Thread: Questioning chirine ba kal - part II

Originally Posted by Luca

Thanks, I will. And I wasn't going to suggest anything if I knew this was so complex... sounds more trouble than it's worth tbh.

It's a great idea, actually, and I'm all for it. The major problem is the venue, where I have no control whatsoever over the rest of the people and the noise they're making in the space. It's a common problem at game conventions, where the organizers usually try to cut their costs as much as they can and try to fit as many tables into a given room as possible. The larger the room, the more tables obviously, and thus the more games and gamers who are the ones paying the fees that pay for the convention. The ideal game convention venue would have lots of smaller, individual rooms so that individual games would have their own rooms. Another way to deal with the sound bleed problem would be pipe and drape - not the usual taffeta stuff, but heavier stage drape - but that also adds a lot to the costs; the stuff ain't cheap to rent.

There are lots of technical ways to deal with the issue, and I own several of them. The problem is that I can't be in two places at once. The clips on my YouTube channel are shot in relative quiet with a Sony Bloggie, and the game clips are me running the game and trying to be the camera man at the same time; I did a lot of setting the little camera on a small tripod, just so I could stay with the game. If I had a reliable tech I could count on, I could do this kind of thing anywhere, but I don't, and hiring one is pretty expensive. (I should know: I used to do this kind of work myself, and I know what I charged even at my low free-lance rates.)

Good-quality product requires good-quality production; I've seen a lot of web videos, and a lot of them are just fine. Trying to meet that level of quality in this particular space at this particular event would be a challenge, I'm afraid to say.

Yeah. Don't give yourself an ulcer trying to do the impossible.

Originally Posted by Gronan of Simmerya

Yeah. Don't give yourself an ulcer trying to do the impossible.

Understood. It'd be very easy to do this here at the house, as we have all the gear and such, and all we have to do is get some people to game. I'd just let the tape run, and I think it'd be fine; that's what I did for the 'dungeon crawl' that's on my YouTube channel.

Trying to do this in a open venue, as you recall from the Gary Con game, would be an exercise in futility I fear.

Originally Posted by bconsidine

I don't recall reading this across the threads, but did any of you ever take a class with the professor?

Blaise

It hasn't come up, as I recall. No, I did not; different major. 'South Asian studies' was kind of specialized, and casual students were not encouraged.

I don't know if any of us did. I'll ask around. One of my old gamers did her thesis on Klamath, same as Phil did, and when she did her defense Phil showed up to provide moral support. The thesis committee just about fainted, when he introduced himself and 'just happened to mention' that she was a friend of his. She passed, with flying colors.

Originally Posted by chirine ba kal

It hasn't come up, as I recall. No, I did not; different major. 'South Asian studies' was kind of specialized, and casual students were not encouraged.

I don't know if any of us did. I'll ask around. One of my old gamers did her thesis on Klamath, same as Phil did, and when she did her defense Phil showed up to provide moral support. The thesis committee just about fainted, when he introduced himself and 'just happened to mention' that she was a friend of his. She passed, with flying colors.

That's a really Tekumeli thing to do.

Originally Posted by Hrugga

Uncle,

Love that pic of the Workbench over on your blog. Enjoy your games!!!

H:0)

Thank you! It's not a new photo, sorry to say, but one from a few years back when the game group's day happened to fall in the right five-day period. I can still do all this kind of thing - everything is stored about three feet away from where the photo was taken from - but it's been pretty quite of late.

I am looking forward to them; I will take photos!

Originally Posted by Zirunel

That seems a little odd. You'd think he'd be a natural to be on the committee itself. Or was he already long since retired and not doing that kind of thing by then?

I think he was retired, by then. I was told that one of the committee, on meeting the Professor, blurted out "I thought you were dead!". Phil was highly amused, I gather, and laughed a lot over it.