S2: "火忍者"

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You may notice that the dates on the demos will flucuate quite a bit. Demos may be several months/years old or might even be recent. I've been sitting on my demos so I could be able to meet or exceed the standards sketchek put in place, so I could properly carry the "torch". Since there was no more "torch" to carry, there were some concessions I was willing to make to get my videos out regardless. Even if it meant not putting out as impressive as sketchek himself, even though I still have a mindset of constant improvement and not doing the exact thing over & over without evolving.



I learned a bit about using HLAE, in conjunction with Lawena
for recording the demos. I had a little experience with Lawena at that
point and as of now (as I'm writing this), I'm more experienced with a
more streamlined workflow (though it can always be improved). Lawena
allows you to record high-quality video & audio straight from the
game and HLAE allows you to record different angles of the footage.
Warning: HLAE is technically a hack, so it should only be used for
making movies as you will probably get banned if you have HLAE on while
joining a server.



This video was my first time including a new camera angle (separate from the player) with footage. sketchek already had some shots of his videos featuring different camera angles. I couldn't be content with not learning how to do that. I went even further and edited in the other camera angle in a way sketchek hasn't done before, to be more original and creative. Doing that really added to the video since you know that I was stalking that scout.



The titling, description and music were inspired by sketchek's videos "repeat offender" and "宅配" (translates to delivery). I used "Plant Sneaking Theme" from MGS2 since it's the go to sneaking theme for anything and it fit with the video, since I was kind of sneaking around, being unseen by the scout, finally delivering a killing blow from behind, and then I killbind. sketchek influenced me to killbind a lot when I do an interesting frag since he does it sometimes. I kind of took it as a way to show that you don't take the game really seriously and its all in good fun.



Also I think this quote from sketchek's video "謝罪" (apology) also helped inspire the description.

"...I can no longer bear the weight of my sins, which is why I've decided to come out with the truth, and apologize for lying."

- sketchek, 謝罪, 2019

Yeah.



My video categories in general are inspired by sketchek in general, but in season 3, I decided to categorize my videos properly.



When I think about it, it's kind of weird that I feel like I'm not good friend material or fit out to have friends considering the thing sketchek did. I keep feeling like I always have to prove myself, despite everything else other people do, better or worse. Maybe it's still just me trying to not become the things that have hurt me and me wanting to protect the world from adding yet another bad apple in the bunch (I don't want to become yet another typical ignorant and selfish human that cares about nothing but themselves/their friends who antagonize anyone outside their circle).

Additional video info

Project editing range: ???

Video publish date: 2019/03/29

Demo file information

0:00: pyro_dd_sneakattackscoutfollowpossiblevid_300-1600.dem, 2018/12/19

Music used

"Plant Sneaking Theme"

Metal Gear Solid 2 Soundtrack