{"id":4642,"date":"2023-06-15T12:15:05","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T12:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openworldvc.com\/?p=4642"},"modified":"2023-08-01T15:34:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T15:34:08","slug":"s2-ep1-meet-the-hosts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openworldvc.com\/2023\/06\/15\/s2-ep1-meet-the-hosts\/","title":{"rendered":"S2 EP1 &#8211; Meet the Hosts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Watch the episode on YouTube<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed aligncenter is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Ft. xxx - LocFact #RedDeadRedemption2 | Open World Videocast S02E01\" width=\"1170\" height=\"658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6kj4o1NCSf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Episode Transcription<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignright is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: Open World S02E01: Meet the Hosts\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"152\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/episode\/4sOYZ7dAap4UFJp18nP3mD?si=vXYVVW4rRw-ik7M_gcyYTg&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Hi, everyone! Welcome to Open World season 2. Yes, we\u2019re back with the show about video games, localization, and memes. But, as you can see, we are a little bit different right now. We have new hosts. You know me from season 1, but now we have Lara Lapier, Melisa Ilari. Why don\u2019t you guys introduce yourselves for our new audience?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Hi, everyone. Welcome! It\u2019s so good to be here. I&#8217;m Lara, I&#8217;m an English translator, and I\u2019ve been playing video games since I was six years old, so maybe I can share with you a little bit of my experience through all these years being a woman and playing video games. What about you, Meli?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Yeah. Hello, everyone. I&#8217;m Melisa Ilari. I live in London, although now I&#8217;m here in Buenos Aires, where we\u2019re recording this. I&#8217;m from a small city called Venado Tuerto. And, of course, I also love this, and I\u2019ve been in the translation industry for over six years, so I&#8217;m also hoping to share some of that input in our show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Nice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: And, Ale, you put us in the spotlight, so now it\u2019s your turn to introduce yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Well, yes. My name is Alexis Bir\u00f3. I&#8217;ve been playing video games since I was three years old. I started way too young. I&#8217;m 34\u2026 31 years of experience playing video games. So yes, it\u2019s our personality to play video games.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA:<\/strong> \u201cWhat do you do?\u201d \u201cI play video games.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: I play video games. Yeah. I&#8217;m actually an English teacher, but the passion that I have for video games has taken me to wonderful places, like co-hosting a podcast.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: So, guys, let\u2019s start with this. We know that we play video games. Why did you start playing video games? Lali?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Um\u2026 Well, at the beginning, I think it was like some sort of entertainment, because I started like really, really young, you know? And it was the perfect excuse that I had at the moment\u2026 that my mom had at the moment to make me go inside, because I was all the time playing outside, you know? \u201cLali, you get one hour of computer games if you get inside!\u201d \u201cGoing!\u201d You know? I was like, going!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: I mean, it worked. A good strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: It worked. Yeah. The thing is, it developed into something a little bit rougher throughout the years, you know? It was no longer an hour, instead, we\u2019re going with two, three, four\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: \u201cLali, don\u2019t you wanna go outside?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah! \u201cLali, why don\u2019t you go outside? There is a sunny day outside\u2026\u201d \u201cNo. I wanna stay in playing video games. You caused this.\u201d No, mom, I love you, please. But yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Meli?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Yeah, well, I started playing as a kid with my little brother, like something we shared during the weekends. We had like two shops in my hometown where you could rent like the games for the Sega.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Oh, my God, yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: And so I played Sonic and Aladdin and those games that were\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Was this like that everywhere? We\u2019re all Argentinians, by the way. I don\u2019t know if it was like that everywhere in the world, in other countries. Like we used to rent Sega cartridges for, what, 24 hours, 48 hours? And then you\u2019d have to give it back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Sometimes, a week, if you were lucky enough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: If you were lucky or if you could afford it, yes, a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Sometimes you would go there and they don\u2019t have it, like someone else has it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: \u201cNo, it\u2019s rented already.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: \u201cIt\u2019s a very popular game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: \u201cThere goes my weekend.