Bisqwit,
How does it feel to have such a successful website? It would be amazing for me to get a front page hit in Google, yet you are able to do so. Just wondering from a webmaster's perspective.
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adelikat wrote:
I very much agree with this post.
Bobmario511 wrote:
Forget party hats, Christmas tree hats all the way man.
How does it feel to have such a successful website? It would be amazing for me to get a front page hit in Google, yet you are able to do so. Just wondering from a webmaster's perspective.
The good thing about the fact that such thing won't usually happen at the first try, but instead, takes years of experience, is that you get used to it.
I've created less successful sites and communities in the past.
Also, the fact that this site was born with unambitious goals (publish some movies found elsewhere in high quality in case someone wants to find them) and grown from there, has kept expectations low, which means that there is no performance stress involved. Being a non-competitive type of person also helps.
I still cannot perceive TASvideos as popular or highly successful though. I define "popular" such that most people know about it. I get the feeling that everywhere when I talk about TASvideos, people did not know about it. But then again, that "everywhere" pretty much excludes "gamers".
I.e. in other words I don't have any world-conquering plans :)
So this was your goal with your previous sites, interesting...
Doesn't everywant to do that?
Of course I am not serious, but I've sometimes considered the motives behind my ambitions of making some popular online game. In a way, those are means to control people. You (your creation) takes over a timeslot of peoples' lives, and you subject those people to the quirks of the virtual world according to your whim. You watch in fascination as they do the menial tasks assigned by you, or (in rare cases) improve themselves due to your actions.
Obviously, that is not a conscious thought behind it, but it might still be some kind of a primitive driving force.
Primally, everyone wants to be superior compared to others. Surprisingly many things in a modern society can be attributed to that primal motive. Such as men's fascination with gadgets (such as large television sets).
We may have honorable conscious reasons / excuses for many things we do, but still, most of it is just behavior typical to humans as an animal species; we just don't realize it most of the time.
I also have a question.
What is your handedness? Maybe left-handed, cross-handed or possibly even ambidextrous (=both-handed)?
However I guess you are right-handed.
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Posts: 181
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Bisqwit,
What does your voice sound like? Could you provide an mp3 of you speaking the following sentence in English, then in your native language.
"I am Bisqwit, Joel Yliluoma, the creator of the TASVideos website."
Since you know several languages, do you ever dream in any language other than Finnish?
Not that I have paid attention.
I do think in several languages, though, depending on which mode my mind has operated before that. Using English language a lot tends to cause me to think in English, and sometimes expressions often heard in Japanese make way to those expressions in other languages. Mostly, I think in Finnish, though.
Dear Bisqwit,
When I encoded a movie using mencoder the source file,(in my case an avi) was converted to a .x264. I can play this file using Windows media player, but am having trouble uploading it to youtube. Is this because youtube does not accept the .x264 format? and if so are there any compression programs/codecs you know of that i can use?
O and if you know, which file formats does youtube accept?
Comicalflop wrote:
I don't recommend HISSing at parties though, people will think you're a snake.
Thanks that answers most of my questions and more
except one, can avi files encoded with x264 be uploaded to youtube? The problem is i dont understand if encoding with the x264 changes the file format or if it keeps it as an avi or what. Sorry if it seems like a dumb question
Comicalflop wrote:
I don't recommend HISSing at parties though, people will think you're a snake.
Thanks that answers most of my questions and more
except one, can avi files encoded with MEncoder and x264 be uploaded to youtube? The problem is i dont understand if encoding with the x264 changes the file format or if it keeps it as an avi or what. Sorry if it seems like a dumb question
Comicalflop wrote:
I don't recommend HISSing at parties though, people will think you're a snake.
Joined: 4/20/2005
Posts: 2161
Location: Norrköping, Sweden
Dear Bisqwit,
do you have a pet? (I think I've seen pictures of a cat of yours, but I'm not sure). If not, are you considering getting one? What is your favourite pet?
I realize this is pretty nonspecific, but what things do you find funny? For example..TV shows, websites, stuff like that.
Aside from normal humor, I find some things funny that most people don't find funny, and vice versa.
It's quite hard to specify.
I like amusing things, irony, etc.
I don't like most jokes that put someone/a group into weird light, such as blonde/negro jokes or Chuck Norris jokes. As an exception, I do like some lightbulb jokes, such as this one about lojbanists:
Q: How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken light bulb?
A: Two: one to decide what to change it into, and one to figure out what kind of bulb emits broken light.
My sister's cat lived here for half a year (and later again for a few days).
I like cats as pets and dogs as anthropological study subjects. It is interesting to see insights into dogs' implicit society and how humans fit into that -- and how many humans are so compatible with that society that they make great dog owners.
Though I also like to study cats. Particularly, how they think; what are the motivations behind the sometimes inane and stupid actions they take. It is interesting to sometimes get an insight to that thought process. Especially when you only later understand what that cat tried to communicate to you when (s)he was trying to get your attention.
Quite often, animals understood as mischievous or stubborn are not that at all. But then again, often they are :P
As for ferrets, rabbits, budgies, guinea pigs, mice, chinchillas, etc., not so much experience. Though we had mice once. I think I was allergic to them.
Although it seems I'm also allergic to cats today. Not so badly as to horses, though.
