Not funny.TekkaRepliroid Zero wrote:This is why I italicized "good" competition. There's a lot of bad competitions, I'm fortunate enough to have only heard horror stories and not have actually been to a bad one. Have you competed at all before?
From the comments and attitudes of some people who do compete.If not, where do you get that judgement from?
I understand that, in fact that's what I was arguing. I had the impression that you thought "either you're competing or you're just messing around making big piles of junk." But it's clarified here, I think -Bad wording on my part, perhaps. I was saying that anybody that does some form of art - music, painting, sketching, sculpting, sewing, etc., people are in it because it is fun and because they want to create something enjoyable by themselves and other people alike. AMVs shouldn't be an exception to such an attitude.
This may well be true, but it's not true for all people. Personally, competition demotivates me. I don't want people to hate me, I don't want to humiliate/obliterate people I respect, and I don't have a need to prove that I'm better than everyone else. To me, those three things are what competition is all about.I wasn't intending to imply a competition is required to make someone think, I meant that competition adds motivation/drive.
Which is why I don't go for them. If a person wants to jump into the ring with the wolves, that's their choice; I just want to argue that it's not necessarily a given thing that we all want to be bloodthirsty.
*shudders* I went through the whole rigor of vicious one-upmanship and people desperate to be "the cool kids" in high school, thanks, and you can see how averse it's left me toward the very idea. I'd rather leave those impulses in the past than dredge them up again... for fun, no less.The competitions of conventions is something that really should be experienced by every creator at least once. It's a unique feeling (and this feeling has nothing to do with winning or not - I've never won at one, for the record).
Again, if you like it; more power to you. But to suggest that I am abnormal for not wanting to doesn't seem fair.
