To Pokimane, pt 37

First the random things which I might forget.

'pt 15' has 113 views, compared to most of these posts with 2~5 views. I'm not sure if this was random search engine traffic because I mentioned a movie or more meaningful. It seems Blogger does not list traffic sources.

In the previous post, I forgot to mention the random fact that one of the GCB reports said that Israel had 80% of people who said that things are done based on who you know, more than any other country.

(With Douyin, it might be necessary to first visit the homepage and browse some videos to avoid seeming like a bot, if not logged in, before visiting a video link)

Best Douyin video I watched in the past few days:

霖木097 @49958705200 不理我那就… #相扑猫 #幻笺集卡牌 #幻笺集 #幻笺集瑞马启新 #幻笺集 新春集卡 Gohc rolm, that we is cool

Video where audio is 0.13 sec late, which should be like 0.3 sec late with added playback delay, and Like count shows that no one cares (despite being way over the recommended limit of 0.125 sec):

清颜好困啊 @22592496084 看得出来脑子一直在想动作 #慢摇 #卡点舞 ajudando non peja son

Video that I didn't find to be notable, with audio 0.26 sec early:

甜甜圈吖🍩 @? #随时随地开始扫腿舞 #扫腿舞 #喜悦X扫腿舞 #喜悦男团 @喜悦-X sexy dirty

About this third video. It almost seems like the audio sync was off by an entire beat, or ~0.9 sec early in total, and I even tested it to check. TikTok dances are almost always based off of 4-beat measures, with new actions coinciding with beat 1 or beat 3. (Compare a dance like Reversible Campaign, which is unpredictable enough that a lot of MMD videos have audio delayed by almost half a beat. The "u" at 0:27 is on beat 4.5, so movement that's half a beat early seems to match it. Or at 1:22 and 1:25, big movements are on beats 4 and 3, not beat 1.)

But I don't want to say anything bad about this video by 甜甜圈吖🍩. Saying good things: she hides her face with the bunny, but it looks like she did go to the effort of putting on eye makeup. The sync on the transition matches the overall sync of a 0.26 sec audio delay, suggesting that it looked like good sync on the device she used to create it and she wasn't sloppy with the transition timing. When she does the leg sweep, she rotates her leg each time she reverses direction so her knee is leading, except for at the very end. So the variation at the end is deliberate, and a detail which is supposed to make the performance better. The bunny moves at the end to cover her face, but in discrete steps instead of automatic tracking, so it again shows the work she did in creating the video. The overall sync is consistent, despite using two cameras which often leads to poor sync after a transition.

 

Why didn't I comment on your YouTube short about the ban review you did during your stream?

The excuse was "I'm not talking to anyone", which was supposed to include not commenting on YouTube. If I signed in to comment, I might have responded to other comments or replies, and people might have interpreted my comment as a general message, since it would sound crazy for a comment to be written as though only you would read it.

"I don't have a plan if you don't share the idea." I find it hard to remember that this was ever the case, but I think it was. The logic behind the plan: if you don't share it, I don't think anyone else will either. I don't like to say that I think Greta knows about this idea and yet I don't expect her to share it if you don't share it, because it's mean to say, but maybe other people would not want to think that it's what I expect, and so me saying it as a truthful thing will help.

So: "what if I didn't think there was anyone who liked me?" This is a different thing from no one liking me. But with sufficient evidence, people can be made to believe things that aren't true.

There was that scene from one of the novels in the Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson. The characters have just broken into the Royal Mint, I believe, with a probably-implausible plan involving a zip line. One character reveals that he has betrayed or lied to another character, who responds that whatever he did is not to be tolerated, and so begins a sword fight. The swords clash, and then both characters pause to see if a spark will detonate the gunpowder that surrounds them.

People not talking to me? Not to be tolerated.