2046 wrote:An extremely general review:
1. I hate videos and podcasts. Nothing angers me more than if I'm trying to look something up and the info I want is embedded in some video or podcast that takes ages to search through to get the tidbit I need. That's where text rules, not to mention that text puts you out there readily quotable.
Making a video-based site to appeal to modern audiences, as he suggests, is probably a really awesome thing to do from a marketing perspective, and there's a chance that sort of thing could go viral or something and make him famous. But I'll still hate it.
Until we obtain a tool which can scan the audio and video separately and can, from the audio, "read" and therefore help find some words, this kind of support is irritating. Nothing really beats text as far as scholastic work is concerned.
Besides which, given #3 and now this (both the sort of thing SWST's been on about of late), I'm led to wonder if SWST is in fact Brian Young. Next time I read one of SWST's posts I'm going to set it to banjo music and see if it fits.
I was thinking the same thing.
There is that mix of intelligence, stubbornness and irremediable level of embarrassing idiocy. He knows how to put up a modest website in some old fashioned way, he's sufficiently good at using tools, but then there's a huge disconnect. Literally, the Blind Faith incarnate, where deep, solid and critical reasoning fades away.
Oh my god, "too close to the system" means, he says, they're outside the system, and "they're already talking about bombing the planet" means it was within range. But we can see the bloody planet when they emerge from hyperspace!
Isn't the point being that they emerged too close to the planet?
I think what they really planned to do was to either send forces to attack the planet, or approach it from the asteroid belt and start shooting from there.
But their grandiose arrival right in high orbit of the planet made their approach rather obvious. Apparently the plan had been to be mad stealthy, but Ozzel wanted to make a big surprise... and yet failed to come close enough as to really surprise the rebels.
The way Ozzel's method unfolded has always been a source of speculation about his rebel sympathies, trying his best to make everything fail. :)
Good lord, man. See, this is another reason why I don't like videos. Surely if he was actually writing this for a webpage he would've found it necessary to research it, but if you can just spout off on the topic in a convincing-sounding manner you've made a 'good' video. It's kinda like the speeches of a politician, really, and just as empty and disingenuous.
The tone of the sophist is a great advantage that is indeed hard to translate to text.
The voice is indeed a sort of power, although you could make an equally superficial video arguing for the exact opposite point, with the same voice, and realize that there's nothing special to it.