[status + update] RIP & Yay!

First, my computer died.

I come back from my Asia trip and try to boot it up only to find it just sits there like a brick. Did a little tinkering and thought it might of been a faulty power supply. Brought it over to my friends shop to find out that the entire computer has virtually rusted over since my room had an open window combined with a high humidity thanks to San Francisco's famous fog. Was able to salvage some parts (main PSU, 4GB 1333mz x3, ATI v4800's, all hard drives, sound card) but the rest is now rusted junk sitting in my garage. Anyway, I've decided to build a new one ASAP but still working out the parts I should use... Currently looking into a setup ;

• Rampage 3 extreme (or a SuperMicro board)
• i7 960
• EVGA GTX 580's 1536MB SLI
• HAF X case
• SSD for boot (not sure which since I don't want to raid 0 raptors)
• Replace all HD's that are not 2nd gen Blk Caviars with Blk Caviars

I guess I my computer dying was the perfect excuse to rebuild eh?

Anyway, Tokubetsu is nearly done and about to go through its final QC so keep your pants on (or off) and sit on it (or don't).

















Fakku offered to host me.

[rant + update] Huh?

I'm currently in Taiwan with the worse case of the shits ever. Fuck. You. EVA Air.

Anyway, the reason I'm in Taiwan is I'm currently on a vacation touring HK, Taiwan and mainland China. This should make it 'easier' to contact Ed for projects but he hasn't replied to me for the past 10 days, so we'll see...

[rant] Fix my car dawg.

I'm a total gearhead / petrol head. Same goes for Ed and somewhat Dask. However, I currently am driving my '08 ML350 that I paid cash and wanted for a simple luxury SUV. Here's a list of problems I've had / having in the 31K miles.

Engine & Transmission

• Engine is currently lurching and slipping out of the powerband, letting the car sit while completely warm seems to suggest that either a spark plug needs to be replaced or maybe a faulty fuel injector.
• Transmission is completely mental. 
• It only upshifts when I'm revving the tits off it @ the 7K redline and trying to drive economically.
• It upshifts right when I'm out of the torque range and a good 2-3K from the real power when I plant my foot down and want power.
• The shifts them self seem to come straight out of a '88 Honda civic, they jerk the car like it's a manual and the car seems to lurch when a gear is finally selected.
• Transmission has too many fucking gears and the ratio's are shit. Seven gears. The 1st gear can bring the car up to 40mph while the 7th gear will let the car keep highway speeds at 60mph @ 1.9K rpm. The car fucking idles at 900rpm...

Suspension & Steering

•  The Continental's the car originally came with lasted a nice... 20K miles. The rubbers were rated for a good 50-65K miles. Currently on Pirelli PZERO ROSSO  Mercedes Spec @ a cool $360 a pop (literally!).
•  The stock OEM brakes the car came with lasted a cool... 20K miles with like 90% freeway miles. Just like the tires, they were overrated. In this case, these were rated for 30K city to 40K freeway.
• The brake rotors themselves were also swapped along with the pads. Those rotors were scuffed to shit and were rated for 80K MINIMUM.  
•  The steering rack has to be rebalanced every time I take the damn thing in for a service. 10K miles.
• The car is a bitch to park accurately (as in tiny spots in parallel parking), the car seems to be angled when using wing mirrors.
•  Speaking of the wing mirrors, the passenger mirror was completely smashed off (by the DEALER during a service) and replaced... poorly. The damn thing works when I fold them in, but when it comes to unfolding them, it takes a good 10-30 seconds to lock it in place. Compare to 2-3 seconds for factory spec driver side.

Electrical

• The right turn signal has been utter shit since 10K miles and has been acting up repeatedly. It will either work, or not work. That simple.
• I've probably spent close to 5K to addressing this specific problem.
•  Replaced the OEM factory headlight bulbs with Philips H7's. The OEM ones failed simultaneously while I was on the freeway @ 8pm.
• Center console had to be replaced at C service at 20K.

