Sometimes films feature antiheroes to be dark and edgy. Other times the hero is made to be actually bad to make some subversive point or just to screw with the audiences preconceived ideas. And then there's the designated hero.
This abomination of poor design occurs when the character in question is said out to be heroic but fails to act this way. David, the protagonist of the movie Jumper, is exceptionally guilty of this. He is supposed to be a good guy but comes off worse than the two villains.
After learning of his ability to teleport he starts robbing banks. Now I'm sure a lot of people would do just the same thing (I probably would too) and by itself bank theft doesn't make David a horrible hero, just a flawed character with all too human urges. If only this was the end.
A timeskip later David his shown having amassed quite a fortune, but this doesn't stop him from petty shoplifting. In almost any other circumstance one could at least argue that it is more convenient to break into a shop in England than return to your home in America for a change of clothes.....but David can freaking teleport. Fairly easily as well. There'll be more on old Davy's broken morals but lets follow his faults as the film shows them.
Perhaps angered by a bad film with a good concept, Samuel motherfucking Jackson enters scene left and curbstomps David. And what does our intrepid hero do now that he is aware of someone who knows who and what he is AND wants to kill him? David proceeds to go back to his hometown and pick up his old flame Millie. So he's a tactical genius as well as a morally upright person.
David and Millie go to Rome. There's nothing like attempted assassination to put you in the mood for a foreign holiday. They also take a commercial air plane. Well David's keeping his power secret right? Too bad he didn't hesitate to hide it when he was showing up an old bully.
Another jumper Griffin soon enters the story to save David from some Paladins and deliver cold but sensible advice. Never one to miss an opportunity at being an ass our hero interferes with Griffin's plans and compromises his secret base.
Things get ugly and the Paladins capture Millie. Griffin plans to blow them all up but David stops him; this is traditional hero behaviour. What's not traditional behaviour is deliberately trapping your opponent on a giant powerline. Apparently David wasn't opposed to Griffin killing several people cold bloodedly, just that his girlfriend would be killed as well.
Leaving Griffin to an unknown fate David confronts Samuel motherfucking Jackson and teleports him to the middle of nowhere with no way of contacting anyone. David claims to be 'sparing' him and that he is 'different' [from Griffin and other jumpers]. Theft, being an accessory to murder, and manslaughter are apparently fine but our illustrious protagonist draws the line at outright murder. Touching.
The sad thing is that with some effort either Griffin or the Paladins could have been made into much better heroes. Griffin, and by extension other jumpers, could have been shown as tragic individuals, constricted by laws and concepts enforced by a society that this below them. Alternatively the Paladins could have be shown to be (also) tragic figures, fighting a losing battle against hedonistic beings that upset the foundations of civilisation and science.
But instead we get David, a moron who is supposed to fulfil our fantasies while also being a clichéd movie hero, who manages to successfully do neither.
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Monday, August 24, 2009
Gantz: It's Elfen Lied without the mood whiplash
Frequently I feel that I should update this blog only to realise that I've got nothing worth posting. Critics would point out that this hasn't stopped me in the past but fortunately having no readers means having no critics. Yes! Pyrrhic victory!
With no inspiration I guess I'm just left with the two things that I can go on about long after people stopped caring: complaining about WoW and 'reviewing' anime. So let's do this.
1) WoW
Seriously, who's idea was it to give rogues an AoE attack?
2) Anime
I'd finished watching the series Gantz several weeks ago and had intended on talking about it but hadn't in the hopes that I'd come up with something better instead. So enjoy mediocrity.
The basic premise of Gantz is that when people die this black sphere called Gantz copies and conscripts them onto an alien fighting team. If they survive then they can go back home and live their life like nothing happened until the next time. If they die, game over.
That's the show in a nutshell, and conceptually it seems pretty cool. But just like communism, what works in theory does not always work in practise.
Gantz, like a lot of anime, has terrible action scenes. And like a lot of anime, the action is fairly central. What distinguishes Gantz from the rest is that it excels at failing. Dragon Ball Z, Naruto and Bleach have got nothing on this series. 'How?' you gasp as your monocle falls off, possible into a glass of champagne. Let's see:
-As I've mentioned previously Gantz acts like a manga/comic in that time essentially stops for the characters to speak;
-The characters seem incapable of remembering that they have guns, and so fights are drawn out for as long as it takes them to remember what they are holding onto;
-Adding onto the last point, the characters also seem to be unable to take any action without discussing it. This would be acceptable if their plans were complex but really they all basically boil down to 'shoot the alien, don't get killed';
-The animation just isn't that good. Now I don't need motion picture quality pictures but Gantz is just unpleasant. The show does all the classics: recycled animation, shots where it's just people shooting, awkward no fluid movement etc.
