Post by Melancholy Marionette in Dawn of the Damned - (a Darling Duality universe backstory) comments

Glad you liked this one ^-^

Holy moly, that must be a lot of work! SR is so long O.O I hope you don't exhaust yourself in the process >.< Fingers crossed that YT is okay with the gory bits then x3 I mean, it's not THAT bad since it's cartoon gore I guess. *High five* for Halloween-themed things :D

My relatives in Poland would probably think it was soooo cool that you're translating SR :3 Well, one of them is an English teacher, so I guess she could read the English version anyways, but I don't think any of the others can read or speak English fluently like she can. Although, they probably wouldn't like my games either xD Especially not the kids cos they are too young to be playing them, haha.

Hehe x3 Well the main ingredients for completing the jam were waaaay too many hours staring at my monitors instead of sleeping + bucketloads of passion xD

You don't need to apologise anyways, you silly sausage x3 You play my games and leave really lovely comments, so that is already being super supportive ^-^

Yeah, the German mainly came from me being a bit addicted to learning German, haha. I had to stop in September while I made the game, and then I was too busy in October to restart. Still haven't restarted yet cos I haven't had the time, but I will when I can! I really hope I can also learn Polish too at some point because it would be so cool if I could actually somehow speak to my Polish relatives in Polish when they visit. They warned me that it is one of the most difficult languages to learn though, so I will probably fail x3

Hehe, yeah, I tried to find as many translations for Dawn in as many different languages as I could, but because I don't speak them all myself, I was relying on Google and just hoping that they were correct :3

Unrelated to the game, but my dad actually wanted to name me Ania or Anya after our Polish relative, but sadly, my mum overruled him and gave me a crap name instead T_T Didn't even get to have it as a middle name! Sometimes I think about getting it legally changed, but then it seems like it would be a giant pain in the butt with having to update your name everywhere >.<

And yeah, I was looking up the German for Dawn and Dusk, and that's what it told me, like Damme is twilight, and it said that it can be dawn or dusk, which I thought was pretty cool :3 Like it said you can add Morgen to the start of Dammerung or Abend to the start to specify if you want to say it's dawn or dusk! Languages are so cool <3

Hehe, aww, thank you ^-^ And to you too! Also hope you got to have a happy Halloween!!

KarolinaDiabolina3 years ago(+1)

Yes, it is a lot of work haha, but translating something I like is pleasant so I'll keep going, thanks ^o^

Oh, you do have relatives in Poland! <3

I hope you rested well after completing the game and got much sleep c:

Sausage >,< that sounds cute <3

Thats so cool you learn german! i tried when i was still in middle school but my teacher was so rude that i hated all lessons and now i dont even remember anything T-T maybe one day i'll try to approach it again cuz i have a dream to know many languages in the future UwU
Tho my pace is quite slow cuz im still working on only english meh XD *crying in snail speed*
(i wish to play korean and japanese games in original~)

If you have polish relatives you could train ur language skills on them/with them when they visit : )
Or maybe one day you decide to visit poland, i heard the fastest way to learn language is to ''get surrounded by it'' (hearing people irl, writings, texts everywhere stimulate brain somehow to switch or something like that XD)

one day i watched a video about developing like...a ''second brain'' in a forein language this way, and then you can start thinking in this second language after some time (not just translating), it was quite crazy for me when i first started getting better in english to this point and then started thinking in english.
It even became so normal for me to mix certain english words into polish sentences, especially in informal speech, so for example, when im with friends i wont say that something is cute in polish, just ''awww thats so cute'' in english O^O

OH Ania/Anna is pretty popular name, in poland but also outside :D Easy to pronounce, tho Anya would be more appealing to me cuz I love foreign-like names more~
And imagine having the same name as cute and really liked anime character ;)
(Anya from Spy x Family)

Hm, i was also thinking about changing my name legally in the future... (or actually surname not name) but all these documents and formalities :<
I mean, I know i'll do it one day but first i have to be in a more stable situation in life XD
hope we both will get what we feel good with, someday ^w^

Yes, i also saw that variations of damme, languages are really interesting indeed <3
And all word games~

Halloween was casual but good, thank you dear :)

im sad we dont celebrate it like other countries :C u know, cuz our country is soo religious :C at least older generation
Its my favourite day/event, more than christmas or my birthday, atmosphere, autumn, costumes, pumpkins, michael myers ;), sweets, fun in the air ahh~
nevertheless i have faith in youngsters about this C:
Everything can change~

