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Comment on Crusader, The Team Concept, and You are a Pirate by admin

admin — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 01:59:52 +0000

it hasn’t been published yet. Preemptive troll.

this isn’t a conclusive post in itself, it just addresses what I found to be the salient points in Crusader’s post…that is, if I could get past the extended metaphors.

Put bluntly: Crusader’s polemic made good points (they were mostly reiterations of things I’ve previously said in different terms) in a way too long which was ironic (see last sentence of this post), and that saying I (or anyone really) hasnt had any “achievements” is just UGUU~

That last paragraph sounds pretty fukken trollish, but hey. No hard feelings…

Comment on Crusader, The Team Concept, and You are a Pirate by Nazarielle

Nazarielle — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:20:34 +0000

The article on THAT you’re linking to doesn’t exist. That or it’s private :p

I’m not sure what you’re really getting at here though. Are you saying it’s not worth the effort it takes to dredge up these behemoths of multi-author articles, because the effort doesn’t show or isn’t worth it? Or rather, is that what Crusader is saying and you’re disagreeing?

I guess I should actually read through all that meta bullshit that omisyth started with his bringing up the blogosphere. Goddamnit this is going to take forever.

Comment on coburn, The Failure of Gar? by admin

admin — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 23:52:25 +0000

I was gonna mention “dude from Berserk” since bakaraptor always shows pictures of this insanely buff guy.

and how did I leave out everyone from DBZ??? For me, Vegeta is the EPITOME of GAR.

@ghost: I forgot, and thanks for reminding me, about the distinction between GAR and MANLY TEARS – if there really is a difference. We may think of GAR as a character trait, but MANLY TEARS as an event.

Bucock really elicited a ton of MANY TEARS in the episode I won’t spoil for innocent bystandards. I mean, every character in LoGH produced MANLY TEARS at one point or another, and MANLY TEARS may not even be as related to GAR as we may think.

Though I’d like to say that this 3 space graph is totalizing – are there any other aspects (axes) that are missing?

And, as for Bucock, he’s not GAR when he’s just an old man, but he becomes GAR later on, so when we situate characters on the graph I made, you really have to homogenize them disregard the temporality of the character.

Comment on coburn, The Failure of Gar? by bateszi

bateszi — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:41:00 +0000

Guts from Berserk actually won the Saigar competition back when it first ran. So, I have to say, if anyone wants to try and understand ‘gar’, or at least, what the word means to the majority of people, you should probably be looking at him first.

Comment on coburn, The Failure of Gar? by ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 22:13:59 +0000

Admiral Bucock, HE IS GAR.

Comment on zeroblade, On the Merits of Anime Blogging by omo

omo — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 04:44:41 +0000

Owen is right–you want 3 prongs on your pitchfork. Makes a better devil’s advocate that way.

And to an extent most of us exhibit all three aspects.

Comment on zeroblade, On the Merits of Anime Blogging by ghostlightning

ghostlightning — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:37:48 +0000

Ooh, I like the categorization. Prongs on the same trident, or otherwise.

As long as we use these categories to describe but never to limit, I’m all for it.

Comment on about by Preemptive ABA 2009 Nominations « notdotq

Preemptive ABA 2009 Nominations « notdotq — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:34:38 +0000

[...] Most Thought-Provoking For little old me, thought-provoking in the ’sphere has come to mean “RyanA, ghostlightning, Cuchlann, and lelangir debating something on a grossly meta level, replete with literary references and the names of psychologists.” That gives me over nine thousand directions to go in for listing blogs, as we’ve got RyanA’s one blog, Cuchlann’s two, ghostlightning’s three four, and… well, I can’t even begin counting all the blogs lelangir posts at. Ten, I think. [...]

Comment on zeroblade, On the Merits of Anime Blogging by lolikitsune

lolikitsune — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 15:57:44 +0000

And sometimes, a blogger grabs the haft of the trident rather than the prongs. A good thing too, or else we’d all have bleeding hands.

Comment on Statistics & User-Feedback 12/08/08-01/06/09 [comments open] by Nazarielle

Nazarielle — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:18:45 +0000

1. Do you use a feed reader such as Google Reader, and if so, do you read anitations’ content in said reader? I use a feed reader, but I read the contents of most blogs in Firefox, rather than the reader. 2. In a given day’s new posted content, how many posts do you read? Depends on how bored I am. I can read anywhere from 5 to 20, if I get on a roll. 3. In a given post, how many embedded links do you click? If it's something directly relating to the post, I'll read as many as there are. Which can be really dangerous, as I can get caught in a never ending recursive chain, trying to read one article, then reading another before finishing the first, then being forwarded to another, etc 4. And, if so, do you then proceed to read the post that was linked? Well, to add to what I said above, too many links to other topics can be a bit daunting. That's sorta why I like anitations, usually the most important part is quoted and discussed. So I guess yes and no, depending on the situation. 5. Have you read the page “anitating strategies”? Nope 6. If so, have you found it insightful? n/a 7. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as notes at anitations. 9.5 8. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as collected at anitations. 9.5 9. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as anthologies at anitations. 10 10. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of posts categorized as summaries at anitations. 10 11. On a scale of 1-10, 10 being the best, rate the quality of anitations’ navigation (categories, widgets) 7 12. Yes or no: would you like to see a more diverse selection of anitated bloggers? Yes. While there's a huge list already, it never hurts to add more to the pile in this case. 13. Yes or no: is anitations too trollish? Only sometimes. But I find trolling amusing personally, so I don't mind it anyway 14. Please give anitations your general opinion. It's like a mini-feed reader that gathers together posts on similar topics. I really do find it helpful to see similar and conflicting opinions all in one place. That said, concerning a lot of the stuff discussed here, I feel a bit out of my league. I guess I'm just not quite as invested in blogging as some others. To me, it's just a hobby, a place to write down my thoughts, however shallow they may be.