Management Updates #2

As per last time, Jaruchan managed to get back in time to stop us from taking control and force renaming everyone.

We, the Chanaholics have banded together and are attempting a second coup. We’ll have more information on this as it progresses.

Site down while we’re working.

<3 Leader of Chan.

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Management Issues

As you’ve noticed, there’s been quite a bit of downtime today. We’re truly sorry about this but we’ll have the site back up and running shortly.

The truth of the matter is that the staff (namely myself) have had a falling out with Jarudin.
Over the past few months, I’ve been persuading staff to adopt the ‘chan’ suffix in their IRC usernames. In most, the staff have complied.
Xiochan, Maluchan, Dukichan, etc.
Jarudin however refuses to comply.

What he said:

Chiyachan, I refuse to change my name to Jaruchan. I like it how it is currently. I don’t see any real reason to rename it to please you.

–Jarudin–

It upsets me greatly, but I think that standardisation of names is important for a community this large, so this change which is taking place will solve many problems.

With the help of Dubkatz and Force, we’ve disabled the entire site while we edit the entire user database to add the word, “chan” to all usernames. Jarudin has also been demoted to mod status for lack of complying.

We are the Chan.
Prepare to be assimilated.
Resistance is futile.

In other words, we hope to be online again soon.
<3
Chiya.

For more information, contact me on IRC.

Update: Server is back up and running

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A Spicy Surprise this season

kureshii has been scarce lately because kureshii is super-busy with a bunch of stuff, but before kureshii leaves, kureshii will leave a blog post,” says kureshii as he tries to be a good host (I know MISAKA is pretty annoying, but that manner of speech is so infectious >_<)

Today’s post is about one of the biggest, if not the biggest surprise this season: Saucy Barmaid-chan!

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To fansub or not to fansub

For the few of you who know me (or rather, the few of you that actually care), you know that I have gotten into fansubbing lately. It was partly on a whim, and partly to see just what it’s like to be a fansubber.

Technically I’m part of two groups who have taken different approaches to fansubbing. I can’t really say which is better, or which I like more, but I can’t say it’s all bad either.

Anyway, so I’ve worked on a few projects so far and I’ve gotten better along the way. So now I’ve reached the point where I wonder why I still do it.

I initially didn’t want to do fansubbing just because I didn’t think that I would have time to work on it on a weekly basis, but thankfully one of the groups let gave me the opportunity to try without the weekly deadlines to deal with. Then I joined another to work on a side project that didn’t have weekly deadlines either. Fast forward a few months and here I am, working on a series on a weekly basis -__-. This is actually my second series that I’m working on. The first one I was somehow convinced to QC even though I never signed up to do that, and the second one I’ve been made to edit because the editor has gone permanently AFK it seems and somehow I ended up editing another series next season.

Anyway, that’s just me ranting since I know I’ll quit at some point, and then deal with all the attempts to guilt me back that will probably happen (you know who you are). Fansubbing isn’t particularly FUN to me or anything, but it seems to be another thing that I just end up doing for some unknown reason and then continuing for some amount of time.

Anyway, there’s no real point to this point since it’s just a rant, so…. yeah….
Actually, for a rant, it’s pretty short >_>
Anyway, I blame you! (You know who you are).

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Technotise: Edit & I

Technotise: Edit & I is the first Serbian animated feature film, premiere of which is planned for September, 2009. Written and directed by Aleksa Gajić, it is a sequel to his Technotise graphic novel.

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Dear enginarc

Eat shit and die =D

That is all.

EDIT: also, write a better anime name guessing game program.

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An Awesome Artist Has Entered The Fray!

Shameless advertising of a friends skill after the jump. (I am not being paid in any form for said advertising….)

JUMP!

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Sexy Time With Malus

So, after promising many times to actually get around and have interview time with Malus, we finally managed it. Here it is, in its fully edited (by Duki) glory!

Hope you enjoy the read. 🙂

It started off like this:
[22:11] <@Chiyachan> Malus, you busy?
[22:11] <~Malus> ?
[22:11] <@Chiyachan> Not a hard question.
[22:11] <@Chiyachan> Are you busy, or not?
[22:11] <~Malus> Depends
[22:11] <@Chiyachan> Depends on?
[22:12] <~Malus> Free for what 😛
[22:12] <@Chiyachan> Too busy to have an intimate 1 on 1 chat with me?
[22:13] <~Malus> ah
[22:13] <~Malus> sure
[23:14] <~Malus> ._. why you gotta make everything sound dirty
[23:14] <@Chiyachan> Its more interesting?
[23:14] <~Malus> >_> Right, right … I’m totally trying not to feed your perverted fetishes
[22:15] * @Chiyachan grins and starts his cyber session with Malus.

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… I can haz kitteh porn?

An interesting little news item I came across:

Man blames cat for child pornography found on his computer

Maybe it’ll become a new excuse:

“hai i got wrned n stuff my kat dwnloaded heaps and made mai ratatio low can i plz be unwrned?”

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Regression


Ok, so I’m many months late on this rant, but anyway.

13 years ago, Madhouse animated Tetsuwan Birdy. This is what it looked like:

This year, in 2009, A1 Pictures animated Tetsuwan Birdy DECODE 2. This is what it looks like:

Ok, so it’s a 13-ep series vs an OVA. Madhouse vs A1. Digital techniques vs traditional handrawn techniques. And admittedly DECODE didn’t look that bad consistently, I just picked on it at a low point. BUT STILL! We are regressing unacceptably!

Whatever that sorry excuse for an image is, it’s atrocious.

(No, “artistic direction” is not a valid excuse.)

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