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Off Topic – v2 Edition
v1: http://www.crymore.net/off-topic-v1/
Post whatever you want. Comments will be purged (archived, really) every now and then so we don’t have 10,000 comments in one spot.
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V3 will be posted on 1/1/2014.
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Killer is Dead is pretty good.
I don’t really have anything to say in this off-topic page
I fucked up
Worst first comment ever.
Let’s be serious
Does anyone know of a fansub group doing Otomo Katsuhiro’s “Short Peace”? Bluray comes out in January.
I’ve been thinking about joining a fansubbing group for a while.
But this will be my first try as a fansubber so I don’t really know much about the whole fansubbing process, so I want to ask you almighty Dark_Sage where should I start looking?
I’ve been searching for an encoder position, is it a mistake to go for such a position for a first try? Or should I just pick timer?
What about work, school, social life,… how do you combine it or is it “impossible”?
And maybe a tip or a warning?
You’ll never please everyone.
Be proficient at using Aegisub even if your position doesn’t require it.
Don’t expect QC to catch every mistake.
A warning?
http://coalguys.com/?p=225
In that case, it’s already to late.
How about linking the old off-topic pages at the top? They’re interesting to read through.
RIP in peace Kusion
“SPECIAL” POSTS
For ‘special’ people?
That’s actually a very amiable touch.
You’re a nice Dark_Sage.
Can we still use “” tags to embed? Or is it different now?
…well they must work since they went away like that.
I’d a Dark_Sage’s toenails.
I notice that you’ve finally centered the menu bar; good job.
I think it looks like shit.
I think YOU look like shit.
tl;dr I wasted hours on trolling with a little success, but nothing to write home about. I’ll try harder next time.
I can’t believe I actually wasted my time skimming through that.
One question: Why is Kristen constantly referred to as ‘she’?
It looks like you just have as much problems as them in the head. ANIME
Not at all. I KNOW I’m a nutter – they seemingly don’t :D
JakaFTW Says:
August 22nd, 2008 at 3:18 pm
What can I say? Jaka you made my day.
btw fansub drama is srs business.
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I like how nothing has changed the last 5 years
Nothing’s changed since digital fansubbing began :D
Here I am not, yet not done with http://www.crymore.net/2013/09/29/archives-ggs-jojo-is-supposed-to-be-period-not-funny/ and you’re forcing me to read this? Well, I’m in.
Did you sticky the “Suggestions for Improvement?” article ? Its appearing on the top on the main page.
Haha, I was also going to come here to talk about Kill la Kill. I hope the outfit doesn’t stay. Honestly, if there ever was an anime that was epileptic, it’s KnK. So much stuff going on @[email protected]…
Goruden Taimu (◕‿◕✿)
Kaga should have chosen Ryuuji instead of that loser.
How long has that banner been up? I laughed way harder than I should have.
Lest someone challenge my mental faculties. I meant to say “how long has that banner been in the rotation.”
You know which one I mean.
If you mean the one I think you do, then it’s been up for a few weeks.
All the rest have been up since this: http://www.crymore.net/2013/07/12/banner-contest-over-winners-announced/
http://puu.sh/4INIQ.jpg
I can’t wait for this review.
Anyone taking part in FAL?
On GameFAQs I ran a contest to determine the best anime of Summer. The final bracket is here:
http://www.bracketmaker.com/tmenu.cfm?tid=447470
What do you guys make of the results?
Watamote>C3-bu, Gatchaman>SnK, everything>Neptunia, apart from that pretty damn good. And the first two are pretty trivial.
So I load up Funi’s Tokyo Ravens episode one and a minute into the episode we get this line:
http://i.imgur.com/f7ksX1B.jpg
…These subs are going to suck badly, aren’t they?
It’s fun to watch when you’re high, I’d assume. At least they have some karaoke… Kind of.
GG acually made them worse.
Smells like teen spirit.
gg did an original translation
Want to see some HARDCORE ANIME?
So whatever happened to that aniblog tourney hmmm?
What kind of person translates for anime subtitles? I’ve read the “fansubbing affiliations” blog post so I get the general categories of fansub group, but what makes a translator translate for these things?
(Note that I use the term “translate” loosely.)
When it comes to light novels there are a lot of people aiming to improve their Japanese (or Korean, or Chinese…) skills by translating, and a few more who really appreciate an author’s work and want to get more people exposed.
Anime subs seem to be somehow different, though…? Most of these groups seem to want to translate the same shows as each other, and the releases seem to be focused more on speed than accuracy. So, why bother with the half-assed translation?
Is the RSS feed broken?…
old > new
Is there a general consensus in regards to animating the actual subs? Like if a character yells “Stooooooooooooooooooooppu!” and the word Stop slightly shakes and fades away in sync with the exclamation, what do people think? An example that comes to mind is Black Order’s (I think that was it) TTGL, which had some of that stuff very nicely timed.
I know I like it, but does the majority frown upon it?
I guess if I were to answer that based on fansub releases nowadays the answer would be no, but maybe it’s just because that’d be a lot of unnecessary work.
So long as it’s not frequent or distracting, I’d say it’s fine. One example of this I’ve seen that worked well was where in Cthuko’s release of Gatchaman Crowds, where a line turns on its side in sync with the character tilting their head. It worked fine there, but it could very easily not be fine so in general I would recommend to avoid it.
