rejections:

1: first off, we DO appreciate the sentiment of those who are patient enough to wait for us. It makes us feel good, and helps to motivate us in an increasingly negative environment.

2: we don't want your money. we could care less, it'd be at very least unethical for us as fansubbers to accept your money. gotwoot, while associated with animeone and anbu, is an independent entity. if you donate to gotwoot, you're donating to gotwoot to help offset their costs to keep offering you bittorrent and forum communities, but you're not donating to us. If you're donating to some other site, you're not even sending money in a direction remotely close to ours. Never do we ask for money, and we in fact tell you NOT to be paying for this stuff. Then, it doesn't look like there's a whole lot of donating going on either.

3: we never specified a release date. Quite to the contrary, we have REPEATEDLY in MULTIPLE PLACES said that we do NOT KNOW when we will have releases out. things come up. things happen. we have lives. we have classes and exams and personal problems and we're human too, and we acknowledge the fact. Because we never specified a date for a release, I don't personally see a reason to revise one. Even now, with "the progress meter" stuck at 96% now, as a member of the crew who has given about 9 hours of his own free time to this one episode, I don't know when it'll be out. EVEN NOW. (I explain this, among other places, in the AnimeOne Rules Page, though the animesuki rules page also explains this pretty similarly). We never claimed we'd have it done in 2 days. We never promised it'd be out by Saturday morning. The only reason people think we _do_ have a specific schedule is that the naruto team in particular is experienced enough and skilled enough that the overall consistency level is pretty high. Most combinations both within ANBU and within AnimeOne are relatively consistent... but I don't see a whole lot of people complaining that we're 3 weeks behind on gokusen, or several weeks late on hxh. Even the most consistent groups in the community still aren't machines.

4: When the programmers were writing ninja gaiden, they DIDN'T have classes, or exams, or other projects. They were professionals. Game designers operate in a controlled environment, and get paid to do so, and at the same time they STILL have delays and difficulties that delay things (see also: doom 3, halflife 2). While they give notice that they'll delay stuff, they are just revising previously stated estimates. Again, we can't even give those estimates to begin with.

5: when the programmers of the games you love and the manufacturers of your favorite hardware delay things, it's typically not by a week or so. It's typically by months. a little patience in the scope would be appreciated.

6: When you have to write an article for your job, you're GETTING PAID TO DO IT. Presumably, anyway, it's something like an occupation to you. Fansubbing is a hobby for us, though we take it seriously and take pride in it and all. Today I woke up, I went to work, I was there for nearly 10 hours. I came back, I worked for nearly 3 hours to try to get this script to move, learning new skills and applying my ability to figure things out in order to do a job that's not what I normally do, so I can try to help cover for someone a little bit. The last thing I need is people being critical of the group's lack of transparency, or complaints that a member of a community that as a whole has always had the model "when it's out, we'll tell you" (denote distinct event) isn't notifying you of the nondistinct event "they're working on it" (which I'll rant more about in a couple more bullet points).

7: nevertheless, I personally HAVE (as has been repeatedly pointed out) explained both where the episode is and why it is where it is. thanks for noticing, it's good to know people are paying attention.

8: moreover, you can safely draw the presumption that we're working on it, from the time it airs until the time it is released. You'll be right. We're not vacationing somewhere. We're not sitting around doing nothing. We're busy working on stuff until it's released. The general concept of "notifying you" that we're working on it would be INSANELY repetitive. You might as well ask us "are you breathing?" or expect us to notify you that we are on regular intervals?

9: there are news sites. There are topics. There are countless threads. The information "it's not out yet" is pretty readily available... be confident that if nothing says it's out, it's probably not out, but probably on the way. Note the littered trail of locked threads about naruto 78 and "when is it gonna be out" which is also pretty visible. Does it help you to know that 3 things might be stuck waiting for qc, and another 2 things are waiting for typeset, and another 4 are currently being edited? What does this information do for you, other than assure you that we're still breathing? It doesn't tell you when it'll be out (96%, still waiting on that last 4 ....). It doesn't even tell you whether it'll be soon (qc can mean qc which will fail, get fixed, fail again, get fixed again, fail again, go to an rc 8 or 9 and have each iteration take 2 days).

I think I'm about done ranting about this now, but in conclusion, think of how I personally feel in the role of "fansubber who is being bitched at for not giving you useless information" and maybe try to develop a little empathy. We're not yours, we're not professionals, we're not paid (and we don't really want to be), we're not machines, we're just doing our thing. Please respect that. Thanks.[/quote]

OK, you're mad, with a purpose. When you write a reply as long as you did, it's easily recognizable that you're pissed. While I can't say I understand how you feel about these complaints, I see where you may be in the right.

This is the most reasonable reply on A/A in regards to the release of 78. It answers questions unlike the usual, "shut up and wait for it." And it has depth, and passion.

I'm not asking the world out of you (some people may), all I'm saying is to give a clear-cut explanation of just whats going on, due to the rapid posts about "wheres my Naruto!?". By answering "shut up and wait" is not a good approach to getting people to just shut up and wait, it only makes them more impatient, thus leading to more posting and spamming.

I just read this from you in another thread.

the karaoke effect our sfx guy created is really really heavy to encode, and really complex. You'll like it though. I can do my part without the whole thing encoded, for the most part (I'm qc). Crustol and I have already gotten the final script pretty well polished, just waiting on the sfx/karaoke guys to apply fixes to the opening script and to give us an ending that looks pretty. Then of course, because the sfx are really insanely heavy it'll be a bit longer encode time too...

Thats all you needed to say.