Off Topic
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.
237 Comments
Sheep says: Killer is Dead is pretty good.
I don’t really have anything to say in this off-topic page
I fucked up
Anonymous says: Worst first comment ever.
Katsudon says: Let’s be serious
cmanon says: Does anyone know of a fansub group doing Otomo Katsuhiro’s “Short Peace”? Bluray comes out in January.
just_passing_by says: 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?
Dark_Sage says: If you’re in high school or middle school, fansubbing will be pretty easy. In college, you’ll be fine as well. But it gets significantly more difficult to do when you’re working full-time.
Any position is fine to start in, so do whatever appeals to you.
As for which group to join, keep in mind that you’re essentially picking your first group of friends for the next however long you decide to spend subbing. You can find which groups are hiring by checking their sites and IRC channels. You’ll be trained in, no worries. And yes, IRC is mandatory. Download mIRC or something.
I don’t even know where to begin when it comes to warnings. Depending on how long you’ve been reading this site, you know how fansubbers are. That should be enough information to let you know whether or not you can deal with the fansubbing culture.
stushi says: >If you’re in high school or middle school,
>middle school
O.o
People in middle school sub anime? When I was in middle school I didn’t even know this scene existed.
Anon says: 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.
just_passing_by says: In that case, it’s already to late.
grek14 says: How about linking the old off-topic pages at the top? They’re interesting to read through.
Dark_Sage says: Sure. There ya go. You can still comment on the v1 if you want, but I figure most people are just gonna stick with whatever version is default.
Anon says: RIP in peace Kusion
ZiPe says: “SPECIAL” POSTS
For ‘special’ people?
That’s actually a very amiable touch.
You’re a nice Dark_Sage.
Dark_Sage says: Fansubbers needs love too.
(If you have a better name for them, I’m seriously all ears. What I have is more of a placeholder than anything.)
f says: Because fuck plural verbs.
Humanity says: Can we still use “” tags to embed? Or is it different now?
Humanity says: …well they must work since they went away like that.
Dark_Sage says: Yeah. HTML doesn’t work, but BBCode does.
Dark_Sage says: Happy Chinese National Day, everyone. Who else is down for Taco Bell?
Anonymous says: Your old avatar was better.
Anonymous says: I disagree. The current one is fifty times better.
Dark_Sage says: Even if we average you two’s considerations, that puts me 25 times ahead of the old one. Progress!
Etoce says: I think it would average out to something like 24.5 times better if you consider the Anonymous I’s comment to mean “your old avatar was 1 time better” but the average could conceivably be any real number since just “better” doesn’t imply any specific degree.
XiaYixuan says: Thanks, comrade! ;)
Mob says: I’d a Dark_Sage’s toenails.
Dark_Sage says: Thank you.
Anon says: I notice that you’ve finally centered the menu bar; good job.
Hairy says: I think it looks like shit.
Anon says: I think YOU look like shit.
FalseDawn says: tl;dr I wasted hours on trolling with a little success, but nothing to write home about. I’ll try harder next time.
Dan says: I can’t believe I actually wasted my time skimming through that.
One question: Why is Kristen constantly referred to as ‘she’?
Dark_Sage says: Kristen wants his online persona “Kristen” to be referred to as a female, so fans of his groups do so. I’m not sure if he gender identifies as female in real life, but that’s his preference in online interactions.
Anon says: It looks like you just have as much problems as them in the head. ANIME
FalseDawn says: Not at all. I KNOW I’m a nutter – they seemingly don’t :D
grek14 says: 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
FalseDawn says: Nothing’s changed since digital fansubbing began :D
2ColouredEyes says: 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.
asdfsadf says: Did you sticky the “Suggestions for Improvement?” article ? Its appearing on the top on the main page.
Dark_Sage says: Yes. It’s unstickied now though.
Dark_Sage says: Watch Kill la Kill.
Akatsukin says: Tell Daiz to hurry up then.
Dark_Sage says: Hey Daiz, hurry up.
Anon says: Tell him to finish the goddamn fucking Chuu2 OVA that he’s been stalling for the past year or so.
