At 8/15/09 10:25 PM, michelinman wrote:
It's not necessarily all about clocks flashes. B wasn't submitted as a clock crew flash, and this is the anniversary of the day it magically made it through submission. It's just a day to put aside judgements on quality and let people submit ridiculous silly stuff and get through judgement.
That's kind of the point. The main problem I have with this day is that dedicated flash artists can spend years making things, only dreaming of the kind of scores everything's getting right now. It just goes to show how little the quality of a flash has to do with its score these days. And let's not forget: although almost all of these flashes will be instantly forgotten once past judgement, their effects on batting average and other more permanent stats will stay.
It just seems so wrong to me to think that most people have to really try hard to get the BA needed to start a collab or be regarded as a top artist, only for it to be made meaningless by today (and all the other days), where literally anyone can end up with that same kind of achievement in one day as the real flash artists have had to work for years to get.
The analogy was a little extreme. It's a tribute, not a remembrance. Just a day to put aside judgements and mass vote. I wouldn't compare mass voting to war. Haha. We're all gonna go home at the end of the day. (i suppose most of us already are)
I honestly have no idea why I picked that for an analogy... must be the lack of sleep. The point is the same though: There are better ways of paying tribute to them than this. Hell; they're already down the sides of NG's pages, AND their collection is in the 'game of the moment' spot, what more do you want?
It's not all stupid. You really haven't laughed at how simple and lame these flashes are?
No. No I haven't. I find no humour in any of this.
It's about making the funniest thing you can with 5 seconds of work. Haha.
Hardly any of the things I've watched today were even trying to be funny, or clever, or ANYTHING besides blatantly lazy free tickets to high scores.
And it's because clock day would go on whether Wade and Tom liked it or not. It's not something we put on. The clock crew is independent.
Bahahahaha!! If Tom and Wade got bored of Clock day, there'd be nothing stopping them deleting every trace of te entire crew and all the accounts related to it, and simply taking the portal server (read: P-Bot) down on the day. Sure, it would cost them a lot of money in lost web traffic, but it's perfectly within their ability to do.
It's not a bandwagon... It's a holiday that has traditions associated with it. It's a lot bigger than you're giving it credit for.
Tradition = bandwagon + time. I see no fundamental difference. Just because people have been doing it for years doesn't make it any less stupid than if it started yesterday.