JOURNAL: Amizadai (Lee Amizadai )

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  • Yoda as a marginalised language. 2002-04-12 21:20:07 Check out the dialectizer! It translates any webpage you input into any of the available dialects - Hacker language is the most frightening of all.

    http://rinkworks.com/dialect/dialectp.cgi

    Try the AMV Phorums on the dialectizer and see what AMV veterans sound like bashing newbies in h4Ck3r sp34K. Absolutely mind curdling.

    Still, a pity I find, that Yoda speech they put not in.

    On another more serious note, I so agree with AbsoluteDestiny's journal entry when he says the AMV community is ridden with snobbery. It's really ugly, the things that go on in the Phorum sometimes. Yes, sometimes newbies can be a pain, especially when they don't bother to use simple netiquette, but there's no need to act all elitist and snooty. A little grace and tolerance would go a long way.

    Of course newbies react badly when flamed... I don't know why the vets keep provoking them so. How would you feel if you came into a new community just to get bashed from the get-go because you made a minor mistake? And calling on Phade to ban people from the Phorum over one small mistake is NOT COOL. I would like to think he's a lot more gracious than that. And busy too.

    Apart from newbie bashing, I came across a frightening Phorum exchange on suicide: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=16569&t=16559

    I know it was posted on April Fool's Day, but still, goading people into taking their life is no joke in ANY circumstance. It reminds me of this case I looked at while studying Social Psychology, of a kid in a US University who went up a tower and threatened to throw himself off. A crowd gathered below and started to chant "Jump! Jump! Jump!"

    And he did.

    I know it's a different situation, but how would all the people on the Phorum know for SURE it was a joke? What if... WHAT IF it really happened? We'd end up reading about it in the papers on some online news agency site.

    The headline: Online Community Goads Teen to Suicide
    "... sought help from his friends on an online forum... mocked his intentions... provided instructions on how to effectively slit his wrists"

    What a wonderful way to bring attention to the AMV Phorums. I can so imagine it... this would become a case study in Social Psychology textbooks.

    I haven't even started on talking about the April Fool's joke it turned out to be. Well, actually I can only asssume it was, because the day after, the "suicidee" came back and posted some silly message about being resucitated by some satanic ritual.

    I say again. Suicide is not a joking matter.

    This journal has progressed from silliness to some pretty depressing stuff. Ah well. Won't let it get me down. Off am I to in the Dialectizer put it! 
  • The intensity of my concentration has left physical evidence. 2002-04-12 09:33:39 When I looked in the mirror tonight, I noticed what looked like a red scratch down my forehead, about an inch and a half long and located a little off-centre between my eyebrows. It's quite obvious, not the kind of thing you'd miss, especially with it located in such a prime spot on my face.

    I thought I had inadvertantly scratched myself while at the computer. I asked a dorm-mate to take a closer look. She commented that she hadn't seen it when 2 hours eariler, and asked if I had bruised myself. I said no, and that's when she realised that the mark matches my frown exactly in both size and shape. It sits so precisely in my frown crease that it totally disappears when I knit my brows together.

    I've actually managed to frown so intensely that the expression has branded a mark in my skin!

    I don't know whether it's because I'm stressed, or whether it's because I was squinting/concentrating too hard at the computer screen tonight.

    It's weird. I've never had anything like this happen to me before.  
  • Calm as Hindu calves. ~ Tyler Durden 2002-04-12 07:45:40 Hey Bowler, thanks for the concern.

    Nah, my life is not falling apart. Where I am now, I can't imagine what the bottom will be like. :) The quote was more in reference to the lesson in post-modernity I had today. It wasn't as in depth as the philosophy course I took last term, but for some reason, today's lesson really pounded in the apathy and disillusionment of the world today. It really reminded me of Fight Club. Not just the movie but the book.

    Fight Club is one of my favourite movies, but I have found that I tend to get very distracted by visuals. I don't actually pay attention to the message/text of the film... I'm usually too busy devouring the eye candy. I'm not the kind of person who reads much between the lines; things have to be TOLD to me before I get it.

    It's only when I read the book that I actually started to pay attention to what it was saying. I read Fight Club as well as Survivor, also by Chuck Palahniuk. Mm, pop philosophy at it's best, and wickedly funny to boot.

    I am Amizadai's blighted humour. 
  • 2002-04-11 19:05:42 everything, everything is falling apart. ~ Tyler Durden 
  • When I am god, everybody DIES! 2002-04-11 09:16:11 http://www.no-god.com/game/wrath.swf

    I aim especially for the little kiddies. *evil grin* And sometimes the cows that walk backwards.

    What's the point? I don't know. Catharsis, I guess. For all you know, this game could make the difference between me staying home and indulging in nothing more harmless than mouse-clicking, and taking to the streets with a weapon of mass destruction - my mini-compo and a CD of screechy girl-band J-pop. Ah, what sweet music, the sound of imploding heads.  
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