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[Fotzepolitic]

Yeah, I'm not against it all the time, just makes more sense if the person using it has had time to set it up. I don't know that much about it but certainly if it's on my camera I'd have no idea how to turn it on in any sort of a hurry, so I'm guessing any first-time user would probably have the same issue.

[Baronness]

[Fotzepolitic]

[Baronness]

[Lithp]

I don't get the thing about Animal Collective. What is there to understand? Habit likes the song & frequently inserts it into his videos. Probably because he's a psychotic manchild.

[Shaoken]

[Fotzepolitic]

[Fotzepolitic]

Just picked up on a couple of other things, and they're kind of related:

• "Why are you filming?"
  and
  
• The "approaching the building" shot.

They both stem from the same thing, which is: starting to film before you probably would.

In the case of talking to someone you're visiting, whether it's a friend or a stranger, surely you'd ask their permission to film first, then start the camera rolling? It just seems strange how often that phrase (or its close cousin, "I know filming is Your Thing, but...") is uttered in these vlogs. I guess the idea is to establish that someone's uncomfortable being on camera, but still, it's something I'd hope to see less of.

The approaching shot is similar, but perhaps more about why you'd bother filming the whole journey to a place, rather than just wait til you got there. Between film and battery life, it'd be kind of a waste.

[Baronness]

[lachesis]

[Exetera]

[shurst]

I'm getting tired of:
-Proxies
-Stuff that doesn't add anything to the plot or characters. Eg. just throwing in random code, binary, operator symbols, and bolded letters. It feels like they just add it in to make it seem more like a slender!series, and not as an actual plot point or puzzle.
-Overly convoluted crossovers and plots. I don't like having to keep track of 50 different vlogs, blogs, twitter, facebook, skype and IM convos in order to understand what's going on.
-Characters that don't do what normal people would do in that situation.
-Cults, evil organizations, secret societies. (I would like to see someone do something with the SCP Foundation, though...)

[Mortisyn]

[Fotzepolitic]

I think there's also an issue with ARGs that something might have been relevant if the story had followed a certain course, but then some puzzle gets solved too quickly or not quickly enough so that the story has to go in a different direction just to keep a natural pace to it, and before you know it, boom, you have a loose end.

Think of it like one of those Choose Your Own Adventure novels. They let you pick up stuff that might be useful if you turn to page 240., but will never come up at all if you turn to page 340. If an ARG is reactive to its audience and not deliberately planned out so that everything could be used in multiple ways, that's likely to happen.

I suppose the solution would be to set a time limit on it, so that if a puzzle isn't solved between point x and point y, the protagonist solves it for you. But that always seemed kind of cheap.

But you're probably right that a lot of it is just set up to be cryptic when the creator didn't know the direction that the show was going to go in.

[dinorobo]