I could go on but I've got other ground to cover.
I'm used to bad fight scenes in TV and anime (I practically expect it) and can ignore it if there's a good plot, deep characters, whatever. Too bad Gantz doesn't swing that way. Once again like far too much anime out there, the characters are shallow and the dialogue just doesn't feel natural (even taking translation into account).
Onto the good points (sort of).
Initially my favourite part of the 26 episode show were the scenes in the waiting room when the newcomers and surviving players all teleport in. While I thought these could be interesting scenes, the aforementioned wooden dialogue lets them down.
It doesn't help that the characters are all terminally stupid, as the survivors consistently fail to explain the situation and the newcomers are all strawman doubters despite being seeing people getting teleported in from the head down.
Finally, as I'm running rather long, this show has a high body count. Seriously high. Most of the cast are red shirts, and the rest are wearing mauve and feeling worried. In a better show this would create some brilliant suspense but given Gantz quality you can't bring yourself to care enough.
However if you do get attached to anyone, prepare to be saddened at some point. I found myself liking a pair of characters and hoped that they'd never resolve their relationship little plot point, because that was the only thing keeping them alive.
It's a shame that Gantz sucks so much because the premise is interesting and it can be taken in many directions. The series could have been about straight adrenaline-pumping action, or the players trying to cope with the surreal double life, or even an exploration into existence and meaning. Instead it tries for all and sucks so hard that light cannot escape it.
Perhaps in several decades when Gantz is basically forgotten someone will plagiarise it and make what should have been.
With no inspiration I guess I'm just left with the two things that I can go on about long after people stopped caring: complaining about WoW and 'reviewing' anime. So let's do this.
1) WoW
Seriously, who's idea was it to give rogues an AoE attack?
2) Anime
I'd finished watching the series Gantz several weeks ago and had intended on talking about it but hadn't in the hopes that I'd come up with something better instead. So enjoy mediocrity.
The basic premise of Gantz is that when people die this black sphere called Gantz copies and conscripts them onto an alien fighting team. If they survive then they can go back home and live their life like nothing happened until the next time. If they die, game over.
That's the show in a nutshell, and conceptually it seems pretty cool. But just like communism, what works in theory does not always work in practise.
Gantz, like a lot of anime, has terrible action scenes. And like a lot of anime, the action is fairly central. What distinguishes Gantz from the rest is that it excels at failing. Dragon Ball Z, Naruto and Bleach have got nothing on this series. 'How?' you gasp as your monocle falls off, possible into a glass of champagne. Let's see:
-As I've mentioned previously Gantz acts like a manga/comic in that time essentially stops for the characters to speak;
-The characters seem incapable of remembering that they have guns, and so fights are drawn out for as long as it takes them to remember what they are holding onto;
-Adding onto the last point, the characters also seem to be unable to take any action without discussing it. This would be acceptable if their plans were complex but really they all basically boil down to 'shoot the alien, don't get killed';
-The animation just isn't that good. Now I don't need motion picture quality pictures but Gantz is just unpleasant. The show does all the classics: recycled animation, shots where it's just people shooting, awkward no fluid movement etc.
I could go on but I've got other ground to cover.
I'm used to bad fight scenes in TV and anime (I practically expect it) and can ignore it if there's a good plot, deep characters, whatever. Too bad Gantz doesn't swing that way. Once again like far too much anime out there, the characters are shallow and the dialogue just doesn't feel natural (even taking translation into account).
Onto the good points (sort of).
Initially my favourite part of the 26 episode show were the scenes in the waiting room when the newcomers and surviving players all teleport in. While I thought these could be interesting scenes, the aforementioned wooden dialogue lets them down.
It doesn't help that the characters are all terminally stupid, as the survivors consistently fail to explain the situation and the newcomers are all strawman doubters despite being seeing people getting teleported in from the head down.
Finally, as I'm running rather long, this show has a high body count. Seriously high. Most of the cast are red shirts, and the rest are wearing mauve and feeling worried. In a better show this would create some brilliant suspense but given Gantz quality you can't bring yourself to care enough.
