ACHTUNG: You got me so hypnotized…

JUST LIKE THAT.

funny_bunny: Awww, I never get to post first in anything. But since I’m an admin, I could always change the author…[honey_bunny: Don't even think about it]

Anywho, it’s a-me! funny! I finally post!

prettyprophet: Naturally, now with the anon-veil off, he’s no longer alone. Get outta the spotlight, sucka.

funny_bunny: I bow out gracefully. Mainly because I don’t have to do that much work anymore.

prettyprophet: He never did. Except the scanning, I guess. And editing.

funny_bunny: And web-dealies!

prettyprophet: Blah, blah, blah. Stop living in the past. It’s a brave new world! Which brings me to introduce the point of this post: business. We’re here to clarify going-ons.

funny_bunny: In dialog form! LIKE PLATO.

prettyprophet: Damn straight, only better. Did Plato have Harada? Naw, son.

funny_bunny: So yes, I decided that us Rabbity folk would scan at 600dpi from now on.

prettyprophet: But only for…everything that’s NOT Happoubi Jin’s Sweet Body.

funny_bunny: Which saddens me.

prettyprophet: Democracy triumphing over your fascist ass. Yeah, only a couple Rabbits cared about not scanning it at 600. Non-essentials mostly.

funny_bunny: But I want to be thorough!

prettyprophet: Fuck that. I think…ok, you know what? We WILL scan it at 600dpi.

funny_bunny: Um, what?

prettyprophet: People came here for it. Thoroughness, etc.

funny_bunny: Are we running this through the Ecclesia?

prettyprophet: Nah.

funny_bunny: Groovy.

prettyprophet: Way I figure it, we’ll cave into your whims eventually. Might as well just get all the future debate over with.

funny_bunny: So that’s settled!

prettyprophet: Aight, second issue…we don’t translate. Take a peek at the Korean Illustration interviews. Yeah, they’re not translated. Know why? We only have three people who know Japanese and none of them KNOW know. Well, Pattycakes is eager to translate like a bitch in heat, but we all know her Japanese is totally unreliable.

funny_bunny: We’d edit if we had a translator!

prettyprophet: Since everyone always needs translators, I doubt we’re going to get any volunteers. Which leads us to the next point: “How does one become a Rabbit?” funny, please answer.

funny_bunny: You don’t become! You’re CHOSEN.

prettyprophet: Fo shizzle. We go to you. In most cases, funny goes to you. See, while the Reich is pretty international, a lot of us actually know and see each other in real life. Our HQs are funny’s place and mine. We chillax. Get drunk. Play ping-pong.

funny_bunny: We’re watching The Pianist.

prettyprophet: So for good or bad, the Reich’s rather exclusive. The Republic on the other hand…

funny_bunny: Now who’s living in the past??

prettyprophet: Right. If there’s sudden mass exodus of Rabbits and we’re in need of crew, we’ll say something. But right now, I think we’re cool. I mean, there are only like, two or three qualified editors…but we mainly try to make the page as close as possible to reality. No big alterations or anything.

funny_bunny: PP, bring up the two-pager issue!

prettyprophet: Oh mother of god, even this guy’s calling me that now. Whatever, two-pagers. See, if you haven’t noticed by now (and how could you miss the countless times we’ve said it), we bend our scans. We don’t debind.

funny_bunny: I just can’t do it. SORRY.

prettyprophet: You don’t like? Too bad; funny’s the fuehrer. However, this does bring up the problem of the two-pager. Joining them will undoubtedly be hellish, so maybe for those, we’ll put up some “help-wanted”, just to ease work off our editors. On this matter, Lavie Rhap, Mori, and Killer Ink were vocal in supporting the “leave them as separate pages” idea. Says Killer Ink: “It’ll look messed up even when joined. There’s no point putting effort into that.” Honestly, none of us have seen the results of a two-page bent join because no one’s willing to do it.

funny_bunny: I don’t think Korean Illustration has any.

prettyprophet: But Sweet Body does.

funny_bunny: Let’s just keep avoiding the inevitable.

prettyprophet: Agreed! Moving on! Money!

funny_bunny: Bones!

prettyprophet: I know I talked about it in the recent post but I want to say it again. It was kinda lost in jumble, I think.

funny_bunny: That lady is intimidating. IDENTITY CARD, IDENTITY CARD!

prettyprophet: funny, focus. As I was saying, we put up a link; a link that is [prophet edit: Yayclick's defunct. You can ignore all this now]. You basically click links that are worth .05 cent apiece and that eventually adds up. $10 a month, if we’re lucky. If you have people who register, stating you (in this case, the Reich’s “blackfrost” account) as the referrer, said referrer (blackfrost) will get additional cents. Course, you have to click links too in order for us to get referral commissions. [honey_bunny note: Yes, you have to register and logged in when you click for us, the Reich, to receive any sort of referral commission. Since some countries are anti-Paypal, they obviously cannot use Yayclick] This is slow and fucking tedious.

funny_bunny: Only five links or so a day! Nothing wrong with that.

prettyprophet: Oh no, nothing wrong, except that we’d make ten times more if we raided a random wishing well.

