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Re: What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

Postby Carl » June 8th, 2016, 6:23 pm

[quote="GeminiGemelo"][quote="Flip_FTW"]I guess I can share some details now I have things slightly more figured out: the th show idea I'm working on (possibly it may end up being a webshow unless it really takes off and someone picks it up) is a travel show. Well it's sort of a travel show, I'll take a camera with me on an adventure to some really cool and hopefully interesting places and I'll point out some interesting stuff along the way. And there will be a bit of a hike at the end of the episode, wherein treasure will be hidden.
It won't be a huge amount, about £1500 worth of gold and silver for each episode of which there will be five. Then the series finale will be something a bit more special with a £10,000 worth treasure hunt.

The point is that people will be able to watch the show and then the co ordinates will be released for them to search for it themselves and have their own adventure / real life treasure hunt to find it. You could look at the episode for clues, landmarks, things I pointed out and showed off during the show that you can then see for yourself in person and know you're getting closer.
We have a couple of locations already chosen for this and have contacted the relevant authorities where we are certain we have a location locked in and so far there doesn't seem to be any real issues in the way of achieving something like this.

So what do you think? Something you would be interested in seeing become a thing?[/quote]

Sounds pretty neat, Flip! I don't really watch TV much so I can't really compare it to anything but I think it sounds interesting. I guess a bit like geocaching too... and I'm pretty sure there's a lot of people out there who still like to do that. :)

In any case, good luck making it! Sounds like a challenge.[/quote]
I agree, it sounds like something a lot of people would be interested in. If I watched things more often still, I would probably watch a show like that.
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Re: What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

Postby KopsTheTerminator » June 8th, 2016, 6:32 pm

While there's usually some truth in self help books I swear I get so easily put off by how absolutely unrealistic they are, "oh yeah I can do this in 20 hours... because I've already stuggled for ages trying to figure out how to do this properly in the first place but yes lolol".

Holy crap, unwarranted optimism pisses me off to no end.
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Re: What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

Postby FireAndSun » June 8th, 2016, 6:38 pm

^ I agree. Those self-help books are beyond unrealistic to me. They all act like there's some magical fit-all solution to everything, when it usually isn't that that simple. I won't say they're all pointless, but I feel they don't work most of the time. Plus those self-help folks are often just as messed up as everyone else. They just try to pretend they aren't. This story I found on a website called Narratively just proves that. http://narrative.ly/confessions-of-a-fa ... help-guru/
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Re: What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

Postby Rollo » June 8th, 2016, 6:40 pm

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Re: What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

Postby linnea » June 8th, 2016, 6:50 pm

I might see my gurl.... soon
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Re: What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

Postby KopsTheTerminator » June 8th, 2016, 7:02 pm

[quote="FireAndSun"]^ I agree. Those self-help books are beyond unrealistic to me. They all act like there's some magical fit-all solution to everything, when it usually isn't that that simple. I won't say they're all pointless, but I feel they don't work most of the time. Plus those self-help folks are often just as messed up as everyone else. They just try to pretend they aren't. This story I found on a website called Narratively just proves that. http://narrative.ly/confessions-of-a-fa ... help-guru/[/quote]

Yikes, that's pretty bad. But yeah sometimes they do contain helpful hints but the ridiculous claims that "ALL OTHER BOOKS DON'T HELP BUT THIS ONE IS THE ONE THAT WILL HELP... WITHIN 2 HOURS!!" are really just a marketing gimmick because people would like to think that there's a way to do stuff quickly without effort so that sort of crap sells like pancakes. :headache:
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Re: What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

Postby FireAndSun » June 8th, 2016, 7:08 pm

^ People are either lazy and don't want to put in the work necessary, or they just want an easy fix-all solution because they worry about the hard avenue. I wish there was a magical fix-all for everything, but there isn't. And I hate that self-help books try to capitalize on that. I almost feel like they're scamming people out of their money.

My brother is so rude to my parents, I swear. He acts like he knows everything. That kid has some growing up to do, I swear.
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Re: What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

Postby KopsTheTerminator » June 8th, 2016, 7:16 pm

^ I don't even know how I got a hold of this book. I was really looking for something to help me teach myself how to study properly yet walked out of the library with this instead...??? I don't know what my thought process here was besides "I'm self-conscious standing here trying to find something so I'll just walk off with these books". :lol:

Welp. Wada Kouji, the main singer used for the original Japanese Digimon anime (and a few dubs, including the Greek one I grew up with), died this year.

I feel old.

EDIT: In fact Sora's Japanese voice actress has died to cancer as well this year, what the hell? I didn't even know either of them were battling cancer considering they still worked on Digimon Adventure Tri. Man, some of the cast just have some much love for the series and it shows. ;A;
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Re: What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

Postby Carl » June 8th, 2016, 7:53 pm

"I got a zombie army, and you can't harm me..."
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Re: What are you thinking RIGHT NOW?

Postby KopsTheTerminator » June 8th, 2016, 8:16 pm

Welp, Digimon just won't be quite the same now. Neither Kouji Wada nor Yuko Mizutani survived to even see the end of Tri, this is such dreadful news and even more dreadful timing. :disappointed2: I don't think my heart could handle hearing a finale song sung by a completely new singer for what's supposed to be a Digimon Adventure celebration anniversary, either. :eeh:
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