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rohina · Greenhorn Joined: 18 May 2006 Posts: 5 Location: Canada

Wow. I'm really very new to PXC, and I made a film just for fun. I feel really shy about posting anything about my entry because everyone here seems much more scary and mean than on the forums I frequent.

Didn't really follow the popular formula - my film is more about competing obsessions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibt6djIZ4bE

**Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 12:19 am

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**Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 5:18 am

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Seej · Unfettered Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614

**Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 5:24 am

Scott

wow seej!! That's unbelievably good!! The Yorkshire-version of a chicago accent is subtly amusing sounding, but nevermind: the craftsmanship is impressive.

I like a lot of the fFilms people have made .. most of them are really solid work. the 5 parter makes me laugh. 36 puzzles in 64 seconds is impressive. "Great Perplexations...The Moovie" has some sort of link to the avatar of awesome. I would like a nice clean MP3 of the "Its time for" song -- and on and on. really solid work fFolx Smile

I'm so glad I didnt make a fFilm: I can sit back and enjoy the work of others Smile

I really would have had lousy resources and a pathetic product. really quality work everyone Smile

**Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 6:31 am

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Seej · Unfettered Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614

**Posted:** Sat May 27, 2006 6:36 am

UKver2.0 · Decorated Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 270

My flaming pile is now up! Now I can finally watch the rest of these masterpieces. Feel free to check it out and don't forget to insult the hex out of it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TJidKeO0Y

And more on topic, I had a lot of trouble getting it to upload with the sound not being off by a few seconds. What a pain that was. Maybe if I knew more about how it all works...

**Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 12:25 pm

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poozle · Entrenched Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 1090

I thought it was just me but I've noticed a few not being synched properly so maybe its to do with you tube.

**Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 2:46 pm

UKver2.0 · Decorated Joined: 09 Feb 2006 Posts: 270

**Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 2:53 pm

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myf

I liked the bit with the planes. It made me laugh!

**Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 6:08 pm

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poozle · Entrenched Joined: 15 Aug 2005 Posts: 1090

**Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 7:41 pm

Seej · Unfettered Joined: 30 Nov 2004 Posts: 614

**Posted:** Sun May 28, 2006 10:32 pm

colin

So it looks like to competition isn't at all about the quality of your video...more about how much attention you can get... and the winner is SteveC for getting his video linked through a front page slashdot posting

Nothing against anyone spaming their link, it's what the company want...but calling it a video competition is kinda crappy.

oh hey, look at that; right click, reload every, 5 seconds. Now ain't that a handy browser feature...

**Posted:** Mon May 29, 2006 10:25 am

brat-sampson · Decorated Joined: 25 Jul 2004 Posts: 289 Location: Stark

Looking at his views, I'm not entirely sure that slashdot had the intended effect. Probably most people aren't clicking the name of the guy who wrote the article.

In other news, perplexcity.com is down.....

**Posted:** Mon May 29, 2006 12:11 pm

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Juxta · Unfettered Joined: 28 Aug 2005 Posts: 675

It's back up already - and yes, not precisely the best way to get onto SlashDot...it's already been "outed" as "SlashVertising" on the site, the description given of the game is less than complete, and the comments following are...well, your typical SlashDot garbage.

PerplexCity.com was also displaying a "Down for maintenance/updates" page, not a 404...so it's unlikely that the site was "Slashdotted", or if it was, Mind Candy were quick enough to get a redirect into place in time before the server got pummelled.

J

**Posted:** Mon May 29, 2006 12:33 pm

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SteveC · Unfettered Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 381

Everything on /. that is commercial is "outed" as advertising.. check my number, I'm an old hand Smile

I think the short article (normal /. length) was of reasonable content with a reasonable point.

Of course, it was only made to get my video link in an article, which as pointed out made bugger all difference to my views.. Oh well - I've NO idea how anyone is legitimitely getting 10k+ views with links, if one in /. doesn't do much...?

Not to ring my own bell, but I think my video isn't THAT much worse than the 7 with more hits, but it's unlikely to overtake them as I've now given up on linking Smile

If /. doesn't work, can't see what will Smile

**Posted:** Mon May 29, 2006 4:25 pm

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