Wish you pleasant day B)

Melancholy Marionette3 years ago

Well, I wish you maximum good luck with it :3 Oh no, that sucks that you had a rude teacher >.< Bad teachers suck in general. Most of mine were crap, haha. And the only language option we were given at my school was French, which I took because I wanted to at least try to learn something, but she wound up leaving halfway through the year, so then we had nothing! It would be really nice though to know a whole bunch of languages :3

Well, your English is great! It's better than some people I know who are actually UK natives, haha. I tried to learn Japanese online, but I hit the paywall for more lessons and couldn't afford it so I kinda just gave up >.<

Sadly, we only see our Polish relatives like once every 10 years :( Only one of them is fluent in both Polish and English since she's a schoolteacher in Poland teaching English to the kids there, but some of them are trying to learn as well :3 And some of them speak Polish and German but no English, so maybe if I can keep learning German, we might be able to talk a little bit, haha. They have invited us over to stay with them before (we did a long time ago for a wedding in Poland where the whole family gathered :3) but I'm too scared to travel and stay on my own >.< I wish I could be a more confident person and just do it! But I know I would struggle to make conversation and stuff because of my stupid anxiety :(

You're totally right though! I've heard that too about surrounding yourself with the language you're trying to learn :3 I attempted to do that when I started German by only watching German shows on Netflix xD I think it helped a little bit, but they speak so fast on the shows compared to the lessons, haha.

That would be so cool though to be able to think or dream in another language! And mixing languages is really cool too ^-^ I hope I can be like that one day too!

Hehe, we never knew how to spell our relative Ania's name for a long time because sometimes she signed it as 'Ania' and sometimes as 'Anna' so we never knew which was the correct one >.< I think it's a very pretty sounding name though :3 In my school, there was only one Polish girl, and her name was Karolina, haha. It would have been cool to be friends, but she was really outgoing, sporty, and just generally had a lot of friends anyways cos she was like a big ball of energy and sunshine all the time, haha. Whereas I was just a shadow xD

My cousin who does acting and stuff sometimes actually had to change his surname (not legally, but like pick a different performer name) because he was told that ours was too difficult to pronounce and too foreign-sounding, and that would stop him from getting work! o.O That's so stupid >.<” Because it's a Polish name from my grandad's side of the family, haha. But then even our relatives n Poland think it's a weird-sounding name that probably didn't originate from there xD So none of us actually knows where it comes from, haha.

But yeah, changing stuff legally must be such a pain in the butt >.< Hope you can do what you want one day though :3

Yeah, I guess that makes sense with it being so religious there that Halloween wouldn't be a very big celebration >.< But yeah, I think as you say, that will change over time cos the young people will probably bring it more attention in the future. Just might take a while for things to change x3

But heck yes, Halloween is sooo much better than Christmas :P I was reading all those things like atmosphere, autumn, costumes, pumpkins, nodding my head like, yep, yep, yep. Then when I read Michael Myers that made me laugh x3 True though :P

Actually, over here, we have some of the scare places that do spooky Christmas horror events xD Not many, but they exist, haha. They're like, nope, Halloween is not over just because it's Christmas, we will have a horror Christmas instead :D I really need to visit one of them, but they're always far away from where I live T_T Hope your week is off to a good start ^-^

KarolinaDiabolina3 years ago(+1)

Oh such a shame it happend :c French is so cool

Always paywalls, meh T-T

I think most elders in Poland know russian or german because english wasnt an option then (at least in most cases i guess) :_: So actually learning german would really work out in communication with ur family :D

I mean, I would be scared to be abroad on my own as well but who knows what future holds, maybe you will meet somebody and you will travel together :D expect unexpected ;3

Oh, my name is Karolina too, but im probably the opposite of that girl haha, sunshine people are nice but shadows(or moonshine people) are interesting too if not more B) My dear friend is kinda like that, people dont really know her funny and amazing side at all :C luv her, there is beauty in everyone, just not everybody shows it around, probably they just need someone to vibe with them to illuminate their moonshine energy~

Sorry just rambling XD

WHAT?! surname would stop him from getting work?! thats crazy :O now im really curious what surname it is haha XD If ur family is from East Poland maybe its Lithuanian name, but if from West Poland... maybe even German? XD maybe thats why you like German :3 Ur roots or blood is calling you ;)

Happy I made you laugh :D Im totally a simp for Michael Myers and Ghost Face XD At least their version in my mind <3

spooky Christmas horror events? never heard of something like this! interesting OwO now i have one more place i want to visit when ill be rich XDDDD

Thanks for your kind words, good week to you too!

