Casusby
Casus-chan!
Joined: 30 May 2006
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Fuck you all. No, seriously, fuck you all. That's the point of this post.
You may be thinking, that this isn't good, that this will only spur on the flaming, well, you're right. That's was the point of this all, and it's exactly what's going to happen.
Let's start with some fun Q&A:
Q: Why has Pastel been delayed for so long?
A: Despite popular belief, asking or whining about releases almost never delays the actual release. The truth is, whenever I say that something will be delayed, that's because it wasn't ready in the first place. Asking or whining didn't stop it in the slightest. Not that I'm saying I enjoy the asking or whining, I really don't.
Q: Isn't this good that gurobatschow did 92 and 93? It made you hurry up.
A: Wrong. Allow me to describe the work history of 92 and 93. Several months ago, 92 was being worked on by Phoenixonice. Sadly she could not commit the time to editing as she has in the past, and after several weeks and little work done, she had to give it up. It floated around for a while as I looked for an editor to do it. Sadja aka. Suzu-chan stepped in but after a few weeks, it became obvious that she didn't have the time to commit either, and several internal dramas caused more delays. After this, arm_of_phong showed back up and very willingly picked up 92, finished it off and completed a version of 93. However phong was far beyond rusty, it was pretty damn inconsistant and looked horrible. phong disappeared 2 weeks ago after submitting several versions and having spent hours and hours with me in QC. 1 week ago, I finally had to do everything myself. Adding more duties onto myself in this time is quite a lot to ask, but I still did it.
Q: Why did take so long working on Pastel yourself?
A: Despite what you may believe, I'm not a very good editor, and not a very fast one. Without anyone else to work on Pastel though, I was all there was. Keep in mind that while editing, I work very hard to QC my own work numerous times.
Q: What about all those applicants and joint offers?
A: The only supposed joint offers have been on projects like No Bra that don't require any desperate help, or with groups who have proven that they don't hold the same values in scanlation. If you have two groups who disagree over what's important, nothing will get done.
As for applicants, we get a ton sometimes. And they're all for Pastel and No Bra. Except No Bra, again, doesn't require that much help, and Pastel requires absolute consistantcy, something newbie editors don't have and even fumbles people who have edited like phong. Otherwise I have to redo things myself.
Dear current applicants: I am sorry for the delay in replying to any of your applications, if you continue to pester me though, I will get back to you as soon as I can, I promise. Just keep pestering me.
Q: Why do you insist on quality over speed?
A: Firstly, fuck you again. Secondly, I hold quality top as this is a personal value of mine. This work and nearly all Dynasty work is connected to me in someway, and if I'm going to be connected to something, I'm going to do the best fucking job I can. If you don't like it, fuck you. I'm not going to bend my values for you.
Q: But you still hurried up with 92 and 93 didn't you?
A: No, fuck you. Fuck gurobatschow too. The only thing this has trigged has been rage. If you don't believe that 92 was finished the night before you released and 93 was partly done, I don't give a fuck. I'm not trying to win any public support with this post. This is all just the fucking truth.
Q: Suck it up, you took forever.
A: Fuck you yet again. I have every right to be pissed that you fuckers went out of your way to insult me and the group when we work as hard as we do for free. I'm not a prision bitch, I'm not going to lie down and take it when people throw shit at me.
Q: Way to be professional.
A: FUCK YOU. You want to talk about being professional? How about doing a fast shitty version of a release with the sole purpose of causing drama and rage. Provoking others is TOTALLY FUCKING PROFESSIONAL RIGHT? Fuck you.
For those of you who are still waiting, then good for you. I'm not going to pat you on the head or anything.
Know this, I took it upon myself to get Pastel moving again after 1 week of inactivity and then I got shitted on. I put several other QCs on hold, put off getting a job while my accounts dwindle and I got shit on. Am I personally offended? You're fucking right I am. Just the internet? Fuck you. I don't have to take shit from anyone if I don't want to.
This is all fun and nice for Pastel, but what about all our other projects? Let's have a run down.