Dark_Sage says: Daiz, please finish that goddamn fucking Chuu2 OVA you’ve been stalling for the past year or so.
Justinnnnnn says: 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]…
2ColouredEyes says: Goruden Taimu (◕‿◕✿)
Kaga should have chosen Ryuuji instead of that loser.
flipr says: How long has that banner been up? I laughed way harder than I should have.
flipr says: 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.
Humanity says: 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/
Dark_Sage says: Truly the greatest group.
stushi says: Anyone taking part in FAL?
Dark_Sage says: What’s that?
Anon says: They’re too retarded to kill themselves
Dark_Sage says: Oh, week 1’s already over. My chances at winning are shot so I won’t even bother.
Cool concept though.
Dark_Sage says: I expected Meganebu to be fujoshi bait. I didn’t expect it to be about men’s romance.
Studio DEEN, you’re too good to me.
Aru says: Did you like it? I think it’s by far the worst anime I’ve seen this season.
Dark_Sage says: I didn’t hate Meganebu, but by the end of the series I doubt I’ll have a favorable view of it.
jimmy says: I’d rate four of the shows I’ve watched below Megane-bu and nineteen above it.
http://i.imgur.com/BCn3rrK.png
My kawaii ratings which I knocked up in a few minutes like a Taiwanese child prostitute.
Kamica says: 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?
jimmy says: Watamote>C3-bu, Gatchaman>SnK, everything>Neptunia, apart from that pretty damn good. And the first two are pretty trivial.
SomeLoser says: The lack of a giant ASCII logo at the top of that page is making me question your GameFAQs credentials.
Dark_Sage says: Null and void since Free! didn’t win.
*cue laughs*
*cue Dark_Sage explaining that he wasn’t joking*
stushi says: Bet you regret not subbing it, huh?
Dark_Sage says: Damn right. :(
Dark_Sage says: This ain’t anime, but I came up with potential taglines for my theoretical Gravity review:
Gravity: Where the only thing less believable than Sandra Bullock being a Russian astronaut is Sandra Bullock being an actor.
Gravity: I’d rather watch a static screensaver for an hour and a half than this movie’s static plot.
Gravity: Holy shit this movie sucks.
Roeper and Sage at the Movies? Fund it.
Justinnnnnn says: It airs in the next few days here. I’ll trust in your bad taste for movies and anime and hope it’s gonna be awesome.
Dark_Sage says: Even the people who like it have to admit it’s just a shitty tech demo.
Fred C Dobbs says: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_%28film%29#Critical_reception
All Critics: 97%
Rotten Tomatoes: 9.1 / 10
MetaCritic: 96%
CinemaScore: A-
IMDB: 8.8 / 10
Ebert’s Site: 4 Stars / 4 Possible
Variety & Time: top ratings
(James Cameron, Quentin Tarentino, and Buzz Aldrin also apparently liked it quite a bit.)
Aldrin: “I was so extravagantly impressed by the portrayal of the reality of zero gravity.”
And oh yeah: Ed Harris in a Voice Only role. ;o)
Dark_Sage says: I wasn’t aware movie critic review consensus constituted objective reality.
gravitational says: Not all of these are from movie critics. Most notably imdb. Unless you are living under a rock you should know that on imdb the rating is the average of what the users have voted. Therefor it’s a rating that comes from everyone, common people like you and me. This makes the rating somewhat reliable, especially when the amount of votes is 20.000+
Also the movie is not “just a shitty tech demo”, if anything, it would be “the most amazing tech demo of recent times”, but more than that, it’s quite an experience to see this movie in 3D on a big screen and with amazing sound in a cinema. An experience unlike any other.
SomeLoser says: So it’s an experience. That doesn’t say anything about it being entertaining.
TouToTheHouYo says: Avatar was an experience.
It was also shit.
Kiraly says: And SAO has a score of 8.3 from 144000 users on MAL (with 44000 10/10 votes), it MUST be good, right?
onanianon says: Opinions: If they’re different from my own, they’re shit.
