Thread for reporting Smega-Drive subtitle errors

[Nick R]

I know that previously, mistakes in the Smega-Drive captions have been reported in the original Introducing the Smega-Drive article. But I think it would be better to have a forum thread for doing this, because:

1) The comments on that article are making the page really long, so a paginated thread is probably better.

2) If they’re all kept together in a thread of their own then it’ll probably be easier to keep track of which ones have been reported and fixed. (As long as people don’t confuse things by, say, making up fake errors… or mixing up the subtitle errors with memes about subtitle errors…

… uh-oh.)

3) I know the original announcement article says they should be reported by email, but posting them in forum comments is probably quicker. (If you spot an error because you’re already making a meme for another thread, it’s not much effort to save the image that has the problem and post it here.) 

Anyway, this is the one I spotted today that prompted me to start this thread: 

Also, lines that begin with ellipses often only have one or two dots:

Also, I’m sure I saw one not long ago where a stray “&amp” or “&nbsp” or “▯” turned up. But now I’ve forgotten where I saw it and – despite ctrl+F-ing a lot of episodes’ pages – can’t find it again. :(

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[Jonathan Capps]

Fuck my arse, it’s page 2

[Nick R]

https://langui.sh/2026/05/04/ten-years-of-frinkiac/

Frinkiac and Morbotron have been updated with the help of AI (uh-oh) to add some useful things that all the cool TV series gif makers already had as basic features, like an episode browser by season, and fewer limitations on gif lengths.

However they’ve also increased the screenshot resolution and changed the behaviour of text sizes so that new Frinkiac captions don’t look the same as old ones. I haven’t tried it on PC yet, but on mobile, the new UI seems cluttered and maybe slightly overcomplicated.

But the result is that you can now use the sites to create horrifying monstrosities like these:

Imagine the sheer power that we would command if similar features were added to the Smega-Drive! It is probably fortunate for everyone that such a thing will surely never happen.

[Moonlight]

[Technopeasant]

Have they added the movie yet?

[Flap Jack]

The movie was always on there, though IIRC there was a quirk which made it hard to get to.

But yes, now it’s there as an option in the episode navigator (under “Season 0”) as well as a filter in the search.

[Frank Smeghammer]

[Jonathan Capps]

I am slightly tempted by the multiple text areas idea but I’m also very sleepy

[Flap Jack]

I am slightly tempted by the multiple text areas idea but I’m also very sleepy

Hey, no problem, we can wait until tomorrow.

Although despite all the improvements to Frinkiac, the Smega-Drive still has the edge because Frinkiac only has a standard boring “Random” button and not one which gives random images random captions. Amateurs.

Plus the GIF maker doesn’t seem to have an option to combine multiple GIFs into one?

[Dave]

Plus the GIF maker doesn’t seem to have an option to combine multiple GIFs into one?

Why would you create three GIFs into one though?

[Warbodog]

I am slightly tempted by the multiple text areas idea but I’m also very sleepy

And ruin the art of space+returning and trying to hide punctuation marks to offset the centre alignment?

[Dave]

And ruin the art of space+returning and trying to hide punctuation marks to offset the centre alignment?

[Jonathan Capps]

And ruin the art of space+returning and trying to hide punctuation marks to offset the centre alignment?

[Technopeasant]

The movie was always on there, though IIRC there was a quirk which made it hard to get to.
But yes, now it’s there as an option in the episode navigator (under “Season 0”) as well as a filter in the search.

When is the Smegadrive adding the movie then?

Surely the fact the script hasn’t been released in any form is no obstacle.

[Ian Symes]

It’s already on there: https://smegadrive.ganymede.tv/episodes/61

[Nick R]

It’s already on there: https://smegadrive.ganymede.tv/episodes/61 

So it is!

[Flap Jack]

It’s the Silverberg.

[Ben Saunders]

I spotted an error the other day. I searched for something and it didn’t come up. I can’t remember what it was, though. Sorry.

[Technopeasant]

[Warbodog]

[Ben Saunders]

Ohh, it was IQ. I dunno if the string is too short so there are too many results or something, but searching IQ yields 0 results.

[Ian Symes]

Ah yes, I think the minimum is three characters.

[Technopeasant]

What about I.Q.?

[Flap Jack]

Ah yes, I think the minimum is three characters.

So that’s why I can never get matches for most of Marooned.

[Dave]

[Moonlight]

Red Dwarf is no longer interested in the sid that breakfast used to attract.

[Warbodog]

I don’t know why Lister’s so happy about that breakfast when it doesn’t include curry and he can’t taste pretty much anything.

[Quinn: Clochebusters World Champion]

He’s got Kochanski under the scanner table 

[Dave]

There’s something weirdly AI-looking about that image.

[Dave]

[Warbodog]

Series VII is just uncanny in general.

[Moonlight]

I already corrected it but I need to save this truly incompetent bit of subtitling for posterity.

[gerrydelasel]

How come when I search the Smegadrive for a phrase like “he’s right” I get no results containing that exact phrase? (e.g. Psirens)

[Flap Jack]

Interesting. I think it’s using a system which discards common words.

In the case of “he’s right”, the “he’s” is ignored entirely. You can see that if you just search for “right”, the results are the same.

As for “right”, it seems that it’s excluding all of the exact matches for being too numerous, and only returning results with words which contain it (rights, righteous, right-handed). That’s quite a strange behaviour given that you can get common words to return full results sometimes. It’s like if it knows the too-common word you’re searching for has derivatives, it only returns the derivatives, but otherwise it works normally.

[Nick R]

Searching for “hes right” without the apostrophe brings up both results with that exact phrase (“He’s right. I’m just a huge green blob”) and those where those characters appear within other words, separated by other characters (“But she’s a bright, good-looking, intelligent, witty, upwardly mobile officer”).

[Moonlight]

On any search engine I use it at work for things like inventory, if you don’t put in the EXACT letter-for-letter text string it expects you to, it will not find the item. They also like to abbreviate things with long names, so have fun reverse engineering the correct abbreviation from first principles.

[Technopeasant]

Sometimes I just look up the episode and then use the Find in Page browser tool. It does require a complete memorization of every caption but we all have that right?

[gerrydelasel]

[Jonathan Capps]

Yeah, the search is janky as fuck. I’ll get it fixed right after I’ve added all of Moonlight’s corrections.

[Moonlight]

[Technopeasant]

Yeah, the search is janky as fuck. I’ll get it fixed right after I’ve added all of Moonlight’s corrections.

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