However if you do get attached to anyone, prepare to be saddened at some point. I found myself liking a pair of characters and hoped that they'd never resolve their relationship little plot point, because that was the only thing keeping them alive.
It's a shame that Gantz sucks so much because the premise is interesting and it can be taken in many directions. The series could have been about straight adrenaline-pumping action, or the players trying to cope with the surreal double life, or even an exploration into existence and meaning. Instead it tries for all and sucks so hard that light cannot escape it.
Perhaps in several decades when Gantz is basically forgotten someone will plagiarise it and make what should have been.
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
RAGE!
Having just been curb stomped by the Alliance repetitively I'm filled with righteous fury. I'm not going to type hateful anti-WoW post raging at the unbalanced classes and teams because it would just degenerate into barely coherent bitching that everything is against and it's not just that I suck (that is a factor though). Instead I'm going to talk about something completely unrelated.
So what was the point of the previous paragraph? Well it gave me some time to cool off and get over how immensely unfair PVP can be. Fucking Paladins.
Mostly over.
Moving along, today I'll be reviewing FLCL and using the tradition structure of: vague summary, unnecessary attacks on the producer, subjective statements on how I'd make it better, no rating.
FLCL is essentially the Japanese take on Looney Tunes. There's plenty of fourth wall humour, art shifts and in true anime style there's some sort of vaguely explained plot involving aliens, robots, and alien robots. It's the type of show that people struggle to effectively describe and thus resort to saying "It's like X but on drugs."
Third from the right is actually the main character
The brief series is visually pleasing; it's smooth, interesting and at times rather clever. But this really shouldn't be a surprise as FLCL was made by none other than the infamous Gainax, and one thing Gainax is know for is good looking animation (when they can afford it).
Of course Gainax is also known for having plenty of sexual insecurity/frustration present in their dysfunction characters and FLCL is no exception, as the protagonist develops an affection for his abusive room mate whilst his brother's girlfriend develops some sort of clingy dependance on him. Good wholesome fun.
(I've come to believe that Gainax is actually a robot locked in an animation studio's basement who is trying to understand the concept of love)
As I've already mentioned, FLCL is the sort of show people describe with terms like 'trippy' or 'weird'; subjective, not particularly enlightening words and phrases. And is FLCL weird? Yes and no.
In comparison to a realistic or serious show of course it is; robots emerge from the head of the protagonist, one character revs her guitar like a chainsaw and swings it like a bat and so forth. The series is like Lost in a sense. Weird stuff happens but the feeling the viewers gets is not so much "what is going on? I'm so confused" but more of a "this isn't going to get resolved well".
Ordinarily I would be rather disappointed in lack of off the wall craziness I was promised, but FLCL as I didn't have particularly high hopes for it to begin with. Plus with only 6 20 minute episodes it's not like I was really invested in the series, which I suppose translates to watch FLCL if there's nothing better on.
Mostly over.
Moving along, today I'll be reviewing FLCL and using the tradition structure of: vague summary, unnecessary attacks on the producer, subjective statements on how I'd make it better, no rating.
FLCL is essentially the Japanese take on Looney Tunes. There's plenty of fourth wall humour, art shifts and in true anime style there's some sort of vaguely explained plot involving aliens, robots, and alien robots. It's the type of show that people struggle to effectively describe and thus resort to saying "It's like X but on drugs."
Third from the right is actually the main characterThe brief series is visually pleasing; it's smooth, interesting and at times rather clever. But this really shouldn't be a surprise as FLCL was made by none other than the infamous Gainax, and one thing Gainax is know for is good looking animation (when they can afford it).
Of course Gainax is also known for having plenty of sexual insecurity/frustration present in their dysfunction characters and FLCL is no exception, as the protagonist develops an affection for his abusive room mate whilst his brother's girlfriend develops some sort of clingy dependance on him. Good wholesome fun.
(I've come to believe that Gainax is actually a robot locked in an animation studio's basement who is trying to understand the concept of love)
As I've already mentioned, FLCL is the sort of show people describe with terms like 'trippy' or 'weird'; subjective, not particularly enlightening words and phrases. And is FLCL weird? Yes and no.
In comparison to a realistic or serious show of course it is; robots emerge from the head of the protagonist, one character revs her guitar like a chainsaw and swings it like a bat and so forth. The series is like Lost in a sense. Weird stuff happens but the feeling the viewers gets is not so much "what is going on? I'm so confused" but more of a "this isn't going to get resolved well".
