Shadowlessness
Shadowlessness, and how it feels.
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(See this dangerous spark in my eyes?! Beware and tremble, mortal!
I feel so stupid doing it.
Hope I didn’t get you angry, though I know even if you are angry, you are more forgiving than you get irritated.
BTW, after giving a 1 to all posts and didn’t getting the results I wanted, I started giving 1′s to comments too but it seems that it doesnt affect the blog’s rating.
I “do” feel stupid doing it, mainly because this blog is the best blog I ever read in my entire life, and I’ve been online for quite some years.
Just wanted to make you smile or anything since such thing would do same to me but maybe it was wrong since I don’t know you too much and don’t know such thing would be on your list of irritated numbered #984654 or would make u smile.
in the mean time if you look at it at some philostropholic kinda eye, it would mean something like “you have to descend in order to ascend”, but thats purely unintentional and orphanaged.
If you got irritated or angry, Please forgive this lost soul.
Rate-fracked? hmm, can’t wait to “frag” you to death!
“Beware and tremble”, did you possibly and implicitly have something with “And the Heavens shall tremble” ?
oh, you couldnt not have.
ok, this is a spam.
umm, maybe its a good time for a word verification system for comments? hmm? hmm!
Where do you think Matgill is? is he sleeping? is he at a “Tekiyeh” currently?
who knows.
oh, now I got it, ratings of comments are beasd on a 1-5 and your posts are on a 1-10 basis, so at best, my comment would be at half value of your posts? so you are doulbe good as me? wow. (wrath of the licht king).
hmmmmm…. WHY, WHY WHY WHY WHY (that was serj from SOAD)
you know, I’m very suspecious about multiple personalities, what do you think, I mean, just tell someone, anyone, even a bot, what do THEY think? or is it even importante?
[if this blog was more mainstream and popular] I think you could have some kind of sorting based on posts that have higher rating since I think you have something on your mind when you didn’t put both comments and posts on same rating system.
but its really hard for me to rate a post of yours [like you care!], since I have to fight the urge of rating and the voice in my head telling/reminding me that who am I to rate your posts.
maybe another system, why numbers, how I can represent what I felt through numbers? I hate numbers, they are like whenever I represent something through them, like a game rating, they are “rounded” and cut some info out of it, its so unfair and meaningless.
like [in your case] you see a movie rating of like 7.5, what the hell does it mean?! is it good? half-good? not bad? what if it was 7.6, so its a better movie? in which case? what measurment, what instrument?
I know that we have no other way but stupid numbers for this matter but my problem [heck like anyone cares] is this comparison and judgement, why we have to give a movie a rating, wouldn’t it present pre-judgement for someone who wants to watch the film/movie ? like I tell you that, ok, here is the movie you wanted, it got an 5 from imdb, and you will watch the movie with that “number” in mind and already judged it for being a bad movie (medicore if you are too handsome) and its less likely that you enjoy it since you know some “expert” guy at imdb or something didnt like it but if there was no rating beforehand and you would get the raw experience, maybe you would get it as serious as The Matrix and get something out of it since it was just you and the movie, no rating or friends or reviews.
It happened to me on both cases of movies/films and games, since we get them both next to nothing here, sometimes I even finish a game and then see that its aggregated rating is like 50 and I love it so that I finished it! but would I (my stupid grammar, sry) finish it if I heard it beforehand? I think knot.
Ok, I explained [with my p00r Engrish] two different matters but they are tied together, atleast thats how they are in my tiny head of mine and mainly wanted to share these thoughts with you.
and I hope you are not irritated by my behaviour.
[coming soon: why that random guy doesnt use FireFox's spellcheck to fix the typos, pre order here to get a T-Shirt]
Sorry, got bored in the middle of your last comment.
BTW, I was on my way home! You know, no internet in the subway!
its ok, those are thoughts always crawling in dark spots of my head …
@that random guy(2):
Why in the unholy names of the seven hells would you do that?!
And in case your still wondering, it’s not angering or irritating (maybe a little, this is valid feedback method you are messing up, after all!) but it’s not funny at all either.
@that random guy(10):
What if 5 billion people voted on a single movie? What would that number mean then? Would it be meaningless? Would it be useless?
I think not. All of us pretty much know where we stand in respect to large crowds, any large crowd.
And come to think about it, any large crowd is more predictable and quantifiable than an individual (the larger the better.)
I don’t think feedbacks and ratings and numbers coming from a large enough population are meaningless. Obviously, I don’t expect that here. For me, the feedback from a 5-person group is “large enough”, assuming that the ratings are accurate! Not everyone has the time and will to leave a comment, you know.
