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Update 07/10 - Suggest some ideas for Shorts! (if you want)

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Update time!
Wow, an update on time?
We truly are back.
Let's go over a few things.


Shorts!

So!
As you can see,
a Short is now released!

This is a, uh, "new" format that we're rediscovering.
We think animated content starring our HTP cast should not be missed out on even if Arc 2 isn't coming out for a while still. And so, we are bringing back this format because WHY WOULDN'T WE??

We are thinking of trying to make a Short each month if we're able!

We just need to stock up on some ideas so if //YOU// have any suggestions for things you'd like to see the characters do in a short format, or if you have any clever jokeS we can pilfer, do tell (WE WILL CREDIT YOU OF COURSE).

There is a lot of potential here for just raw antics.

Of note, we decided to release it as a regular video first and foremost as, according to our demographic stats, most of you are not zoomers, and so, you are likely to not be using the YouTube Shorts thing a lot. 

But, just because we don't really have any issue with garnering more views from a function entirely based around short-form content when we ARE making short-form content, we also might just make a Shorts version as an alternative that we'll probably release later.
It'll just be in an inferior format since the video wasn't really made with the vertical viewing experience fully in mind.


Half-Life: Zero Viscosity is coming THIS MONTH (hopefully)

We got a few projects in the pipeline for this month.

We have decided that foremost of these is that Half-Life: Zero Viscosity shall release on the 21st, unless we fail miserably (which is always a factor to consider).

HLZV is currently in post, we're subtitling it and rerendering scenes that are either missing or in need of some touch ups, so the likelihood of us making this deadline is pretty good.

We are extremely excited and horrified for the release of this thing as its, once more, our first venture into the unknown with a whole different franchise, and this time with far less familiar characters (unless you watched Warhams, you'll find we took a lot of inspiration from the characters in that).

We have great confidence in it, it's very much us doing our own take on the Half-Life universe with just an absolute overabundance of silly shit in it.

You'll find a lot of inspiration taken from classic late 00's early 10's Gmod videos as well as Ross Scott's legendary Freeman's Mind and Civil Protection series, because we are children of our time and we can't help but make this clear.

We also used some small, funny tidbits harvested from the 'interesting Half-Life facts' dump that is the channel MarphitimusBlackimus on YouTube, would highly recommend.

There's also, like, an extended Hot Ones parody thing going on throughout the video which I am all, like..."why did I write it like this?" about now. 

It makes absolutely zero sense as a reference, it has nothing to do with Gmod or Half-Life or really anything, I don't even watch Hot Ones that often, I have no idea why this is a thing and why I decided that's the route we're taking with the script, but... 

fuck it, whatever, it's still funny to me, it still works, I have no real regrets, I'm just confused about my own actions (I wrote this script like a year ago).

All in all, though, we've had a blast making Half-Life: Zero Viscosity and I direly hope that you'll end up enjoying this our funny little attempt at expansion.


New Audiolog is coming up!

We're not only working on HLZV, of course.

We are still going to keep it up with the HTP Audiolog content because, hell, it's been doing so well thus far, why stop now?

The next one we've got planned is actually a follow-up to the Short that we just released!

It's about Big-D going to the 99p Store to buy a blender for 99p.

That's it.

It goes as you may expect and I will say nothing more.


The Sponsorship Thing

So, the whole sponsorship thing.

We were happy with the response we got in the last Audiolog. Very much so!

A lot of people even claimed to have not even realised it was an ad before it was explicitly made clear to them later, which is a lot of fun.

Now, as said, the ad was only a sponsorship ad in spirit, it wasn't even paid, it was only done as a favour to my local hobbyshop which I love.

We do not know if true sponsored ads will look and feel the exact same way as they did this first time around, I suppose it will depend on the sponsor.
It'll certainly, generally, be a shorter affair at least, but we want to make sure that they are worth listening to just for the strange, macabre, horrible character interaction we get to indulge ourselves in with what we set up in the last audiolog.

That being said, I might be saying too much already by telling you this, but we as of just recently got in contact with what is, in my mind, the perfect sponsor for the channel...

Not any of the stock sponsors you've heard advertised a thousand times already, but one that is to the point of tailor-made for this particular channel and its history, and one I and a lot of other people in the studio already have a history with as customers.

We're still in talks so I don't want to make any wild assumptions and I'll stop right here, but if we get a sponsorship with them, I'll be incredibly relieved and very happy.