Ordinarily I would be rather disappointed in lack of off the wall craziness I was promised, but FLCL as I didn't have particularly high hopes for it to begin with. Plus with only 6 20 minute episodes it's not like I was really invested in the series, which I suppose translates to watch FLCL if there's nothing better on.
Friday, August 14, 2009
Freaking Laws #1
Welcome to the first Freaking Laws. Although I don't currently have any plans for any more, there's a good chance in the future something will screw me over and make me want to do another one (also hopefully I can come up with a catchier name, preferably one that makes a cool acronym).
Before I get to my vaguely formed idea, here's some background. Whenever I want to find a new anime series or two, I follow a little procedure:
-Visit TV Tropes
-Look at Noteworthy Anime
-Pick interesting sounding names
-Read brief summaries
-Judge!
-Find torrents
-Download
-???
-PROFIT!
Unfortunately there sometimes is either a lack of torrents or a lack of people actually using the torrents. While this sometimes is caused by age or obscurity, more frequently this problem is caused by...LICENSING!
You see non-commenting readers, when an American company buys a license to an anime series/movie they can (legally) tell everyone sharing fan subs to GTFO. All the little fansites naturally do so, leaving only the faceless torrent archive sites to lift the burden (brave faceless souls). So if the fan sub is complete and there's enough demand for it, the torrent will survive despite illegality.
Tonight I proceeded to have none of that luck and found that the show I was after was currently impossible for me to obtain (within reason). Lame.
Then, a glimmer of hope, faintly shining in that way that only hope and dim lighting does. I noticed that the company that bought the license were streaming the series. Adequate.
This was not to be however, as the earlier paragraphs have hinted (wait, have I done this joke before?). Because I was not located in America I was not allowed to watch the stream because it wasn't licensed to Australia. I'll just let that sink in.
...
...
...
Due to licensing I can't download the show because it's licensed to America, but I can't watch it either because it isn't licensed to Australia. So basically American laws directly effect the English-speaking part of the internet. Freaking laws.
Before I get to my vaguely formed idea, here's some background. Whenever I want to find a new anime series or two, I follow a little procedure:
-Visit TV Tropes
-Look at Noteworthy Anime
-Pick interesting sounding names
-Read brief summaries
-Judge!
-Find torrents
-Download
-???
-PROFIT!
Unfortunately there sometimes is either a lack of torrents or a lack of people actually using the torrents. While this sometimes is caused by age or obscurity, more frequently this problem is caused by...LICENSING!
You see non-commenting readers, when an American company buys a license to an anime series/movie they can (legally) tell everyone sharing fan subs to GTFO. All the little fansites naturally do so, leaving only the faceless torrent archive sites to lift the burden (brave faceless souls). So if the fan sub is complete and there's enough demand for it, the torrent will survive despite illegality.
Tonight I proceeded to have none of that luck and found that the show I was after was currently impossible for me to obtain (within reason). Lame.
Then, a glimmer of hope, faintly shining in that way that only hope and dim lighting does. I noticed that the company that bought the license were streaming the series. Adequate.
This was not to be however, as the earlier paragraphs have hinted (wait, have I done this joke before?). Because I was not located in America I was not allowed to watch the stream because it wasn't licensed to Australia. I'll just let that sink in.
...
...
...
Due to licensing I can't download the show because it's licensed to America, but I can't watch it either because it isn't licensed to Australia. So basically American laws directly effect the English-speaking part of the internet. Freaking laws.
Monday, August 10, 2009
Fallen Hero
The first Metal Gear Solid had a quirky miniboss team called FOXHOUND. The team's popularity, in particular Psycho Mantis'*, lead to every later Metal Gear Solid having an enemy team comprised of bizarre individuals. By MGS3 Hideo Kojima must have been getting desperate because it was in this game that they made The Pain.
With the power to control bees he was destined to be the butt of the internet's jokes but I had always had hope for him. Done well, his vaguely explained abilities could prove interesting both stylistically and in game. Besides what about The Fury? He was an angry guy with a flamethrower.
As the past tense has suggested my hope for The Pain is gone. Until recently I'd only known things about him second-hand and so had assumed all the negatively had just been because he was overshadowed by the franchise's numerous badasses. Then I watched a Let's Play of MGS3.
When the player comes face to face with The Pain he immediately starts doing flips and talking about pain. Okay we get it, pain is the 'emotion' the carry into battle. That doesn't mean every second line of dialogue has to be about it.