@yzt(13): I didnt get the first sentence of your reply but I’m happy that you are not angry, even though you did not find it funny. phew!
@yzt(14):
I tried answering this by mentioning aggregators like MetarCritic. let me give you an example, how many of your friends will you think will find Fight Club good and give it something like 8+? I think most of them. What about some ordinary guys? Do you think they will even watch it through the end? I don’t think so. So if you have some qualified (as in people who are most like you as possible, as we can get) rate the movie, you will get a valid rating but what will happen in reality is that some random guys (ehm, not me) will give it random numbers and that will bring it down or up, something like this happens in overrrating something, someone creditable gives something a high rating and others just follow the leader, sooner or later you find everyone saying how great that thing is, blindly.
5 Million? heh, since you like Opeth, how many of those 5 million you think will give Opeth’s Watershed a rating over 1 ? there are some metal fans that will give it something 7+ (probably, I don’t like that album and I’m a metal fan, but lets forget this) and its average will be something like 7.5 (considering some metal fans like me don’t like black metal or death metal or simply that album) AND those like 4 million guys will give it ratings of 2′s, 1′s, 0′s … and the average will be around 2, killing, digesting the “meaningful” rating of the ones who’s ratings were true for you.
Lets put it another way (its for you MatGill!), how many times this scenario happened to you that you find something very interesting but others think otherwise. So, imagine that those who think otherwise are seated on imdb seats and give Fight Club an 2 out of 10 and you see that rating before watching the movie, that will affect you. (I know IMDB’s score is not based on one guy)
I got a game from a friend for an expensive console that I didn’t have time to check the web for it and I just knew that the game was a medicore, I played it through the end and liked it but if I checked the scores to see its average of like 6 from game sites, I would not play it through the end.
Even the opposite happened, in case of heavenly sword, I played it and kinda hated it but went online and saw everyone is so happy about it and gave high ratings for it, see what I mean? same thing happened for Assassin’s Creed.
It affects you in another way too, it gets your expectations high. Imagine that I give you Gears of War 2 but don’t tell you its GoW2 and I rename the game and change some stuff from it. You will enjoy it more than the case that you know its GoW2, since you know its “GoW2″ and you already have high expectations from it and its much harder for the game (and its developers) to impress you.
let aside the facts that those ratings can be deviated by lots of means, like money, bots, imdb’s point of view over something, etc.
All I wanted to say is that, since you get your movies and games cheap (if not free), test them out yourself, before checking their ratings, it gives you a raw experience. I know there are alot of movies out there but I think watching movies based on ratings are like listening to pop music, isn’t it following the masses?
and about your rating system:
It would be nice to see that I already voted on this post so I won’t need to hover my mouse and see that I can’t vote anymore to find out that I already voted.
and another thing is that maybe you could do an email notification over replies back for comments and can actually use email addresses you get from us in the comment section (and who’s telling it ! look at the email addresses I provided, lol
). I have to manually check some posts to see if you answered them of not.
@that random guy(15):
Let me clarify something right now. My friends, by definition, should give Fight Club a 10/10! They won’t be my friends if they don’t.
@that random guy(15):
OK, I see you point, and you’ve got a point, but it is not the point here.
Let’s put aside those who vote or rate randomly (yes, I’m talking to you!) and let’s put aside those whose votes and ratings are influenced too much by factors other than their own preferences.
If I watch Fight Club, and then get N people to rate it, it will give me a view about how they think, not how good or bad Fight Club is.
Most people use ratings for this second function (to give them an idea of how good/bad something is, without experiencing it themselves) which is wildly inaccurate for most people (as you’ve said) but that would hardly apply to the ratings on this blog, since I already know everything on it! It just gives me (and the rest of you) an idea about how other people think. You see my point here?
@that random guy(16):
Sorry, this rating system is a ready-made one (called “GD Stars” or some such) and I’m waaaaay too lazy to modify it now that I’m a bit satisfied with it!
And did you know you could “register” on this and many other blogs so that you get that kind of functionality?!
Even if you don’t want that, you can use a feed reader to better access the data (and the metadata) that comes off this site (,I’d imagine!)
BTW, who dares to quote Diablo scripture except in-context?!
My “tremble” was more Archimonde than Mephisto!
oh, I’m a much much much much much much more of a Diablo guy, than a Warcraft one.
Atleast it was Blizzard related, it could be worse, umm, EA?
Ok I registered here, even though I have no idea what purpose it serves, does it notify me of new comments or new posts? (I don’t use Feed readers)