If you see anything you've already seen advertised many times before instead, you can assume it didn't work out for whatever unfortunate reason. Bleh.


We do have more stuff planned for this month and/or the next, I'll see if we don't go through more of it later unless it just so happens to drop into your lap before then.
We'll try like hell to keep things rolling after the lull, and we really hope you got into a heated blender debate in the comments of the Short.

That will be that for today.

Until next time, have a good one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Update 07/10 - Suggest some ideas for Shorts! (if you want)

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shorts format, huuuh. thinking emoji. i'm thinking parodies of other popular shorts format creators. 1. super short how-to cook something, feat. Kitten. 2. kitten cleaning something. like. something really nasty, like those videos of dudes who clean pools or sidewalks or the dude who cleans up biohazards. those dudes are hilarious. no gag reflex on those guys. 3. Boy utterly tearing it up at a videya game you can't 'win' . flourishing. in his zone 4. everyone keeps asking for it: but Door goes to what ever his favorite home improvement store is 5. Gimmel goes to mid 2000s anime con, gives us a history lesson on anime or on the culture of yaoi 6. speaking of. y'all remember the http://semeuke.com/ personality test? it is still live. it has aged well. anyone can take this quiz, maybe ESPECIALLY fictional characters. then they can react to it. this is entertaining. 7. guy chapman politely asking people around town to stop being disorderly and please pay attention to the law. there are compilation videos of UK police being just laughably polite to people on the street. we stan. 8. kitten tells us an urban legend. one of the really short ones. "someone saw something. dats it really.' 9. Marckus struggling to get into a normal sized car. 10. Marckus struggling to find any clothes that fit him in the shops. 11. how tall is everyone anyway? 12. Kitten gives us his skin care regimen, clearly sponsored, like an influencer. the joke is we never see Kitten's skin. this is entertaining. 13. Elise tells us about how fairies are historically/traditionally dubious little creatures 14. Spit (the guy with the rainbow hat?) tells us which brand of box wine to get 15. boy gives us a tutorial for how to make a duct tape wallet (this was a fad in the 2000s). then has no money to put in it cause the family is broke. tells us to go donate on their patreon! (this patreon!) 16. after a time, boy does an unboxing video feat. the stuff he bought with the new patreon donations! (does this kid like slime videos? who doesn't like slime videos!)

Snager

Big D being alone for a whole day and tries not to go (even more) insane👍

House2077

Sounds like an opportunity to put quite a lot of lore in the background

Hubert Wójcik

YES! Keto diet FTW!

Hubert Wójcik

I would love to see maybe like, someone steps on one of boy's toys that Door insists they fix because Boy Loves the Toy "So Much(TM) leading to an arguement over "do we replace or fix" resulting in Door agreeing to fix it, with him mulling over which glue to use (maybe like he's big in reinforcement stuff so he only has big super glues that would melt the plastic). This continues until boy finds them arguing and goes "oh noes his arm fell off again" or something similar, with him just popping it back on real easy, much to everyone else's shock and awe.

Collin Arter

Two members of the Technocracy laughing at Marcus's google searches.

Deltarno

Yess

Blondie

maybe boy adopting Smerples?

The group goes grocery shopping together, getting very into it about each of their very specific shopping needs

enemyofentropy

Audiolog/Short of our favourite fluid collector just... collecting his fluids?

WastedWizard

Dorn has a secret addiction to Crayola Crayons. To be clear, he eats them.

Holman The Horror

Markus and Kitten discover speedrunning, perhaps?

InfernoKnight

A short diving a bit more into D’s family, maybe by having Kevin introduced to the group over diner and him asking about the whereabouts of their other siblings. Now that we got to know Horse better, I would love to find out what are Logan Russel, Robert Guileman, Mortimer, « Handy »Ferrier, and all the others up to. Let’s not forget a stand-in for the Celestial Shaman Queen, his beloved daughter. A short where the heroes go into Kevin’s appartment to feed his cat and make a surprise discovery there. A short of Door and Boy joining Markus and Kitten on Garry’s Mod, then switching to the newly released TF2 for more action, with new 40k characters being introduced as online players. Also love God of emergency food’s, Virus’ and Colamarine’s ideas about Markus playing his red/blue Magic deck, Kitten getting some news from his three fabulous brothers, and Markus getting hammered with his friends.

Ordo Obsoletus Lord Inquisitor

maybe one of big d running into his ex's

Chull33

I would love to see a short of Kitten's 3 fabulous brothers that are never home. Maybe a phone call or postcard from wherever they are currently!