funny_bunny: But that’s labor.

prettyprophet: I feel that. Which is why we put this yayclick idea out. Pretty much zero work. Our slacker-hobos love this stuff.

funny_bunny: Doesn’t Nate-Dawg search them out hardcore?

prettyprophet: Yeah…and I’m ashamed to say it…nde too.

funny_bunny: But we love nde!

prettyprophet: But no love for Nate-Dawg. OHHH, BURN. Anyways, please people, we’ve seen the amount of hits we get. Right now, almost 800. Yesterday, 1682. Don’t get me wrong, I know that over 90% came just to grab the release and bounce. All we want are a few people to join up on yayclick and regularly click. That’s the ultimate problem. Not even the Rabbits of the Reich can do it. We’re so distracted and busy, we don’t remember half the junk we do.

funny_bunny: I click!

prettyprophet: I don’t. I do, but you know. Things pop up, I forget, usual business.

funny_bunny: If we make megabux chop-chop…we can get more artbooks!

prettyprophet: Word. And we’re not talking about artbooks funny wants. We’re talking about artbooks YOU, the community, wants. If it hasn’t been scanned, we’ll tackle that bumpin’ booty. It can even be something the Reich is completely against [honey_bunny: If it's licensed, no] and we’ll still scan it [holstein: Fuck Robot. Unless Mami Itou]. That’s what the yayclick fund will be used for.

funny_bunny: Oh, oh, check out the new pages!

prettyprophet: Projects yo, dig it. Takehito Harada all up in this piece. Yea, we’re all blasting Etna Rock in da club. No, seriously, a bunch of us are Harada lovers…and some are haters. Psh, we’d scan a ton of his stuff…but he’s been scanned to high heaven, which is why we’re just going to pay tribute via using his art for any miscellaneous reason. Banner is Persona 3, not Harada. Shigenori Soejima…this fact breaking Killer Ink’s heart. I didn’t mind; I liked Stella Deus…but still, WE LOVE YOU KANEKO!

funny_bunny: KANEKO, WE BAKED YOU CHEESECAKE!

prettyprophet: Oh yeah, projects. There they are, our two official children. Obviously there’s no “complete” page…but the future projects? I’ll let funny take this.

funny_bunny: Danke, danke, my pretty prophet. I made that page! And images! It’s a GAME; figure out the artist!

prettyprophet: I can only recognize three.

funny_bunny: I got four.

prettyprophet: You’re the one who made them.

funny_bunny: I’m just saying. If I had to guess, I’d get four.

prettyprophet: Heh, we love games. Guilty Gear XX, KoF 2003, Capcom VS. SNK 2, Last Blade 2, Smash Bros…but psychological games trump everything.

funny_bunny: That’s why we passworded the first release!

prettyprophet: Separate the chaff from the wheat. How we roll, bitch. Sorry, you guys will have to deal with these occasional fits of mania and mischief.

funny_bunny: I also have a surprise!

prettyprophet: Heh, if you’re still reading this, good job. Now you’ll discover a wonderful secret: some releases won’t be posted on Baka-Updates. Usually it’s because they don’t really count as manga per se…or we might just want to sprinkle some love on our regular visitors. And guess what? funny’s surprise is just that.

funny_bunny: Not in this post, still getting her prepped!

prettyprophet: Yeah, this fool’s scanning it right now, annoying the hell out of the Rabbits that are trying to watch The Pianist. Then again, I’m no better; I’m playing Disgaea PSP. No headphones, ha!

funny_bunny: I think we covered everything.

prettyprophet: Eh, I don’t care if we miss junk. I’ll just talk about it next post.

funny_bunny: Oh, oh! For those not in the know, prettyprophet is the PR Rabbit!

prettyprophet: Oh yeah, I am. See that email up there? Queries! Say you’ve spent a week using every Rosetta stone possible to decipher one of our labyrinthine passwords and you’re mind and bowels have finally broke. You could always ask me and I may give you a blatant hint. Or if you’re an annoying little jerkass, I may just direct you into Camus’ The Plague. Believe it or not, the fact that I’m the PR Rabbit is a very good thing. You could’ve gotten Mori, who wouldn’t bother to reply, or TrueMind, who’d fire a shitstorm of vulgarities.

funny_bunny: What about holstein and edthefucker?

prettyprophet: Wait for the next coup.

funny_bunny: So yeah, here we are!

prettyprophet: Damn, the movie’s almost over. This took way too long.

funny_bunny: But it was fun.

prettyprophet: Not really! Alright, quick checklist: We’re scanning at 600dpi for everything from now on. Please, yayclick, it’s in this post and on the sidebar. We sometimes password because we think it’s pretty-funny. Booyah, mixed in both my nick and funny’s. MY LAME JOKES ARE BETTER THAN HONEY_BUNNY’S! And lastly, you’ll probably want to RSS feed this because there’ll be releases that won’t show up anywhere but here.

funny_bunny: prettyprophet is PR Rabbit!

prettyprophet: Ugh, don’t remind me.

funny_bunny: Fufufufu! Peace out homies, keep on rockin’ in the free world!