Build Quality & Etcetera

• Half the buttons and switches in the car are either loose or falling off.
• Something that happened today made me do this rant. I was driving on the freeway doing 80mph tonight @ 3am. Both the rear windows failed for some reason and rolled completely down. Now I usually keep the rear button lock engaged because it gets in the way. I figured no big deal so I tried to roll them back up from the front. I pulled the buttons... and they popped out. I mean just popped out. They flew up and landed in the footwell. I figured, 'Sowut I'll just unlock the rear windows and use those switches'. I pushed the unlock button... and it got stuck. Physically stuck. As in, no movement at all. Great. I had to pull over on the hard shoulder and spend 10 minutes searching for them (and finally finding them under my seat. Spent another 10 minutes getting them back in and working.) Stealership, here I come.
• Sunroof leaks a tiny bit when it's raining hard.
• Passenger side vent for the backseat broke and can't be aimed anymore.
• Rear badges for ML350 & 4MATIC fell off. They were made of plastic.
• Driver's seat has lost lumbar support. The bar doesn't exist anymore.
• Driver's seat has lost back support and has a small amount of give in it. Picture a computer chair that has a lock to prevent you from rocking back. That small rock you get when you lock it? That's what I have to deal with when driving.
• The left blister / bolster on the drivers seat has collapsed. I drive at an angle facing toward the door now...
• The leather on the dash is prone to sun damage.

So please, fix my car dawg.

*Team stuff : I'm leaving for a China vacation next Wednesday, Ed will be translating at full speed Monday.*

-Tech

*EDIT : I own more than 1 car.

[news + rant] Fanime and GT

Omg, 3 blog posts in a day and within minutes of each other?
It's finally here, I'll be there roaming around looking at god knows what for some lulz and just relax for awhile.

Anyway, team related stuff :

• After Fanime, I'll get started asap on busting out nurnrunrurnurnrurnurururrnur chapters 3-4 for a duo release considering how long the scripts have been gathering dust.
• I already sent the script for Tokubetsu (Takto) to Noel, go figure how long she will take to typeset this.
• We've picked up another project, thing is, its handwritten so the progress (what progress) is rather slow.

I'll be back Monday.          -Tech


P.S. : If you are actually attending and you see a giant wood / cardboard Domo-kun, hug / attack / glomp / (whatever).

P.P.S : If you are going and want to see me IRL, I'll be wearing a 'V for Vendetta' mask.

[update] Need blog posts for releases

Yeah, I need the blog page release thing stuff to release a new project along with Oshiete 1-3 compilation. I'll try to get Tokubetsu out before I leave for Fanime on Thursday but no promises, Nurnurnurnurnur will be a ch3+4 combined release for the delay and I'll get that out after I come back on Monday.

Also, I'm rewatching something that I watched long ago, +1 if you recognise it.

-Tech


Post hijack: Sorry for all the delays.  I'll admit it's my fault the group is coming to a halt in releases, and I've repaid Tech by bitch slapping him with sharp-tongued responses.  RL is getting the better of me so it seems.

Still, I'd like to update people that I'll be in this "twilight zone" like state until the first or second week of June.  We have quite a backlog atm, so that means you can be rest assured that releases will still come out little by little.  Packaging and release preparation issues aside, they're all pretty much ready for release.  I just won't be working on any translations (Oreimo or otherwise) for quite some time.

That said, I'll see you guys around whenever I can.  Ciao.   ~ EdMX

[update] Not dead... Yet

Kind of how I'm feeling right now... Anyway, the team isn't dead, just a bit behind at the moment. I finally got around to watching Aria and well, feeling too damn lazy to do any cleaning or typesetting for that matter. I'll probably get started once I wake up after I go to sleep when I finish the blog post.

Anyway, Ed has finally returned to this hospital (and fer fucks sake, he isn't terminally ill or anything, he is a DOCTOR) so the team has been scrambling around to see what is going on, we now officially have two different copies of Oshiete chapter 3, one typesetted by Harmonian and one typesetted by Noel. Fuck.