Virus

Shorts following Marckus's friends doing their own thing could be interesting. A shady back alley OVA purchase, a package delivery, gym shenanigans, a fairy hunting trap failing magnificently, some excuse that allows for angry yelling in japanese at someone. You gave a setup for a ton of one-off misadventures based just on what was revealed about these characters in their intros

Kyle E Johnson

Markus playing Magic The Gathering would be funny. “I play red blue.”

Watching Erindil’s work with kevin is transformational

Electro_Static

I would love to see Markus, Door, Big D, and maybe Kevin argue if cereal is soup or a hot dog is a sandwich.Have Boy ask the question. Door would plain yes or no simple and sweet, while Markus would argue Big D because he would say his answer to get a rise out of Markus for such a little thing

It is 2006 inside the canon though. 😟

Iop-Aster

Do the shorts need to make chronological sense for the current point of the story, or can they be a bit more loose and maybe play with some characters we won't be seeing anymore? As for an actual suggestion, hmm, we haven't seen much of Door and Boy lately. I'm sure there's some potential there. Oh! The meatcake! That'd be perfect!

Thomas Sedlak

Honestly I want to know how kitten met his ex (grimmal). A short of them arguing about sex stuff would be hysterical. Or a short of the bartender getting the poison applejack for fuckface would work too

Electro_Static

Kitten and Markus have a disagreement about something that leads to them arguing about the royal family. Kitten mentioned that being a possibility in Chapter 2 and I can't get the idea out of my head lol

Terrible

I think something fun and cute would be Door and Boy going on their first fishing trip together. Obviously ending with Door bashing a fish to death in front of boy.

Nathan Smith

Ooh, that is a good one. They could honestly just do an entire Let´s Play in character.

ARJAY

I really desperately need to se Big D do "shopping". Alternatively, it would be nice to see Markus and Kitten do something which was not hunting (Like playing Gmod). Lastly, I want see Door to tell Boy a goodnight story.

ARJAY

Kitten and Markus playing VtM: Bloodlines, and laughing at how it gets everything soooo wrong.

LittleZ

:D

IllogicalLogic

Marckus gets hammered with his friends and Big D has to pick him up. The resulting chaotic energies formed by a drunk Gremil and stoned D in the same room rival the birth of Slaanesh.

Big D and Kevin visit Kevin's apartment, hijinks ensue.

Short idea: I want Kitten and Marcus to introduce Door to Gmod

alaa najm

Short suggestion: Marcus and Kitten are debating different aspects of pop culture, until the inevitable which "Star Wars movie was best" comes up. Other members of the crew keep walking on by giving their two pence until it becomes a weird tie. Then, someone unexpected breaks it with their vote. (That or someone actually votes for the Christmas Special which causes a new level of chaotic deliberation breakdown.)

Lakstoties

How about a short of any member of the family trying to sleep but Krakus' ditch digging and screams keep them up.

Kitten relives a traumatic memory involving his past

Sugar jumper

How about a flashback to the Sabbat Four and what they were doing before they met the family (and their untimely demises, with the exception of Kevin)?

Random Degenerate

A drunk, Sick, and wounded Brok Blacklaw being lectured/chewed out by his father Remold, who remains uncaring to his condition.

Sugar jumper

Suggestion: Karl singing rattlin' bog. And boy learning how to ride Horse, unwillingly.

MorningCock

Suggestion: Door Cooking Video (ft. boy, 30-50 feral hogs and Copious Use of Powertools)

BlevRuz

“(unless you watched Warhams, you'll find we took a lot of inspiration from the characters in that)” I am both excited and terrified. As for the shorts idea, I imagine you could make a short with Mr. Smerples yelling at Kevin for something and Kevin giving Mr. Smerples everything he can think of while loudly yelling back that he is unable to understand what Mr. Smerples wants.

Natalie

Kitten visiting or being visited by his remaining family, for a funny reunion but also to go over the family tragedy that’s been touched on (on a lighter note this deranged animation gives me life)

JeanWorm

An MTV Cribs style show but you feature places from the series? Like, imagine a Cribs episode on the pub with it’s strictly inferior square stools, or Kevin’s Apartment with central air and Mr Smerples. Maybe we’ll get a full and complete tour of Kitten’s home? What English dwelling does Guy inhabit? PS: I loved the new short! You should sell bendy straws designed to expedite the Blood Bonding.