Fred C Dobbs says: > I wasn’t aware movie critic review consensus constituted objective reality.
True. But the point is that getting 97% of All Critics to agree on something is like getting, oh, say, 97% of Climate Scientists to agree on something – oh wait, no: it’s FAR more difficult than that… So when they DO, it just might be that there’s something to the consensus.
I haven’t seen the thing yet (going Thursday), so I’ll withhold judgement until after I actually have.
Dark_Sage says: How the fuck is it hard? It’s an insular society of nutjobs who think the primary factor by which a movie should be judged is its inability to offend.
Fred C Dobbs says: > How the fuck is it hard?
Getting nearly 300 movie critics to agree on a film being in the 81st+ percentile of quality is the very definition of “herding cats.”
> It’s an insular society of nutjobs who think
> the primary factor by which a movie should be
> judged is its inability to offend.
??? I don’t know which critics you’ve been reading (or what planet they live on, for that matter), but I’ll agree with you on the larger point that I can’t be arsed to read even _one_ full Movie Review all the way through. What stood out to me is the large statistical baseline of hundreds of the pointy-headed wee buggers ALL AGREEING ON SOMETHING TOGETHER.
But another point, O Sam_I_Am_Sage, would be that at least the bloody Movie Critics have actually *SEEN* the film before they opine on it one way or the other…
Just sayin’. ;o)
Dark_Sage says: Appeal to majority is a pretty bullshit argument.
A 97 percent in movies is meaningless. Children’s movies are 90% by default which should tell you everything you need to know about the quality of so-called critics.
Also, I have seen it. It wasn’t good. Why the fuck do you think I brought it up?
Fred C Dobbs says: > Appeal to majority is a pretty bullshit argument.
Agreed. (Why do you think I have a bumper sticker reading, “Eat Shit: 50,000,000,000,000 Flies CAN’T Be Wrong!” – ?) And that’s also why I didn’t make any such argument. I argued a high statistical baseline of agreement among people who seldom agree at such levels.
Didn’t know you had seen it; I suppose I misread what “theoretical Gravity review” meant. I’m off to see it today; I reckon I’ll have to determine whether I feel my money was misspent after the show. (Still, if I wasn’t bitter after ‘Pacific Rim’, I think I’ll likely be alright later today…) ;o)
Dark_Sage says: Yes, they seldom agree.
http://www.metacritic.com/browse/movies/score/metascore/all?sort=desc&view=condensed
Fred C Dobbs says: So I just came back from seeing it.
I’m curious, D_S (you having seen it and all), why did you write:
> Gravity: Where the only thing less believable
> than Sandra Bullock being a Russian astronaut
> is Sandra Bullock being an actor.
– when she was an _American_ astronaut (wearing an American Spacesuit, with an American Flag on it, for the first third of the movie), and the character says quite clearly in the dialog that she is from Illinois?
Now I realise that if you just Google ‘film gravity’ and click the ‘Images’ link you’ll see various stills from the movie showing Sandy Bullock in a Russian Spacesuit, but that’s probably just a coincidence, right?
Anyway, it was a pretty good film; my spot review is 7/10 for a Movie I’d Pay To See, and that gets bumped up to 8/10 out of All Movies when you consider the difficulty of acting a One Woman Show while in a strict CGI environment (Green Screens, Motion Capture Rooms, Etc.) with a highly emotional script.
Ed Harris, of course, deserves an Oscar for his riveting portrayal of Mission Control…
Dark_Sage says: She was wearing a Russian suit, and all the manuals she was reading were in Russian. Did she change after she got rid of her first suit? I guess that makes sense, but I don’t care enough to look up how people explained that shit.
The movie was not about acting, it was about 3D effects. That was all the movie was — a tech demo. I don’t know how you fail to see that.
Fred C Dobbs says: Spoiler Alert (for all but Dark_Sage, who assures us that he has seen the movie, and therefore needn’t worry about it).
