Thread:Deathstalker666/@comment-1496755-20151224121621/@comment-1496755-20160309062223

As for me, I really need to finish the book that I started - infamously, a book that I had started several times in thje past and never finished. But this time I really should.

Indeed, creativity is a very personal thing, so it's not always understood by others. Like my dark poetry - some people love it, others say it makes them sick. And speaking of creative, I am one of the authors of the Uncyclopedia page about our university. I wrote about 70% of it.

True, inside jokes were the main idea - we had intended a lot more than that, but didn't do them, mostly due to time/equipment constraints. Despite our best efforts there are some problems in some partso f the video, like one of the sound channels missing (I think there was one faulty camera with this problem). But yeah, we often viewed the journalist's job as a dangerous adventure of sorts - our most prominent instructor, Aernout Van Lynden (the "certain Dutchman" from the Discovery video, also the "English teacher" from the "Mind your language" bit) was a war correspondent and he told us many stories about nasty things he had experienced - including lying down in a puddle of blood and pretending to be dead, sitting on the floor of his hotel room while bullets flew over his head, driving a car under sniper fire (while also dodging landmines on the road) and so on... he even got accidentally shot in the leg while covering some riots in Albania. He's really been through a lot. Everyone loved him - many people were attracted to this major by his charisma alone.

The overall video was supposed to be something like "a person is randomly browsing the channels". The guy with the remote control that is watching the TV is actually a pizza delivery guy that was pretty popular among the students (since he broughts all deliveries to our dorm). Yep, it's another inside joke. The "Dsicovery channel" video is pretty good too - it gives you an ironic, though somewhat accurate idea of what JMC (Journalism and mass communications) is all about. The people of each major have some sort of distinctive style that turns into a stereotype... the Business Administration students are these serious people with suits and ties, the Computer Science students are supposed to be nerds (obviously), and the JMC folks are the weird bunch of misfits and creative types, who never do things "by the rules" - one of the reasons I chose this major :)

The song was intended to create an emotional moment. I don't remember if anyone actually cried, but it was accepted very well. It was the end of an era for many of us. Goodbye fun, hello nasty real life :P

Yes, I definitely set some limitations. For example, I'd never do anything involving nudity - I'm just very shy. I have been offered such roles, but turned them down.