|\|/-|Y|2|3 ~ 3/30/2007 09:27:00 AM  

Two months, really?
I actually thought it was gonna be longer than that. Usually I don't decide to post until maybe a couple of months go by or something, though the decision is completely up to fate and destiny and astrological symbols and the stars and anything that pretty much anything that has to be with future seering that may or may not mean anything in the grand scheme of the universe except that I can blame something else completely for the timeliness or untimeliness of the posting. But, then it has been quite an eventful two months, I suppose. What events you say? Why the first ever Clyfarthfa Invitational of course!
Yeah, sure.
Okay, okay, so the Clyfarthfa Invitational wasn't exactly a big fat event or something. It lasted for maybe like 3 hours max, and there's no real record of it even happening beyond the fact that I have a chat log of what happened...sorta. The "Introduce Robbie to Higurashi Daybreak" thing was probably bigger and longer. It was most certainly louder thanks to TeamTalk: hearing people's voices screaming (or perhaps it was laughing) while being torched, thrown, or otherwise discombobulated really makes me feel better makes it seem everyone is having more fun than just, you know, seeing dismembered words fall onto a screen without the added excitement, displeasure or ecchi sounds behind them (not there was anything ecchi going on here, but you know...just in case I didn't notice). That means you can tell that this sentence is/was/could be/should be/might've been/could've been/could be/might be/being/not being/being or not being (that is the question) sarcastic! [whaaa?]
It has the added benefit of everyone not having to constantly minimize in and out of the game (for those of us playing it on full screen) to talk to everyone, and now I know people's voices through microphones. That means I can hunt you down with sonar detection system. It doubles as a toothbrush.
Flailing Rate of Consumption
No 'flailing' is not a correct term at all. In fact, the phrase means nothing to me; even the topic of this paragraph really has nothing to do with a rate of consumption that is 'flailing' (which I can guess only means that it is changing like a mad man on hyperactivity with ADD and a sugar rush, augmented with one of those super high concentrate energy drinks). It's not quite a flail, maybe like a smooth wave out on the Atlantic somewhere, slightly jostled by wind that flies in from the icy northern areas, and sinking deep into the whirlpools.
That's still a bit big. Let's just say it went up and down.
I've been doing a lot of the above lately. Usually the end of the paragraph will come without the original intent of the paragraph even remotely known to the people reading it, and all they can do is just sit there and accept what I said as somehow relevant to something, or re-read it and try to see if they can reclaim the meaning that was lost in the sea of too many words that are broken.
The original paragraph was lost...
in said sea of too many words.
And then I took a break from writing, and I couldn't really remember what I was thinking about before, so I wrote this sentence to make up for it, then I remembered and so I shall continue from this point on for the obvious raisin, which is a raisin that forces all other raisins oblivious, which I need to fulfill the last quest for the sacred something-or-other which will destroy the whatzits-whosits-howits which control the current radial sphere that protects the planets of the planetary commission L-delta-teh-gamma by forcing out the cosmic rays of death beamed from the cosmic planet of death, which used to be controlled by the whatzitswhositshowits (different from the whatzits-whosits-howits), except that control was destroyed because the control was readily accessible for no raisin and that no raisin was turned completely oblivious by the obvious raisin, so control was lost to everyone and then the thing beamed everyone dead.
Oops.
This time, let's try not trying to make a random plot from random words.
To get back to the real actual houtounihountou topic, I believe I was talking about my consumption of anime recently. I take this topic quite seriously, since consuming anime, while not completely of general usage of the world, does keep my mind fresh and keeps me otherwise happy. However, I generally watch anime in larger chunks now and not in a smooth pace so I wonder if I'm losing my insight on waiting in a general case. I used to be one of those people who were very adamant about certain features of watching things, like, for instance, always watching the intro when you can help it or not stopping to take advantage of your DVR or DVDs ability to pause, replay things, and help you figure out what someone is saying. You just need to read subtitles faster maybe. (I was thinking it would be possible to subliminally subtitle things after a while, subtitles that your mind catches and understands without you yourself knowing. But this really takes away from things like Japanese phrasing.) However, when you start watching anime in larger chunks and at faster speeds, I find myself pausing for understanding more often as I race through with my mind, not to mention skipping both endings and intros, sometimes skipping the next episode previews and such, generally going for complete understanding of an episode while going as fast as possible. And usually I end up doing neither.
This Anime Block Conundrum is interesting and I wonder, if you should do that with TV shows (American TV generally has 1) more commercial time, 2) longer time slots, 3) intros that last anywhere from 10-30 seconds, rarely more than a minute, 4) And then there's Maude), would you eventually come up with the same result. Constant pausing for understanding something that you can understand without having to read otherwise is something that would disappear, but would you be able to rush through a show that has basically no intro, no outro, and thinks that you just took a break after a commercial?
It doesn't happen a lot, but many shows expect that there has been some kind of breaking point there and don't expect you to remember exactly what happened in the scene, which makes a lot of repeated scenes or time changes have more sense. Or for instance, when they show you some weird scene that does not directly relate to the one before it after a commercial break, you get the sense that you are missing something if you can remember what they were talking about previously and what they were doing before commercial. But, then you don't see it if you were doing something else during commercial break and can't remember quite what the heck they were talking about.
There's not a whole lot to go off of here.
It's not like it makes a difference, people have been using fade-in fade-out time stop effect since the motion picture was invented. It's a generally well trusted scene switching device that makes a lot of sense in lots of places. There's also the staring voice-over (where you are given a "stare" of a screen while they voice-over and it suddenly switches to the next scene) and the dramatic high-point switch, where something dramatic is going to happen (ie a cliffhanger point) and it cuts off to a different scene to make sure you know what is going on.
I wonder if there's anyone in the movie arts willing to discuss the nature of transitions. I wonder if it would lead to anything fruitful.
Concludes
Anyway, I'm pretty tired, and I'm pushed to write some on the other blog over here: www.kadartcomics.com , so be sure to check out that new comic that'll be rolling out soon...
Here's the cut-off point. There was once again, nothing useful on this post.