New Option for Horror AMVs?

[SephirothJenova]

Horror AMVs cannot be truly horrorific because we know the anime/song that the AMV is using. My suggestion is to have an option to hide the anime/song selection for Horror AMVs only and then allow the user to see them once the AMV is downloaded. This will make it somewhat more frightening for some AMVs to be watched.

SJenova

[trythil]

Horror AMVs cannot be truly horrorific because we know the anime/song that the AMV is using.

You know the titles. You don't always know the content of the media involved, much less the characteristics of the specific combination you're downloading. Like the plot.

This is like saying that no horror movie can be truly horrific because you know the cast and crew, and maybe have seen a few clips from a trailer. Maybe this holds for a few specific movies, but how does that follow in the general case?

The only way that your premise could possibly hold is if you've managed to listen, watch, and fully memorize every piece of media that has ever existed and will ever exist. In that case, I applaud your spatial-temporal-financial prowess.

[Lyrs]

Fear through anticipation. It's been known to work, but it sounds dumb.

Anyway, a more programable feature would be where the user can request a $random_horror amv. the script will strip the amv of it's $name on display to the viewer who will save it to his or her harddrive.

here's some semi-semi-semi psudeo code:

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prompt "select genre of random amv download:  blahblahblah"
input $horror
query randomly selects a number from 1 total number of horror_amvs

name of amv download file is replaced with Horror_RandomAMV1.etc
promt "save file to: blahblahblabh"

of course this is not going to remove the fact that some amv creators have the name of the song and anime as the first thing the viewer sees when viewing the video.

it's rather unnecessary code, especially the second part with the strip amv name. I wouldn't mind a $random_amv download if there is one.

[SarahtheBoring]

Horror AMVs cannot be truly horrorific because we know the anime/song that the AMV is using. My suggestion is to have an option to hide the anime/song selection for Horror AMVs only and then allow the user to see them once the AMV is downloaded. This will make it somewhat more frightening for some AMVs to be watched.

SJenova

...you know we're cool and all, dude, but... what the fuck? Seriously.

Horror is not the same as surprise. You'd have a better case if you were arguing for comedy videos, because some of those do rely on an element of surprise. If surprise is the only "horrific" (??????) thing about your video, then it's not a very good horror video. Sorry.

Unless you can describe an example, because this makes no sense as stated.