JOURNAL: Bauzi (Bernd Schäffer)

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  • 2010-01-02 15:18:32 So today was filming day for a convention dvd. This project is a collection of parodies of famous advertising. They got parodized for the events of a convention.

    My part, as people know me hear, was to play in the amv add. It was really funny and exciting, but we also made another part of the project and all in all it took us 6 hours of work. Now I'm tired.

    It's not my project, but I was happy to get a nice role in it and to play around with the nice Canon HDV cam =3  
  • 2009-12-30 19:11:40 Secks me in 16:9. 
  • Someone please rewards Arigatomina with sex now! 2009-12-28 20:08:55 I hope Arigatomina is a girl, because I somehow want to secks her with tears in my eyes. You moved me and it's sad that your ideas will never get realized because:

    A) Programers here have limited time

    B) You probably cannot code your own video portal

    Uhm before all of Arigatoma's great journal will disapear I will just repost it. Just like retweets on Twitter. So here it is! And give it a read. Please take the time you need and thank about it. Thank you.

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    Want to get your two cents in without actually participating? Do it in your journal. What are the chances anyone will read it, anyway?

    http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=96955

    Someone suggested an "Introduction" section. I said that when Phade deleted it along with the OT section. I said the intro section was the only place in the forum that was newbie friendly. I said I'd met most of my (then) friends in there. I was friendly, said come to me with questions, and they did. And I answered them and saved them from having to post in the forum and get responses from oldtimers sick of answering those questions over and over. I wasn't sick of answering them, and answering them in private kept the newbies from being embarrassed for asking them. All thanks to the intro section. All gone thanks to the "no chat allowed" theory that somehow linked the Intro with the OT. There's a big difference from a section where new members introduce themselves, and a section where suicidal preteens threaten to off themselves for attention two posts down from a "all about dimes" thread. OT had nothing to do with the site because it was an OT section. The intro section was all about the site - the members of the site, why they'd come, where they hoped to go. The members who were told to go put it in your journal where chances are good no one will read it anyway.

    I said fewer newbs would last on the org without the intro section as a place to find a nice helper - because they'd have to brave the lions and toughen up right away by posting in the wrong section because they're new and don't know any better. Well, if 2005 - 2007 were the peaks of the org, I was clearly wrong. We must have had a influx of new people. In fact, I remember the influx. Suddenly I didn't know anyone posting in the forum. Why? Because I wasn't reading the journals, which were the only place to meet the new people as they arrived. The Journal Buddies sprang up to introduce those newcomers to the forum and while some of us (me) complained about the chatting there (because Phade wanted no chatting anywhere, hence the OT and Intro deletion), it must have done some good. Now we're divebombing again. Can we blame it on the loss of the journal chatting? It's clear that new members must chat somewhere on the site itself in order for them to feel welcome (in large quantities). Clear to me, anyway. All the comparison to the tube, just try replying to someone's vid in a nice way. Suddenly they're PM'ing you wanting to be your bestest friend. Or emailing you to tell you how their day was as if you're supposed to give a shit. That's what the Intro section did when I joined. That's what the journal buddies did (for the whole site to see what they ate each day). That's what we're missing.

    Is that a bad thing? I don't know. Or care much. I'm bored and still have a chip on my shoulder. I recently realized I *can* use my editing programs on my new computer and that the errors I was getting were due - not to the programs or the computer - but to my own shoddy vob-making efforts. I want to edit. But where would I share it if I did? The tube has deleted the audio or video from every single vid I put up there. And from all the vids of mine other people have put up there. If I post it to the org I'm inviting criticism because as an org editor that's what we do - get criticism so we can improve because we GIVE A DAMN. But I don't...so I shouldn't post anything here. No point clogging the place up with another half-hearted vid, no matter how much fun I and other people might get from watching it. The editors won't approve and it's their website.

    I haven't finished a vid in years. I'm not an editor anymore. I'm a viewer. As a viewer, let me just say...you guys suck. You suck the fun right out of this. You're too tuff on yourselves, on others, and make casual viewers realize they're just ruining the hobby for everyone who GIVES A DAMN. Might as well go back to the tube. Except I can't because all the vids I want to watch have had the audio or video removed. And the streaming quality is *so* much prettier here on the org. Plus, I can actually review and know no one is going to see the mini-essay I wrote unless the creator wants them to.

    Make the review system like the tube? No, no, no. Have you actually read some of those reviews? They're chatting about OT crap, asking (for the tenth person in a row) what the song was even if it's written right there in the vid info, complaining that so-and-so isn't gay (okay, that only applies to the type of vids I watch over there, I know), and it's just a big stupid waste of time. Except vids are ranked by counting all those OT posts. Sort of like the way the org counts useless OPs...? Yeah. But that's not a problem these days since the QCs replaced ops. Just think, if only we could make those QCs visible we'd have exactly what the tube has. We just need to count those instead of ops in the search options and - BANG - tubeville here we come. No. Not when the few former-tubers posting are saying they came here for constructive feedback because of all the spammy crap on the tube. Instead of being more like them (aka worse), we should be trying to make our op system work *better* by eliminating spam.

