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No more random free ops for now :(
2005-08-07 16:38:20
Yes, unfortunately, I have to admit defeat here.
Sometime around a year ago, I lost my ability to watch videos critically and analyze them just on random request. It's taken a while for me to own up to this, but I just have to step back now.
So, there's another indication of my utterly hopeless... humanity.
On the bright side, aside from one (that one will be done soon), I have returned all ops I owed through exchanges. What's more, you can't accuse me of being a greedy bastage, since I have given more than 3 dozen ops in that exact way.
Until further notice, I will only op videos where I feel I really have to say something, personally. Otherwise, my critical eye on technical terms has degraded so much that I'm no longer fit to give advice.
But anyway.
I'm in a good mood today, otherwise! -
Apologies to the two people who saw my previous, now-privatized post
2005-07-30 02:45:27
It was unneccesary, and looking back, it's best I not hop the bandwagon with this game now.
The last thing I usually want to do is offend people. That doesn't mean I'm perfect and manage to avoid it all the time. But I try. -
Profile updated
2005-07-30 02:16:58
...with more useless, self-analytical info.
That said, it goes along well with my general line of policy on forwardness. Now that I've dispensed with concealing certain info, it's all facts and personal views, without beating around the bush.
Thoughts? Other than the fact that I'm weird... -
To clarify
2005-07-24 21:52:26
I guess to sort of respond to why my nationality was considered a secret, which apparently got some people wondering why I hadn't said that about 2 years ago...
1) Noone ever asked. If someone asks me the right questions in the right contexts, I'm always prepared to give a straight answer. I can probably tell people more information about myself than they'd ever want to know, provided the questions asked are appropriate.
If I ran around announcing it without being asked - well, I don't see any point. Most will agree that I'm not exactly known as an attention whore. I seek no low-quality attention, and I don't think facts about my nationality place any demands on high-quality attention. I may throw it out in the midst of some conversation, or for the sake of conversation, but not just at random to random people.
2) Again, I stress that I have no national attachments. I really don't want people to identify me by any nationality, unless it's just a stab at me made in good humor. I don't identify myself as Russian. I don't identify myself as Canadian. Or anything else. There's things that contributed to my upbringing, yes, but by no means are these the determining factor. And I'm not naive enough to believe discrimination doesn't exist. Oh no. Never be fooled.
The idea of nationality is something I've lost faith in long ago. Among other things. Most other things. I woke up one morning and realized my country wasn't there anymore, and that it and its' political system were based on lies. I woke up one morning and realized that there was a lot of good people and a lot more assholes in my nation, or my other nation, and so on, to make any generalizations or have any faith in the idea of nationality. I woke up many mornings and realized many things. So I've gradually lost faith in a lot of things over the last 14 or so years of my life.
Not to say I'm not happy. There's only five things I still have faith in: Nature, Art, Reason, People as Individuals, and People as Groups of Individuals (as opposed to just masses). These keep me busy enough.
So my nationality is of no relevance, or of limited relevance. There's no secret about it, but I'm weary of people identifying me by it. -
I'm Russian.
2005-07-21 12:21:43
Truth.
Well, not entirely. I'm actually
1/3 Russian(1/4 pure Novgorod Russkie! - which by the way has close links to the long-time Nordic rulers of the land),
1/4 German(ic, also includes Nordic ancestry),
1/4 Karel/Pomor (near-arctic tribes living in northern Russia/Finland),
and the rest is... everything else (including Ukranian, Turkish, Tartar, Jewish, Gypsy, and so on and so forth).
And yes, I was indeed born and raised in a city and country which no longer exist - Leningrad, USSR (now St. Petersburg, Russia).
Of all things though, I generally consider myself to be a man of no national and cultural identity at all.
As far too many people already know this, I thought I might as well throw this useless info out into the open. No tabloids on the issue, please. Now you know the mystery of Oto's origins.
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