I have no clue how did this screw up happen, I told Ed like 6 times that I wanted Noel to typeset chapter 3 for consistency's sake since she did chapters 1&2 but he wanted an LWB/TV editor because to him, that's the consistency. Whatever, idiot. Since I don't really want to waste either copy, we'll be using Harmonian's copy for the individual chapter and Noels for the chapter 1-3 compilation.     TL:DR - Expect chapter 3 within 2-3 days

The Reak(Takto) project is still looking for a set of cleans which I'll be doing my self (again) since the last 4 versions all have problems (mostly leveling and staff issues) so once I finally manage to get a proper clean, Noel will typeset this so expect this out within a week max.    TL:DR - Expect it in a week

Nurunurunurnurnur whatever it's called will be released... soon. Not sure when.
Lazy - Soon

-Tech
/end rant

P.S. Holy shit, I haven't done one of these in like... 4 months, I also remember how BAD I am at these...

ERRATA : New poll is actually VERY relevant to how we will prioritize our projects, so vote.

[Update] Just an update...

I have a whole new respect for editors, now.  I've been crunching out hours working on redraws for a certain release - either because I don't know what the hell I'm doing, or it's really just THAT hard.  Either way, we're looking at four projects on the waiting list to be released.

As much as I'd like to continue churning out scripts to fill up the "backlog" that I was talking about in a previous post, I'm finding myself doing a lot of editing work on the side.  In addition, I've been elbowing some people here and there to help me with a certain something that will, hopefully, mean a more speedy release of a "you-know-what" that should have been done ages ago.  Yeah, that's my speaking in cryptic.

Oh, and I think Karma got to me.  Here I am, flapping my mouth of and saying how Tech has it bad with his computer crapping out on him a buhzillion times... and my laptop just so happens to crap out on me, as well.  Just the screen, though... and since it's already 6 years old, that's the senescence kicking in.  I can still work by plugging it in to a monitor, but my mobility (and flexibility) will be severely effected... 

Regardless, let's just say that there are a couple big things coming up.  Hopefully, we can bring them out without any hitches.  

So to my colleagues: "Get back to work!"

[Rant] My plate.

I asked Tech to give me until the end of the week to get my shit together before I start churning out scripts to create a backlog on projects to be edited/typeset/whatnot.  I'm just so flooded with requirements from my last rotation that I'm literally finding ways to procrastinate... but heck, it's biting me in the rear.

So as it stands, no translating for a few days.  Sigh...

Still, there's quite a line up for the month, and Tech and I decided to focus on specific artists to sort of "specialize" in, so to speak.  We already thought about Amatou to start with, then we ended up including Essentia as well.  There's also a couple Kamino works we have lined up, and just to spite Tech, a French Letter. D:  Loli-attack!

I also have a few "personal" projects on the side, so putting it all together, I'm looking at well over 12 scripts on the backlog.  And here I was hoping I could catch up on some of my anime... I haven't even finished some shows off from the Fall season, god damn it!

Anyway... I'm kinda looking forward to translating (regularly) again... so I just wish this week would end... sigh.

[random] Genesis' Rigs

Got bored so I decided to create a post about each of our workspace and desktop spec's ;

mTechX - This is the interior of my current project, ironically named 'The Mauz' which I've poured about $6,500 into over the course of its life.

• CoolerMaster HAF932 (HAF-X does not support 120mm fans)
• ASUS P6T V2 motherboard
• Intel i7 920 clocked at 2.66 GHz
• Zalman CNPS 9900LED CPU cooler
• Kingston DDR3 1333 MHz 4GB x 6
• X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion Series
• EVGA GeForce GTX 275 Superclocked 896MB in SLI
• Coolmax 1200w Power Supply (soon to be Corsair 1200w Professional)
• Generic 450w Power Supply (for my hard drives and case fans)
• Generic 3.5" internal card reader
• Generic CD/DVD reader
• Velociraptor 300GB with 32MB cache [NRSN model] x1 (boot drive)
• Caviar Green 1TB with 32MB cache [EADS model] x1 (torrent storage)
• Caviar Black 1TB with 32MB cache [FALS model] x2 (general storage)
• Caviar Black 1TB with 64MB cache [FAEX model] x2 (video & anime storage)
• Scythe Kazemaru 140mm Case Fan 1700RPM (rear exhaust)
• CoolerMaster Excalibur 120mm Case Fan 2000RPM x7 (5 intake's and 2 exhaust)

