Hello, Dwi_Edge here.. I'm going to give people update on "my" situation and a bit about the blog.
Note: I'll try not to hurt anyone feeling, but sorry if I did. oh and do tell me if you don't want certain part of story mentioned, I'll remove it.
Note2: My english is still suck.
TL;DR (TOO LAZY DIDN'T READ) to reader:
1. My Internet is shit lately, what the f*k I dc'ed like every 5 minutes.
2. I need to get shit done on the college
3. Timing, yep it's a bad reason but you know... to each their own.
to people looking for me:
I am no leader, do what you want, I will return later... maybe I won't like what you do, but I'll adapt...
Maybe I start with the beginning, people love stories, aren't they? Nah, maybe not..
Let me get this straight first: CraneAnime folks are my real life friends, coincidentally we also from the same highschool. We have small "gathering" once in a while to just have fun, sharing anime/games, playing multiplayer games. One time we decide to make a blog, I think it was meant to be some kind of hobby-blog, reviewing your favorite anime/games/manga/VN/music or whatever we want... as for me... I am a complete noob about blogging, I have basic knowledge of HTML but that's all. I try to make my first post, it's about a japanese song I think? or about desktop accessories, nah, doesn't matter... I was happy with my "writing" even though my "english" is so childish and bad.
Human have two kind of happiness, one is when you do stuff you like... and the other is what you get from other people.
I live in a third world country, I'm not one of the rich either, smart? I don't know anymore... apparently I don't know jack shit about anything.
Yeah, free stuff are always good. We have pc/laptops + slow internet (around this time I believe the fastest I have is 50 KB/s download speed and 10 KB/s upload speed) no more than that... paypal? what is that? ...
free downloading is always a thing here... You know, being a boy and all... we have "needs" that has to be taken care of... One day, someone from the group gave me an eroge. I liked it, has ero or not, Visual Novel or Galge or anything you want to call it, has got me hooked. I want more, he doesn't have more.. so? I searched it online, found more... and yes... somehow this urges me to make a place where people like me can find it easier to get it. But wait... I can't upload it... I can wait for the long download but upload? noooo.. no fukin way... so I get the "stuff" from other places and stole it, I guess? dunno, I think I mentioned the source whenever I can.
the CraneAnime blog is kinda flooded with my posts at this point, I was not frustated... or well, kinda... I wrote something that maybe hurts one of the Crane RL team... yeah, I'm sorry dude. From my standpoint it was just a jab and "filling" for my posts but maybe you take it the other way. Back to the blog, it was like 70% VN's, 30% other content, "yeah this is bad" I thought that time, we have the "stuff" that's not really ours.. but a "miracle" happened... from the chatbox I made (poorly and bad) on the blog, Raizu and Kai appears... they talked to me about the problem we always had back then... the real stuff... Raizu is friends with Chyvalle, you know ... the one who made the post below... Chyvalle, Kai, and many other people helped me to "get" the VN's, all I have to do is make a post about it and they'll provide the link. Things are going well at this point, so I consider the group have two parts, the online folks and RL's ... no no, don't get this wrong... they know each other but things are always the same, the gathering and all...
Ooooh? things are going well? why don't I give you problem?
Damn... the MediaFire incident (1) happened. like 60% of our stuff are gone! what should we do? .... the world is ending!
Nah, we asked for our "visitors" for help and damn.. people... we kinda getting back to it... CraneAnime community helped restoring the deleted ones... and once again we stand up...
but wait...
Yep, this time it's real, MediaFire incident (2)... now most of it is dead...
hell, even the "community" couldn't really cover it this time, we tried to make most of it but this time, the progress is slowing down, I even considered "deleting" the old stuff and move on with the new stuff.
And you know what, once again somehow we will stand... this time it's erojiji, the old man, the veteran, the master of loli... appeared to save the lost lamb of craneanime blog, he offered to make a forum instead of focusing on blog. Yeah, erojiji forum happened around this time. Just like now, the blog is only for information and the real "thing" is stored at the forum.
*I don't really understand the stuff around this part, please forgive me if I'm wrong*
The server stuff is so expensive but it's "safe", so we need to have "donation" system in order for us to keep working...
month after month we kinda keep it in check but sometimes erojiji uses his own money to cover the cost. yeah it's not really working for long-term so we need to do something, but for now it's alright... it's okay... but no...
jiji paypal is blocked because of the donation stuff, I don't know man... around this time, jiji tried to find another way for people to help covering the forum and server cost, till one day he wanted to talk to me but I can't, I'm doing RL stuff far away from home. like some time after I tried to talk to him but he's nowhere to be found, he appears sometime in IRC chat. We still going on and on, doing the usual stuff, like some time later, Chyvalle is retiring from uploading (VN's) and we're kinda in a stale state, not really... there's someone replacing his job... so we're still okay...
Oh did I ever mention the old blog is on blogger/blogspot? Right around early 2015, I can't login to my blogger account anymore... oh and people from the fanpage are spamming about they can't access the site... guess what? the old "stuff" that I don't really remember: (1) already "replaced" with link to forum or (2) still in "DL site links" flagged by DMCA claim... this already happens like twice... and this time, BAM ... the old blog is gone.
*Yeah I'm not so sure about stuff above*
Well it is my fault honestly... you know, after like 4-5 years doing this you realized that this kind of stuff is ... weird. I tried to recover and make another blog, yeah... I should've done this earlier, Chyvalle and jiji told me to do it but ... well... the old blog is kinda special to us + I'm lazy, yeah, I am a lazy person... I always do stuff i need to do within my schedule so I can laze around the rest of my time and I'll get pissed if things are not going my way... hmm, the rest of the story is just as you can see now, we're on the new blog and I filled it with the usual stuff minus the "stuff" so we are "safe"...
It's time to talk about now the present...
I'm on my last... two last, things I need to do to graduate from college... but the third last is really struck me hard. RL made me realize the first point of this story, I live in third world country, and not in the capital city of it... Wait, wait... can't do that I guess... It was all me, yes... as I am now I am unable to "create" new things, just like in the blog all I did was "refining" other people stuff into mine. I don't like the way it is currently, so I go do the "two last" thingy... but well, the timings man, like when you can do one thing, the other party can't, it's always like this... at least for me.
as I said before, I am lazy, I can only do stuff when I want to... heh?? NO! I am not like this. People changed me, or so I thought? when I see things are not going my way I am confused. They said it's fine, just do anything really, and they'll let it go, but not like this. I am not you, I am not them, you are not me. How you solve things with "them" won't be the same as I solve things with "them".
ARRRRGGH
This is like the 7th time my internet died when writing this.. I have enough... whatever... I don't care anymore.
so summary...
Basically I am here, always here, except when my internet died of course (that's like every other minute). I will temporarily return, heh.. it's not like there's that many people here, reading this right?
and CraneAnime you ask? will always be the same... the forum and the blog will rise again...
Dwi_Edge
well shit, my internet died again and I lost some paragraph. Damn.. this post turns from story to rant... I am sorry.