Melancholy Marionette3 years ago

Yeah, quite a few of my relatives know German since different parts of the family split off and moved to Germany, then got married to German people, haha. Some of them still only speak Polish though, so my poor relative who knows Polish, German, and English is always stuck being everyone's translator x3

Hehe, that would be pretty nice :3 I can't even remember the last time I went abroad actually it's been so long ago, haha. Think my passport expired a long time ago as well, so I wouldn't be able to travel anyways without getting a new one >.<

Yeah ^-^ I totally know what you mean cos if I'm with people I don't know or don't feel comfortable with yet, I am basically just a statue xD I find it impossible to be myself unless I'm comfortable with a person, and if we're on the same wavelength, when we get together we're just really silly x3 but only the folks who are super close to me and comfortable together will ever see me like that. One of my friends once said to me that one of the things she loves about me is how quiet and unassuming I will be around most people, but then when we're together, I'm like a completely different person :3 She said it's pretty amusing to see how much of a change there is in me, haha. And she said she likes the fact that other people don't get to see that side of me because it makes our friendship more special since she knows the real me ^-^

Ramble away anyhow, haha. I do it all the time anyways x3

Hehe, well, I would say what it is, but I probably shouldn't since anyone can read this x3 Our Polish relatives are all from Silesia :3 but yeah, it's weird because it doesn't sound like a Polish or a German surname apparently >.< When I was a kid, all I knew is that it came from my grandad who was Polish, so I just figured it was a Polish name! But then when we visited Poland for the first time, they were discussing how it's unusual because it doesn't really sound properly Polish xD

But yeah, the reason my cousin had to do that is cos he was told that people don't like hiring people with foreign-sounding or hard to pronounce names o.O Which is just crazy.

Aww x3 I get ya cos I simp for other Halloween/horror characters :P I got trapped by double Ghost Face's this year at one of the scare things I went to xD One blocked me off and I tried to go round, but the dude was like, nope, I'm taller and I have a knife, you're not getting past. Tried to go under his legs but that didn't work either x3 Then as soon as I did get past him, there was another one!

I don't think the Christmas horror stuff is that common, and one place who used to do it have even decided to give up on doing it this year :(

A merry week to you ^-^

KarolinaDiabolina3 years ago

Oh my, its good you have somebody who knows all 3 languages so you all can communicate ^w^
May she be blessed with much energy to translate it everything tho haha XD

Actually today I went to submit an application to get my first ever passport cuz I might visit my brothers living in England in 2023,
It went smoother than I thought O.O

Oh my gosh, it totally feels like you're describing my friend! XD
Sometimes I feel like only I know her to such a deep level, and the same with her level of knowing me, such bonds really are special
^o^

You're right, everybody can read it so its more safe to not say anything directly :-:
I had to google what Silesia is XD apparently its latin version of polish Śląsk, okay okay, now Im totally suspecting your surname's origin must be connected to Czech Republic C: it has to be it!

...trapped by two Ghost Faces?.... sounds like heaven
(BlushingEmojiXD)
recently i saw some video of a girl hugging killers in horror houses... i just sat there inspired, daydreaming for a couple of minutes XD
... i saw so many cute scenarios in my head XD

Merry christmas! and happy New Year because its also close!
<3

Melancholy Marionette3 years ago

Yeah x3 I honestly don't know how she does it! But I guess she must love languages since she's teaching them to kids :3 I wish I could be as skilled as she is!

Ooo, nice! Well, glad it went smoothly for you. I should renew mine at some point I guess x3 That would be cool though if you do get to spend some time over here with your brothers :3

To be honest, I might be getting Silesia wrong because I've oy ever heard my relatives speak the word, not seen it written down, so that was my best guess at the spelling from listening to them say it xD Still though, I will have to bring it up next time I see them and ask about Czech Republic! Also wanna get one of those ancestor kit thingies for my dad someday, but they're so expensive >.<

Haha, that sounds like a fun video :3 I often wish I could hug half of the actors in the scare mazes I go to just to thank them for being so awesome xD but I don't think they'd approve, haha. Plus I'd get kicked out of the attraction cos they always tell you at the beginning that you're absolutely not allowed to touch the actors x3

Merry Christmas and a super Happy New year to you tooooo ^-^

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