Release 2700: Kamen Rider OOO 36 SD and Junction 4
We've finally made it to release 2700. Hitting 3000 shouldn't be too far off. We didn't have anything special planned, sorry, sometimes it's just luck of the draw. But in a way, having a Kamen Rider TV series episode be an anniversary release is very fitting since we spend most of our time working on the weekly shows.
So sit down, kids. Let me tell you a story. Every Saturday night, our magical workers will collect the raw videos from Japan, which is in the future for us. Our timers will work fast and furiously to have a pretime script ready for translation. Then sometime between Saturday night and Sunday afternoon scripts will be ready for typesetting and editing. Then over the course of a week, QCers will pour over the videos and we'll argue and try to polish the subs up. The reason it takes so much time is because, adding polish is really important. Anyone who has every made anything can probably attest to the magnitudes of improvements that each iteration adds to a piece of work.
Consequently, there's not as much time left in the week for working on non-weeklys. The staff have been talking about it over the last month, and I think I'm doing a better job about trying to do a little something each week, to help stuff keep going. the unfortunate reality is that we have a lot of backburner projects, and we just can't work on all of them at the same time. Stuff is usually constantly being worked on, but I don't think it's useful for the consumer to know the nitty-gritty details. I mean really, you guys just want to know when the next release is. So while there'll never be true transparency to the process, you can always check out our Twitter or something, where I'll sometimes drop a hint about what's going on. It's not something I want to put on the forums because, there's nothing worthwhile to discuss about it. Everything is easy to do when you're not a part of the actual process, and really, added stress and an artificial obligation to the fans won't get the work done faster. But at least the Twitter feed will give people a glimpse under the veil, so hopefully this will appease some people.
Not that I want to paint all the fans as impatient clods. Most people are pretty awesome and it's nice to be a party of a community who enjoys the same stuff as oneself. The donation drive for the servers every year is a piece of cake thanks to you guys. It makes me happy that we have a website and other stuff thanks to your support. So enjoy this release, and hopefully we'll have more backburner stuff coming out this summer.