    They come for constructive feedback? Make it easier to get by applying a penalty for nonconstructive spammy feedback. Yes, I know we love our OT random crack QCs. But they're useless. And since all we have now are QCs, we should be pushing useful ones, as boring as they are.

    Whatever happened to the reputation idea? I know that's probably not the term used at the time the idea was being thrown around. But something to reward people who do good things, useful things, helpful things. And I don't mean that contest where only one good person per year gets a reward. Punishing bad behavior doesn't work. We don't even bother anymore. I'm so numb and amused by it now I can't imagine being that "what's wrong with newbies" newbie I started out as. We're all assholes. That's what a few years on the org does to a person. It rewards the assholes. It's no wonder we're so content with the status quo. But something to reward non-assholes... Now that might give people a reason to...not be assholes. I'm not saying everyone would suddenly be nice, but I'm sure there are some suckup teacher pet types who'd jump on an excuse to do their stuff for a little simple praise. "You're nice. Thanks for being so nice." Is that hard to do? No. And it can really make a difference to someone teetering on the edge of becoming another asshole. Hell, give them buttons to "thank" people for useful posts. Make the list of people doing the "thanking" open so if someone is abusing it by thanking useless posts, the rest of the forum can report it and the mods don't have to worry about extra work on their end. Those with enough thanks can get a gold star or something. Or a "Nice Person" tag under their name. Maybe even a personal "thanks for not being another asshole" PM from one of the mods now and then. There are already some nice people on the org, and they're not getting thanked. Which is why they'll just be some more assholes eventually.

    GIVE A DAMN. Have to come back to this. I'm sorry. I don't. I used to. I tried really hard for a year or two. But it was pointless. All my friends left or turned out to be assholes. Without the intro section, I tried making friends through ops. I did, some really good ones who were so bad at editing that even someone like me could help them improve. Then they surpassed me and I was so proud. Then they quit, decided the place was too nasty for them, didn't like the assholes they were becoming, and it was just me again. I couldn't make friends by chatting in journals because that would make me a hypocrite. I follow the rules? Then I can't support breaking them by chatting in a place that doesn't allow chatting, even if it *is* the only way to make new friends. I couldn't make friends in the forum because thanks to google I found out my old "friends" were backstabbing assholes, after all. And the idea of making friends through ops is just dumb now. The people who want ops are already better at editing than me. They want another op, maybe some high numbers, and don't really care what I type in it as long as the site counts it as part of their total. They won't remember a word I said the next day, let alone my name. And I'll delete their vid and forget them, too. There's just no connection. And as far as editing goes, I was always below average. I cared when someone I respected told me to improve on certain things - I improved on those things because I respected them. But after a while, I hit a ceiling. I'm not geared that way. I realized that what is "good" is ugly to me. I can see it and acknowledge it (in reviews, in public) as being good according to the standard of the org, but I dislike it. And I won't do something I dislike in my own vids. So I was intentionally substandard. Meaning I don't give a damn. To intentionally do something bad just because you like bad things? You don't give a damn. And you're a drag on everyone who does. Sorry about that. If it's any consolation my guilt for not giving a damn is one of the reasons I'm too ashamed to bother anymore. So what if I'd enjoy it? This isn't about fun. Unless you're a masochist, or a perfectionist, or a dedicated skilled amv-maker. None of the above? Try the tube. They deleted your vids? Oh, well, switch hobbies. There are plenty of other time consuming unrewarding yet fun things to do on the net where standards need not apply.

    http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=97869

    Content. Anime content, music content, the amount of favorite scenes in the given video, the nostalgic quality of the content of the video. All of that matters more than quality. One video loaded with content I love is equal to twenty vids with bits of content I like. If I can't have that one, I make do with the twenty. It evens out in the end. I either watch those twenty back to back, or I watch that one on loop for hours. As long as I get my fix of "things I love" it's all good. It doesn't matter if that one, or those twenty, have quality editing and footage as long as they have the content I need to enjoy the videos. Remember, I'm not an editor or even a music video fan. I'm an anime fan. It's all about the eyecandy and always will be. I'm your con audience. Give me Vash dancing and some pretty bishies, and I'll clap my hands numb for you. Shameful? Maybe to an editor who looks down on the majority of anime fans who happen to download amvs for an eyecandy fix. To us anime fans, it's only natural. If we weren't in it for the anime, we'd be watching professional music videos. Or the old WMP visualizations where you get your "moving colors matched to music" done automatically for you. Honestly, if it's not about the anime, what's the point of restricting visual content to anime only? This isn't a music video site. That "anime" is in front of the title for a reason.  
  • C is for Code 2009-12-27 06:44:19 Maybe worth it, but I say NO, because you don't have the money you need in your hands yet. 
  • Support 2009-12-26 04:48:19 I know some of you want to:
    http://www.animemusicvideos.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=97826 
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