QUOTE (daft27 @ Oct 01 2006, 10:25 PM) Okay okay, here's the story about this Threshold Avalon thing. I was doing some work for Neko-sama's next portion of the "Threshold Avalon" story last night when I sort of got carried away and one thing led to the next... I somehow ended up with a splashscreen. By the way, the goal was to get the girl in the splash to be the Neko-sama sitting on the bear rug in the cabin next to the fire for the "Threshold Avalon" story... (got it now?). Now I think it ended up turning into a splashscreen because I was working on an experimental desktop application and I needed a splashscreen to put on it. So because I had these two goals in my mind, I somehow mixed them together and came out with that...
Interestingly enough, that story is actually pretty close to how Fansub.TV came about! I wanted a way automatically or easily get anime on a regular basis (and BitTorrent didn't work for me!), so I ended up writing code to let me do that. Of course, a database was necessary to prevent the code from downloading the same stuff over and over and over again.... and I figured a webpage would be the easiest way to interface with the system (after all, it's just click and download - right?). Now, some of you might have wondered why the site looks so pink, cute or girly. There's actually a good answer to that. The colors I actually like are blue and black (typical colors for a guy, I suppose). I never figured that Fansub.TV would become popular at all, so I just used it as an experimentation ground. I thought - if nobody's going to see it, why don't I play around and do something that I normally wouldn't do? After a bit of experimentation, I finally got some colors and a picture or two that seemed to work together. In the end, I gave the link to a few of my friends so they could easily get anime too, made one post about it somewhere (which got appropriately deleted as spam within like 5 minutes), and that was it for promotion. That's pretty much how FTV started. It didn't have a forum for a while and I didn't really want to have one, but because someone really wanted it, I quickly put one in.
The funniest thing to this date is when people ask me what's out today or what episodes what or whatever... I'm still like, "hold on - i need to go check my site for that" and then when I get there, i'm like "hey! did you know ________ episode X is out!? i need to download that now...".
Behold our GOD
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