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Tales Of The Industry - Getting a Foot in the Door


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maximilianjenus



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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 10:37 am Reply with quote
and suddenly Spanking Love's sales multiplicate
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mgosdin



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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 11:01 am Reply with quote
Oh yes, in the fall of 1999 I was watching this show on Fox called Digimon with my kids and discovering all sorts of things Anime & Japan related with our newly enhanced 56K internet access.

Thankfully Spanking Love wasn't included. Shocked

Can't wait for Justin's next adventure.

Mark Gosdin
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rizuchan
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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 11:19 am Reply with quote
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But at that time neither method could be used for professional subtitles, so I was stuck using the least fun and most tedious method there was: scrubbing through the video and then manually typing each timecode into Microsoft Excel.

Oh God. This makes me want to write a love letter to the developers of Aegisub. Laughing

I actually wasn't aware that Media Blasters had been around for so long. It makes sense now why they won't die... they've just gone back to their roots.
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Mr. Oshawott



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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 11:46 am Reply with quote
Perhaps S. Love has found a small following when the subtitling was done?

In any case, I've gotten an understanding of how painstaking manually subtitling anime shows was during the VHS era.
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DmonHiro





PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 12:06 pm Reply with quote
You had to write the times manually? I actually did that too once, on an episode of Tenchi in Tokyo. After that, I said to myself "There must be a better way". And then the gods graced me with Aegisub.
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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 12:28 pm Reply with quote
Will you sign my copy of spanking love? ...And time code it?
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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 12:51 pm Reply with quote
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"Why can't I get away from the porn?" I thought to myself.

This story must be false.

Unless someone is really lucky, it might take a few jobs to find the place that treats employees like people instead of drones.
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BadNewsBlues



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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 4:10 pm Reply with quote
Gasero wrote:
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"Why can't I get away from the porn?" I thought to myself.

This story must be false.


If this is Justin that wrote this story I believe him Smile

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I had been wasting time and living off of my savings, but I needed a job. I stopped at a newsstand and bought a newspaper so I could pull out the want ads. But just then, I received a mysterious email. It was from a huge fan of ANN, who wanted to hire me to do something similar.

And I could not believe who this company was. It wasn't just anybody. It was someone big.

It was Sci Fi Channel.



To be continued...


The suspense is killing me already.
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_Cyphon_



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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 4:16 pm Reply with quote
Sci Fi Channel? Dang, you're getting into some big business, Justin. Now I'm suddenly very curious about Spanking Love.
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Red Fox of Fire



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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 4:28 pm Reply with quote
Oh, the cliffhanger!

By the end, I realized that, compared to some previous columns, not a whole lot seemed to happen in this one, but it was a fun read nonetheless. Looking forward to the continuation.
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Sahmbahdeh



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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 6:09 pm Reply with quote
Wow, this was actually really interesting to read. I'm looking forward to the next part!
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Rhys2753



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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 6:42 pm Reply with quote
"Why can't I get away from the porn?" - Justin Sevakis

Best. Senior. Quote. Ever.
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Tempest_Wing



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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 7:57 pm Reply with quote
Ah the Sci Fi Channel that channel formally known, now known as Syfy.
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nobahn
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PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 8:07 pm Reply with quote
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What a stupid name change. I know that they did it for copyright purposes; that still doesn't make it any less stupid.
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belvadeer





PostPosted: Tue May 19, 2015 8:14 pm Reply with quote
Sci-Fi? Hot dang, that must have been something. For the record, I'm just going to stick with calling it Sci-Fi Channel since this has to be before their name change in 2009.
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