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Note: There are two spoken words right at the end, but there's no spoken dialogue interspersed within. Spoilers for the whole series.
Can you please recommend AMV from old and new series?
I loved very much Information High from Macross Plus by Maboroshi Studio. Also Rammstein's Engel for Neon Genesis Evangelion and I found Björk's Bachelorette for Utena Movie superb.
Please, if you have any, share your recommendatuions for #AMV
If you can give me boost for visibility that would be lovely! cheers!
I just woke up from the most pleasing but crazy #dream that some other musicians started playing this #song as a warm up and I was #vocals for it, always been a huge fan of #KoRn since I was 12.
I just woke up from the most pleasing but crazy #dream that some other musicians started playing this #song as a warm up and I was #vocals for it, always been a huge fan of #KoRn since I was 12.
As I hope you've already discovered, the Fediverse is nothing like Twitter/𝕏. There is no algorithm automatically forwarding your posts to those who might be interested in them. Also, even though Mastodon has introduced full-text search, it's only slowly picking up.
Instead, the key to post visibility and discoverability is using hashtags.
If you're using OpenSim, and you aren't sure what to tag, here are some recommendations. If I mention a tag explicitly, it most likely already exists.
First of all, of course, #OpenSimulator and #OpenSim. You may use either, but I recommend using both.
Then there's #Metaverse. The OpenSim community has used that word for some 15 years already. Besides, it helps demonstrate three things to those who search for it. One, "The Metaverse" isn't dead. Two, it wasn't invented by Zuckerberg either. Three, it can be done and has been done without a blockchain, a cryptocurrency and NFTs. (If you want to write about Zuck's worlds, use #Horizons or specifically #HorizonWorlds instead.)
I myself also use #VirtualWorlds, and so do some Second Life and OpenSim users.
If you write about a grid or mention it sufficiently, tag it. #OSgrid, #Kitely, #3rdRockGrid, #Groovyverse, #CraftWorld, #Bridgemere, #DorenasWorld, #Dereos, #ArtDestiny, #DiscoveryGrid, #BarefootDreamers, #Neverworld, #Astralia, #AviWorlds, #EtheriaGrid, #TheGridThatShallNotBeNamed (you know which one I mean) etc. This should include dead grids such as #Metropolis.
Sometimes things might get complicated, for example if there's a popular abbreviation or acronym for a grid. In that case, feel free to tag e.g. both #AlternateMetaverse and #AMV or both #GreatCanadianGrid and #GCG. It really only gets complicated with #WolfTerritories, #WolfTerritoriesGrid, #WTGrid and #WolfGrid, all four of which have been used by Lone Wolf himself.
In addition, if you actually write about a grid, you might want to use #Grid. Not so much for fleeting mentions.
Of course, #Hypergrid if you mention that.
Events usually come with their own official suggestions for social media hashtags. This year, for example, we've already had #OSG16B for OSgrid's 16th birthday, #OSFest2023 for OpenSimFest (#OpenSimFest or #OSFest) and #HIE2023 for the Hypergrid International Expo (#HypergridInternationalExpo, #HIE or #HIEOpenSim). The OpenSimulator Community Conference is always shortened to #OSCC, and the year is always two-digit, e.g. #OSCC23. And let's not forget #CornflakesWeek.
Other things worth tagging include OpenSim's own mesh bodies: #RuthAndRoth for the whole project, #Ruth2 and #Roth2. #RuthToo and #RothToo or even #RuthTooRC3 and #RothTooRC1. #LuvMyBod. #Max, #Maxine and #Maxwell.
Some more examples for OpenSim-related tags I've used before: #OAR, #HGSafari, #MadeInOpenSim, #ArcadiaAsylum, #LbsaPlaza, #WrightPlaza, #EventPlaza, #Clutterfly, #OpenSimWorld, #BakesOnMesh (feel free to yoink this one, Second Life users), #FirestormViewer (ditto), #PBR (ditto), #LSL (ditto) and #OSSL, #ZHAO (ditto) and #khAOs, #SFposer, #DreamGrid, #Sim, #SimBuilding (good for talking about how a sim is built)... You could also reference what I call #TheGreatGridDyingOf2022.
More generally, there are tags such as #Avatar/#Avatars, #VirtualArchitecture, #VirtualTravel and #VirtualClothing/#VirtualFashion. And if it's related to education, #VirtualWorldsEducation would be the tag.
This past Monday I did this little thing in the span of 7 hours! 😱 An opening style AMV for Bubblegum Crisis, featuring my own "TV Size" (or OVA Size?) version of the song Nowhere Fast! Please enjoy!
If things go well, I'll be able to post something really neat tomorrow!
In the meantime, have a related video to it -- my own fan edit of Battle Beast's "Russian Roulette" to a "TV Size" version, and syncing it with the visuals for "Russian Roulette" from Dirty Pair.
I still hope one day to get a cleaner version of the animation but I still am proud of this! First "AMV" that's not really an AMV lol
I still cling to the hope I'd refind the #FullMetalAlchemist (I'm pretty sure it was FMA) #AMV set to Rilo Kiley's "The Execution of All Things". One of the reasons I started listening to the band.