Don’t know why I’m making this entry but hey my last exam is tomorrow so hells yeahhhhhhhhh…

kthx.

Don’t fucking do it.

Thank you.

Only took 150 critical security patches to have 300 more.

Discuss.

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Straying from the ranting road again…….

As the topic implies, classics are always classics and are fun. What I’m mostly referring to are Super Nintendo games such as Chrono Trigger and Secret of Mana. If you haven’t played these already I’d highly suggest you do, you shouldn’t call yourself a gamer until you’ve played the classics!

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This week, we will explore the highly dramatized part of fansubbing, it’s not the whole whining and b*tching about intrusive karaoke, nor is it stamping giant logos everywhere. What we will presently discuss is an issue that has transcended from the prehistoric ages: Fingerpointing.

So here’s your typical group. Raw comes in, translator starts cranking, followed by the timers, typesetters, encoders, blah blah blah.

You manage to send out your release after your hard, combined efforts.

Then comes idiotic leecher 1.

Leecher: “OMFG U SUX”

You: “Why?”

Leecher: “OMFG U JUS SUX CUZ I SAY U SUX”

(Believe me, this happens everyday, every hour, every minute and every second. And yes, a ninja do cut off a kitten’s head and doesn’t even care when stupid leechers like this moron does this)

Please forgive me for the language I’m about to use, I actually don’t have a choice.

WHAT THE FUCK? HAVE YOU IDIOTS EVER THOUGHT THAT IF WE JUST ONE DAY PACKED UP AND LEFT DUE TO THE EVER SO THANKFUL “COMMENTS” YOU GIVE US, THERE’D BE NO SUBBED ANIME FOR YOU AT ALL?

Stop pointing your dirty fingers at us. We’re people, we’re offering you a service for zero charge and don’t even give me the bullshit about how you totally know what we go through — you have no clue.

If we suck so much, why are you even bothering to download anime from us? Go watch the raws, of course you’re more then capable of doing that right? Even if you’re only 12 years old and doesn’t speak a word of Japanese, you still say that our Translations and Editing sucks to hell, so you obviously would prefer watching raws, most logical.

Quit bitching or talking about stuff you don’t know, or quit watching subbed anime. Take it or leave it, we’ve actually put effort into this (most of us does anyway) and we go through a lot of trouble getting it to you, believe it or not. The stupidity of leechers (90% of them, not all of course) despairs us.

“I’m responsible for global warming,” (Quote: Alizar) Take a minute and think about it. The issue at hand is so absurd that a statement such as this actually fits the context. Leechers are becoming cancers, just like how we’re all polluting the planet and don’t give a damn anyway. We all point our fingers to someone else.

Please stop your verbal/intellectual diarrhea.

I’m finally back on track with my rants, har har.

This week, we’ll discuss the number 1 annoyance of mostly any starting/established group, and that believe it or not, are unappreciative leechers.

They (we’ll refer to those moronic leechers as “they” from now on) come in many shapes and sizes, lengths of widths, IQs and whatever else you can imagine. Bottom of the line is, it’s time fansubbers stand up for what they’re doing and start telling them to suck it. I shall quote ScR3WiEuS here in attempt to cut to the chase: “Fansubbing is about fansubbers enjoying what they’re doing, only those that do survive. Sure, I don’t mind pleasing the leechers every now and then, but I’m not hypocritical or altruistic like that. the most important thing is for me to have fun doing it. If I want to hardsub even though it’s less practical, so be it. if I wanna stamp giant logos all over the release, blow me.” (Quote edited with permission. In fact, ScR3W requested that it be edited. We are ethical subbers and we will attempt to source our quotes. YOU SHOULD TOO!)

Exactly as ScR3W has said, what ever the hell happened to subbing it for fun? Now, I haven’t been around here long enough but I sure as hell know that the last time I subbed for fun was with a friend doing a “satisfy your hunger” release of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei 12. That was FUN, and that was probably the only time I truly enjoyed fansubbing as it was meant to be enjoyed.

And why the hell do we have all these comparison, rating sites anyway? I find them as stupid as a 30 year old who can’t add 1+1. I thought we were doing this for fun and not as a competition to see who has a longer e-pen0r? Clearly, I was wrong, but I will attempt to convince as many as I can within my power. Surely the owners of such websites such as AniDB will argue that they’re providing the viewers a service by allowing them to vote on which groups are teh z0mfg lyke pwn0r and informing the new comers, but while I do recognize the AniDB owners for their valiant effort, it just doesn’t work. The system is filled with idiotic leechers thinking they know everything there is to know and giving 1s just because of one god damn spelling mistake. Who the hell do you think you are? And then there are groups who vote 10 for themselves…Let’s not even go there.

Back on topic.

