Arguments

Sometimes I wonder if here's ever even any point to arguing or debating. This is speaking as a man who finds more than a bit of entertainment in putting his mind and wits against some one else. It's true, I actually enjoy trying to bring a point across and prove it undeniably correct, and in terms of being somewhat fun I suppose you could find a purpose to debate. However, it's rarely ever the intended one. It's no secret that few other people find such things interesting, and that the majority of arguments are waged honestly prove your correct, not to garner any enjoyment from the process.

It's that goal which I believe might be fruitless. See, the things we argue about in life are rarely so simple as to have one absolutely right answer, usually it's a matter of opinion or perspective. When you take such things into consideration it's no surprise that the second thing most people know about arguments is it's virtually impossible to win one. Oh, you might think you're right at the end of the day, but it's a truly rare occasion that you feel you swayed the other individual - at least in matters where things were heated. If things weren't heated in the least I feel there must have been a distinct lack of conviction, and that convincing someone who is uncertain of their original opinion isn't really the same.

What's worse is our ability to ignore facts we don't personally like. That coupled with a distressing tendency to cling relentlessly to points based on unprovable ideas and circling between multiple fallacious arguments means that if a man wants to be stubborn enough, he needn't ever changed his mind regardless of what the situation is.

The real kicker and reason I'm bringing this up is that we KNOW all of this, Even if we don't think about it often it certainly isn't surprising news to anyone. At the same time we're all going to get in arguments in the future and conveniently forget about this when we do. Why? If not for the enjoyment of a heated discussion, why on ear would we waste our breath when we know perfectly well that it won't do a damn thing?

SCA In Osgood

Well, medieval fair in Osgood at any rate. To-may-to, to-mah-to. We finally finished editing up the video and put it on our YouTube channel. Like normal you can find all that stuff off to the right. It has all the highlights of our little trip and came in at 6-ish minutes, not too shabby. Regrettably my initial plan of showing up at SCA events all summer has been somewhat dashed by the lack of nearby ones happening soon. Ontario is a fairly active province for these events, but you have to remember Ontario is bigger than some European countries. The driving necessary to reach all of them is more than a bit out of our meager means. None the less, we will continue to make these videos whenever we come across an event, just don't expect anything like regularity.

In terms if the video itself there's the habitual post-production angst over what we could've done better, but I think we learned some important things in this as well. I personally rather enjoyed our music montage and will be keeping that in mind for future videos. It's been a bad habit of ours to just collect video without really planning how it's going to be presented after the fact, and that's an other thing I'll hope to work on in the future. Particularly we need to work on transitions, and plan to improve them while filming. On the whole though I'm quite happy; not so much with the quality of the work as what we can take away from it.

As wonderful filler videos in the future I want to take another look at both Shogun 2 and Torchlight, while lining up a bunch of other indie games from a new charity bundle pack for new play throughs or first impressions. Hopefully we can keep producing things at a decent rate, maybe the channel will actually get a few views.