> She was wearing a Russian suit,
Except for the first, oh, third of the movie that is – when she was wearing her American Suit, as she worked on the (American) Hubble Telescope, from the arm of her American Space Shuttle, as she explained to George Clooney’s character that she was from Illinois…
> and all the manuals she was reading
> were in Russian.
Yes, after she had stripped off her American Spacesuit in the airlock of the International Space Station, which is serviced – even at this very time – only by Soyuz spacecraft. One of which, as the plot made clear, she had to try to take to the (fictional) Chinese Space Station to get to a working reentry vehicle.
> Did she change after she got rid of her
> first suit?
Why are you asking me? You said just above that you’d seen the movie – just a few posts below the one where you thought she was a Russian Astronaut.
> I guess that makes sense, but I don’t care
> enough to look up how people explained that
> shit.
Why would you have to look anything up? You said you’d seen the movie – look it’s right up there:
> Also, I have seen it. It wasn’t good.
> Why the fuck do you think I brought it up?
I think I understand now why you don’t like this movie so much. Clearly, you couldn’t follow the plot enough to understand what was going on. (Did you by any chance go with your Significant Other? And were you – *ahem* – ‘otherwise occupied’ during the showing? Nudge, nudge, wink, wink knowhatImean? Saynomore!)
I mean, if you missed all those important elements of the plot: that she was an American medical specialist from Illinois who had developed scanning technology adaptable to the Hubble Space Telescope and received basic astronaut training as part of a ‘Specialists In Space’ programme at NASA, then how could you possibly be left with anything other than a very limited view of this movie? That you’ve seen.
Dark_Sage says: All right, you autistic piece of shit. Let’s go scene by scene of this pathetic excuse for a tech demo.
We open up with the stereotypical old school George Clooney vet saying he le won’t break le spacewalking record. FORESHADOWING. We also get to find out that he’s really good at what he does despite seeming like he doesn’t really le care. Le apathy is le cool sauce.
Next we’re introduced to the rookie brainy girl who totally can’t do shit she sucks so bad. So she drops a screw and…
And then le OMG wow the screw comes right at your face! le gasp! Le cinematic brilliance! This is where you’d be impressed if you found that vision test with the 3D bug at school to be the most amazing thing ever.
lelelelelelelleleleleleleleelellelelelelelelellelelelelelele
Then warning warning the Russians have destroyed space. Please evacuate! But ohmigosh we can’t evacuate faster than 4 billion light years per mile so omgomgomg danger!
Joker-kun dies RIP what a surprise!
Sandra Bullock screams a lot here. This will happen throughout the rest of le movie.
Lots of screaming. Sandra and George are le STRANDED in le space. But George is le hero. George is le leader. George le takes them to the station to attempt to exit.
And then le cheap jump scare with le dead body. Oh wait, did I say cheap? I meant deep. Le movie has a 97 on metacritic. Le Fred knows it’s essentially perfect.
lelelelelleelelelellelelelellelelellelelellelelellelelelelellelelelelelele
Le George Clooney sacrifices himself for le Sandra Bullock but not before learning that le Sandra had a kid that died and that made her le travel in a car and put on the radio. Deep! Important! Character building!
Le Sandra enters a space station and enters fetus mode for 1 minute. This is le deep and important too. You must realize this is le symbolism. It’s like le rebirth because she puts on a new le spacesuit here too.
Then le Sandra decides to travel to le Chinaship. Cue more DEEP PLOT OF EXPLOSIONS IN 3D.
Le Sandra is le desperate when she enters le Chinaship. “Will you le pray for me, cuz nobody ever taught me how to le pray?” (Yes folks, that’s verbatim.) Oh wow, is that a picture of le Jesus on a tarot card or something? Le symbolic!
Awooo Awroo! I’m a dog! Hahaha China is hilarious! Now she’s gonna die to sleep. ;___;;;;; but wait! Remember le “I just keep driving with le radio on”?
Yes, Sandra Bullock uses le radio powers to return to le Earth!
And then she le gets almost caught in le seaweed when she’s in the ocean. Le audience definitely didn’t laugh at how poorly this was implemented or come to the realization that the entire movie was based around cheap, poorly contrived danger scenarios with a 3D gimmick.
