[Attention] Forum Activity Idea - Simulwatch!

Good god this place is dead. DEAD. Almost as dead as the threads that get made for dead people, which is more or less what this place has become. I don't know why that is, I'm sure you're all watching season five hundred of 24 and Doctor What but there's no discussion! Fuck you guys, let's do some shit to get this place in gear.

What's a Simulwatch?
A wonderful idea I'm stealing from SA! In combination with what you have probably seen in my journals, with me torturing CHz and anybody else I can get in range into watching horrible, horrible anime with me.

The concept is simple. You pick a set of shows, in this case since the dead husks of Media Center and Animespot have combined to form one amazing wasteland, we'd split the choices to one television show and one anime. The general idea would be to pick something that isn't horrible and is pretty well acclaimed from both pools (think The Wire and Cowboy Bebop) to watch together. Obviously since TV shows generally run a lot longer than anime we'd have to stick to one season or the closest equivalent of 26 episodes, and from there we'd have to decide whether to continue or pick something else and let interested parties continue on their own.

How would we Simulwatch?
Good question! The general gist is to have an "airing time" at which point you're expected to watch the episode for a given day, and then openly discuss it in the thread. There's two ways to go about this. You can either get together with a group of folks in IRC at a designated time, say about 9PM and watch together (generally this would be for all the "wow did you see that" stuff, actually discussion is better suited to the thread), or you can watch it by yourself whenever just as long as you watch it after the airing time, and before the next episode time. If you watch it beforehand you are an asshole.

What would we Simulwatch?
That is a good question! It's entirely up to you! If we agree to go ahead with this, we'd throw a bunch of suggestions together and have a vote. From there it's a matter of getting the material together. Now they're a lot stricter re: pirating over there (in before LeHah oh god oh god), but if it's not all that difficult we could always go the route of choosing one TV show and an unlicensed anime/one of dubious licensing status that way people would reasonably only have to buy one thing. The people that can could always pool together to help out the few that can't. Or you could just download everything I'm not really going to police everyone about that.

I dunno, I'm not real big on TV/Anime...(or don't have the time)
What are you a faggot? It's about 25 minutes out of your day. And if you fall behind (as is likely to happen to anyone) we'd only be doing five/six days out of the week, with the others as catchup days. Seriously. Get involved, expose yourself to something new and different.

Any questions? Let me know here if you'd be down or if you have any suggestions or whatever.

Oh and if you're interested please post saying so that way I can gauge whether or not this is worth doing.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

THIS THREAD IS NOT FOR NOMINATING SHIT IT IS FOR GAUGING INTEREST quit being dumb that part will come later

Originally Posted by Chaotic

If it would solve the problem of everyone watching it at the same time, I'm pretty sure someone could set up a streaming channel on Justin.tv or Livestream and then wrangle up everyone in there to discuss the show as it's being broadcasted.

While this is applicable (Acer said the same thing when I was suggesting the idea to him) I'd still rather people had their own copies and stuck to using IRC as there's no guarantee people would want to/be able to make it a stream channel every night. The only reason that format works with Drink-On is because it only occurs once every couple of months.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Would you not have enough time/storage to do so if we gave about two weeks advance notice to do so prior to starting (once we picked shows, that is)?

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Originally Posted by Shorty

I'm down. So long it's not Wednesdays.

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Yeah I got nothing. Ideally the schedule would run M/Tu/W/Th/F/Sa (ABABAB) or just M/T/W/TH/F (ABABA then BABAB) depending on what people think would be better suited. If we went with option #1 you wouldn't have to worry about catching up with show #1 until Friday at best if you would miss Wednesday.

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Originally Posted by Omnislash124

I'd love to take part in this, but I don't know if I could necessarily keep up with the 5 times a day schedule (at least consistently).

I suppose there are some instances where it can't be helped (heh) but asking for as little as 25 minutes out of a day isn't really a lot. Also I assume you meant to type five times a week.

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Also, I don't know if I'm thinking of this correctly, but we choose either the Anime or the TV show, right?

No. The objective is to choose one from each category. We'd be doing two shows.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Shorty

Just a suggestion: if you can update the thread with download information on say, Sunday for example, with a list of places people can download to watch like "This on Monday, that on Tuesday, etc. etc. etc.," I think that might facilitate the process.

I was actually considering giving out batches before the thing starts (as lurker asked about earlier) but I guess I could specify for people doing the week to week thing?

As for the 9PM thing, that's really just because of myself and the other east coasters. It'd be hard for me to help run the thing any later since I work nights, but I assume you wouldn't be the only west coaster who couldn't make that kind of time. You guys could always run your own session later at night if it's a better option~

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

OH GOD DOUBLE POSTING. For now I'm going to split things off while we pick, but afterward it'll all be brought together for a single discussion thread.

TV time
OMG DBZ

FELIPE NO

ehhhhhhh I don't think Hulu has ever been used for this sort of thing but it's certainly viable (not really the best option though as it'd be a bitch to keep a browser window open for streaming along with IRC)

I see where you're coming from though~

e: also what turnip said. Fucking licensing restrictions =\

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Alright, this one is kinda tough (I know I'm asking a lot from you guys here). The poll is self explanatory for the most part. The Simulwatch model I'm using here (ADTRW's) runs with the first option, 6 days. However, since I'm sure the folks around here probably don't have as much free time to laze about as SA folk do, I've thrown in a couple other choices re: how often we'd do this. The last two poll options are kinda wacky but I'm throwing them out there in case you guys really want to take it slow. Any suggestions for day swaps with those would be welcome.

Regardless of the final choice, it'd be a rotating schedule of Show A, Show B, Show A, Show B and so on. The set "air time" would be 9EST, and if it's too much of a problem I wouldn't mind working alongside the west coast folks in order to help you guys set up your own time for an IRC simulwatch if what I'm asking is a little unreasonable.

Questions and comments on all aspects welcome~

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You're free to jump in whenever you like! This isn't going to be one of those deals where you have to sign up beforehand, I was just seeing if there was enough interest to make doing it worthwhile.

Also sucks to hear about the IRC block business but as I was discussing with Acer, the primary function of this would be forum end discussion. Live-chat isn't really suited to breaking down a show and talking about it, though it is fun for just random offhand comments about what's going on at the moment.

How ya doing, buddy?

Quick bump here because it looks like we're close to deciding on shows and I'd really, really appreciate everyone's input on just how often we should do this (hint: see above poll).

Oh and if you haven't voted in the show polls you should check the other two threads.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.