Nice, I didn’t know of any ‘recent’ releases that did that <3
Commie does it often, though I’m too lazy to remember an example.
And so does Vivid – I think I saw a couple of those in Muromi.
So sleepy…
Alison Gold – Chinese Food. I died a little on the inside.
>waking up at 4 AM
>back home at (roughly)7 PM
my current sched. feels >:(
Would like to rent a dorm like before but ‘special constraints’ won’t let me.
Did Hadena finally die?
Did they try to sub Love Lab 09, overexert their brains, and have gran mals?
RIP in peace Hadena: martyrs for fansubbing, and standing up against fakesubbing.
What animu should i watch this season?
I’ve only seen Kill la Kill, which has been good so far.
Any advice?
– Hope Seiji-senpai will notice me.
Her’s his opinions so far:
http://www.crymore.net/hey-d_s-whatcha-watchin/#comment-85844
How come the OVAs for a harem fanservice show like To Love Ru gets subs by 4 different groups and yet Chihayafuru OVA (y’know a show that’s actually really good) can’t even get a single sub group? This wait is killing me :(
Why would Chihayafuru OVA be actually really good? “Good” is a rather objective measure. You can’t even just say that it’s good if it gets better rating than 8.0 by w/e. Also, people want to do currently airing simulcast shows, rather than shows that you actually have to TL the whole of. (It is true.)
But then I’m no Commie member so that’s just my two cents. (Commie did Chihayafuru S2 so I guess that’s where you’d mostly expect your subs for the OVA coming from.)
P.S.: I haven’t watched Chihayafuru so I don’t know if I personally like the OVA. Just sayin’ that there’s no such thing as “objectively good show.”
Thursdays: the day of the week in which anime is constantly being saved again and again.
Did CR overtake fansubbing already? I see groups using CR for the video, saying .ts source looked like shit compared to CR’s.
Because it often does? You’d be stupid to use Fuji TV as your source for noitaminA shows when CR video is available, for instance.
Care to explain what this is about?
http://quongsubs.wordpress.com/2013/10/20/monogatari-season-2-episode-16/
specifically
>mp79 formatted anime
>With a 90% more efficient compression rate than mp9s, quality does not suffer, and in fact receives a dramatic boost
Do you know what bait is?
Saving the future of fansubbing.
Move aside Daiz.
Doesn’t Sakasama no Patema look a lot like that French movie from a few years ago, ‘upside down’?
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/45582
>author of Log Horizon was on /a/
Feels good.
http://anilist.co/
this looks cool.
I wonder if it’ll be the Next Big Thing, after MAL…
It’s terrible.
It’s the same as Hummingbird, they’re trying to be a step up from MAL but are thinking too much about it. MAL is nice and simple for us retards
Huh, never heard of Hummingbird.
Well, you can use it to track the anime/manga you’re watching/reading so that it notifies you whenever a new episode/chapter comes out.
It’s pretty user-friendly, too. I especially like that it asked whether I want the titles to be in Romaji or English. You can also import your list directly from MAL.
And that’s about all I got from 15 minutes of use. Oh, and it looks pretty.
I use MAL for the MAL Updater.
er, didn’t finish what I was saying >_>
Anyway, I use MAL Updater because it has the nice torrent plugin thing that downloads all my anime and puts them in their own folders for me. It tells me what to which episode I’ve watched, what the latest one aired is, and what the latest one I have is. If I wanna watch a series, I just double click on the name from the list http://puu.sh/53eip.png and it loads it up and starts playing it in my MPC-BC. If I’m gonna switch, it’s gonna have to beat what I can do with MAL Updater.
wow that’s looks awesome.
How’s the API?
Halloween coming up… time for a kore wa zombie desu ka? marathon to get in the right mindset.
Shiki would be the more appropriate choice for Halloween imo.
Subtitle quality is… well, I’m not sure. I’ve never actually watched anything I’ve bought from these guys.[/url]
Plus : This. is what makes me think it’s a good idea for Halloween reviewing.
Hmm. Well the reply broke. Also, I messed up the BBCode… somehow. Excellent.
DS, would you consider trying the new IE after they got a ~tan mascot? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTUlF7NA2o
So aniblog posts when?
Dark_Sage: a.f.k as a subgroup was never really on nyaa, as they only used scarywater as their main tracker for their entire existence, just clearing that up.
Oh D_S
What game?
pls release hyobu
pls stop beating the dead horse
I know you might not like this link but
http://www.nyaa.se/?page=view&tid=494234
The fall of Nyaa is here. Something about this just sprung a “this site is going to shit” (ignoring the mods and A+ shit)
D_S, are you still willing to seed Dantalian no Shoka? It’s got zero seeds and I’d really rather watch Whine-subs’ over m.3.3.w’s.
DxS or D_S
oh shit
wow
Aniblog tournament posts when?
Sometime around the release of Hyobu episode 8, most likely.
R.I.P in peace D_S.
Question: based on your grading scheme, which sub groups average the best? I know, I know, sub groups share staff and all that, but humor me por favor?
Time for Dark_Sage to start thinking about the Winter 2014 anime preview, yes?
Yeah. Preview where?
So how about those Aniblog tournament posts?
Merry Christmas!
I’ve yet to find a better nightcore track than (or even on par with) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34zcfMCDwjE
Please take responsibility and make a post with your favorite ones. There’s only so much repeat I can take while drunk.
Happy New Year.
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