The Kicker
Augh!! I’m so sick of Nick’s childish attitude!! Aughhh!
So he makes this AMV and dedicates it to us, for helping him out through his tough times. He says that he’s putting it in his portfolio for SAIT, since he’s applying to the new media course (which is so competitive to get into that the application process includes a portfolio and an interview and there are only thirty seats available in the first place). I watch the video to find that he’s just pieced together some Naruto episodes… no transitions because they wouldn’t work, no timing because the song had no beat and no digital effects.
As a friend aiming to help him in securing a seat in new media, I tell him my opinion as diplomatically as I possibly can. In return I get, essentially, that I’m a terrible person for criticizing his hard work and I don’t know how hard video editing is (which I do, damn it…), and that he’d rather I’d lied to him and said it was very, very good.
But here’s the kicker.
He hated every tragic second that he spent making the video because it was the only thing keeping him occupied so that he wouldn’t commit suicide. I was livid. This is seriously starting to look like nothing more than an attention-getter. (As if it didn’t before…) I wish he would stop playing his stupid “suicide trump card” already. It’s a terrible thing for me to say, but it’s just getting old now.