The Great Debate!

Okay, I guess it's not a debate. It's more of a "stream of thought" type of thing where I just gab on for a long time. If you're looking for a video or something, just turn on back now. No one will blame you. I even made a new tag called "David's Whining" just for this post. There's the "Back" button... You've still got time.

For a while, I've been thinking about how this whole blog is going to turn out. There's two different ways that this can go. This post will probably be my ever-growing rant about the life of an overwhelmed subtitler.


I've been trying to upload whole episodes, and that worked fine during the summer and while I was on internships, when I didn't have school to be worried about almost constantly. But as many of you have seen by my long absences, I have little to no time. I have been thinking about this lately and it brings up an interesting points on many levels. When I started subtitling videos, I didn't intend to become some sort of Subtitled-Gaki-Download-Central; I'll leave that to DTFS or any other "professional" fansubbers. I didn't have the energy or will to keep up with download links and constantly making sure that subtitle files were uploaded and dealing with the different questions and tasks that would certainly arise. What I intended to do was to create a catalog of all the Gaki Episodes and quick summaries of all of them, with maybe a few pictures scattered about. What came of that idea is a pretty lame, but gets the job done as seen here. However, as I said above, that's pretty lame, and wouldn't be of any interest to anyone except maybe people who want clues to find that one episode that they really want to download or something. What makes it worse is that someone will undoubtedly then come up and go "UPLOAD PLZ" or something to that affect, only to be turned away thus feeling that my blog is that much crappier. So, what is better: a complete yet completely boring blog, or a blog that will only be updated once every blue moon (and if you think the updating is sporadic now, I can't think of what it's going to look like in the future) with something that may be fun for a few hours or so? I'm still very undecided on the issue.

As for videos nowadays, there's little safe haven. The BooTube has been, doing their little copyright window thing and I have earned 2 strikes against my account. Luckily, my uploading has pretty much ground to a halt, so there's little risk of new strikes any time soon. Veoh and even Viddler have gone on a mad file-removing/account-deleting spree lately. I looked at Veoh for uploading, but I don't believe they support just using a subtitle file over the video like YouTube does, do they? I didn't see any opton for it. I like looking at my own videos, but don't like subtitles on them, so YouTube's subtitling feature really appeals to me. Some of you might be thinking "Well, you have the raw file, just watch that and gimme some subbed Gaki, you jerk," to which I say " :( You're mean." If I do it that way, I would need to keep the raw file for me, the subtitle text file, and the subtitled video file for you. The current way, I just need the first two. Yet another example of my expense vs. your pleasure.

Enough whining from me, for now. Anything else, I should be thinking about? Input? Opinions? Questions? Internet hugs?