• ASUS MS238H 23" LED Monitor x2 (Lefties)
• ASUS ML248H 24" LED Monitor x2 (Righties)
• Razer BlackWidow Ultimate Keyboard
• Razer Armadillo 2 Cable Management
• Razer Mamba Mouse
• Razer Vespula Mousepad
• Generic 7-port powered USB hub

Unseen and/or planned upgrades/changes

• Logitech Z-5500 speakers (bought but not installed)
• Scorpio Blue 500GB with 8MB cache 2.5" x2 (one used for backups, other for my porn)
• Thermaltake BlacX eSATA/USB docks x2 (USB for 2.5")

Dask - I recently just got back to building again - minus the fact that I have less money since I started living alone :P Anyway, I aimed for a setup that will greatly aid me in my daily activities. Which includes: internet browsing, coding, image editing, torrenting (ahem), listening to music at good quality, watching movies, gaming and school works (online classes and documenting). The netbook below isn't mine, but I borrow it when I want to play games and I'm in need of talking to the idiot(s) or just facebook-ing.

Desktop:

• Intel i7-980x CPU
• Corsair TX750 PSU
• Asus Rampage III Mobo
• 12GB Dual Channel RAM
• HD Radeon 6870 by XFX (One hell of a card!)
• X-Fi Titanium Fat Sound Card
• BluRay Combo Drive
• Velocicaptor for booting
• 2 TB HD (1 for storage, 1 for backup)
• And a few external HD's for files (mostly movies, anime and music) that I don't need to see in my PC.
• Some fans I forgot...
• Razer Mamba mouse
• Razer Lycosa keyboard (I have a Razer BlackWidow Ultimate but that'll be a backup for now)
• Razer Goliathus mouse pad (does better for me when playing games compared to the other ones)
• Bose Companion Series II Speakers (sounds amazing with the sound card)
• Dell 21.5" True HD Monitor
• Road Runner Turbo Plus
• Dr. Dre Beats Untangled
• Some Sony Studio headphones (rarely used)
• Phone: HTC HD2 - hacked: dual boots between Windows Mobile 7 and Android 2.3
• Netbook: Not mine, but it has its own internet so ;3

Alienware M17x

• ...yeah, the one who uses this is the waifu

Ed - Don't bother asking me to take a picture. I won't.


Desktop - Stopped using it since... I dunno, 2003? I needed mobility and flexibility, hence...

Laptop - Apple 12" iBook 1.33 GHz PowerPC G4 1.5 GB DDR SDRAM - ancient, I know.
Accessories:

• Seagate 1TB "Expansion" External HardDrive
• Lacie 250GB External HardDrive
• Stupid, generic USB bus dongle
• Fucked up looking laptop fan/stand
• Canon MP145 Scanner/Printer/Copier
• Apple Mighty Mouse
• 8GB iPod Touch G2
• NuForce uDAC-2 headphone amplifier
• AKG K242HD Reference Headphones

That's pretty much it. This is all messily arranged next to my bookshelf, which houses both my Japanese language references and my medical books. It's quite the ground-zero, so yeah...

Darko - I have no desktop...

• Off the Shelf spec's (none need mentioning)

Scripted - I am IMBA and lazy... soo yeah :0

Scripted's DxDiag.txt


Kraut - Okay, Just nothing much to it.

