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Interview: Crunchyroll's Vu Nguyen

Well I went to the front page of CR for the first time in my life. It looks like they are thinking of putting manga on the site. I hope they handle it with as much respect and high standards as they do everything else.

Oh and the about section has a grudge against uppercase I's. That might have been a contributing factor to the question of Shinji's age.

And I also don't see how them requiring donations was anything like VHS fansubbing since the fansubbers do the work and Crunchyroll just hosts it.

Are you suggesting that the interviewer stated that question because he thought the site owner and author of that about section is a retard who can't follow simple grammar rules at his age? A drop of ad hominem in an interview? Wouldn't that make the rest of the interview a chain of logical fallacies? No way.

I do apologize if I start making more and more rude comments. Feel free to take my posts down anytime.

what is crunchyroll?
it's hard to describe what it is because the site changes so fast but throughout all of crunchyroll's changes, i've noticed one thing that's always constant - it's a community of awesome, passionate people~! the people are what make cr rock~ =D i've met so many interesting and helpful people who i can call friends now. so look around crunchyroll.com to meet people - hang out in the chatrooms and forums! i read tons of interesting threads everyday (even though i dont post much myself anymore...too busy these days)

why did i make crunchyroll?
i've always liked making websites, so one day i just randomly made crunchyroll for fun. it was created for me and my friends, but now it's grown into something i never really expected. originally i just wanted crunchyroll to be a cool place for people to hang out, but hopefully crunchyroll can do something pretty big and awesome someday -.-

have a great day~!

gg,
shinji

You know what's funny about people criticizing the streaming quality of Crunchyroll? It's almost as if they have better alternatives. Now I'm sure people are going to disagree with me. Just a thought.

You know what's funny about people criticizing the streaming quality of Crunchyroll? It's almost as if they have better alternatives.

Are you suggesting that the interviewer stated that question because he thought the site owner and author of that about section is a retard who can't follow simple grammar rules at his age? A drop of ad hominem in an interview? Wouldn't that make the rest of the interview a chain of logical fallacies?

So in light of this text, you think "how old is this guy?" is an unfair question in light of the fact that his website just received $4 million in venture capital funding and at one point was pulling in over $70,000 a month in donations alone?

Zac wrote:

So in light of this text, you think "how old is this guy?" is an unfair question in light of the fact that his website just received $4 million in venture capital funding and at one point was pulling in over $70,000 a month in donations alone?

So instead of calling him an idiot, you're now calling him a cheat. The question remains the same, how do you convince me, the reader, to believe in the interview you personally constructed, when you clearly has a more than necessary biased view against the interviewee? Of course I'm just one man, and most readers here would place their trust in you because of your reputation. But I feel like I should voice my opinion anyway.

So instead of calling him an idiot, you're now calling him a cheat. The question remains the same, how do you convince me, the reader, to believe in the interview you personally constructed, when you clearly has a more than necessary biased view against the interviewee? Of course I'm just one man, and most readers here would place their trust in you because of your reputation. But I feel like I should voice my opinion anyway.

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Are you suggesting that the interviewer stated that question because he thought the site owner and author of that about section is a retard who can't follow simple grammar rules at his age? A drop of ad hominem in an interview? Wouldn't that make the rest of the interview a chain of logical fallacies?

No, that would just be me. And to be frank, I have zero problem, using any kind of attack on the likes of these slugs. Anything less than an oversize boot in there ass is more than they deserve. So you can take your Phil101 terminology and eat it for all I care.

Completely unbiased interviews are not exactly interesting reading material, and you can't get important answers by asking objective, generic questions that nobody objects to. The interviewer has to push to get an answer, or else it's a total waste of time.

Shuchung wrote:

So instead of calling him an idiot, you're now calling him a cheat. The question remains the same, how do you convince me, the reader, to believe in the interview you personally constructed, when you clearly has a more than necessary biased view against the interviewee? Of course I'm just one man, and most readers here would place their trust in you because of your reputation. But I feel like I should voice my opinion anyway.

Completely unbiased interviews are not exactly interesting reading material, and you can't get important answers by asking objective, generic questions that nobody objects to. The interviewer has to push to get an answer, or else it's a total waste of time.

And yes, I do place my trust in Zac. Somebody involved with a legitimate site like ANN is always going to get the benefit of the doubt from me when compared to somebody involved with a site like Crunchyroll.

I didn't call him anything at all. I pointed to the text and interpreted it as any reasonable and rational adult would.

Ok, most of the story that I read, was complete bullsh*t. I mean, at the beginning he said that all the money went to the site. And at the ending he suddenly says that their team gets a paycheck of Crunchyroll..?

And also about the filtering, that was bullsh*t too. I'm a site builder myself and it is impossible too filter movies out that have been uploaded before. You need a volunteer/worker for that too keep track on it. because you can easily change the name of the video file and title when your uploading.