7 thoughts on “Playcool Fall 2024 Airings (Temporary) [HEVC, 1080p]”
I like the temp idea also being fast releases. Especially since there are so many that hold out for OP/ED karaoke sometimes, taking a month or more in some cases to finally start a series. This was much more common 20 years ago, but still happens. When a series stalls in the middle from a change in the OP song and everyone thinks it got dropped, change groups to follow, then never notice it came back on their original group. That’s why I exclusively only follow Hi10.
Hmm – Natsume! I never thought it would continue actually. It’s a nice and friendly story, and I’ve enjoyed every season of it. But it became so repetitive I completely lost interest in it.
Because I’m seriously considering leaning more on this method in the future, for most of my new airings I pick, that I don’t feel as strongly about, leaving only the remaining few I truly love, to eventually get proper posts.
And when I mean this, I mean it as a permanent thing, as if I pick 20 new airings for a season, they would mostly be gathered permanently on a “Hub” post, properly tagged so people could find it easily with the name of the anime.
If any airings of that Hub post get a BD, it would get an individual post itself after.
I m considering this, because the vast majority of the time, in the steps to release multiple airings, 80-90% of time wasted goes to prepare the post itself, not to download, test, effort to encode, rename, and upload the files (all my recent effort to prepare posts for all the airings that were here, or are still right now, took me at least 10-15h minimum, which is a huge problem when I could reduce that time to only 10-30% and still get all files here ready to be ddled).
So for most people, for what they truly want, which is getting the files ready, there is a majority of effort that is NOT necessary, severely delays the releases, and also limits the number of series one picks to do.
I m for sure going to use the current method I used here, to get my airings for next season released faster, but what I m saying is, I’m considering, permanently, leaving most of the airings on these Hub posts, there permanently, even after said airing finishes, and I have no further plans for them.
AND, I want feedback if most people would be alright with that, as long as they got their shit ready to download much sooner.
I think it’s fine to have a page where you post each episode as they’re aired, like this page. I do think it’d be good to create their own page/move them to the existing page once the season is completed and a batch can be made, even if they will be updated to BD later. It should still result in a significant reduction in time to work on all of the pages since you can knock out several of them in quick succession.
if you leave them only on this page though, i don’t think that would be good overall since it reduces discoverability considerably. it might also be worth creating a post for the series right away, with just a placeholder comment to redirect people to the relevant post for new series, and add a note to pages for S2+ series that links here so that people know it is being worked on, and where to find it. it’s a little more work, but since they can just be copy/pasted for the most part, it shouldn’t be that big of an issue.
“It should still result in a significant reduction in time to work on all of the pages since you can knock out several of them in quick succession.”
I already create all the posts back-to-back to save time, rather than spreading the work over days. While I handle some steps earlier, like finding pictures, creating or updating 10–20 posts at once remains a significant manual task. Each post involves unique details, and copying information without automation is tedious, prone to errors, and feels like a chore.
I can manage it now, but with increasing work demands, I won’t have the time or patience in the future. Tasks like downloading and encoding episodes are time-consuming but more enjoyable, whereas grinding through post creation feels like pure monotonous work. This is why many staff retire over time—it turns hobbies into burdens and people overtime prioritize having fun versus going through this grind with busy schedules.
Switching to Hubs permanently seems better than burning out and retiring myself completely. This way, I can still focus on giving proper treatment to shows I love or that deserve extra effort, like Frieren, Monogatari, or Re:Zero (getting their own posts). However, most seasonal shows don’t warrant that level of detail. Generic content is fine to handle, as long as it doesn’t drain my time too.
I will always have fun with the aspect behind updating something like Frieren’s post, it is a special series, and most seasons only have 2-3 special series for me at max, I would have time for it, and fun doing so.
When work is fun, it’s easier to make time for it. But post creation lacks joy—it’s repetitive and better suited for AI, though no system exists to automate it for us yet.
This comment is a great example, since I had written something much longer, but was able to cut it down alot with chatgpt while still retaining the message, sadly it is not something I can apply to all the expects that go behind creating a post, for multiple posts in sucession.
