TommyRude wrote:Few things I wanna clear up before this thread gets axed.
XStylus: Nah, I don' go outta my way to piss off anyone, it jus comes naturally. Scary thought, huh?
In the words of Wacko Warner, "I think you need to see a Pe-Sychyatrist."
2) Why do I dislike ermac? 2 reasons. One, I dislike his style which is overly simplistic. Is' the kinda stuff that looks pretty good but doesn' take a whole lotta effort
Seeing as I made what was probably the most simplistic video ever dared to be shown, I think I need to defend the art of simplicity here.
In my opinion, I think it takes more skill to create a video that takes very little work yet is still good than it does to make a video with a lot of complexity. All that does is say that you really know your shit with Premiere/Illustrator/Photoshop. Making a simple video that is still good takes creativity. There are people who can do both, and can do impressive things, but AMV viewers expect to be impressed with really complex and amazing edits and such. The videos that stand out the most are videos that give them something they never expect.
Yes, I'm probably inflating my ego a bit, but indulge me.
Second, is' a known fact I dislike bullsh*t.
You can dish it out, but you can't take it, eh? ^_^
How does this affect my opinion of ermac? He's tried to explain on several occasions the 'story' of Soul of an Angel. Nuh-uh. Sorry all, I've SEEN SoaA. If there's supposed to be a story, ermac left it in his head an' forgot to put it in the video. Is' more or less jus' a bunch of random scenes wit' flashing effects.
Y'know, I'm gonna agree with you on that. I saw that video at AX2001, and I said "Oooo... pretty." I didn't see any story at all. I saw art, which depending on your perspective is better than a story. But yeah, he did try to explain the 'story' to me and, well... nuh uh.
Oh yeah, I was kinda put off by the fact that he tried to say another video using Shine, set to Escaflone, was a rip-off of SoaA. As if he has exclusive rights to the damn song.
I haven't seen the video in question, so I can't say. I doubt you have either. However, if it had all the flashy transitions and whatnot, then yeah, it's a rip. But if the guy simply wanted to use the same song, even if he was introduced to the song through Ermac's vid, there's nothing wrong with that. In any case, I can't say if the remark was egotistical or not until I've seen the video myself... provided I cared enough to research the matter. Let's just say Ermac has an ego and should be hanged, okay? While you're at it, hang myself, Hsien, Brad, and everyone else including you, because we all are guilty of the same thing from time to time. You seem to have a big enough ego to think that you have the right to accuse others of having over-inflated egos and have the right to comdemn them for it.
That was a DAMN egotistical remark to make, matched only by what I saw when I got home from AX an' dropped the DVD I bought from Brad Demoss into the player where I had the honor of seeing him make an ass outta HIMSELF by claiming Disney had ripped off a Princess Mononoke vid he made because they made a Pearl Harbor trailer using a clip from the same song as him.
Yeah, Brad DeMoss pointed that out at my AX2001 AMV panel. Does he have any fact? No. Could it have just been coincidence? Sure. Could it have actually been true? There's a faint possibility, but that possibility exists. It showed at AX2000, which WAS at the Disneyland Hotel. Am I going to fault him for pointing out the possibility? No.
One of the GoHs at AX2002 asked for a copy of my AMV. Unfortunately I didn't have an extra copy to give (I KNEW I should have hung onto one CD), but I asked the staff to provide him a copy (gee, think he ever got it?). If I suddenly started seeing a weird anime show that had a pop-up commentary between a viewer and the creator, would I be suspicious? Yeah. (For the record, I wouldn't mind. In fact, I'd feel flattered). Would you fault me for it, condemning me as being egotistical? Probably. Why? Because you delight in it, and have nothing better to do.
Is there a problem wit the attitudes of AMV creators?
You bet.
Am I part of it?
Possibly.
Tommy, you are 100% attitude.
Granted I'm not the most pleasant person in the world, but I think I'm more of a symptom than a cause. If there was no bullsh*t an' politics where there shouldn' be, then people like me would shut the hell up.
I don't think you'd shut up even if there weren't places for you to speak out. As for the politics, WHAT politics? What's to be gained through politicing? Is there some sort of election going on with control of the AMV House of Representatives up for grabs or something? Cuz if there is, I wanna start soliticiting for campaign contributions!
I'm only the bad guy because the majority says I am.
Noooo, you're the bad guy because you made yourself that way. I labeled you as a 'bad guy' because you pissed me off several times at the convention and on the forums. It's all good though... you're okay when we talk one-on-one, daresay even civil, but in a public venue you're a dick. You're not a dick because we put a big phallus costume on you and started calling you 'dick', you're a dick because you keep sticking yours in places where people didn't ask for it to be stuck.
But at one time the majority thought Hitler was a great man, so whas' that say about popular opinion?
Riiiiiight. Ermac and Brad are going to start sending non-conforming, impure AMV creators of questionable religion (they don't take Gendo as their Lord and Savior) to concentration camps to repeatedly listen to Linkin Park and watch DBZ AMVs until their death, right? Come on. Comparing them to Hitler is a little low, even for you.
-Troy
