How do you decide?

prettysoldiersailormoon · Post by **prettysoldiersailormoon** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:20 am

Let's say you are a HUGE fan of this one anime (me, Sailor Moon) and you are hell-bent on downloading every video with that anime. Yet, there are many videos set to the same song. Is there a way of deciding which one to get without having to download them all and watch them? Or do you people just think I'm crazy?

prettysoldiersailormoon · Post by **prettysoldiersailormoon** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:32 am

I'll answer my own question. I am crazy. I just downloaded 4 Sailor Moon videos to Linkin Park-In the End. Now I'll watch them all and decide which one I like the best. Oh and I'm talking about videos that have just that one anime in it. Am I talking to myself here?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 11:41 am

If you are hell-bent on getting every single one, then doesnt just choosing a single one go against that idea?

Ashyukun · Post by **Ashyukun** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:06 pm

Zarxrax wrote:If you are hell-bent on getting every single one, then doesnt just choosing a single one go against that idea?

There you go, with that wacky logic-thingy and literal interpretation again...

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:09 pm

I usually go with eithe the star rating, or OP score.

If it's an editor that I recognize, that helps too.

mikestrife · Post by **mikestrife** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 12:24 pm

If you just want a collection of all the Sailor Moon videos you like you really can only download them all and erase the ones you don't like. Still that would take forever. Madbunny's advice to go with the star rating or op score could significantly decrease your dowload time.

Also you shouldn't just look at vids with sailor moon as the only source. You could miss out on some wicked SM AMV's like DokiDoki's Senshi on Spring, for example.

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:19 pm

If I were looking for videos of a specific anime that happened to have as many videos as SM does, I'd probably use the Super Search and filter by star rating (because I find the star rating to usually be a truer indicator than opinions).

Knowname · Post by **Knowname** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 2:24 pm

I'm not a fan of popular anime.

noiZ from Zion · Post by **noiZ from Zion** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:09 pm

I will not try to cure your madness, but here is what I do :

sometimes I like a song, so I will download from 5 to 20 amvs realized with that song.
sometimes I like an anime , so I will download from 5 to 20 amvs realized with that anime.
sometimes I like a musical artist, so I will download from 5 to 20 amvs realized with a song of that artist.
sometimes I like a amv artist, so I will download from 5 to 20 amvs realized by that artist.

then I watch every amvs I downloaded, I give the stars everyone deserves, and I erase everything on my computer in order not to crash it with the 5000 amvs on the memory.
this way I have been able to discover, lucky me, many diamonds (5% of diamond, 50% of average quality, and 45% of amvs obviously realized by brain-damaged and tasteless subhumans).
5% is worth the effort.

prettysoldiersailormoon · Post by **prettysoldiersailormoon** » Mon Sep 12, 2005 4:32 pm

I'm such a packrat, I love to keep everything! But thanks for the advice everyone! Especially noiZ from Zion! Maybe I should do that.