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by niji tsuki » Sun Oct 08, 2006 9:48 pm
To Moonie211 and anyone else who cares to read:
Be you warned, young one, that I'm not in the brightest of moods when writing to you.
From what I hold to be true, there has be a grieve misunderstanding as to how this mep was supposed to have worked. It's apparent you gave Sailor Earth the idea for it and when she failed to meet your unexplained expectations, you subtly took over her mep thread (which by the way had NOT been locked) by posting a "suggestion" as to how she should do it. On your "official" thread, you say she agreed that you solely would run the contest, but again there was an apparent misunderstanding, for she thought you meant that you would HELP run the contest, not take it entirely as your own. Now be it known that my sister is not the most articulate person in the world, nor is she the best typist, but her pride does bruise easily and your total control of what she started has left her complaining to me for months about it.
She feels she's been locked out of her own project because of little details, that in the end, nobody's going to care about. The latest version of the video she showed me was actually worse rather than better according to whatever suggestions you gave her (or however it is she interpreted them. Either way, there is major communication breakdown somewhere along the lines that one or the other is not communicating/interpreting effectively).
Just take the first video she sent you. It'll be fine, trust me. If people seriously have a problem with it, it will be with her and not you, but you know what? The only people who are going to have a problem with it are people who think they’re some kind of Hollywood producer simply because they have an editor and a few DVDs. This is not a serious business - this is recreation, a way to pass time and to have fun, not a place for regulations. That’s why on my own contest I’ve seriously started cutting down a majority of the rules because they suck the fun right out of these contests.
If nothing else, just take the video she sent you. I liked it, and that’s coming from an over-critical perfectionist. Let’s put an end to all this. It’s just a video.
And to all those who enjoy bashing Sailor Earth:
The sad truth about the written word is that it cannot express the true meaning of human emotion. It is limited merely by the visual letters seen by the eye. But the true meaning of any word is conveyed through tone, inflection, body and eye movement, and a variety of other non-verbal elements. Emoticons can barely touch on what these other things bring to the meaning of words.
What I’ve seen you type to and about my sister has been enough. Whether it has been done as a harmless joke or as a true cruelty, I want it to stop. You insult her intelligence, you make fun of her videos, you present her with videos that are incredibly “Dee-Dee-Dee” to coin the phrase of her so-far only successful MEP, all because of the fact that she’s trying to be non-discriminatory. She doesn’t want to put in place complex rules that make it so hard you can’t even enter. She doesn’t want to say, “No, you can’t send in a video if you use such-and-such editor,” or “No, you can’t use this anime because I don’t like it.” She just wants to provide people with small ideas to come up with general videos – and when she does have a vision, she’s no good at typing it all out.
You’re more than welcome to provide her with honest critical opinions as any video viewer should do, but cut it with the needless bashing. Nobody likes a hater, and unfortunately those who only mean things as harmless jokes can be interpreted as haters because of the complete miscommunication that can come from the written word.
Unfortunately for me, I’m typing to a broad audience which is inclusive of many people who may be innocent and others who may be guilty. I cannot pass judgement upon each individual person, but I can at least bring it to everyone’s attention that they should carefully choose their words before just randomly typing them out. Within this message alone I have stopped myself several times in order to find better wording in perhaps a not-so-passionate tone.
So, old long-winded Niji Tsuki is finally winding down on this message. I hope everyone realizes I’ve taken the great risk of losing face with many editors, but I’ve said what need to be said. The fact remains that Anime Music Videos.Org was created as a place to showcase videos that were made for fun, to show one’s creativity, a place where anime fans could get together and have a good time. Let’s make it that way, shall we?