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Exactly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: And you had to get another game. It was like, uggh!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: I already played the Looney Tunes game. Well, it\u2019s funny that we all have like some family-related things going on around video games. One of the earliest memories that I have it\u2019s me playing the first Mario Bros on the old NES at home with my mom, you know? And then playing Mortal Kombat with my dad growing up a little bit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah, absolutely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: And yes, the times that you play grow up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah, I remember playing Zombies Ate my Neighbors with my brother. We were like, \u201cOh my God!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: That was a Sega game, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: It was a Sega game, and it was so good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Sega Genesis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah. You had both characters. You had the girl and you had the boy. Back in the day, it was a lot, you know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Yeah, you got to choose who you played with. Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah, you could choose which one you wanted to play. And we were like obsessing. So good. Such a great game from childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: I always used to pretend that Knuckles from the Sonic game was a girl, you know? But my brother was like, \u201cYou know he\u2019s a guy.\u201d And I, \u201cNo, no. The red one, that\u2019s a girl.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: \u201cDo you see that long hair?\u201d What about nowadays, guys? Do you guys play video games? Meli, I know you travel a lot, I don\u2019t know\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Yes. It\u2019s complicated with traveling. I sometimes take my gamer computer if I&#8217;m gonna be there for a long time, like now that I came to Argentina for the holidays. But to be honest, I did stop playing while I was like on my high school years. I played as a kid and then, you know\u2026 I think\u2026 And we&#8217;re gonna have a whole episode about it, but I think it just wasn\u2019t as common for young girls to be playing in my generation. So my younger brother continued playing and now he\u2019s like a really good gamer. Hi, Mati. But I didn\u2019t, and now I kinda rediscovered that passion for video games, and it\u2019s something I really enjoy to do on the weekends, after a long day of work. You know, I&#8217;m not really good, but I still enjoy it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: You can play video games and not be good at it. I mean, I suck now that I&#8217;m a dad\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah. Same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Because that happens, you know? You\u2019re playing, \u201cHey, you suck!\u201d Yeah. I used to suck too when I was younger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: I\u2019m not a dad, and I play like four hours a day and I still suck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: How many hours do you play a day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: So, let\u2019s say from Monday to Friday\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: You said four hours a day?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah. Sometimes it\u2019s four, sometimes it\u2019s three hours a day. From Monday to Friday. But Sunday and Saturday, it is different, because I have more free time, and it\u2019s dangerous\u2026 it\u2019s dangerous the amount of time I spend playing video games. Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: And what are you guys playing right now?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Um, right now, I&#8217;m playing a little bit of Overwatch. I started playing Tiny Tina\u2019s Wonderland. I think that game is amazing. And I recently finished Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet, so it\u2019s just like, oh my God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX:<\/strong> You&#8217;re going through that mourning phase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: In case it\u2019s not obvious that we&#8217;re Pok\u00e9mon fans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yes. The thing is, I&#8217;m still playing it because I&#8217;m trying to find my Shiny, though. It\u2019s so hard to find the Pok\u00e9mon Shiny, in Pok\u00e9mon Scarlet, at least. I&#8217;m still going for it, I don\u2019t care. I won&#8217;t stop until I find one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: But the replayability that some games have is awesome. I recently finished A Plague Tale: Requiem, that Theo actually recommended this game to me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Thank you, Theo!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Thank you for that. I cried like three or four times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: But you were warned about that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: I was warned. He warned me. But, I mean, they have a new game plus, you know, that you can get all of the upgrades and everything, but it\u2019s like I can&#8217;t get over the ending. I&#8217;m not gonna spoil anything for you guys. But yeah. What are you playing right now, Meli?