You're just jealous

[prog]

Came in dead last in four games straight of Gang of Four (online, twice with queue involved). Boy that makes me irritable. I had a chance of taking the last game, and the guy in the deadhole position handed me 100,000 points. Hate hate hate. Am made madder by the fact that one of the earlier games involved another fuckwit who fled the table before I could defeat him honestly and improve my score (by taking from his). Instead it was just toilet toilet toilet for me and my ELO.

O the world does indeed cry out for Volity. But that's another post.

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I'm going to slake my anger by sneering at Don Hertzfeldt from a great distance. I might end up seeing his new thing at a film festival this week, and quite honestly I think his material and techniques are very clever. It's just his whole attitude oh my god, his entire "I'm a real animator" shtick, using the soapbox that his talent and timing earned him to self-congratulatorily pooh-pooh digital tools, dismissing their output as somehow lesser than what he is doing.

He's like the smug and successful inverse of Mike Jittlov, or something.

Actually I'd be less mad if he were less famous. The truth is I will probably see his thing at two different festivals this week, if I go to both, for such is his wunderkind-clout. But I have been Flash animations at least as clever as this. But no, his medium is half his message, and it irritates me to no end that people actually dig that. Fie, fie upon all of you.

Comments

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

ELO can't stand for Electric Light Orchestra.

No, it's a rating system.

[rikchik.livejournal.com]

ELO rating system on Wikipedia

Re: No, it's a rating system.

[rserocki.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

Meaning of Life

[doctor-atomic.livejournal.com]

I have to say that this was one of my least favorites of all the 'toons in "The Animation Show." It was OK, but I wasn't blown away. It was just kind of amusing. And then, they had to go and put "No computers were used in the making of this film" or some such at the end of the credits. Come on, is that necessary?

Re: Meaning of Life

[prog.livejournal.com]

Yes, if you're this guy; that single sentence is his whole raison d'être.

Re: Meaning of Life

[mrmorse.livejournal.com]

Queen did that on their first seven albums. They all say something like "No synths were used in making this album." And then the first note of the eighth album (The Game) was a synth. I think they acknowledged that in the liner notes too.