Yeah, sadly few people have that amount of time, I'll have to stop myself soon enough, job and all that. I also wish I were born in Japan, in that case I'd just have to learn English and I'd know everything worth-while. Yeah, so many great games/manga etc. I'd love to read, but can't. T.T
Hehe, you wouldn't believe the kind of stuff I'm often getting. I have to check some sentences twice or thrice with various translation tools and experiment with the structure of the sentence to get something sensible out of it. If all else fails I have to just make an educated guess, based on the prior and the next sentence. Far from perfect, translations like that.

But it's been getting better, in their early days these tools were far less reliable.
Well, I figured that's better than everyone sitting around completely without a translation.

I'm pretty sure I won't ever learn Japanese and the stuff I really want translated is stuff that's very unlikely to get translated. My 'translations', if you can call them that, aren't on par with what a good translator that knows the language could produce, but it's still preferable to having none, I believe. Besides, by the off chance that someone picks it up, more power to them. They can still make a better translation, so having one that kinda sucks at times doesn't hurt, I think.