• Q6600 S775 @ 2.4 GHZ
  
• Asus P5Q Pro S775
  
• OCZ 4 GB REAPER DDR2 PC8500 @1066
  
• 500 GB Samsung SPINPOINT F3
  
• Club 3D ATI Radeon HD5870 1GB GDDR5 Over Clocked edition
  
• OCZ Xstealthstream PSU 600 WATT
  
• HP 20'' TFT/LCD (yeah i know at least its good enough for me)
  
• OCZ Alchemy Elixir Keyboard
  
• Logitech USB mouse 1900 DPI if im correct.

[rant] SNIPED!!

Aah... and why of all things, did it have to be my Kaoru sex hair... (borrowed Oliver's blog, I know...)

Well, guess I can't REALLY consider myself a part of the scene unless I experience this at least ONCE.  Sigh... and I was really looking forward to this one.  Thank God I only got as far as the first page.

That said, I pray to god my Azunyan doesn't get sniped. D:

[rant] The ROBOT project - Updated

A little update on the "idea" I had back in 2010 before the year ended...  I was looking around to see if there were any RAWs for this work online... and apparently, it has only been sporadically scanned, and only Volume 1 was translated waaay back in 2008 by some defunct scanlation group that has a fixation for rabbits.  (and why volume 1?  That was translated, already...)

Yeah.

That said, I REALLY want to work on this project, but there are a couple things that concern me.  First, this is Range Murata we're talking about.  He's big.  He's influential.  He can send the DMCAs coming in lickety split.  Second, it's a thick book.  Correction: it's a thick, GORGEOUS book.  There's no way in hell I'm debinding this thing.  And lastly, it's a difficult edit.  A difficult edit.

So it's looking pretty vague whether or not I'm going to continue with this idea, but I'm just raising the prospect.  If any of you are interested in helping me in this endeavor (providing raws, editing, whatever), then feel free to leave your contact email in the comments and I'll correspond with you on how we can get this project rolling.

And now, back to our regular programming. :)

[backlog] 12 days later

Yawn. Finally got my computer back and spent the past 24 hours setting it up for basic use after a complete reformat. Installing drivers and plugin's are REALLY annoying when you can't remember what needs to be installed when and why.

I finally got off my lazy ass and also fixed the tag system, basing it more on what the post is mainly about and not fetishes. Testing it to see if its easier to navigate, comment down below to tell us if you prefer this or the older (fucked) tagging system. Σ(ﾟДﾟ)

Anyway, we are on the verge of releasing another Kamino work and possibly a K-ON!! work by the next 5 days (don't hold us to that) and after that, our group will start a massive backlog considering Ed and Dawn are both extremely busy for the next 2 weeks and we are opening our small group to try and recruit some dedicated editors and translators at the moment. We've probably got 3 projects at the moment going through translations and another 6+ that are Full Color goodness so expect a deluge of crap starting 12 days from now. (ΘεΘ; )

[update] RAID and Hijackers!

So a quick update because of what has been going on lately;

Our previous release was hijacked by some dick who just combined chapters 1&2 and uploaded with no description or anything. I'm still working out the kinks in the g.e forums to get our copy to replace a hijacked gallery. It's hard considering I lurked in the forums with 4 posts and the person who hijacked happens to be a major uploader on g.e (I wonder how many of those galleries are hijacks?)

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I removed the Capcha protection to further encourage anonymous comments. Please don't spam...

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My computer is being a pain in the ass, even my shop guy complains about what I want to be done to it. It originally started as a computer built with Top Shelf parts originally and I ended up changing mostly everything except the motherboard and CPU out. The computer was originally spec'd to be gaming rig with some chance of using it for 3D purposes and what not. At where it stands, it's on the fence between a gaming spec and a file server.

The computer is getting more RAM and going from DDR3 1333mz 2GB x6 to DDR3 1333mz 4GBx6 and adding [2] 1TB 7.2k Caviar black's with 64mb cache. My previous plan of having a RAID 0 setup for my boot drive was cut short when I found out my current motherboard does not have enough SATA ports and does not even have a RAID controller (+1 for me not doing proper homework).