Right, leechers. Who gave you the right to bitch and whine in our channels for not being able to play our releases when we clearly wrote “INSTALL CCCP” 500 times all over the internet? Who gave you the right to say that we ought to softsub or hardsub or whateversub? Who gave you the right to even “QC” our work without sufficient knowledge of the process? Okay, I understand that you can catch spelling mistakes, but what do you know about Encoding to say that “OMFG DIS EPISODE LOOK LIEK SHIET!!!!!!!!!!111ONEOEN?” Shut your trap. You got your anime fix provided by us as a service, we’re not here to babysit you, we’re not here to please YOU, we’re not here to be YOUR SLAVES. We’ll do things our damn way and if you don’t like it, go blow ScR3W.

Please understand that us fansubbers are doing this as a hobby. We’re fans too, not paid professionals. We get nothing for our services, all we’d like is an occasional “thank you for your work” type of thing. If that’s too damn much to ask for, then please go buy the dubbed DVDs or whatever else works. We’re not working for YOU.

Note: This post is NOT a rant, it’s simply a personal opinion type of thing, you don’t have to agree with me.

With that said, this is a subject more or so not so frequently discussed.  For the matters that we shall cover in this post, we shall use an anonymous fansubber who has performed shameful acts in his previous attempts to produce fansubs.

While I don’t know what the lot of you may think,  I believe in ethics in that you should not take other people’s work without giving them credit, unless they told you to go ahead and not credit them, which in our upcoming scenario they didn’t.

Am I going to blad on and on about justice? No. But I will say that if you’re one of those people who are actually into reading the credits, you should definitively read on. Even if you don’t care about the credits like how I certainly don’t, you may still find some of this material interesting.

The story begins with a few ethical subbers joining this unethical, totally anonymous subber’s group. Within days they find out that their group is using stolen translations and that their leader is knowingly allowing this to go on. Of course, being the ethical subbers that they are, they approached the leader, but in the end had only gotten flamed for being ethical and Fansub World War x had broken out (who knows how many FWWs there have previously been? I certainly can’t even begin to imagine).

Months later, the unethical subber had to change “its” (we will not reveal the person’s gender in attempt to protect the person’s identity) name and hide under new visages in order to continue subbing. Life quickly became difficult as more and more fansubber became aware of “its” actions. “It” states that “it” has learned from its mistakes, but is this true?

For now, we can only hope. If this is so, then we can all move on and forgive and forget. Let’s face it, we’re just fansubbers, and we’re all humans in the end and we all make mistakes, but we should recognize that even fansubbing work should not be stolen and used without credit.

Moral of the story is, respect rules and the ethical environment. Don’t steal.

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/forum/showthread.php?t=637059&highlight=demotivational

Especially on the 6th page, the trains of failures…

God that is awesome.

First of all, let’s define what a “Speed Sub” is for those people out there whose IQ is not any greater than room temperature.

A speed sub, as its name implies, is a subtitles job done quickly, usually with no karaoke or very simple karaoke effects, and with no typesetting or limited typesetting. Other parts of the process may also become endangered species, such as Editing or QCing. (For those who think QC is completely unneeded and stupid, go ahead and /wrist)

So why do groups produce speed subs? Well, it seems that in today’s fansubbing realm, speed is the number 1 determinant of subbing quality. What used to be Translation -> Editing -> Timing and whatnot has apparently transformed into this blasphemous reversed chain: Speed -> Karaoke Effects -> Other eye candy (AFX) -> Timing -> Editing -> Translation.

Before we go on ahead and starting asking ourselves what the hell has happened here, let’s first think about what the above chain implicates., as demonstrated below by a fictitious scenario:

Leecher A: y0 l0l, dis group r liek t3h 133t, dey kara0ke r lyek daymn SIK WIT IT!!11111

Leecher B: No, wrong. Their translations were horrible, and the Editor was probably smoking pot or fapping while on the job because there were close to 300 mistakes in the script.

Leecher A: YO WTF D00D, DEY GEWD, DEY L0G0 SOOOO OM EM EFF GEEE111!!1 AND DEY KARAOKE \O/ ZZOMG. FOOK U.

I hope you realize what a sad world fansubbers currently live in.

So why do groups really produce speed subs? Well, for a series of reasons. First most likely being that they want to maintain the best leecher/idler ratio, second is probably they just plain suck and fail, and the third case they’re just plain lazy.

Now those idiotic leechers out there are probably thinking, WTF R U SAYING U NOOB, U WRONG.

Well, here’s my answer in kind.

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Ready?

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STFU.

I’ve been amused enough times at those silly comments posted on AniDB, where the whole lot of the leechers are just plain stupid. Let’s face it - Speed and eye candy means a 10/10, translations no longer even matter as long as they can get the idea, spelling mistakes, grammar errors, none of that affects the quality of a release as long as the speed was UBER FAST or there are plenty eye candy such as a 50000 line Lua karaoke script that produces per 1/10000 pixel effects that change every line.

Again, I’m going to let the pictures do the talking, since I’ve talked enough today. Enjoy the image below, learn it, love it.

I hate them, you hate them, we all hate them.

So let’s give them a little something:

This concludes my rant today.