Then le Earth ohmygod le Earth is sand! Cue movie. Roll credits. Dark_Sage isn’t gonna wait around to see if there’s a final scene at the end of the movie. (If there was one, I bet it would be le George Clooney being le wisecracker or le deep intellectual smartness, wasirite?)
Fred C Dobbs says: > All right, you autistic piece of shit.
You must be a riot at the family Thanksgiving dinner table, yes? I must say, it *was* funny: highly entertaining! Just one thing…
Look upthread: I haven’t hurled ONE invective at you; yet you _started_ with How The Fucks and Bullshit and now I’m an Autistic Piece Of Shit?
But that’s okay: I realise that ad hominem is both your natural style and the only argument you can marshal in this instance, so please feel free to project as much as you like. And then he said:
> Le Fred knows it’s essentially perfect.
Actually, Le Fred said nothing of the sort (as is plain to see for anyone with eyes in their pointy heads and but a jot of reading comprehension). In fact, Le Fred only gave this flick a score of 7/10 in his spot review of the puppy – so yeah ummm, Reality rears its ugly head yet once again…
(But hey, you’re obviously emotionally invested in this debate, and I wouldn’t want you to blow a main gasket before you’re done reviewing the current anime season, so I’ll just back away from the table slowly.) Thanks for the, Turkey.
Dark_Sage says: Here’s the deal buddy, crying ad hominem ain’t an effective means of counterargument unless ad hominem is the only thing the accused’s argument consists of. Unless all avenues of conversation have been cut off, I’ll never say “You’re wrong cuz you’re a faggot.”
You wanted to start with autistic nitpicking in an attempt to shed doubt on me having seen or “understood” it, so I threw a summary back at you that also explained some of my issues with the movie. You couldn’t deal with that so now you’re whining like a bitch. Go fuck yourself with a knife.
Fred C Dobbs says: /MetaConverstaion_Engaged (sigh)
Actually, resort to ad hominem attacks is ONLY not a tacit admission of defeat if one is responding to an affront. I’m sure your debate and logic instructors had as much fun with you as your relatives at those Thanksgiving family dinners.
As for “Unless all avenues of conversation have been cut off, I’ll never say ‘You’re wrong cuz you’re a faggot’,” that’s transparently wrong, since you BEGAN with the insults, in an effort to shut down any potential rebuttal. Things went south (for you) from there. Don’t believe me? Read it from the top; anyone can see it.
As for my “nitpicking,” your assertion that the female character wasn’t “believable” as a Russian Astronaut was a Nit just crying out to be Picked: a great huge mucking Nit, fairly *screaming* “He hasn’t even seen the movie!”
People can draw their own conclusions; I actually gave you the benefit of the doubt that you might simply have been distracted throughout the film, rather than having been caught out lying about having seen it (at that time).
/MetaConverstaion_Disengaged
As for “whining like a bitch,” there is a word, where I hail from, for people like you. It’s a curious word when used to describe a male, but entirely appropriate in your case. It begins with ‘C’ and ends with ‘UNT’, and it *isn’t* ‘Count’ or ‘Catamount’!
See You Next Tuesday. ;o)
Dark_Sage says: All right, if your position truly is that swearing makes someone “lose” a “debate” then I guess we really have exhausted all possible avenues of discourse. See you next Tuesday indeed.
Justinnnnnn says: Well, any hopes of getting more clothes were shattered by that opening. Cheap move trigger :(
zanon says: Dark_Sage, I haven’t seen it, but if you do watch it and want a perspective on holes Ars did an article on it with the NASA man responsible for managing EVA planning teams:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/10/poking-holes-in-the-gravity-trailer-with-nasas-help/
Most of the issues would be pretty obvious, but they did a surprisingly good job in some respects too, and there’s a few things that are cool to have real numbers on.
Kamica says: 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?
LuneSave says: It’s fun to watch when you’re high, I’d assume. At least they have some karaoke… Kind of.
sandoe41 says: GG acually made them worse.