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Yeah, uh, well, I just downloaded It Takes Two, that I&#8217;m gonna play with a friend, and Lari heavily recommended it as well. And I&#8217;m also like trying new games, so if anyone watching wants to recommend any games, let me know. And I&#8217;m playing Destiny 2, I&#8217;m really enjoying that one. And Fortnight, which I play with my nephew and my sister. You can play online so it\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: So you only play on PC? Or do you play on Switch or something like that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: I only play on PC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: I play on\u2026 I play on everything. I play on PC, I play on Switch, and I&#8217;m currently playing also on PS5. On PS5, I just finished Guardians of the Galaxy, and I miss Rocket dearly. Oh my God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: I didn\u2019t play it. Are you spoiling something?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Um\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Yeah, right?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: No. No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: No? Okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: You\u2019re good. You&#8217;re good.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: You\u2019re an Xbox guy, Ale?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Actually, I&#8217;m not an Xbox or a Playstation guy. I currently have an Xbox Series S, I have a Nintendo Switch, I have a pretty decent phone that I bought at last year\u2019s Gamescom when I went to Cologne. But, I mean, back in the Playstation 3, Xbox 360 eras, where you have really good exclusive games for every console, I used to go back and forth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Back then, I couldn\u2019t afford to have both at the same time, so I used to buy me an Xbox 360, play something exclusive, then sell it. I had a friend that had a shop, so he hooked me up with used ones, you know? I would just want the PSP, for instance, to play, I don\u2019t know, Crisis Core, you know? \u201cPlease, give it to me\u2026\u201d I figured it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Another game I played very recently is Tetris Effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: It\u2019s a classic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: It\u2019s a classic. Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: I can&#8217;t recommend this game enough. It\u2019s an addiction, I&#8217;m not kidding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: It doesn\u2019t matter who you ask, Tetris is a game that has touched us all at some point. So, we\u2019ve been playing for quite a while, even though we have our lapsus where we don\u2019t play. If you had to choose like one, your favorite game ever\u2026 Lali?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah. I have this one like\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: If you wanna think about it\u2026 Oh, you have it. Okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: I have it. I have it. My favorite game of all times is Fallout New Vegas. I think the kind of story that gets you to choose your ending, choose whatever you wanna do, I think it\u2019s\u2026 that game nails it down to the point that you do whatever you wanna do. And it\u2019s so good, the story is so good. I don\u2019t know, I love Fallout games, and I think New Vegas is top-down my favorite, yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Nice. Meli?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: It\u2019s hard for me to choose, since there\u2019s so many games I wanna try, especially like new games. But, you know, just like nostalgia always hits me hard, so I probably would have to say Sonic, one of my childhood games, if I have to say of all time. What about you, Ale?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: God. I did the question and I don\u2019t have a straight answer for that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Oh, it\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: I think he wasn\u2019t expecting us\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah, but it\u2019s okay. I mean, it\u2019s so hard to choose one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: I could choose like Final Fantasy VIII. Final Fantasy VIII was like the first Final Fantasy game that I\u2019ve ever played. I played like 500 hours or something like that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: What? That\u2019s\u2026 wow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Yeah. We didn\u2019t have like trophies or anything back then, but if they existed, I would have Platinum. But then Final Fantasy IX. The first Silent Hill was amazing. Incredible. And more recently, Bloodborne. For me, that game is a masterpiece. I mean, I&#8217;m still waiting for Bloodborne 2, but that\u2019s not gonna happen. But yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Let\u2019s just wish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Nice. Those are all good choices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: So, childhood games. What do you\u2026? What was the first game that you\u2019ve ever played, Lali?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: First game I&#8217;ve ever played. I was six years old, I was with my dad, I remember, and we were playing Tomb Raider 1. Like the Tomb Raider with Lara that it was all pixels and\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Triangles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: \u2026boxes and triangles. It was a little bit sketchy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Polygons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah. That was my first one. And then I went into the Lara multiverse, you know? And I kept playing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: You didn\u2019t say your catchphrase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Oh! Oh my God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: This is how Lara introduces herself to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Every time I have to introduce myself\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Let\u2019s act it out. Hi, I&#8217;m Alexis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Hi! I&#8217;m Lara. Like Lara Croft, but not that cool. I always introduce myself like that because I think it\u2019s funny and, when you\u2019re in the world of video games, everyone knows Lara Croft. So it\u2019s just like, \u201cYeah, like Lara, but not that cool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: It\u2019s like Lara-Uncool Lara.