Should I withdraw from a contest b/c of the tragedy in Japan

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Re: Should I withdraw from a contest b/c of the tragedy in J

Post by hasteroth » Tue Mar 15, 2011 6:35 pm

hasteroth wrote:that's terrible :/
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Re: Should I withdraw from a contest b/c of the tragedy in J

Post by trythil » Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:15 pm

godix wrote:I'm sensing a need for a Dedicated to Sendai MEP...
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Re: Should I withdraw from a contest b/c of the tragedy in J

Post by McDirty » Tue Mar 15, 2011 11:01 pm

godix wrote:I'm sensing a need for a Dedicated to Sendai MEP...
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Re: Should I withdraw from a contest b/c of the tragedy in J

Post by Pwolf » Wed Mar 16, 2011 1:27 am

Go with what you feel is right. I made a video that used audio sources from several tragedies, including 9/11. The video was released 3 years after 9/11 and people were still pretty sensitive to it. That said, it didn't prevent me from releasing and sending it to cons because I didn't make the video to rile people up about 9/11 or anything else. it wasn't about 9/11 or any of the other tragedies i referenced. Sure I cared about wither or not it offended people but that's their problem for seeing it as being offensive when the real intention was much different.

That was my situation of course which is different from yours. I would imagine the video borderlines on being offensive anyway due to what you described so in all likelihood its possible people will take major offense due to the recent situation. Ultimately it's up to you and wither or not you feel like you can handle the possible backlash.

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Re: Should I withdraw from a contest b/c of the tragedy in J

Post by kiarrens » Thu Mar 17, 2011 2:07 pm

Pwolf wrote: I would imagine the video borderlines on being offensive anyway due to what you described so in all likelihood its possible people will take major offense due to the recent situation. Ultimately it's up to you and wither or not you feel like you can handle the possible backlash.
Thanks for the advice, Pwolf. You should see the writeup I have for video info, heh...

Adam's said that we're going to play this one by ear. If the staff pre-screening doesn't go over well, we'll likely pull the video from AB, but I'll likely submit it to Otakon in that case.
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