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.

@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?

BTW, I was on my way home! You know, no internet in the subway!

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]

hmmmmm…. WHY, WHY WHY WHY WHY (that was serj from SOAD)

who knows.

oh, you couldnt not have.

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.