Corporations can't stand it a logarithmic graph. They need freaking geometric progressions, and then they do stuff that gets them an anti-logarithmic graph.
this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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Ahh good ol' Aegisub. I have great memories of subtitling anime in my late teens before I got a girlfriend and the fansub scene died when Crunchyroll took over.
I was also one of the people helping test Aegisub on Linux (2009-ish), I wasn't a programmer at the time but I remember a dude called 'verm' in the IRC channel who did a bunch of work to make Aegisub stable on Linux. He taught me the difference between little endian and big endian, I guess he was bored that day
As far as I know we don't even have fansubs anymore, any group nowadays is just a rip of whatever streaming has the anime, current anime if it's not picked up by any streaming will get no subs, the streaming giants were successful and embracing it and enshitifying.
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Lol. Crunchy roll was always crap. Watching anime in the raw is torture.
Sub ran out midway last month.
Kodi + Premiumize.me + Otaku for the win. 🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴☠️
Well then, fund an alternative.
- MuseAsia
- Ani-One
- RetroCrush ?
I bailed on CR when they fired their US based IT people and outsourced to the cheapest Eastern Euro country. It wasn't even a purely moral decision. The website was janky in the first place and I knew it wasn't going to get batter at that point.
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I much prefer owned media over subscriptions, but this is perhaps one area where they're actually good. A bad business decision that drives away customers can have a pretty immediate and visible impact on revenue. It's not "hey nobody bought our latest release, blame racism/sexism/wokeness" or whatever other whipping-boy they choose to bury their heads in the sand with, it's "we did a thing and within days to a month people were leaving us."
In many cases, this drives them to actually pay attention to customer reactions. We've seen the same with Disney in regards to Kimmel and I wouldn't be surprised to see recent changes to Gamepass have a similar impact. I hate to say it, but subscriptions like this really do allow customers to vote with their wallets.
Which is also why many are probably going to try to lock more customers in to longer terms, add gimmicks, and generally make it harder to unsubscribe. Kinda like phone companies. We'll likely end up with a "streaming sign-up/connection fee" and offers like "**free Frozen tablet with a two year Disney+ subscription"
** regular price $599, applied as a discount from your regular bill over 24mo