Once the actual boss fight began any of my respect for The Pain that survived the previous cutscene died. Most of The Pain's attacks speed past clever and go straight into absurd; these are the types of things you don't need to make a joke about as they do it by themselves. In one attack he pulls out a tommy gun and fires bees out of it, in another he has his bees carry a grenade over to you, and best (worst?) of all, The Pain covers himself in his bees...as armour.
Wow.
The only real nice thing one can say about The Pain is that at least he has the decency to not explain his life story either before the fight or as he dies. But that was probably more because there wasn't much to him, as this inexplicably shrunken picture manages to summarise both The Pain's character and overall plot relevance.
He sure is.
*Psycho Mantis proves that regardless of how old a joke gets the internet will keep it alive, especially if it shouldn't.
With the power to control bees he was destined to be the butt of the internet's jokes but I had always had hope for him. Done well, his vaguely explained abilities could prove interesting both stylistically and in game. Besides what about The Fury? He was an angry guy with a flamethrower.
As the past tense has suggested my hope for The Pain is gone. Until recently I'd only known things about him second-hand and so had assumed all the negatively had just been because he was overshadowed by the franchise's numerous badasses. Then I watched a Let's Play of MGS3.
When the player comes face to face with The Pain he immediately starts doing flips and talking about pain. Okay we get it, pain is the 'emotion' the carry into battle. That doesn't mean every second line of dialogue has to be about it.
Once the actual boss fight began any of my respect for The Pain that survived the previous cutscene died. Most of The Pain's attacks speed past clever and go straight into absurd; these are the types of things you don't need to make a joke about as they do it by themselves. In one attack he pulls out a tommy gun and fires bees out of it, in another he has his bees carry a grenade over to you, and best (worst?) of all, The Pain covers himself in his bees...as armour.
Wow.
The only real nice thing one can say about The Pain is that at least he has the decency to not explain his life story either before the fight or as he dies. But that was probably more because there wasn't much to him, as this inexplicably shrunken picture manages to summarise both The Pain's character and overall plot relevance.
He sure is.*Psycho Mantis proves that regardless of how old a joke gets the internet will keep it alive, especially if it shouldn't.
Wednesday, August 5, 2009
Subtext!
A while ago I was watching the first Naruto movie on Cartoon Network (there was nothing better on...seriously) and I couldn't help but feel something was a little off. Shonen fighting anime traditionally has cliched morals, flat protagonists and over the top villians, but this was something new.
To effectively explain what it is, I'll need to summarise the plot first: Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi are hired as bodyguards for Yukie as she goes to the Land of Snow to make a movie. Through the magic of contrived coincidences it turns out that Yukie is the deposed princess of the country, and her usurper uncle wants to capture/kill her to get the plot device crystal she carries. As well as dealing with opposing ninjas the titular character must also stop Yukie from running away and convince her to take back her country. In the end the villians are all dead, spring comes to the land and Yukie becomes the princess (queen?).
So the idea is that Yukie must face her fears, stop running away and take responsibility for her country. Or at least that's what it is in planning. In actuality it is a story of a normal woman caught between two groups of superhumans, each with their own agendas and little regard for Yukie; the villains want Yukie's land and its treasure, and the 'heroes' want Yukie to be in danger to validate their existance as bodyguards.
What makes this film so sad is that by the end, poor Yukie has changed from the independant woman capable of giving ninja's the slip to a cheerleader for the very people that were forcing her into danger.
Yukie Kazahana: self-centred ice queen, or tragic heroine?
The reason for this charcter derailment? None other than Naruto himself. I've come to realise that Naruto is brilliant but evil character who hides behind an image of rash but well-meaning incompetence.
He uses a combination of brutal one-sided (he's got as much chakra as the plot requires) beatdowns and repititon of the superiority of his life goal and philosophy (and therefore the inferiority of everyone else's). This physical and verbal combo has an accelerated Stockholm Syndrome effect, making the victim subservient to Naruto.
Thinking I'm bullshitting? Let's look at some of the peole he has converted:
-Yukie, who went from finding Naruto an annoying brat to calling him the greatest ninja ever;
-Neji, who changed his whole view of fate after losing to Naruto;
-Gaara, who went from being a psychotic killer to.....less of one.
The face of cunning, believe it.