I guess I'll be thinking of picking up a SuperMicro rig and spec'ing it for a personal file server and maybe hosting a site (if our team ever gets that far)

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Our current projects might be more joint orientated because of our current staff status's which I'll post below;

mTechX - Computer is in the shop for a long due overhaul

EDMX - Hospital is demanding a bit more from him

Dask - College just resumed for him and to top it off, he canceled his current ISP and is currently accessing the internet by tethering his iPhone. New ISP will be in Feb.

Kraut - College exams... 'nuff said

Scripted - College exams and has lost her ISP, resorting to contacting us through an internet cafe to get work

Darko - Surprisingly free for now considering he's on holiday from college until March

So if anybody (Noel and Nash) are thinking our group is lazy at the moment or that Ed is working for your group now, I hope this clears things up.

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Currently bickering with Ed and Scripted about what our next project should be and completed in what order, pretty difficult considering Ed and Scripted are from the Philippines and I'm American... Kind of hard to argue when a response is 12 hours later ┐('～`；)┌


/rant

[rant] It's not repairs, it's an overhaul! (minor delay)

Ok, I just sent my computer to my friend's computer shop for a complete overhaul of my system and with a tuneup and whatnot. In other words, he's stripping my computer down to the most basic form of the case and then scrubbing the entire case clean to remove dust. I'm also having all of my HDD's checked for consistency, removing my lower performing HDD's (caviar green) and installing an extra 2.3TB of space along with a RAID 0 setup with 150GB 10K Velociraptors. Getting the motherboard completely removed and reapplying new thermal paste on the CPU. Because of how much work is needed, my computer is probably going to stay in the shop until Tuesday earliest but I'm not expecting it until Thursdays at least considering this guy loves to take his time in matters like this... Expect a release the minute I get my computer back because it's currently sitting on a near releasable project (just missing Staff Notes). Sigh.

[rant] Plans

Tech just emailed me a "to-do-list", which I find funny, because most of what's on it is probably stuff he should be taking care of... especially since I've been pretty much throwing out releases left and right while everyone else was messing around.  Don't get me wrong, though - I had a wonderful Christmas, albeit half spent in the hospital.  I don't know if it's because I'm more serious about it than the others, but that's just how I roll.  

Speaking of which, I might as well update you guys on what's going on, at the moment.  I'm currently halfway done with the repacking of Mozaiku X Sanshimai Chapters 7 and 8.  Tech is getting over his hangover from Vegas, and he just threw a Panty & Stocking doujinshi on my lap; Dask is on vacation (possibly where I'm at, which means I need to hunt him down); Kraut is probably invading some random nation; and Scripted just sent me a cleaned copy of another Uraraka work she has planned for us.  So yeah... I guess that means they aren't dead.

But I had a weird spark go up in my head when I took a look at my bookshelf.  I've always been a fan of  Range Murata, and I've been collecting his ROBOT Super Manga series for quite some time.  I've only collected up to volume 6, but it struck me that there have only been Serialized English versions of this work up to volume 5... the remaining volumes 6 to 10 have yet to be translated. D:

So basically... that's a little "idea" I have in my head, right now.  I'm not about ready to unbind my copy of ROBOT, just yet... just wondering if other people have been waiting for the last 5 volumes, only to end up stuck on volume 5 for the last... I dunno, 2-3 years?

[rant] Back from Sin City

Lets see...

$895 a night for 3 nights
$12,000 in winnings from playing roulette with $100 chips and betting heavily
$9,500 in fresh winnings from playing pai gow for $500 a hand
$100 lost in total from playing slots
$0 spent on room service because of my 'Players Club' (would of been $1,200+)
3 hours spent sleeping each day
4 times I watched the Bellagio water show
1 Rolls Royce Phantom spotted

It's good to be back.

[news] Fuck Windows

I lost all the data on my hard drive I used to store all the data pertaining to doujin's. I lost ALL of it. Fuck you Windows.