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“Why is the site down?”

Zero’s the one that largely sets the stuff up. xD Oftentimes though it’s just some generic outage. A restart tends to do the trick.

No, guys, we’re seriously sorry. Sometimes I can’t get back at a reasonable hour because of real-life business. I’ll be able to resume to more postings probably Friday.

For today? I think I’ll comment on a few “slangish” terms that the shipgirls use sometimes. You’ll notice that we deliberately (and often intentionally) avoid using terms that are too WW2 or mili-jargony. This is really because (and Boston shows this pretty clearly) that much of our audience are more on the “interested genera public” than “hardcore militaria/military historian.” Add a healthy number of non-English speakers, and I think it’s important to communicate meanings clearly.

Here’s a term, for instance, that oftentimes get misinterpreted. Hot and bothered. This is actually very situational dependent, and the meanings can mean very different things. One meaning is getting angry, and the other is lusting for something or passionate for someone.

Then, we have other terms such as dope. During WW2-era (and how I understood it), this basically means idiot. Dope in today’s slang largely means it’s something positive – how good or positive something is.

Unless I’m intentionally thinking of a double entente I personally prefer using a more precise way to get the gist of something across. Other than possibly character-based colloquialisms, that is.

Alright looks like no coherence has been achieved today. Hello bed. Night everyone.

Zero: No time to visit the Constitution, but, ah, well! I’ll go check her out the next time I come back to America!

“Shippers gonna ship, but canonically, what’s STEC and the shipgirls’ opinion on matters of love, copulation and marriage?”

Shipgirls are human.

STEC has better things to do than trying to track the private lives of shipgirls. 

Looks like things went great at Boston. Everything went as according to expectations, and I think the big takeaway message is that American anime conventions are a lot different than the type of things that Zero attends in Asia.

Right now, you’ll have noticed that physical copies of Pacific volume 1 is available on Amazon. We’ve decided to relegate logistical operations to a third party, similar to what we’re now doing for our Chinese operations. Anything we release physically in English is currently planned to go through Amazon – this means Pacific vol. 2, the Action Report books (which honestly makes more sense having it in a combined volume (we’re thinking of shipping costs, again), and yes, 2016.

So, for questions pertaining to shipping or purely logistical matters, I think Amazon has a system that works well enough where you can just contact our contact. 🙂

Speaking of 2016. I know a LOT of you are interested in stuff related to 2016. Zero brought what he could carry with him for the convention, and they’re all gone at this point. The rest of our 2016-related items are on a boat somewhere or waiting to be shipped. Again, please bear with us, as the team is still less than double-digit numbered people (counting the artists).

In other words, if you’re getting physical copies of English Pacific from somewhere else, you’re either getting ripped off, or (let me put on my tinfoil hat for a second) someone’s managed to print our books without letting us in on the matter. In either case, let me know.

This goes for our books as well. If you haven’t gotten a chance to SEE what we’re selling you before buying it, you let me know because that shouldn’t happen. We appreciate the support tremendously, but we want you to know what you’re getting. To put it simply if we’re going to make sure we stay afloat from this, we’re going to earn your money. What you see is what you get.

Other than that, my mailbox is always open. We’ve got a sort of comment board that’s open, and there’s the forums for something more in-depth. Honestly, I need to start thinking about how to organize stuff – but isn’t that something I’ve been saying for nearly a year now? x)

See you next time.