Alice Quartet: The 2nd chapter raws were far beyond my skill level, but thankfull pararama bought the raws and personally scanned them for me. But I'm unable to work on it because I'm fixing various QCs myself still.
Ayu & Mayu: Man there was so much support for this when it started, but then editors just disappeared. I've put 4 different editors on this after Kurus, and they've all disappeared after about a week.
Bakuten: We're awaiting translations for volume 3.
BR: is going as fast as Kurus can do it.
ef: This was an attempt to bring in an editor who does speed stuff and try to work together and put out quality releases. BakaScarlet however disagreed with a lot of my QC and took a long time to get things done. Since then, his group has re-picked it back up. As far as I'm concerned, ef is dropped by us. Despite TranslatorDude having preferred his scripts going to us, I say to them to take them. I haven't even seen the guy in weeks.
H2O: No editor now, pretty much dead. drvtech is gone too.
HH: MrE is doing far too much for one editor, and so all his projects have slowed down. People who would come in and help take pressure off him would be great.
Kannagi, Gift, White Album: These three are spread between Hikage and Maria. Maria moved in December and has had no luck getting a connection due to money troubles. A member of Hikage's family recently was hospitalized, so unfortunately he's had to pull out of his duties for now.
Kemeko DX: is a type setting nightmare. pararama hates it simply because of the amount of work required. Hikage was also suppose to help with all this, but more on that later.
Nanaki!!: Mirai-hime can only do so much since she switched universities, but it's getting there.
No Bra: pararama buys and scans this as well, so it's safe to say he doesn't want to give it up.
Otoboku: Another project on MrE's shoulders and also stalled.
Other projects I've forgotten about: I've forgotten about them.
Sasameki Koto: To say the raws for this were spotty is an understatement. So, thetime went and bought his own copies of the volumes and started scanning them himself, and now is editing them himself. He also got volume 1 and added all the little volume extras as you'll see.
Twin Spica: Iviud disppeared on us, so Kurus is back on it. As soon as school will allow her anyway.
Unlimited Wings: See H2O about drvtech.
Yoake Mae: Another pararama project, could use help as well, as it's fairly simple to do.
Yuri Hime: Is probably the only shining beacon we have, and more and more it seems like we should become a yuri group.
Of course if we were to become a yuri group, that would be letting down a lot of the staff members we have who are not interested in yuri.
Let's finish with some more Q&A:
Q: Why do you want to have a "monopoly" on Pastel?
A: I don't care about the actual fact that someone else has done the chapters. If it had been some unknown person, none of this would be happening. I would actually be hurrying it. Except that's not the case, this was all done to get a reaction from us. The only reaction they'll get is indifference and FUCKING RAGE.
Q: But what about what you did with Shoujo Sect?
A: Firstly, fuck you. Secondly, go read the "About Screw Otenba" topic in the forums.
Q: How could you do all that to the fans though?
A: I don't give a fuck about the fans. Why should I care about a public that are obviously amazingly fickle about a free service?
Q: What?
A: You heard me. Don't act like we fucking hurt you because you had to wait.
Q: So why are you pissed that gurobatschow did it?
A: Several reasons, mainly because of the BLATANT provoking. You people want to praise this guy for caring about the fans? Yeah fucking right. If this guy cared, he wouldn't have provoked us over Kannagi and now over Pastel. Instead he would have tried to help push them out by DIRECTLY WORKING ON THEM.
Q: If you released more, then more people would want to join up!
A: Fuck you. Please tell me, how are we suppose to release any faster under this circumstances? With no editor now, Pastel is dead. Frankly, I don't even want to continue working on it.
Q: Why can't you be more respectful?
A: Fuck you. Respect needs to be earned and given. Show me where you have earned and given me respect, and I'll respect you back. Until then, fuck you.
In conclusion, fuck you all. Fuck gurobatschow especially, and fuck you all who have ragged on us. If you don't to believe that we were just ever so close to releasing again before this happened, fuck you.
Got more questions? Go ahead and post. Want to flame? Go back to the fucker's blog and flame there.
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