Random stuff I found around the Net that doesn't make much sense...
1. Nicovideo. I think these guys are like equivalent of Youtube of Japan, but you got to register with them. Most of the cool Anime videos on Youtube probably originated here. The site allows you to put comments at a specific time of the video, except the comment is superimposed on the screen at that time and scrolls across the screen. So what happens is if there's more than about 100 comments on your video it ends up being covered by comments like "WHOAAAAAAA" and nobody will ever be able to see anything. Now you can just turn off all comments, but apparently comments are used by authors to annotate their video. I assume this is because it's easier to use some tool outside to add annotation than having caption as you're creating the video? So let's say you're viewing a video on how to do crazy stuff in an action game, and the author's annotation might read like: "Slide, jump, backflip, and backflip again" except this will be covered by the "AWESOMEEEEE!"s on the screen, so you wouldn't actually be able to see anything.
I wonder if the designer of that site ever looked at a video with at least 100 comments because it'd be obvious that you cannot possibly display them like this. The comments do not appeared to be ranked in anyway so it's not like you could even vote on them to see which gets displayed. Maybe there's some behind the scene functionality if you're a premium user but it shouldn't take a paying account to get past a sea of "WHOAAAAAAAA" comments.
2. Translation groups. Some of the Hong Kong manga are very obscure (can't even buy them), so some people decide to specialize on only those since everything major has 50 groups working on it. At least one (might be more, I don't keep track of their names) has a tendency to watermark every dialogue box with their logo. I realize people aren't reading this stuff for the story but it's kind of hard to figure out what's going on when every dialogue box is obscured by a watermark.
Now you'd think by being such a pain you'd be offering people to sign up for premium translations or whatever without the watermarks, but as far as I can tell there is no such thing. Whereas every normal manga has stuff on the side like: "Delete after 24 hours, for educational purposes only, blah blah blah", and some groups even have pages of stuff they add to let you know what they feel about the humanitarian efforts in Tibet or whatever. Yet these guys I can't find anywhere that says like, "Go to this site and give us money!"
Maybe this explains why most pirate sites don't carry this stuff, since it'd literally just be a waste of bandwidth.
1. Nicovideo. I think these guys are like equivalent of Youtube of Japan, but you got to register with them. Most of the cool Anime videos on Youtube probably originated here. The site allows you to put comments at a specific time of the video, except the comment is superimposed on the screen at that time and scrolls across the screen. So what happens is if there's more than about 100 comments on your video it ends up being covered by comments like "WHOAAAAAAA" and nobody will ever be able to see anything. Now you can just turn off all comments, but apparently comments are used by authors to annotate their video. I assume this is because it's easier to use some tool outside to add annotation than having caption as you're creating the video? So let's say you're viewing a video on how to do crazy stuff in an action game, and the author's annotation might read like: "Slide, jump, backflip, and backflip again" except this will be covered by the "AWESOMEEEEE!"s on the screen, so you wouldn't actually be able to see anything.
I wonder if the designer of that site ever looked at a video with at least 100 comments because it'd be obvious that you cannot possibly display them like this. The comments do not appeared to be ranked in anyway so it's not like you could even vote on them to see which gets displayed. Maybe there's some behind the scene functionality if you're a premium user but it shouldn't take a paying account to get past a sea of "WHOAAAAAAAA" comments.
2. Translation groups. Some of the Hong Kong manga are very obscure (can't even buy them), so some people decide to specialize on only those since everything major has 50 groups working on it. At least one (might be more, I don't keep track of their names) has a tendency to watermark every dialogue box with their logo. I realize people aren't reading this stuff for the story but it's kind of hard to figure out what's going on when every dialogue box is obscured by a watermark.
Now you'd think by being such a pain you'd be offering people to sign up for premium translations or whatever without the watermarks, but as far as I can tell there is no such thing. Whereas every normal manga has stuff on the side like: "Delete after 24 hours, for educational purposes only, blah blah blah", and some groups even have pages of stuff they add to let you know what they feel about the humanitarian efforts in Tibet or whatever. Yet these guys I can't find anywhere that says like, "Go to this site and give us money!"
Maybe this explains why most pirate sites don't carry this stuff, since it'd literally just be a waste of bandwidth.
