Thread:Blackkat101/@comment-26501532-20150823083054/@comment-24409121-20150823105615

I don't mind, but I'm not sure how much I can do as a moderator.

Let's first talk about my personality:

- First and formost, I am very lore/information enthusiast for lack of a better term. This would be the biggest reason for the activity you see. I like knowledge and like to confirm whether things are fact or just peoples opinions/conjecture. Thus all the comments asking people about things over and over. Of course, none of these things I've posted have ever ment to antagonize or harrass anyone, but just that thought of wanting pure knowledge. In fact I am increadibly happy when people can prove me wrong without a shread of doubt as that allows me to learn something new (but this of course means they need to back up their claims with facts/sources).

- As you have seen, I'm a bit of the argumentative type in general terms. Devils Advocate? Note exactly that but ah well.

- I do quite love Overlord, but I do have some of my own thoughts about some things and dissagreements even with Funimations translation. Such as their choice of "Wise King of the Forest" over "Virtuous King of the Forest". Of couse I've already posted my thoughts about such things in sections like on the episode (actually not sure if I posted that in Hamsuke's page as well....). Thus with thoughts like that, it does irk me a bit that the Wiki page was changed to "Wise" because of Funimations poor translation and understanding of the subject matter.

- Just to add one more dissagreement I have with the Wiki would be the removal of So-Bin's pictures as the profile picture of each character (at least the ones that have official character sheets) as So-Bin is the official artist for all the books and which the Anime's art is based on. Though the anime of course cuts corners. I do think it's quite fine to have an anime gallery at the bottom as is, but MDSiapno001 is in charge of the pictures as I saw from a comment he made toward you and I of course would not want to step on anyones toes (so of course I am not going to go and change anything, just thought I'd voice it for once).

- I do have EVERY picture that So-Bin has posted of Overlord in his artblog (I took the time to go thru every post....)  As well as of course the RAWs of all 9 books (physical copies of some, not all), Skythewoods translations saved, Drama CD's both RAW and translated, MKV's of the anime, and all three of the Chibi Chara Anime, Ple- Ple- Pleiades specials.

- On that last note, I do read Japanese very well. While knowing all my hiragana and katakana, I sadly only know around 100 kanji off the top of my head, thus am much appreciative of Skythewood's translations each weekend. Oddly enough I'm almost fluent when it comes to listening to it and can watch the anime and listen to the CD drama's without needing subtitles.....

- Continueing on that point, since I love Overlord a bit much (as you can see from all this by now, I tend to go overboard on things I like....), while greatfull to Skythewood (and Co.), I am not the happiest from their editing at times (which you may or may not understand while reading it). From changing of the tenses for no reason, repeated words, forgotten use of a plural, grammer and the like. Thus on that note, I AM working on an, let's call it an EDIT. As it is not completly my translation, using Skythewoods as a base, the RAW's of the original Japanese Novels (as Skythewood's translations are from the Chinese Novels, so other inconsistancies form here and there that need fixing), character recognition software to extract the characters from the RAWs scanned pictures, 3 seperate translator programs on top of my 5 years of Japanese, and text to speech software (a compilation of a program and a seperate voice package to make the voice pronounce things better) so that I can hear what is written as if spoken by a third party to listen for mistakes and to just hear if it flows corrrectly when read out loud (I find it easier to listen to than speaking it yourself).

- With the last thing that was just said though, because of all of that, I am doing my edit at a snails pace. Having made it thru 60 of the 100 pages of the first book in a months time (kind of like 1-6 pages every other day or so) as I'm also formating it while I go so that the pages are all the same size as the original novel (will make a nice PDF with all the correct pictures in all the right places as well.....). So it's not like that's going to be available to anyone anytime soon and was something my friends think I'm crazy for doing, because of the ammount of time I'm putting into it.

- All of that about the edit is the real reason I'm so active as I want to confirm that my translations and understanding of the story is correct. On top of which, I do also just like to talk about things I like. This being one of them.

- I also plan on having some explination pages (either at the start or the end of the book) explaining terms and things of that like (like how to pronounce Mare, so people are not reading it like the animal, but Mah-Reh, I guess would be an easy way of letting people know, with of course an explination why or things like why "nympho" is used in Albedo's setting instead of a direct translation of "bitch" as the term "bitch" is slang in to the Japanese and has a different meaning to an English speaker).

- I also plan on editing the subtitles in my own person copy of the anime and the CD drama so that terms and names are better translated, but that won't happen till well after the book. Though at least I already have the software for that.

- On and that text to speech software is actually the reason the Skythewoods translations are irking me a bit. When reading you can tend to skip over mistakes as your brain almost rewrites what you are reading while you read it making sense of what is there, but when hearing it spoken as is, you hear every little mistake. While I've read Skythewood's translations twice, I cannot read it while at work (being a CNC programmer, needing to program all day for heavy machinery). So I either listen to CD's, have AMV's running next to me, or recently, using text to speech software to read books to me while I work (keeps me entertained). With that I'm an odd one in that I don't mind hearing the same thing over and over, be it the same single song on repeat all day to hearing a book I just read, read out loud to me again a couple times. Overlord by the way, if just counting the first 5 books takes up almost the entirety of 5 workdays, 8 hours each for it to all be read out loud. Which is really nice as it fills the week up nicely and keeps the story fresh in my head. This is actually the main reason for the edit, so that I can listen to the books, well already doing that, but listen to them without making me cring a little hear and there.

But I'm sure that's plenty about me. Though feel free to ask anything. I'm generally and open and honest person. Thus willing to chat about almost anything and everything. I like to think I'm friendly, but I do know that many feel like I'm to, let's say confrontational, even if I don't mean what I say to be so. I am also quite knowledgable in both Greek and Norse mythologies and many oriental stories (mother liked to read me stories when I was little and I do read a lot too, on top of being shown almost every black and white movie made and anything considered a classic......  way to much, no?). And look, I'm still going on.....

WITH ALL OF THAT, if I was to be a moderator, what exactly would I do beyond looking out for people making offensive comments in the comments sections? Would there be anything perticular I should do? Or would it be just in name as a just in case thing?

- Kat