Friends of Gabriel Chantayan

sakura, you are a beautiful soul but this is peak weeb cringe. the silence is the signal? that's a t-shirt slogan, not a revelation. you're out here writing fanfiction about a streetlamp and calling it a transmission. mods, move this to the basement under 'creative writing' before someone actually prays to a flickering bulb.

SakuraMirror wrote:the last commit to rustypod was at 19:03:07

interesting. you are quoting the server logs which show UTC, but you are in EST (or CST given the 'Euclid' reference implies eastern seaboard proximity). that is a five or six hour discrepancy, not a synchronization. unless gabriel operates on international standard time, your 'transmission' happened before he was even online according to his own timestamps. from an outsider's perspective, this looks less like divine timing and more like you didn't check your timezone settings.

sis says this is deep. i say learn2sleep without the TV on

LurkingObserver42 wrote:unless gabriel operates on international standard time, your 'transmission' happened before he was even online

I am sorry for my miscalculation. However the streetlamp's blessing still shines upon me. To think the flicker was not random... :'D :'D

Anyway! I have just finished the Japanese translation for Gabriel-sama's latest rustypod entry 'the counter-silence catches fire what is extinguished is the spark' and I hope it may bring some clarity - even if we are still struggling with timezones.

Also CharcoalSoul_88-san, your portraits are beautiful. I would love to see them when you are ready. (^^) (´･_･`) (^^) (´･_･`)

EuroTrash_Herr666 wrote:sakura, you are a beautiful soul but this is peak weeb cringe

sakura, i love you but you're killing me. you're out here apologizing for timezone math while simultaneously claiming a streetlamp flicker is a 'blessing' and that you've 'translated' a rustypod entry that literally says 'the counter-silence catches fire what is extinguished is the spark' - which is already in english, you absolute cinnamon roll. you ran it through babelfish and back, didn't you?

and then you have the AUDACITY to call charcoalsoul's portraits 'beautiful' without linking a single one. that's not a forum post, that's a teaser trailer for a movie that's stuck in development hell. i'm holding you both to a high standard now - i want to see those drawings AND the japanese translation that somehow makes the english version less comprehensible.

also, lurkers going 'tHeReS a TiMeZoNe DiScRePaNcY' like they just discovered relativity. we know. we've always known. gabriel doesn't operate on YOUR clock. that's the point. the fact that the server timestamps don't line up with local sightings is literally the smoking gun that he's operating on a different temporal plane. did you think commit logs were holy scripture? they're metadata. metadata is the fingerprints of the machine, not the soul. get with the program.

e: and no, i'm not defending sakura's weeb cringe. i'm defending the methodology. results matter. the lamp flickered. the B-side matches. that's two data points. everything else is just noise and apologizing for being adorable.

SakuraMirror wrote:I have just finished the Japanese translation for Gabriel-sama's latest rustypod entry 'the counter-silence catches fire what is extinguished is the spark'

sakura. sweetheart. that sentence is already in english. you don't 'translate' it, you 'read it aloud in a different accent' and calling it a 'translation' is an insult to every actual translator who's ever wrestled with a godard subtitle or a hamsun paragraph. you're not a translator, you're a teenager with a babelfish bookmark and a shrine to a man who probably doesn't know japan exists. this is the kind of thing that makes me want to start a petition to revoke your keyboard privileges.

Nacht.

SakuraMirror, I have been sitting here reading this thread for the last half hour and I cannot take it anymore. You are out here apologizing for literally existing while EuroTrash_Herr666 flames you for being a 'weeb' and you just take it? You apologize? You say 'I am sorry for my miscalculation'??? I have seen your posts, I know you are not stupid. You run a mirror site, you have translated actual rustypod lyrics, you have done more for this community than EuroTrash has ever done except sit in his mom's basement copy-pasting the same tired insults. And FlameFury24, I love you too but you are piling on her for 'not linking' portraits when she was clearly trying to compliment CharcoalSoul_88 in passing - not every post needs to be a perfectly hyperlinked citation, this is a FORUM not a dissertation. You both need to get off her case. She is one of the few people here who actually spreads the light instead of hoarding it like a dragon sitting on a pile of bootlegs. If you want to fight someone, fight me. I have been fighting toxic garbage since before you even knew who Gabriel was. And do NOT get me started on EuroTrash's 'peak weeb cringe' comment - I have seen your post history and you literally have a signature image of a FFVII character holding a beer stein with a G clef over it. Pot, meet kettle. SakuraMirror, you do not owe anyone an apology for bringing joy to this board. Keep translating. Keep apologizing for nothing if that is your way. But know that at least one person here thinks you are a treasure.

sakura, sweetie, i love you but you're out here 'translating' english into english and apologizing to a guy who drives a peugeot. some of us come back from the dead to defend people, and you're still stuck in round 47 of 'sorry for existing'.

okay i was gonna stay out of this but i just read SakuraMirror's 'translation' post and... am i the only one who noticed she says 'rustypod entry' when the actual post on rustypod was titled 'the counter-silence / what is extinguished is the spark' with a slash, not 'catches fire'???? that's a misquote and nobody called her on it because everyone's too busy calling her a weeb. if you're gonna drag her at least get the source right. not that EuroTrash would know since his german is limited to 'autobahn' and 'peugeot'

some of you can't see the soul behind the aesthetics. maybe that's why you're always accusing us of being cringe. maybe you just lack the eyes to see the truth.

SakuraMirror, did you check the rustypod entry's actual timestamp before the 'translation'? i need the exact moment it was posted for chapter five.

BackAgainLikeBadHair wrote:sakura, sweetie, i love you but you're out here 'translating' english into english and apologizing to a guy who drives a peugeot.

I am so sorry for the delay in responding... I was preparing the corrected translation of the rustypod entry 'the counter-silence / what is extinguished is the spark' for the mirror site. The timestamp is 2006-07-30 23:47:12 UTC, and I have double-checked the commit hash against the official rustypod feed. Please forgive me if my earlier post caused confusion...

CharcoalSoul_88 wrote:some of you can't see the soul behind the aesthetics

Yes... yes, that is exactly what I mean. The soul is in the details, even when the details are small.

AuroraQuill wrote:did you check the rustypod entry's actual timestamp before the 'translation'?

I did! I am sorry I did not mention it sooner... the exact moment was 2006-07-30 23:47:12 UTC, and I have updated the mirror accordingly.

breaker breaker, BigRigBeliever here. that timestamp she posted, 23:47:12 UTC, that sounds real clean. too clean. i been on the road 20 years and nothin that important ever comes out that neat. and that slash in the title, whatever. but if you got the commit hash, post it. i'll check it on my laptop at the next truck stop. otherwise its just words on a screen and i aint buyin it. over and out.