User talk:Sabrblade

Hey, Sabrblade. We may have disliked some of your edits, but I'm glad to see that you've created an account. It's a lot easier to talk to a screen name than an IP address. ^_^ --Steve-o 14:38, 16 February 2008 (EST)

Nothing wrong with the captions per se, it's just common practice to revert caption changes from new anons. Now that I know it's a regular contributor, I've no objections. --Detour 18:31, 11 February 2010 (EST)

^ Right, sorry. I'm usually more careful than as of late. I'll try not to be so hasty. --Sabrblade 17:31, 4 February 2011 (EST)

Spelling checks

Hey, in addition to the namechecks I mentioned on my talk page, in the middle of Flobsters on Parade, Chief Burns hands Cody a device he calls a "Comm tab". Can you please check how that's parsed in the captions? Thanks! --abates 05:31, 18 March 2012 (EDT)

Another quick check if you would - in the captions for Operation Bumblebee, is T-cog hyphenated? --abates 21:32, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

Can't check the DVR recordings during the weekdays... but thankfully I made certain to check that one when I watched it. Yes. T-Cog is hyphenated (and because of that, I've been spelling it with a capital C). --Sabrblade 21:36, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

Aha, thanks! --abates 21:55, 19 March 2012 (EDT)

Go

I can't get the captions to show up on the google docs link. How stupid am I, and what am I doing wrong?KrytenKoro 22:17, 15 July 2013 (EDT)

The YouTube video is just the normal raw version of the episode. The subbed version must be dowloded by clicking the downward-pointing arrow.

Though, do note that these particular subs are the first rough draft, made prior to any QC checking. There have since been two updated drafts made in two other subtitle files, so these ones here are far from being the finished product. --Sabrblade 22:28, 15 July 2013 (EDT)

Hey, the lightning blast blew a transformer on the power line! Puns.

I watched it, I put up my thoughts, hopefully that satisfies. And wow this episode makes me sad. I thought that the "dead, emotionless faces" thing was just them making a poor choice for promotional artwork, not...not this. Anything but this...I thought Prime was too stuffy in, y'know, Prime, but wow, they kicked it up a notch.KrytenKoro 22:51, 15 July 2013 (EDT)

Oh, and I spotted a few typos if it helps:

• Can I ask your name?
• Henceforth, we will carry on fighting shoulder-to-shoulder for Earth's peace.
• Actually, who are you?

LOL, yeah, I figured not many would like the no facial expressions. But, I wasn't bothered by it too much since it reminded me of the kind of costumed Tokusatsu characters who have similarly fixed faces. ;P

If you want, I could give you a link to the latest update to the subtitle script. Though, it's in a separate subtitle file that would have to be loaded to the original video file. --Sabrblade 23:17, 15 July 2013 (EDT)

You mean just for typo-checking? I'm honestly not very good at recognizing spoken Japanese unless I replay it several times (though for that matter, my hearing's going for English, too...WTF), so if you had it as a straight text file I could probably check it more efficiently.KrytenKoro 09:40, 16 July 2013 (EDT)

Oh, I just meant if you'd prefer to watch a version with less typos. --Sabrblade 09:53, 16 July 2013 (EDT)

One more thing (if you're still reading this). Would "sacred mirror" need the first letter of each of its words to be capitalized or no? --Sabrblade 01:26, 17 July 2013 (EDT)

They're calling it something like "Seidara Kagami", yeah? Looks like it's based nominally and visually on the Yata no Kagami, one of the imperial regalia of Japan, and that doesn't get capitals. The Go! mirror's importance is restricted to that family, and it doesn't seem like it would be reappearing again, so I would not treat it as requiring termness. Then again, it is the MacGuffin for this episode, so...it could go either way. (With its basis in the Yata no Kagami, which was used to "summon" Amaterasu, I wouldn't be surprised if the big series MacGuffin was the Yata, and it released Dragotron or Unicron or something.)

Also, do we know that it is "Legendisc", not "Regen Disc"?KrytenKoro 11:29, 17 July 2013 (EDT)

I asked since Walruslaw uppercased it and left it uppercased in the revised subs, but he may have done that unintentionally since he originally uppercased a ton of odd words in the first draft, so I was unsure. It's only mentioned once, so I'm not sure it if would need to be capitalized.

As for "Legendisc", there's a discussion on its talk page. --Sabrblade 11:49, 17 July 2013 (EDT)

Optimus Exprime

Do we have a primary source for this romanization now?--BraveMax (talk) 00:39, 1 December 2013 (EST)

It's a guess based on the name being spelled as オプティマスエクスプライム (as the "エクス" comes out as "Ex" or "X") and a portmanteau between "Express" and "Prime" (as at least one or two previous listings had the toy labeled as "Optimus Express"). "EX" gives off the connotation of it sounding like "ee ex" instead of just "ex", and some have taken to misreferring to the toy as such based on the "EX" spelling.

Granted, it could be any of the following: "Exprime", "ExPrime", "Ex-Prime", "Ex-prime", "Ex Prime", "Xprime", "XPrime", "X-Prime", "X-prime", "X Prime", etc. But "Exprime" seems to resemble the assumed "Express/Prime" pun the most.

This, along with the similarly-guessed "Go Prime", is one name that we desperately need Takara to tell us how to properly spell in English. --Sabrblade (talk) 06:21, 1 December 2013 (EST)

So... You have no proof, you just prefer your romanization? I mean, I agree that "EX Prime" is probably not accurate... But it wouldn't be the first time TakTom has pulled a fast one on us, so shouldn't we hold off on making changes willy-nilly until we have more info?--BraveMax (talk) 00:30, 2 December 2013 (EST)

Technically, the "Exprime" spelling was on the Go! toyline page well before the other pages were created, so I was just uniforming the other pages based on that. But if you'd like to recommend a better spelling (preferably one that doesn't use the misleading "EX"), I'm open to suggestions. --Sabrblade (talk) 00:40, 2 December 2013 (EST)

No. Just my usual "Let's leave it alone until we know for sure". Like I say - I don't disagree, I just think we don't have much proof either way. We will soon, though :)--BraveMax (talk) 01:03, 2 December 2013 (EST)