bluetrain wrote:However. i never really meant for a silly little formula like that to be taken so seriously. its not like its a clear-cut guide to succeeding in the VCA's there are a million other factors that can contribute.
in my conclusion, the "formula" can work with today's 'influences' but as suggested in years time it may be different. But this year, it worked *smiles*
Yeah, but when you put up a formula without a reason behind it people won't see a reason to change anything about it. When they got what they wanted they're happy and they don't care about what people rant about the VCA results. (Especially when they don't have much influence)
That's why I always think that it's important to view the whole issue from a social perspective that everyone has to care about. Still, they won't. There are a whole bunch of sentences you can use for yourself to defend the way things are going in the community, as well as the way the world is developing. I'm affected by this because my whole country is going to ruins right now and nobody gives a damn about it because the media tells everyone to stay happy about it. It's the same principle going through everything.
As an example on that, picture the worst boygroup, the one you always hated the most, or the song that was on number one you hated the most. Now imagine why everyone loved it and why you hated it. The fans of a certain boygroup will never admit that it sucks at singing until they get prove by some playback errors at stage and stuff. Or when they grow out of it, you're into something until you turn 10. That's not the problem, the problem is that people stopped showing the kids that what they like sucks. And that even if they do, even if they try, the kids don't care anymore. When I was young I was watching turtles and reading spider-man, kids today start smoking at that age.
There are so many bad V for Vendetta reviews that I'm actually having doubts about the intelligence of a whole country. It's the same principle: "OMG I DON'T UNDERSTAND BUT EVERYTHINGS SO DEPRESSING AND I'D RATHER NOT SEE IT SO FUCK YOU GOTHIC"
That reminds me of some ways of thinking in the old germany after war when everyone was all like "Hitler wasn't that bad.", "I didn't do anything.", "We didn't know shit.". While everyone was just too afraid to get oneself an own opinion during war. Kind of scary for me to see this kind of attitude return and even influencing the AMV community when I look at how much attention some types of videos get while others are completely ignored just because some people tell others to. It's like a whole turn into another direction was made by some kind of leaders and everyone just followed blindly. But I DO feel that there is a lot of aggression building up in this forums and in this community right now. From time to time I see more and more good points being made and really nice attitudes. That's why I even bother posting stuff like that, there could be some people who won't just ignored it because it feels depressing and stuff and "DUDE WHERE ARE THE HAPPY SMILIES".
bluetrain wrote:Oh don't worry. Hehe, it doesn't really matter, Ingow has probably left now after typing such a post, anyway.
I always do that because of the different time zones, since america is 6 hours behind I'm never expecting any direct replies :3
