Hi folks,
As you know, in the almost 10 years history of Lion's Ridge, we had, from time to time, some troubles along the way.
In 2015 my life was a mess, it's no secret, it's all on this blog somewhere. I am not ashamed of that at all. Forced to live in a 3rd world country I wasn't born in because of politics, my mother recently passing away, living with my sick father with no insurance or income and me not being cut out to make money in the criminal corrupt mafia environment I was forced to live in.
The manga community really helped me escape that life, it really did and it is an absolutely true story, even though it is hard to believe for some people. I was so grateful back then for the donations which helped me change my life, I really thought I will be part of the community for the rest of my life.
Now, perspectives...
I'm somewhat of an oldfag (longcat is loooong), first starting to spend my days on /a/ in 2004, as I was blessed back then, before my father got sick and we were still a rich family, and I was also rocking the original WoW. The original WoW in 2004 and /a/,/b/ and /v/ were my teenage years.
What that means is that I have seen my fair share of degeneracy and I was also able to observe in real time how internet culture and the communities were changing over the years. I can still clearly remember how people talked, thought and acted back then, 20 years ago, 15 years ago and so on.
The internet and the communities on it have reached a level of degeneracy and absolute misery where I do not feel comfortable threading the online world anymore.
People, nowadays, are so pathetic that they are actually purchasing digital goods like cosmetics in video games or cosmetics in social media. My brain cannot comprehend nor does it want to.
The Discord icon at this point makes me cringe so hard, just picturing all of the freaks that I interacted with over there... While being advertised by the same platform to pay them money for cosmetics, so I can appeal to the freaks more. Genius.
The internet, what was once an oasis for me, a place of absolute free speech, intellectual discourse, passion projects, extraordinary individuals, great stories, unbelievable community efforts... was raped by these new generations, these undefined, soulless, oversensitive consumer retard kids.
Congratulations, kids! You managed to ruin video games, anime and manga for good. The internet as well. To be more precise, your lack of critical thinking and judgement, your loser parents not raising you properly to be characters with principles and standards... ruined everything!
Because, you see, back then, for me to connect to the internet I had to understand how a modem works and how to set up dial-up internet on a Windows 95 so I can download a 400kb JPEG of Goku SSJ2 in 20 minutes (hopefully), while line by line was slowly downloaded.
Very basically, the internet had some gatekeeping back then. You had to have some brains to connect to it, it wasn't accessible to everyone. And that was really, really, for the better.
Most people, nowadays, are unfortunately useless, pathetic, confused sacks of shit, lost in time and space, wasting their one life and potential to be played perfectly by the capitalists who only want to extract profits from them.
That's cute, not me though. I had an AK47 pointed at my head when I was 2 years old and my parents were forced to flee from our own house that they were building for over 20 years, because of the politics of the lowest common denominators of the southern slavic degenerate countries.
Remembering how me and my parents were sleeping in our car in Germany in 1992 on the streets, my parents didn't speak German, we were just trying to save our lives from war... No help from anyone... My father reading German newspapers in the car every day... Learning German by himself... So he could get a shitty job... A highly educated man learning a foreign language from newspapers so he can work shitty jobs... To let me and my mom... Survive... To get us a home in Germany... To let me get a... German education... To give me a great childhood in Germany... Their sweat and blood in a foreign land... Will not go to waste.
You think I have survived war, discrimination, injustice, poverty, struggled all of my life to survive to get dissed by some little ugly, degenerate losers on Discord?
Nah.
My wife and I will be working on Lion's Ridge alone by ourselves.
Our passion for Japanese is too strong to let go of the language just because it attracts western mentally ill people.
I will only trust people who I met in real life and who have proven to be real characters, not little pathetic retards like the people I met on Mahjong tournaments. Can you imagine going to a game tournament and the majority people there not having been raised by their parents to know the common courtesy of saying "Hello, nice to meet you." and shaking hands?
Yep, mahjong players are unfortunately only cool in manga. In real life they kinda make you feel sick by their awkward behavior.
My wife and me have decided that we will focus more on the Japanese language from now on, we will still be releasing manga chapters, as a nice practice for us for translation.
So, for you tldr kids, you will be getting more chapters from now on, chapters only done by my wife and me. We are doing this mostly to study the language as we will be moving to Japan at some point in our lives.
das ist der Beginn unsrer Evolution
Wunder leben für alle Ewigkeit und du weisst,
es ist soweit!
Hier kommt eine ganz neue Generation
das ist der Beginn unsrer Evolution wir bleiben zusammen, denn wir sind bereit
für den Flug in die Unendlichkeit!
Look forward to it :)
