim and the other one a bit more amusing, I wouldn't want this blog to become the...

Histoires d'horreur: Horreur en trois minutes: 2)  Un peu de tarte des fées ?  : J'aime les aventures. Mes parents m'ont acheté un tricycle pour ma rentrée en maternelle, j'adorais explorer des endroits où je n'avais jamais été ! Il y avait beaucoup de jolies maisons, des fleurs et des chats un peu éloignés de chez moi. Un jour j'étais décidée à explorer un chemin que personne n'emprunte et j'y ai trouvé une magnifique arche fleurie. Me demandant quel genre de merveilles m'y attendaient je m'y suis aventurée, c'était comme un paradis menant à un très grand jardin rempli de fleurs. "- Ça alors ! Une humaine !" J'abaisse alors mon regard et scrute autour de mes pieds d'où une voix semblait émaner, j'y trouve une fée ressemblant trait pour trait à ce que l'on pourrait trouver dans un livre d'image: c'était un petit avec des ailes dans le dos et émettant une lumière diffuse. "- Une humaine ! - Bienvenue ! ...

Horror stories: Horror in three minutes: 2) How about some fairy pie? : I like adventures. Right around when I entered kindergarten my parents bought me a tricycle. I loved going to places I'd never been before. There were lots and lots of pretty houses, flowers and stray cats I could find away from my home. One day I was once again set on trying to explore a path where no one ventured, and found a beautiful flower arch. As I began following it thinking about what wonders may lie ahead, I felt as if it was leading me to heaven. It eventually lead to a very spacious garden full of flowers.  'Well, well! A human!' I looked down when I heard a voice coming from right around my feet only to see a fairy. It looked exactly like what you'd see in a picture book. It was a teeny-tiny glistening being with wings growing from its back.  'Oh! It's a human!'  'Welcome!' A lot of fairies started gathering around me. Fairies were real! I happily talked about wanti...

[VIDEO] Ayame plays a VR Horror Game during a 3D stream! Hi there! I'm afraid I don't have much to say today, so let's cut to the chase. A few days ago Ayame (yet another VTuber but still from Hololive) celebrated her 2nd anniversary with a 3D stream. She played a VR horror game (Emily wants to play) and sang and danced. While I haven't taken the time to translate the singing/dancing part I did edit and translate/subtitle the horror game part. The discrepancy between her soul-healing laughter and heart-wrenching screams is amazing. But in the end she seems to have liked the experience as a whole, maybe we'll get to see her play more of this one day. Without further ado, enjoy the video! Have a good day or evening everyone, on the internet time doesn't exist. See you soon for another translation or maybe something written from scratch, who knows what's next!

Histoires d'horreur: Horreur en trois minutes: I) Les petits problèmes d'une fille qui voyait des fantômes: Je peux les voir. Fantômes, apparitions, youkai*. Je peux tous les voir. Tout le monde me dit que quelque chose ne tourne pas rond  chez moi. Mais je ne choisis pas ce que je peux voir ou non. Parce qu'il m'arrive de le dire en public certaines personnes viennent me voir pour en discuter. Certains me demandent d'arrêter de dire des choses aussi puériles pour une lycéenne, tandis que d'autres au contraire me disent qu'ils peuvent également les voir. "- Je m'en fiche que tu puisses les voir ou non, je veux juste que tu ne m'en parles plus !" M'a dit ma cousine une fois, ces choses l'effraient. "-Je n'y arrive pas ! L'horreur, les monstres, les histoires de fantômes, même ce qui est pour les enfants je ne peux pas!' -Même les livres d'images ? -Non non non et non ! Sérieusement je n'arrive pas à comprend...

Horror stories: Horror in three minutes (I) I) The little troubles of a girl who could see ghosts: I can see them. Ghosts, apparitions, youkai. I can see them all. Everyone tells me there's something wrong with me, but I don't get to choose what I can and cannot see.  Since I say it in public, people tend to come and strike up a conversation with me about it. Some ask me to stop making statements this childish even though I'm a high school student, or some on the contrary tell me that they can see them too. 'I don't care whether you can see them or not, just don't tell me about it.' My cousin once told me as this kind of thing scares her. 'I can't! Horror stuff, monster stuff, ghost stories, even if it's made for kids, I can't deal with this!' 'Even picture books?' 'No no no and no! Seriously, why do people even read or watch scary things on purpose?! I don't get it!' 'Well then, what genre of book do you usually ...

Video: Pekora plays Pikmin! (Days 1-3) Hi there! It has been a while isn't it?   Wait why do I have this déjà-vu feeling?  Anyhow, I did say I intended on posting twice a week in my last post, which was over a month ago now, sadly I could not have chosen a worst time to say so as I was supposed to go to my parents' place for a month. That's good and all in itself and I thoroughly enjoyed my time there, however I didn't really have access to a computer making it way harder to publish anything really. Now I'm back and should be for a while, I have a clear idea of what I want to do from now on so if all goes well I should be way more active from now on. That's about it for today's disclaimer I'd say, so let's get going! T oday's post will simply be here to share a new video I've edited, translated, subtitled. As for the video itself, well, it's from a stream by the VTuber Usada Pekora, she's part of the Hololive VTuber company...

Video: Bakatare plays Paranormal Hong Kong Hi there! It has been a while isn't it? Well, to anyone who might read this, just know that I'm planning on publishing two new articles/post on this blog every week from now on. It may come in many shape or forms, for example: - Webnovel translations - Creepy stories I found online - Adding subtitles to videos/transcription - Blog posts I may write entirely on my own about some topic I find interesting - Anything I feel is worth a blog post really So that's about it for what is to come, now without further ado, on to today's matter! (Hololive members up to and including the 3rd generation) Lately I've been spending an ungodly amount of time watching VTubers, for those who may not know: basically streamers using a live2D avatar with motion tracking. I first came across them with Kizuna Ai way back in time, around three years ago or so, it has been a particularly flourishing industry lately, notably...