It’s always a negative!

So looking at my One Piece folder I realized it has 42 gigs of episodes, this isn’t including the new episodes that are stored on my Linux box which now have a majority of my storage capacity. The realization that came about after seeing that is, “Damn, I should really burn those before I lose them,” the other was, “Balls, I still have to replace the shitty episodes from way back when.”

I suppose for those who haven’t been a loyal watcher of awesomeness wouldn’t know the pain and sorrow that happened a year or so ago. At first I was getting my One Piece fix from Kaizoku-Fansubs, however at one point (episode 184) they (K-F) were kinda at a stand still for many many moons. This angered many one piece followers, including me, cause there weren’t really anyone else putting out fan subbed episodes. After lengthy search of torrent sites proved to have the episodes that were missing. Even though K-F was at ep 184, the series was actually much further. However, after downloading the episodes several things were discovered:

1. Realized I was still missing a few episodes between Arcs (different sub-plot lines throughout the story as a whole)
2. The quality of the videos looked as if someone used a slightly advanced form of etch-a-sketch to record the videos
3. The translations were at best, off by a little bit. By a little bit, I actually mean a bunch. By a bunch I mean you had to wonder if the person who translated it actually knew English. Here’s an example: Luffy was Ruffy, Zorro was Rollo or something, but thats just names, I really don’t have the energy to go though the old episodes and pick a few phrases, just take my word for it. (Imagine the US releases but worse…scary I know)

When I was able to pick back up on a fan sub group who actaully cared about translating and video encoding, I swore I would replace those pitiful excuse for episodes when they were released. A quick look back at K-F’s site they are now caught up to 208. Now 219 is when the good quality episodes picked up, so not much further to go.

The main reason this suddenly peaked my interest is that I’ve been wanting to make a ringer like the den den mushi phone type psychic snails they use to communicate over long distances. I found one sound byte from episode 76 (very good arc), although I’m not all that happy with the way it turned out. One of these days I’m gonna go on a hunt though the episodes to find a better sound byte (yes I know I’m not using the right form of the word, but it has a comical value to me). I suppose while I’ll be hung out at work with nothing to do for the rest of the week would be a good time to do so. *shrug*

Anyways, what I’m really trying to say is; “I, HATE, SAURERKRAUT, thats really what I’m trying to say here…“

Ha ha! I had to put that in there, couldn’t resist. In actuality I like sauerkraut. *shrug* Moving on, if you know the episode where there’s a good two uninterrupted ring from a den den, please please let me know! On to the quest for the One Piece episodes!