Anon says: Smells like teen spirit.
Escude says: gg did an original translation
just_passing_by says: Want to see some HARDCORE ANIME?
just_passing_by says: Oh look they’re making a Golden Time game…
Jii-san says: So whatever happened to that aniblog tourney hmmm?
Dark_Sage says: It’s coming. But if I don’t have enough time to make my regular posts, I don’t have enough time to promote some shitty blogs.
Jii-san says: But I thought you always had time to generate buttmad.
Anon says: How dare you insult the pride of an aniblogger.
Fuwaa says: 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?
Dark_Sage says: For why the anime scene is different… who the fuck’s gonna translate an entire novel if another group’s already done it? The workload is too great and the number of people who will consume your work is too few for it to make sense. With anime though, you’re not out a lot if another group releases first, cuz you’ll still get thousands of DLs even if you only specialize in retardation.
And for motivation? I mean, it really depends on the individual. I think it’s a combination of community, pride, self-improvement, the vain hope some fat guy at a con will plow you due to your subbing his fabulous moe moe desu loli-chan shit, or a simple lack of anything better to do with their time. Many, many reasons.
As for me…
Fuwaa says: Fair enough. It’s a lot easier to guess context from the animation for words they can’t figure out, too… Which would explain why certain groups would randomly throw in “Fuck the police!” when the person is saying “Hehe, I scared them.”
I like your reason for subbing. Did you beat the Elitist Four yet?
Humanity says: Man. Been a while since I saw this video.
fohfuu says: v2:
I wanna be the very best
That no-one ever was
To sub them is my real test
To edit is my cause
I will Google across the ‘net,
Searching far and wide
Sub anime to understand
The subtext that’s inside
Fansubbing! Gotta sub ’em all
It’s you and me
I know it’s my destiny
Fansubbing! Oh, you’re my QC
Of a show aired on TV
Fansubbing! Gotta sub ’em all
A phrase so true
Idioms will pull us through
You flame me and I’ll flame you
Fansubbing! Gotta sub ’em all!
Fansubbing!
Dark_Sage says: I wish you were me a year ago.
fohfuu says: Doesn’t everyone?
xviruz says: Is the RSS feed broken?…
Dark_Sage says: Yes.
Dark_Sage says: Fixed.
xviruz says: Thanks!
fohfuu says: old > new
Justinnnnnn says: 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?
Justinnnnnn says: 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.
Anon says: 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.
Justinnnnnn says: Nice, I didn’t know of any ‘recent’ releases that did that <3
stushi says: Commie does it often, though I’m too lazy to remember an example.
Qrius says: And so does Vivid – I think I saw a couple of those in Muromi.
Yumi-chan says: So sleepy…
LuneSave says: Alison Gold – Chinese Food. I died a little on the inside.
Dark_Sage says: No I haven’t forgotten about shit. But I have been waking up at 4 AM to make it back home at 7, so I’ve kinda been slow.
Otakublog tourney still coming, articles still coming, reviews still coming… but I am gonna need more than 4 hours of sleep one of these nights.
2ColouredEyes says: >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.
2ColouredEyes says: >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.
Anon says: 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.
Dark_Sage says: Looks that way. You can’t keep a good Arashi down, though. I’m sure the Hadena successor will soon come.
XiaYixuan says: Yeah. True that.
XiaYixuan says: You can work like a detective and find out which group it will be. I will probably not be amazed when you find it out, but I’ll give you the sense of accomplishment nevertheless.
Anon says: Thanks for your input.
Adoxo says: 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.
Pelfmiester says: Her’s his opinions so far:
http://www.crymore.net/hey-d_s-whatcha-watchin/#comment-85844
Kamica says: 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 :(
XiaYixuan says: 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.”
Justinnnnnn says: Thursdays: the day of the week in which anime is constantly being saved again and again.
XiaYixuan says: Did CR overtake fansubbing already? I see groups using CR for the video, saying .ts source looked like shit compared to CR’s.
Xythar says: 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.
2ColouredEyes says: 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
AnimeNOW says: Do you know what bait is?