The Hot Soup

Marcus having stitches removed

Fluffer

Ahh and a single second of Karl :) I would say as ideas: Phone messages, like answering machine style. "And that was when I": Little stories from each of the characters. I'm sure Sir D will have loads of them, they could all be telling Stories to Horse for example. Foreigner in a strange land: Many of the characters are not from England just give them a few stories of things that will confuse them about England/English people. SuckerIdeas: Random characters have talks about Vampiric conspiracies or ideas. Like a deeper dive into "Special Asian Vampires" Schooly D: Boy learns about Vampires from Sir. D, this could be things like just audio records that he has to sleep too or just him making a short dissertation about something relating to the monsters, weaknesses, history or random trivia or what ever. Now I have to go to work, good luck!

Erik Olsson (TerrorBlades)

Expanding on minor things mentioned through the audiologs or the mid episode lore dumps would be nice. The mummy story D eluded to, deffmatch, hell maybe Markus accidentally drinking paint water instead of coffee. Because I haven't done that. Never.

Robert VS

Well, it’s not a short idea, but in the vein of the fantasy roll play tts episode…there should be a world of darkness LARP in HTP.

Mary Jeschke

D and Door talking about how to protect the house before the first episode, and the Boy suggests using landmines and they both get really excited about the idea and supportive of boy who thinks he may be learning a bad lesson

krakus and his daily screaming session in the ditch

Skyslimit

Markus and Kitten playing GMod with Door Markus and Grimal arguing monster fights Goth Poetry night with Elise Shitbeard/Ape/Pyotr reunion in FFFFUCKING HELL

Azrux

markus and his freinds playing a game of uno

We need Markus trying to make an AMV for their favourite with help of his friends from the bar audio log.

Xocoxoco

The family as "Among Us" avatars all trying to figure out who the vampire is, (maybe include horse?) includes Kevin and Constable Guy who are fighting off stereotype accusations; a real bonding experience AND vampire hunting practice! Maybe have Big D take Grandson for safety at the very end, only for him to pick off D as soon as they walk away, and cue the wailing screams of horrified betrayal! (Maybe boy could be 'pet' sized?)

Lodi

Heres a list of ideas. 1. Door teaching the national anthem to Boy 2. Door hunting boars 3. D getting hit with the phone by the ghost 4. Pytor playing cards with the pack 5. Pytor human 6. Shitbread human 7 Ape human (actually fuck ape)

The Violent God-King, Fassgum

What about kitten getting phone calls from his brothers because they heard about what happened at the house?

Berg 4077

Suggestion: Marcus goes to the hun range with Door, would be a great situation and some more brother bonding moments 🥳

I want more Kevin / D / Guy arguments

Fluffer

What about a short of Markus, Kitten, Boy and Door playing Gmod. Rather than a avual animated video it could be a machinima in Gmod.

Mathias Allen

I want a short on D's shorts. I.e. the stuff on his legs he wears and how he can justify wearing such impractical article of clothing.

KYA

Boy's first date but Big D tags along.

Fetchbunny

Suggestion: Two words - Gravity. Gun.

Not to forget the daughters He never talks about.

And trying to convince Big D that a flamethrower wired up to the door bell possibly isn't as great of an idea as He thinks.

Suggestion: Big D's Entirely Accurate and Well Researched Monster Hunting Guide to Dealing With Things That Go Bump In The Dark, and Monsters. A lore training video series, which definitely isn't adlibbed by Big D while drunk/high.

Door teaching Boy how to butcher a hog.

Julbot1

Door goes with Markus and his friends to see a showbiz wrestling match. One from the UK that is. Cue Door and Grimal criticising it for not being as insane as the US or Japanese ones.

Mithril-blade

Door leading the clean-up and repair of the house after Pyotr's attack, as well as brainstorming new defenses to implement for next time.

I feel a short with Big D teaching Boy how to go Grocery snatching would be funny

Darth_Seal

Free ideas for free! They might not be good ideas but they are free! 1. Family movie night. Kitten rented "The Exorcist." He's heard it's a classic but he's never seen it! The family is torn on whether this is a good or bad idea. Especially since in the WoD, actual vampires MAKE the vampire movies and use them to plant misinformation. So "Nosferatu" accidently revealing their big weakness to sunlight was a huge oopsie for the Camarilla 2. Mr. Schmurples the Cat settles in. Especially since Big D SWORE he doesn't like cats! There is no love quite as pure as Your Grumpy Dad and That Cat He Swore he Didn't Want. Also, come on Big D, we know you're from Turkey (kinda). Turks loved cats before it was cool. He cannot fight his blood! 3. Isn't the Iraq war happening in 2004? Big D's got to have some children in the military. Konnor, the CIA waterbording expert? Or a letter from his least favorite son Logbook, who's currently leading some sort of cult in south america dedicated to worshipping something Big D flatly refuses to have mentioned in his presence.