I like the temp idea also being fast releases. Especially since there are so many that hold out for OP/ED karaoke sometimes, taking a month or more in some cases to finally start a series. This was much more common 20 years ago, but still happens. When a series stalls in the middle from a change in the OP song and everyone thinks it got dropped, change groups to follow, then never notice it came back on their original group. That’s why I exclusively only follow Hi10.
Hmm – Natsume! I never thought it would continue actually. It’s a nice and friendly story, and I’ve enjoyed every season of it. But it became so repetitive I completely lost interest in it.
Thanks for this. May I ask if How I Attended an All-Guy’s Mixer and Yakuza Fiancé will also be added here as well? 🙂
This is good too
This way of doing releases you mean?
Because I’m seriously considering leaning more on this method in the future, for most of my new airings I pick, that I don’t feel as strongly about, leaving only the remaining few I truly love, to eventually get proper posts.
And when I mean this, I mean it as a permanent thing, as if I pick 20 new airings for a season, they would mostly be gathered permanently on a “Hub” post, properly tagged so people could find it easily with the name of the anime.
If any airings of that Hub post get a BD, it would get an individual post itself after.
I m considering this, because the vast majority of the time, in the steps to release multiple airings, 80-90% of time wasted goes to prepare the post itself, not to download, test, effort to encode, rename, and upload the files (all my recent effort to prepare posts for all the airings that were here, or are still right now, took me at least 10-15h minimum, which is a huge problem when I could reduce that time to only 10-30% and still get all files here ready to be ddled).
So for most people, for what they truly want, which is getting the files ready, there is a majority of effort that is NOT necessary, severely delays the releases, and also limits the number of series one picks to do.
I m for sure going to use the current method I used here, to get my airings for next season released faster, but what I m saying is, I’m considering, permanently, leaving most of the airings on these Hub posts, there permanently, even after said airing finishes, and I have no further plans for them.
AND, I want feedback if most people would be alright with that, as long as they got their shit ready to download much sooner.
I think it’s fine to have a page where you post each episode as they’re aired, like this page. I do think it’d be good to create their own page/move them to the existing page once the season is completed and a batch can be made, even if they will be updated to BD later. It should still result in a significant reduction in time to work on all of the pages since you can knock out several of them in quick succession.
if you leave them only on this page though, i don’t think that would be good overall since it reduces discoverability considerably. it might also be worth creating a post for the series right away, with just a placeholder comment to redirect people to the relevant post for new series, and add a note to pages for S2+ series that links here so that people know it is being worked on, and where to find it. it’s a little more work, but since they can just be copy/pasted for the most part, it shouldn’t be that big of an issue.
“It should still result in a significant reduction in time to work on all of the pages since you can knock out several of them in quick succession.”
I already create all the posts back-to-back to save time, rather than spreading the work over days. While I handle some steps earlier, like finding pictures, creating or updating 10–20 posts at once remains a significant manual task. Each post involves unique details, and copying information without automation is tedious, prone to errors, and feels like a chore.
I can manage it now, but with increasing work demands, I won’t have the time or patience in the future. Tasks like downloading and encoding episodes are time-consuming but more enjoyable, whereas grinding through post creation feels like pure monotonous work. This is why many staff retire over time—it turns hobbies into burdens and people overtime prioritize having fun versus going through this grind with busy schedules.
Switching to Hubs permanently seems better than burning out and retiring myself completely. This way, I can still focus on giving proper treatment to shows I love or that deserve extra effort, like Frieren, Monogatari, or Re:Zero (getting their own posts). However, most seasonal shows don’t warrant that level of detail. Generic content is fine to handle, as long as it doesn’t drain my time too.
I will always have fun with the aspect behind updating something like Frieren’s post, it is a special series, and most seasons only have 2-3 special series for me at max, I would have time for it, and fun doing so.
When work is fun, it’s easier to make time for it. But post creation lacks joy—it’s repetitive and better suited for AI, though no system exists to automate it for us yet.
This comment is a great example, since I had written something much longer, but was able to cut it down alot with chatgpt while still retaining the message, sadly it is not something I can apply to all the expects that go behind creating a post, for multiple posts in sucession.