Anon says: Saving the future of fansubbing.
Move aside Daiz.
just_passing_by says: Doesn’t Sakasama no Patema look a lot like that French movie from a few years ago, ‘upside down’?
http://screenshotcomparison.com/comparison/45582
Anon says: >author of Log Horizon was on /a/
Feels good.
stushi says: http://anilist.co/
this looks cool.
I wonder if it’ll be the Next Big Thing, after MAL…
Dark_Sage says: Looks like ass. What’s its killer feature?
AnimeNOW says: 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
stushi says: 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.
Dark_Sage says: That’s nice and all, but is that enough to get people to switch? I’m quite willing to move away from MAL, but I need a compelling reason.
KoolKidsK says: I use MAL for the MAL Updater.
KoolKidsK says: 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.
stushi says: wow that’s looks awesome.
Guy says: How’s the API?
Fuwaa says: Halloween coming up… time for a kore wa zombie desu ka? marathon to get in the right mindset.
Kamica says: Shiki would be the more appropriate choice for Halloween imo.
Dark_Sage says: I’m just gonna go jerk it to Sankarea like I do every Thursday.
Dark_Sage says: Okay I need some ideas for what to do here for Halloween. You’re gonna get the standard visual upgrade and spooky reviews, but I’m kinda blanking on other stuff. Ideas?
Humanity says: By “spooky reviews” do you mean the official subs? If not: Review the official subs again. (Maybe even one from those NIS releases you haven’t watched?)
Dark_Sage says: Oh yeah, I do have NIS shit. This’ll be the first time I tear the plastic off any of ’em. Sounds good.
And yeah, the spooky reviews will be official subs.
Dark_Sage says: Never mind, spooky NIS sub review canceled. I don’t have the time to deal with any blu-ray copyright protection shit.
Humanity says: Aww. No dvd’s either?
Dark_Sage says: You’ll get one BD release but not from NISA. We’ll see if I’m feeling a DVD release, but maybe not right now since I’m working on another post (since I have to write most everything for this weekend tonight before I hit up Youmacon).
Anon says: Sounds like you just got spooked solid.
Dark_Sage says: An accurate assessment.
imouto says: just copy the bd with DVDFab and watch off your HD, takes like ~30mins to copy it all
Dark_Sage says: 1. The cracked versions don’t work.
2. The trial version creates a hideous logo.
RedRum says: MakeMKV for all your free BD ripping needs.
Dark_Sage says: I’ll go with that in the future then, thanks.
imouto says: No, I meant the Copy feature of DVDFab, not the ripping. If you just copy the entire BD to your HD, not re-encoding it, then it doesn’t touch any of the files. And it’s free. (I used it a couple days ago)
Humanity says: 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.
Humanity says: Hmm. Well the reply broke. Also, I messed up the BBCode… somehow. Excellent.
Dark_Sage says: No worries, I knew why you suggested it.
anon 
mahay says: DS, would you consider trying the new IE after they got a ~tan mascot? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHTUlF7NA2o
Anon says: So aniblog posts when?
Dark_Sage says: When the trash from Nyaa stop wasting my time.
Eternal_Blizzard says: 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.
Jii-san says: 
Oh D_S
Anon says: What game?
Dark_Sage says: Some VN called Narcissu.
Dark_Sage says: ~
Anon says: pls release hyobu
0001 says: pls stop beating the dead horse
Anon says: 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)
Dark_Sage says: Nyaa sucks, but they’ve always done shit like that.
Dark_Sage says: Shit should get going again later tonight.
A combination of my job + rediscovering how fucking awesome Persona 4 is has not been conducive to creating Crymore’s content.
Passerby says: Perhaps you will post about it when it’s done on how to solo things.
Dark_Sage says: What?
Passerby says: Namely, bosses. You play the Golden, right?
Dark_Sage says: Uhh yes, but why the fuck would I make a how-to-solo-bosses guide?
Passerby says: Because I miss those video games articles. Anything will do.
Dark_Sage says: Anything? All right.