To effectively explain what it is, I'll need to summarise the plot first: Naruto, Sasuke and Kakashi are hired as bodyguards for Yukie as she goes to the Land of Snow to make a movie. Through the magic of contrived coincidences it turns out that Yukie is the deposed princess of the country, and her usurper uncle wants to capture/kill her to get the plot device crystal she carries. As well as dealing with opposing ninjas the titular character must also stop Yukie from running away and convince her to take back her country. In the end the villians are all dead, spring comes to the land and Yukie becomes the princess (queen?).
So the idea is that Yukie must face her fears, stop running away and take responsibility for her country. Or at least that's what it is in planning. In actuality it is a story of a normal woman caught between two groups of superhumans, each with their own agendas and little regard for Yukie; the villains want Yukie's land and its treasure, and the 'heroes' want Yukie to be in danger to validate their existance as bodyguards.
What makes this film so sad is that by the end, poor Yukie has changed from the independant woman capable of giving ninja's the slip to a cheerleader for the very people that were forcing her into danger.
Yukie Kazahana: self-centred ice queen, or tragic heroine?He uses a combination of brutal one-sided (he's got as much chakra as the plot requires) beatdowns and repititon of the superiority of his life goal and philosophy (and therefore the inferiority of everyone else's). This physical and verbal combo has an accelerated Stockholm Syndrome effect, making the victim subservient to Naruto.
Thinking I'm bullshitting? Let's look at some of the peole he has converted:
-Yukie, who went from finding Naruto an annoying brat to calling him the greatest ninja ever;
-Neji, who changed his whole view of fate after losing to Naruto;
-Gaara, who went from being a psychotic killer to.....less of one.
The face of cunning, believe it.Monday, August 3, 2009
A Valid Argument for the Death Penalty
In general I'm a fairly cynical person who expects the worst from things I don't trust and slightly less (more?) than worst from things I do trust. When I'm in a good mood my outlook on the rest of the world slowly rises so when things have been going well (no stubbed toes, headaches, DVDs failing to work for no good reason etc).
If life continues to be less than awful for long enough I switch from being a pessimist to an optimist, and I then set out to inadvertently kick myself in the nuts. In this heightened state of trust and good feelings I have a tendency to go and do things that I ordinarily wouldn't consider even if money was involved (unless it was a lot).
Tonight's misguided idea: putting videos onto my iPod.
Which meant using iTunes.
The Scourge of God.
Katsuhiro Otomo had just used iTunes when he wrote Akira [citation needed]
When dealing with music I can just turn to faithful Winamp but unfortunately I can't seem to make videos transfer right through a combination of not trying hard enough and not understanding what a lot of Winamp does. So I have to use iTunes. Now the last time I tried to transfer videos I managed to succeed only to realise I also managed to erase all 350+ of my songs. Damn.
This time round I was ready for it. Experienced and cautious I looked carefully at what I was pressing and when I was completely certain that I would only sync my videos I went and deleted all my songs instead. Damn.
Another defeat at the hands of iTunes has made me realise that Apple are clearly run by sadistic mindreaders who are probably also Nazi's or werewolves. After all why else would people make a program that doesn't have individual syncing for separate functions (or better yet, a freaking add button) unless they wanted to make me (and presumably others) suffer through a self-inflicted hell.
Possibly works at Apple
If life continues to be less than awful for long enough I switch from being a pessimist to an optimist, and I then set out to inadvertently kick myself in the nuts. In this heightened state of trust and good feelings I have a tendency to go and do things that I ordinarily wouldn't consider even if money was involved (unless it was a lot).
Tonight's misguided idea: putting videos onto my iPod.
Which meant using iTunes.
The Scourge of God.
Katsuhiro Otomo had just used iTunes when he wrote Akira [citation needed]When dealing with music I can just turn to faithful Winamp but unfortunately I can't seem to make videos transfer right through a combination of not trying hard enough and not understanding what a lot of Winamp does. So I have to use iTunes. Now the last time I tried to transfer videos I managed to succeed only to realise I also managed to erase all 350+ of my songs. Damn.
This time round I was ready for it. Experienced and cautious I looked carefully at what I was pressing and when I was completely certain that I would only sync my videos I went and deleted all my songs instead. Damn.
Another defeat at the hands of iTunes has made me realise that Apple are clearly run by sadistic mindreaders who are probably also Nazi's or werewolves. After all why else would people make a program that doesn't have individual syncing for separate functions (or better yet, a freaking add button) unless they wanted to make me (and presumably others) suffer through a self-inflicted hell.
Possibly works at Apple
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