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Well, it’s getting closer to the time of the year I always dread: Webhosting payment.
We’re okay… although we only managed to get $8 in our Adsense account (we’re sharing the hosting with manga-sketchbook.org) last month. Hosting costs $19.95 a month. Donations (on manga-sketchbook.org) aren’t consistent, either.
There are a few options:
Of course, 1. isn’t that good, since it’s not consistent, and you usually don’t get any good ads anyway. The donate button.. not many people donate. I think. However, I think people might pay for webhosting because they get something back, and it’s pretty good.
What I’m thinking at the moment is 5gb of space, 50gb of bandwidth with full features (PHP4/5, MySQL, email, whatnot), and we’ll host your domain if you have one or you can just get
Please post suggestions, discuss or register your interest below.

Due to a botched drupal upgrade, I had to roll back the website a to a backup made 23 hours ago. From a glance, a few comments were lost, although there could be more. Anyone who had made changes to the site within the last day, please remake them.

Its official as of only a few mins ago, Ryuusoul had completed his rewrite of Tsukihime. We will now move on to inserting this rewrite and begin internal testing. Stay tuned for more info.

Just plowed through another programming assignment a month before it’s due. Almost too easy… at least compared to the trouble other people will have as the due date draws closer. I have to get the documentation due for the one due this week, ew.
Uni’s going along well. I have this little experiment going on to see how many lectures I can skip until I start dropping marks. So far, so good :> I only go to four hours of actual class per week cause attendance counts (only did three this week though, yay).
By the way, I’m no longer a bachelor anymore ^_^ Found the girl of my dreams, really… she’s cute, shorter than me (yay!), likes anime/manga, actually does Japanese for a subject at university, awesome personality and perhaps most importantly, likes me š®
Life is good, apart from the fact I have to work and the project I’m working on is way behind schedule. Ugh.
Gotta go to bed now, it’s past midnight, I have work from 11-5pm tomorrow and then my girlfriend is taking me out (:o!)
And I quit WoW, btw. Uni, work, girlfriend means no time. Oh well… it was getting boring anyhow.
chendo, out.

Well, update on my life that no one cares about.
Title says it all, I’ve been slacking translation and was immersed in playing the games I bought in Japan.
But now, I’m pretty much finished with all the games. (Except for Higurashi because I was spoiled…)
Most games were worth the money and I’m quite happy finding some of the greatest games I’ve ever played (Ayakashibito, Flutter of Birds, Hello World, Sharin no Kuni…) Although, I did get some letdowns like Shuumatsu no Sugoshikata, Tomoyo after (yes, you heard me), and hoshizora planet.
So close to 20 games didn’t even last me 4 months…
Why is the talk on my life turning into talk of games? ^^
Now for what everyone cares about: the translation.
“The Gut” is finally fully trans- ……. sorry, that’s just a cruel joke.
Actually things are rolling pretty well. We have a graphic editor now and translation is going… well, ok.
I’m done with all the games and my schedule this quater is looking quite well so I’ll have lots of free time on hand for translation.
I’ll start posting translation progress on the Fate project page for those who wants to keep watch.
And looks like Tsukihime editing is getting closer to completion with Akiha route done as well. Cheer on Ryuusoul, everyone!

The rewrite progress has almost reached three-quarters of the way through! Ryuusoul wins the intraweb.

I’m very pleased to annouce our new project: fate/stay night.
Some of you were probably expecting this, but we decided to keep it under wraps for a while to see if it was actually doable, due to the immense size of the project.
Takajun is the main (and only) translator for this project at the moment, and he has translated all the status images (over 300 of them :o), the prologue, and up to the middle of Day 3. Hacking has not been contemplated yet, but due to fate/stay night using an open-source engine, it shouldn’t be too difficult to get it to display English.
As usual, we don’t have an ETA, so don’t ask. No, really, don’t ask.
Project page will be up in the next couple of days.
EDIT #1: Hacking is actually almost done. Blame me for not being informed ;p
And this is real. Having people doubt it was the point of posting it on April 1st ;p
EDIT #2: Project page is up.

Title says it all.
EDIT: Looks like some clarification is needed. The progress is referring to the rewrite, -not- the translation (that was finished long ago). Yes, romhacking.net, I’m looking at you :p

For the past 5 months or so since I moved to Florida, Iāve worked for 7-Eleven, the famous gas station chain know for its Slurppyās and Go Go Taquitos. When I started working for 7-11, it was a pretty decent job compared to all that wonderful foam factory work I used to do. I enjoyed dealing with customers because most where tourist from out of town, most enjoying a wonderful vacation with their families.
Then shit it the fan at the end of January. Opm and I had a third roommate (whom I will refer to as āBobā), and it was pretty common for him to spend a week or two at a time at his momās house. I come home from work and opm informs me that the cops came to the apartment looking for Bob. Opm then calls Bobās workplace (where opm used to work before he wrecked his Dodge Stratus) and asked the boss what was going on. Bob hadnāt been to work in 3 days, and apparently he was āwanted for questioningā in regards to a pedophilia charge. Well, being sans one roommate, opm and I were in trouble with the rent money. So I moved in with Piner (of SFL Drift fame), and opm moved back to Pittsburgh with to live with his mom. All of the moving was done rather on the whim and extremely quickly. Along with this move, I transferred to another 7-Eleven store.
Now, this store wasnāt in the tourist areaās south of Disney or anything the like, it was in the middle of Kissimmee near St. Cloud, in a working class neighbor hood. My first night working at this new store was complete chaos. I carded so many angry people because Iād never seen them before in my life, and I was completely driven up the wall by how much business this tiny store (it was physically smaller then my last store) got. And I knew the Friday was slower then normal because of the rain that day!
Anyway, Iāve been under this pressure ever since. Every night before work the anxiety of going to work and being down right afraid I would be put in hand cuffs for selling something I shouldnāt to a minor kept building and building more. Last night I outright had an anxiety attack just before I was supposed to go to work. I canāt handle it anymore! Iāve become so anxious over selling alcohol and tobacco that Iāve finally just snapped. Iām sick of kids that wonāt produce their IDās for me simply because they are over the age of 21 and say āI come in here all the time.ā None of them seem to understand the law that I need to see their ID until they appear to be over the age of 30! In one situation, I carded a kid, and he proceeded into the menās restroom, took a dump on the floor, and then smashed a garbage can on top of his own shit (and apparently that is PRETTY COMMON)! One girl I worked with told me that kids would put broken glass and such under her car tires! I didnāt go to work last night and right now I donāt even want to talk to anyone there about it. I canāt do it anymore!
I was never able to fully accomplish what needed to be done in one night, the store is understaffed and they donāt appear to be hiring anyone else to fill the gaps (other then on first shift)! The quality of the job I do has dropped 10 fold from where it was at my previous store⦠Iām fed up with HAVING to do a sub-standard job and busting my ass to do it.
Iāve had it with this job and working for 7-Eleven!
I told myself that I wouldnāt quit unless I had another job lined up, but my feelings of anxiety have taken over my sense of logic. I choose to no longer work for 7-Eleven because I think that is wiser then eventually going to jail for something that would probably be an honest mistake.