Dark_Sage says: Persona 4, why are you so entertaining? Don’t you realize I have to post things on the Crymore? :(
Justinnnnnn says: Dump Persona 4 and go for XCOM EW :)
FUCKFIRAXIS says: Fuck XCOM and fuck Firaxis for making that pile of shit and fuck you for enabling them.
Justinnnnnn says: Are you Jake Solomon?
Dark_Sage says: Eww, dirty western games. No thanks.
Japan makes superior titles that those of inferior lineage could never hope to compete with.
Justinnnnnn says: Yeah, not everyone can handle western Greatness :( May their enjoyment find asylum in those lower jap games.
Noize says: ‘Japan makes superior titles that those of inferior lineage could never hope to compete with.’
I agree with this soooooooo much.
Kawwmoi says: I really want to disagree with you but I can’t think of a single counterexample.
Noize says: You can’t, can you? It just confirmed how great my Japan is \o/
BakaProxy says: Watch out D_S Atlus just released a teaser for Persona 5
dteric says: Dancing Persona game. yay
Dark_Sage says: \o/
Ash says: 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.
Dark_Sage says: When my shitty fucking seedbox starts working properly, sure.
chesterscheetos says: DxS or D_S
Foxy says: oh shit
stushi says: wow
Anon says: Aniblog tournament posts when?
Humanity says: Sometime around the release of Hyobu episode 8, most likely.
Dark_Sage says: Content tonight. Promise2u
Minachi says: R.I.P in peace D_S.
Dark_Sage says: ;_;
Weekly Shounen Jump, CrunchyRoll Manga, or keep hoping that scanlators one day realize that actually doing a good (or, lets face it, an at least passable) job will get them more fans than plastering watermarks on every page?
Jii-san says: 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?
Dark_Sage says: Mm, I don’t have data from the past year in my spreadsheet, but as of Winter 2013, the top 10 by averages were:
SFW
Taka
CMS
Coalgirls
rori
Chihiro
sage
Underwater
SHiN-gx
EveTaku
Kamica says: Time for Dark_Sage to start thinking about the Winter 2014 anime preview, yes?
Minachi says: Yeah. Preview where?
Dark_Sage says: FFFFFFFFFFF
Dark_Sage says: Judging by that staff list, nothing of value was lost.
Jhk said Watashi would pick the series up if the Cthuko devs were being serious and not just messing around.
The scene will go on.
Anon says: So how about those Aniblog tournament posts?
Dark_Sage says: The tourney will restart in January.
Minachi says: Merry Christmas!
Dark_Sage says: Indeed. Merry Kurisumasu. <3
mints says: 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.
Dark_Sage says: Finding my favorite ones would take a level of effort I am not properly equipped for. I can link you to what I’ve been listening to lately, though:
This’ll probably do it for you. I gotta say it’s kinda hard to beat Who Says, though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7Eso1JcXp0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8y-XpFnojI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEA7YFDGumY
This one, I’ve gotta say I probably only like because I really like The Birthday Massacre rather than this particular remix, but whateves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfX_Gco6RXI
Dark_Sage says: Yes, I know Witch Craft Works just got released. I’m working on Preview stuff right now. It’s a race against the anime clock, desu.
Kamica says: The first show doesn’t air until January 4th but I lied and said it was January 1st to get you motivated to work. Looks like my plan worked.
Dark_Sage says: I just watched the first episode of Witch Craft Works, so I’d say the season’s definitely in full swing now. :X
Post will be up tomorrow, probably sometime in the night.
Kamica says: Aren’t preair stuff basically visual cancer? Plus I don’t see any sub releases.
Dark_Sage says: It follows the manga pretty well, including the dialogue. And it’s not a very difficult show to understand. The quality ain’t terrible either: http://www.crymore.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Ohys-Raws-Witch-Craft-Works-01.-Web-1280×720-x264-AAC.mp4_snapshot_11.40_2013.12.30_23.27.32.jpg
(The ED’s pretty good, though I’m not a huge fan of the song.)
Minachi says: Happy New Year.
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