Let's Play SH4: a video series

[Armistead]

Most of us delete the start up movie so we never have to deal with it. I think TMO does it by default. After watching it once....who cares.

[White Owl]

Originally Posted by Elder-Pirate

A lot of work went down the drain. 1.5 stock with a few boat mods is a lot better than that.
That poem is horrible and I Push "Esc." each play, why would you even want to comment on it in the first place. You are right I'm not a poem lover and neither is the guy whom wrote it as the way it sounds.

Get off your drugs, maybe you'll do better.

Sorry but that is my opinion.

Nobody else has my particular recipe for mod soup, so I don't expect anybody else to like the flavor as much as I do. No worries. Which particular mods do you especially object to? Maybe there are some better options I've overlooked.

I wanted to comment on the poem intro because I'm excessively opinionated and long-winded, and commenting on things is the whole point of a Let's Play. I get unhappy when I go too long without sharing my opinions with anybody who'll listen.

Getting off the drugs to do better, hmm... I think I see where you're coming from with this comment. At first glance it appears almost like a personal attack, but I very much realize if I share that kind of personal information with the world this way then I'm actively inviting comment on it. So again, no worries. For many many years I was extremely resistant to any idea of drugging myself for any reason. I'm a lifelong teetotaler, even. No alcohol, no tobacco, nothing like that at all. I've always considered alcohol addicts to be the most reprehensible, idiotic junkies around, precisely because I see that addiction as so preventable. It's the worst kind of mental weakness. Believe me, it was no trivial decision to deliberately seek a drug dependency. Not least because it meant giving up on a lifetime dream of flying airplanes.

But... I was badly broken and unable to fix the problem myself. I could no longer tell the difference between friends, enemies, acquaintances, and strangers. I was losing the ability to feel any emotions other than anger and rage. I was starting to occasionally think about different ways I could kill myself. The dilemma was: I must either become suicidally insane, or become a drug addict. There was no third option. So I let the doctor decide on the particulars of my fix, and I became a junkie. It was the correct decision. Now I enjoy life, and wish I'd done this years ago. No, I would not do better without the drugs. Thanks for the concern.

Or maybe by "do better" you meant play the game better! Yeah, I obviously fell apart in that convoy attack. I had never set up a shot using only the periscope and TDC before that. I always had either map contacts or functioning sonar or both. So I didn't handle the unfamiliar situation very well at all. At least I got a lucky hit, though!

Originally Posted by Armistead

Most of us delete the start up movie so we never have to deal with it. I think TMO does it by default. After watching it once....who cares.

And I only intend to post it and comment on it once.

[Arlo]

Originally Posted by White Owl

Nobody else has my particular recipe for mod soup, so I don't expect anybody else to like the flavor as much as I do. No worries. Which particular mods do you especially object to? Maybe there are some better options I've overlooked.

I wanted to comment on the poem intro because I'm excessively opinionated and long-winded, and commenting on things is the whole point of a Let's Play. I get unhappy when I go too long without sharing my opinions with anybody who'll listen.

Getting off the drugs to do better, hmm... I think I see where you're coming from with this comment. At first glance it appears almost like a personal attack, but I very much realize if I share that kind of personal information with the world this way then I'm actively inviting comment on it. So again, no worries. For many many years I was extremely resistant to any idea of drugging myself for any reason. I'm a lifelong teetotaler, even. No alcohol, no tobacco, nothing like that at all. I've always considered alcohol addicts to be the most reprehensible, idiotic junkies around, precisely because I see that addiction as so preventable. It's the worst kind of mental weakness. Believe me, it was no trivial decision to deliberately seek a drug dependency. Not least because it meant giving up on a lifetime dream of flying airplanes.

But... I was badly broken and unable to fix the problem myself. I could no longer tell the difference between friends, enemies, acquaintances, and strangers. I was losing the ability to feel any emotions other than anger and rage. I was starting to occasionally think about different ways I could kill myself. The dilemma was: I must either become suicidally insane, or become a drug addict. There was no third option. So I let the doctor decide on the particulars of my fix, and I became a junkie. It was the correct decision. Now I enjoy life, and wish I'd done this years ago. No, I would not do better without the drugs. Thanks for the concern.

Or maybe by "do better" you meant play the game better! Yeah, I obviously fell apart in that convoy attack. I had never set up a shot using only the periscope and TDC before that. I always had either map contacts or functioning sonar or both. So I didn't handle the unfamiliar situation very well at all. At least I got a lucky hit, though!

And I only intend to post it and comment on it once.

W.O. ... I admire the way you take criticism. You're a good Joe.

[WernherVonTrapp]

I rather enjoy the poem "On Time" by John Milton. I also happen to like the narrator's rendition of it. I've never been quite as adept as I would've liked at reading poetry but the narrator (in my opinion) show aptitude in his presentation. I believe poetry, if properly read, should reflect the context of the era in which it was written (17th century England in this instance), hence the "flowery" nature of the narrator's presentation.
I agree that it adds/suggests a level of class that is not found in today's games or sims. I also agree with Daniel Prates and think you should eliminate the profanities. It detracts from the presentation and class that you would want to project to the general public (if that is your intention). Don't forget, many people of varying age levels play this sim and may view your tutorial. Though they most certainly may have heard this type of language before, you don't want to imply that you condone it by using it yourself. I certainly don't use it around my children. I also would omit the personal medical references since they are nobody's business but your own and add nothing to the validity of the presentation.

Other than that, I think it's pretty good. There you have it, my honest and sincere opinion.

[Daniel Prates]

Originally Posted by WernherVonTrapp

I rather enjoy the poem "On Time" by John Milton.

Yeah.... I once saw a mod that had an un-jumpable intro video with a complete narration of 'paradise lost'. Not a very popular mod.

[White Owl]

WernherVonTrapp, I'll have to agree to disagree with you about the poetry reading. Your opinion certainly reflects the majority view, though, since so many people recite like that. Maybe the problem is I'm not so much a fan of poetry as I am of good storytelling.

I am most definitely not attempting to project any kind of class toward the general public. I'm only attempting to just be myself.

The point about excessive cussing is taken, though. I've been around so much cussing for so long that I often forget how many people are genuinely offended by what seems perfectly normal to me. Even other Let's Players... really, I'm practically refined by contrast with some of the most popular LPers.

Nope, not going to edit out the medical story. The traditional attitude that mental health problems shouldn't be talked about does far more harm than good. I can't change the world, but I can influence my own little corner here for the better.

[WernherVonTrapp]

Originally Posted by White Owl

Nope, not going to edit out the medical story. The traditional attitude that mental health problems shouldn't be talked about does far more harm than good. I can't change the world, but I can influence my own little corner here for the better.

There's a big difference between advocating a cause (like mental health issues) and announcing it abruptly, outside the boundary of the context. I never suggested that you suppress Mental Health Awareness, an issue close to my own heart. I was speaking generally about medical issues, especially when it's not pertinent to, or not in context with the subject matter. For example, I would never open a lecture on Automotive Mechanics by first announcing that I have hemorrhoids, or a lecture on bird watching by announcing that I've had knee surgery. Unless of course, there was some way to tie it all together.
That's why I made the suggestion about omitting your medical history. Not because I thought you should suppress Mental Health Awareness.

I just thought I should clarify that.