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: As someone that knows you, I have to say, you are cool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Oh, thank you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Yes. You are Cool Lara. The other one is the pixelated Lara. And Meli, what are the games that\u2026?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: I can&#8217;t remember the first one. Probably like Tetris, I don\u2019t know. I really liked Snow Bros, that\u2019s like more retro, my older brothers used to play it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: NES times. Yeah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Yeah. I really liked that game. Even recently, we were in a place that had some arcade games, and they had the Snow Bros\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: There\u2019s always a Snow Bros there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Yeah. And it was a really fine game. What about you, Ale?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Super Mario 1. Earliest memories. I couldn\u2019t get past the castle in World 4, I remember, when I was a kid. And then growing up, I tried to replay it, you know? \u201cNo, I&#8217;m not gonna play this. I can&#8217;t win this world.\u201d And it was like, \u201cIt was this easy?\u201d But you know, you grow, you learn. The mechanics, eye-to-hand coordination get better or something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah. Absolutely.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: But, guys, what\u2026 Nowadays, I mean, I play on PC, on consoles, on phones. What\u2019s your cup of tea? You explore this, but what do you prefer to get your game on? I prefer being on the couch with a joystick and a screen. Old school.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: I would say my PC. I spent way too much money on that PC, and that PC is my child, I built it myself. So it\u2019s just like, this is my Frankenstein, this is my creation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: I feel like on social media, we should share your setting. You have a really cool setup for gaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: I mean, you will get to see it in the interviews. You will see it. You will see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Yes, guys, because we didn\u2019t discuss this when we first introduced the season 1. With season 1, we&#8217;re gonna have\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Season 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: Season 2. Sorry. Yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: It\u2019s not gonna just be us talking about our childhood games?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: No.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Oh, okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: No. No, you&#8217;re not gonna listen to us for the entire season talking about video games. We&#8217;re gonna have\u2026 Last season, it was 18 episodes with 18 guests. Now we&#8217;re gonna have the same amount of episodes, for the entire season, but we&#8217;re gonna have one episode with just us talking about different topics: diversity and inclusion, accessibility, fictional languages\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: A lot of localization topics, too, so it\u2019s just going to be a little bit more mixed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Really interesting topics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: We&#8217;re still gonna have people from the industry, from the localization side, from the video game side, from top companies that you&#8217;re gonna find very, very, very, very interesting interviews. But to wrap it up for a\u2026 Before we wrap up, what is your background, guys? What did you study? How did you get here into the localization industry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Okay, personal. Okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ALEX<\/strong>: What can be more personal than your first game? Come on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>MELISA<\/strong>: Yeah, that\u2019s a good point. Well, I have a master\u2019s in Policy and Management, so my background is very mixed. But I&#8217;ve worked for six years in the translation industry, and recently I just started, you know, moved to the video game localization specifically, which I was very excited about because, of course, I love video games, I love the industry, it\u2019s such a cool industry that we work in. People are very passionate about what they do, and that\u2019s just really nice to see and really nice to work with. Lari?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>LARA<\/strong>: Yeah, I&#8217;m an English translator and I have a diploma on Audiovisual Translation. But when I first started the career at college, I had a teacher\u2026 Hi, teacher. I&#8217;m not gonna say your name. But she was like, \u201cWhat do you wanna do after college?\u201d And I was like, \u201cI wanna work with video games.\u201d And she was like, \u201cOh, my God. 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