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Every day I wake up in this room
2003-08-14 20:41:59
Bah, memes!
If the encoding gods accept my chanting, incense, and ritual sacrifice of small household appliances, I stand to finish Video #7 sometime this weekend.
This is both good and bad. Good because yay, I have a disgustingly adorable video to watch! Bad because I'll have to catch the 2 or 3 people who might want it online in person in order to get it to them via AIM. This is uh, kind of irritating.
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*cries*
2003-08-13 20:37:51
This song is too long, too weird, too rambling, makes little sense and doesn't fit in with anything not to mention that the series I have in mind is too damn short WHY AM I COMPELLED TO MAKE A VIDEO TO IT?! It was in my head half of today and it is so NSFW MAKE IT GO AWAYayayay!
Somebody shoot me and put me out of my misery plz kthx.
I could try to trim it, but the main part I'd cut is right near the end, and I'm not sure if it would make the end too abrupt. Besides, I suck at audio editing. Still, given that the alternative is that this song will EAT MY BRAIN ON TOAST, I suppose it's worth a shot.
Specifically: The second solo is a tad long, after it gets done with the random Latin. Cut that down a bit, ditch the whispering after the next chorus and the freakout after it, cutting right to the monologue at the end - even though that would miss that godfuckingawesome chorus and the line about violins that is the ONLY thing that fits (dammit)...fade out early... and that loses probably a minute out of the 5-plus. That...might...work.
And before anybody asks, no, you probably don't know the song. It's one of my only mildly obscure tastes. It's one of those moody gothy sexy breaks-out-into-random-Latin jobs, though. Me likes. Muchly.
Hell. I still have to redo Sea of Stars and finish up the cute li'l fluffbunny video that I still have 2/3 done or so.
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Proof that the org has its ass on backwards ;)
2003-08-13 17:40:42
Like a Burning Star (2003-04-11) [hits: 429] [ops: 7] [stars: 7] [star avg: 3.29]
Imaginary World (2003-06-15) [hits: 255] [ops: 3] [stars: 9] [star avg: 3.89]
Okay, IW was the "You suck, it's not as good as LaBS, you've peaked, you loser, now go out to pasture" video. (According to everybody else, except me and one reviewer.) And its star rating is .6 higher than LaBS.
Make up your mind, you schizos. ;)
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Opinions on opinions
2003-08-13 06:15:50
Now, don't get me wrong. Criticism is good IF the person doing the criticism understands a few things:
1) This is THEIR OPINION and not ULTIMATE TRUTH.
Example: "I don't like the music so it sucks." Wrong. Last I checked, Random Person, you were not the arbiter of all that is good and bad.
Also falling under this umbrella are rants in the ops about how much the series sucks. Well, moron, if you hate the series, WHY ARE YOU OPPING A VIDEO FROM IT? I download Eva videos now and then, but I don't get on people's op pages bitching about how much Eva sucks. It's MY taste and I have the common decency not to heckle people who have different tastes. Grow up.
2) KNOW WHAT THE NUMBERS MEAN. Audio does not mean "how much you like the song." LEARN TO READ, idiot. I think this may be the source of one of the straws that broke the camel's back - For one of my vids my audio source was UNCOMPRESSED WAV, as high quality as my ripping software would make it. And people gave me eights for sound quality. EIGHTS. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU? Do I have to get the band IN YOUR HOUSE? What the hell do you expect me to do? Ugh.
3) This is not true for everyone, of course, but for me, as plainly stated on my profile, THIS IS NOT A CONTEST. I don't CARE if a video isn't as good as one of my other videos. I don't CARE if a video isn't as good as one of somebody else's. I don't make videos to beat other videos, like some kind of weird form of Pokemon. ("Odorikuruu! I choose you!") I make videos because I like the concepts and I enjoy doing it. I try to improve my skill over time, but that is NOT the same thing. I am under no obligation to "top" anything.
What probably snapped my patience with the op system, and with the community in general, was when I was downloading someone else's vid and wandered over to their op board. There, someone told the editor that they should never make videos with that source, that nobody should ever make videos with that source, because they could never ever "beat" another editor who'd made videos with that source.
Excuse me? When I signed up, I must have missed the part where it said "The entire point of AMVing is to beat other people at some sort of game." I thought we just made videos because it was fun. Silly me!
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In short, I like constructive criticism. What I'm sick of is bitching and whining and perfectionist carping and one-upmanship and petty comments about beating other people. And since there's no way in hell I can make people grow the fuck up, the only solution I see is to stop distributing my videos except to people mature enough to know the difference between OPINION and FACT.
I hate doing it this way. I hate it so much it makes me sick. But I am so fucking tired of the bitching and one-upmanship. I can't take it anymore.
- 2003-08-04 18:32:46 Whoever did the lamedie.jpg banner, you rock. XD I may use that as the .org link banner on my site even if it doesn't make the regular cut.
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