Nice post about Shiki and its characters. Between you and WatchTillTandava, this series certainly has fans with good critical thinking and philosophical mind.
Most watched video from that user "TheOSTMaestro" is this, which isn't bad. Not good enough for me to put on the list, though.
The masses tend not to be able to recognize true quality. It's a pretty good song, though, and fully orchestrated. Part of the issue is that if the visual is any guide, this is played during a section of Re:Zero that features very poor storytelling. OST songs are always going to increase in resonance and emotional significance based on the skill of the visual storytelling that accompanies them.
I don't particularly like the song, but yes, this is more like the orchestration that I'd put on the post. I hear strings and oboe, although no brass.
I have studied conducting seriously, so it's a bit of an occupational skill of mine. The Monogatari songs are actually just pure rock songs, but they do in fact blow me away.
Yeah that song is pretty good. A guitar song will have to blow me away to get on the list because, well, it’s a 4-6 instrument song, max. Full orchestration has massive possibilities by comparison. But I agree, that’s a good song.
I also kind of like the fact that going in this order means my ratings aren't all clustered around 8 9 and 10.
A lot of popular shows are really bad anime. (Usually this happens because they come from a really good manga or light novel and people don't realize and account for mental bleed between the two when they judge a story. So they're often good stories that aren't too painful to watch, but really bad anime.)
I just settled on popularity as a default for the order in which I watch stuff.
Maybe because I always knew sharing thoughts about them was something I was going to do. I’m not exactly here to watch what I enjoy. I’m primarily here because I enjoy the idea of writing things that I think will help others and avoiding the popular means being accessible to fewer people.
Popularity has a correlation to quality in the sense that nothing gets popular unless it has *something* that captivates the human attention. You are guaranteed at least one element of quality. I can at least try to figure out what that is and think about whether I judge it to be valuable.
Despite possible appearances I have a strong egalitarian (I guess I would call it) streak that initially respects what other people think and decide before further thought. I don’t like to buck the crowd until I have specified a good reason why I think the crowd is wrong (which they usually are, but it’s worth putting the time into building a model of the world for why; reflexive elitism without forethought is a form of arrogance which tends to lead to terrible conclusions; at default one should assume traditions and common patterns of behavior are there for a good reason if you can’t see what that reason is). Watching what is popular but maybe bad helps me figure out these reasons.
If somebody who I think is really smart (like, *really* smart) and picky in the right way (their model of the world seems very perceptive to me in a relevant dimension for the problem involved) says something is really good then I’ll likely jump it up the list. Otherwise I’ll just go with the crowd.
I will write more posts on all the topics like stuff you've been saying that I haven't been addressing ^^
That was a repost of a forum comment and so it wasn't the greatest in terms of laying out what the point of the post was but I do think it's an okay framework for starting a conversation
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Most watched video from that user "TheOSTMaestro" is this, which isn't bad. Not good enough for me to put on the list, though.
The masses tend not to be able to recognize true quality. It's a pretty good song, though, and fully orchestrated. Part of the issue is that if the visual is any guide, this is played during a section of Re:Zero that features very poor storytelling. OST songs are always going to increase in resonance and emotional significance based on the skill of the visual storytelling that accompanies them.
I have studied conducting seriously, so it's a bit of an occupational skill of mine. The Monogatari songs are actually just pure rock songs, but they do in fact blow me away.
A lot of popular shows are really bad anime. (Usually this happens because they come from a really good manga or light novel and people don't realize and account for mental bleed between the two when they judge a story. So they're often good stories that aren't too painful to watch, but really bad anime.)
Maybe because I always knew sharing thoughts about them was something I was going to do. I’m not exactly here to watch what I enjoy. I’m primarily here because I enjoy the idea of writing things that I think will help others and avoiding the popular means being accessible to fewer people.
Popularity has a correlation to quality in the sense that nothing gets popular unless it has *something* that captivates the human attention. You are guaranteed at least one element of quality. I can at least try to figure out what that is and think about whether I judge it to be valuable.
Despite possible appearances I have a strong egalitarian (I guess I would call it) streak that initially respects what other people think and decide before further thought. I don’t like to buck the crowd until I have specified a good reason why I think the crowd is wrong (which they usually are, but it’s worth putting the time into building a model of the world for why; reflexive elitism without forethought is a form of arrogance which tends to lead to terrible conclusions; at default one should assume traditions and common patterns of behavior are there for a good reason if you can’t see what that reason is). Watching what is popular but maybe bad helps me figure out these reasons.
If somebody who I think is really smart (like, *really* smart) and picky in the right way (their model of the world seems very perceptive to me in a relevant dimension for the problem involved) says something is really good then I’ll likely jump it up the list. Otherwise I’ll just go with the crowd.
That was a repost of a forum comment and so it wasn't the greatest in terms of laying out what the point of the post was but I do think it's an okay framework for starting a conversation