Morgan L.F

Maybe a short that explores Big D's Family Tree and Sons, or... is that too early in the game, lol? I've got these twins in my head, Russel (Russ) and Lionel (the Lion).

DarkInnovator

I loved the short! As for suggestions of other shorts: I'd love to see some shorts on Marckus, Kitten and Door hanging out. Specifically about how they told each other they'd join the other in their activities (such as Marckus going to the shooting range, or Door playing some video games with Marckus and Kitten)

i think a short featuring Door having some bonding time with Boy would be very sweet/funny :)

i like your train of thought

Big D and Kitten going shopping and discussing if it’s better to pay for stuff or get it free in the store. Side note Big D is gonna steal stuff right in front of the security guard like the mad lad he is.

Lord Zero

Pre-Yatzee, Pre-TGWTG, X-Play style game reviews!

Morgan L.F

you just know Door's favorite game is Sim City. He's just WAITING for godzilla to show up!

Morgan L.F

Episode 2 mentioned that Kitten and Boy play Deffmatch on Wednesdays; it’d be fun to see them do a brief match, maybe with others in the family joining them. Either way, the shorts are a fantastic idea, both when Big-D is wearing them and when you make them for content. Rock on!

I would like to see Door prove his worth as a "video gamer". Even if he has never heard of Gmod.

Bunny Waffles

Kitten and Kevin attempting to discuss ANYTHING. One is 'I speak plainly' and the other is 'I cannot communicate in less complicated vernacular than a dictionary set to 'Shakespeare', pleb!'

Trevor Bond

Door and Boy at the pediatrician espousing the virtues of an All Meat Diet

Elderlucian

Marckus attempting to record a game review way before they became popular

Alexandria Smith

You know how Door is a Building Enthusiast? You know how he has a kid? You know how Bob the Builder is a very popular kids’ show in the mid 2000s?

Sal Monella

Mayby a short about Marcus and his firends? Or just his friends ?

GitBot3994

YES!

Fluffy Beaver

Fantastic work as usual absolutely love watching your stuff. I do have an idea for a short can we please get that shooting range trip between door and Marcus and maybe with boy and kitten tagging along. Then near the end of good family bonding Marcus shoots himself in the foot.

The short was fantastic! Also thank you for the update.

Lyner

Perhaps they could visit "Peter Turbo" in his basement/attic just to fuck with him or to talk to him.

Daniel Apodaca

Grimal, Elise and Harry (maybe others) in an Arcanum gathering discussing recent blank incidents while trying to sidestep every possible D-word and maybe the incident with Marcus at all. Flesh out the region a little and a good intro to newbies of the Arcanum in one quick, fast vid (plus more grimal)

Misha Tarkus

you should do a short of the characters reacting to a video like the new Mario trailer or something that you find funny it be a good way to grow the audience.

Markus trying to explain the lore of Battlemace 40 Million to Boy and/or Door

MagosSnake

Boy and Door should bake a cake

Nightingale33

Guy's just there having his sippy.

Tepintzin Ruiz

id love to see more of door but idk if he would fit with the short format

Have markus gettimg EXTREMELY upset that door/boy is better than him at HL2:Deathmatch without knowing what they are doing

Wi-Gi

Door playing games with Markus and Kitten and Kevin going over Mr. Smerples every want and need with Boy

MolluskMan

I don't know if this works with how you guys are making videos after the fate of TTS but a video where Kitten and Markus play Yugioh would be hilarious.

Damn you and your reverse pyschology advertising ALFA DAAAAAAMMMMNNNNNN YOOOUUUUUUUUU!!!!

shrubby1989

A short based on Big D teaching his children how to steal cop cars! Also any idea on when to expect the "WoD Lore Essay" video or is that post Half Life release?

Zephyr444

Anything that gets us more of the GREAT and MIGHTY Kevin is good. He's seriously my favorite character out of everything you guys have done.

Sumelar

I just watched this thing it was hilarious with deep philosophical thought processing and blenders should not be sold from 99 pence because I don't know what the currency actually is but I'll stick with Kevin on this one

Maxwell Arnold


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