/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Alright, I'm back to stir more shit.

>>14363557
>common courtesy
YAR! I'm a pirate!! xD
"Common courtesy" would dictate that I first of all heed the artist's own request regarding THEIR work and not upload anything.
There's a reason that "please don't upload this to the internet" is on the back cover/credit page of so many doujinshi.
They don't want their stuff on the internet.

>>14363581
>90 fucking things
Shipping costs get lower the less heavy your package gets. The price still hovers around 6-8 USD per book.

>Wild, right?
Right...? So, I don't understand what you're getting at.
I was arguing that piracy is not the only way people find things that they like — renting and demo disks are not pirating material, so... are you agreeing with me and telling me I'm correct, or what the hell are you doing?

>I've lost count of the number of doujins that had 2 or 3 solid samples, and those were the only 3 good pages in the entire thing.
It sounds like you have extremely poor judgement skills if you've "lost count" of the number of times you've been burned by sample pages. I can recall how many times it's happened to me, and it's occurred in only about 0.4% of all the doujinshi that I've imported.
It helps when you're not a leech and limit yourself to buying what looks like the very best/most interesting items.

>>14363585
>no reason to kiss your ass
There is no reason to kiss my ass, I would just hope that people would respond in a more normal manner, like normal humans, but "lel, internets."

>what proxy and shipping service do you use
I don't even need to tell you the one I'm using. Read the thread. Somebody mentioned the service they use (which sounds to be around as cheap as the one I use), somebody else mentioned there's an /a/ buyfag thread/guide.

>and are sitting on the scans, for... some reason?
How is this not obvious? I haven't finished translating them yet. They'll be done when they're done.

>a reason why you don't
I think I've already answered this by now, but I'll have answered it by the end of my post if I haven't already.

>complain a lot
I said one thing? lol
The *only* use that site has for me is it's tagging system. Now, the general users of the site however, those people I do have a bone to pick with.

>If by caring about quality you mean
>I'm gonna have to go with the half-ass, better than nothing
I'll get to this in the next post.

>>14363616
>9 times out of 10, means that you're not even slightly confident in your translation
I can talk to the original artists already if I want to, what do I care if some people don't think my translations are good? They're good enough to suit my purposes.

>>14363783
>But this is what really puzzles me
As I said earlier in this post, I'm working on them.

>when I look at your picture is that more than half of the "good stuff" actually doesn't get scanned.
27/56 (48%) for free is pretty good.
>what is "good stuff" anyway?
Of course art is subjective. You can however make an objective scale for general art: Are a lot/few pages rough sketches? Does the artist use (very, somewhat, no) proper perspective/anatomy in their drawings? etc.

>That is what I do with Touhou. I follow every book
This is your issue. You follow too much, even the garbage. I closely follow books for ~3 characters? Then generally follow for ~30 characters. If you closely follow books for every single character, of course you're gonna find what you already do to be the result.

>>14363924
>>14364361
stickytar shh, you're a good guy though.

>>14364787
>but I still know how much time and effort scanning a doujinshi would take
I'm pretty sure, every person in the thread that has expressed having experience with scanning doujinshi has said it takes a long time.
>>14345142
>>14363773
and myself say it takes a long time.
>>14358381
>>14360112
>>14363924
Doesn't mention time that it takes to scan, but mentions that editing takes forever (and he actually cares enough about quality that he won't upload incomplete raw scans).
>>14363652
and then this guy didn't specify anything.

>My whole contribution to western 2hu community is 30$ I spent on commission to translate one non-h doujin two years ago. I'm EOP so I wanted to read it translated. But at the same time I just wanted to SHARE it with others.
I've translated ~21 doujinshi (at a rate of $30 per book == ~$630),
of which I provided the scans for ~10 (which, people are insisting importing a doujinshi costs more than $30, not to mention the time that it cost me to actually scan/edit, but we'll just use $30 then == ~$300),
in addition to ~7 raws that have no ENG TL (@$30 == ~$210),
in addition to the scanner that I had to buy @~$70.

Which means I've thrown a total of ~$1210 at this. Please tell me more about how I haven't shared anything and am a "colossal faggot."