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This Jack in the Dark Playthrough is your Valentine's Day Present

This Alone in the Dark 2 Playthrough Is Your Christmas Present

Hello gangers,

With Christmas coming up, I'm reminded of my favorite Christmas game: Alone in the Dark 2. And that got me thinking about one of my back-burner videos about the AITD games and their history and influence. I've been writing it here and there for ages, and when I actually make it I'll need footage from all the games, which means I have to record them. And hey, I'm still trapped in America and don't have much else to do for Christmas other than indulge in my nostalgia, so wh...

"Adobe Must Die" First 1hr 20min!

Hello, friends (and enemies)!

Here's how the Adobe video is going.

We've made quite a few changes to the early sections, but if you don't feel like re-watching too much, the really big changes start at around the 25 minute mark, where the new on-set shoot stuff starts coming in.

I'm really happy with these first 80 minutes, although watching this through to test it rendered properly, Kat and I made another 2 pages of notes for little changes.

'Making antitrust law fun'...

September Progress Report

Hey pals!

Here's an update on what's going on with the Adobe video! Many of you told us you wanted updates even when it’s not a big update, so here you are!

In the middle of August we went out to Temecula to shoot a bunch of footage. It went really well, RIGHT up until the second to last shot of the final night, when Kat fell down some stairs and sprained her foot really badly.

Appropriately, the final shot was Kat's death. We were gonna dress a skeleton in her cl...

First 35 minutes of the Adobe video, an update, and two tiny car accidents

Hello darlings,

First off, please find enclosed the first 35 minutes of the Adobe video. A lot more is done than that, the video is shaping up to be much, much longer (the script is telling me it’s 46,000 words, which feels wrong but there we go) but, minor spoilers, a lot of the back four fifths or so of the video are being shot on an actual location (which we’re driving out to in like 12 hours! wow!) and this is about as much of the video that makes any sense without any ...

New Year's Update (and disgusting new Oreo video)

Howdy Pardnerrs,

Hope you're having a good New Year's. And if you're not...well, here's a video which will hopefully make it even worse.

I travelled to the USA to keep working in-person with Kat on the plagiarism distribution project, since we wanted to minimize the chance I made a massive mistake while left to my own devices and emailed all the money into a big hole. While I was there, we realised there were American Oreo products we missed during the Oreo video, so we took it up...

Oreo Bonus Video (and November Update)

Hello fellow Gangsters,

Kat was just in the UK so we could prepare to distribute the ad revenue from the plagiarism video. We had to explain what the heck we're doing to a real accountant and everything! I had to put on real trousers and talk with a straight face to the person who looks at bank statements that say "latex glove" and "blowtorch". But it's getting there! It's been a really stressful few months but it's almost over. Update will hopefully be very soon (I want my life back), ...

Extra Part Of The Newgrounds Video

The Newgrounds patron-video originally had this over the top cartoon-violent example to show what made Flash so interesting. We decided to remove it to maintain the overall chill vibe but I figured I should post it separately. Warning in advance: ridiculously silly cartoon blood

Newgrounds Bonus Video (and June Update!)

Howdy Paizanos,

Please find enclosed the first of potentially infinite videos about the history and impact of Newgrounds. I accidentally made another main channel video just for patrons again! Making this required me to revisit decades of internet history, so just getting this one done generated pieces of script for about five other videos, some of which I'll put in the next patron poll...

and one of which I'll post in the next few days! I initially covered something so juvenile ...

January Update

Hello lizards and other squamate reptiles,

First, the poll for $10 backers to decide the next patron content will be going live right after I'm done typing it. If you're one of them, check it out in a sec!

Second, we (Kat) are (is) in the process of collating everyone James Somerton stole from, so we can share the ad revenue from the last video with them. Since the video's release, a lot more eyes have been looking for plagiarism in those videos, so we're confident we'll be able t...

Bonus Video: Building the 'Set'

First off, hello new people! Quite a few folks joined after the most recent video, which is a very nice surprise!

Now the nightmare is over, I'm looking forward to getting back to normal videos. And by normal I mean, the normal I have never attained but pretend to be capable of. Can I make a video under an hour long?! I hope so!

Now the reveal of the green-screen fake set being a real fake set is out there, I figured I can finally share the footage where I decide...

Plagiarism and You(Tube) is up!

Hello Friends (I capitalised the F in friends because I really mean it),

In case you haven't seen it yet, the new video is finally up! Sorry once again for not being able to post it here early, but it was one of those topics.

I'm taking a sec to recuperate from working on this non-stop for quite a while now - I meant to finish it months ago, in one of the early drafts I even had a 'happy pride month' line, but the discoveries of the extent of what had happened kept coming...

Plagiarism Video Update + Remastered First Half

Hello Freakers,

The next video, "Plagiarism and You(Tube)" is EXCRUCIATINGLY close to done - we even have a name for it now! I'd love to show you the near-final draft, but I don't want to risk alerting the subjects before the video is public. So instead, now is the chance to show off how much a video develops as I work on it.

Linked above is the final version of the first 80 minutes. You'll notice a heck of a lot of changes, the main ones being:

- Tons of reshot live action ...

Here's the first 90 minutes of the Plagiarism Video!

Hello Worms (and Beetles)!

Please find enclosed the first 90 minutes (roughly the first half I hope) of ‘Untitled Plagiarism Video’ (name still pending).

I’m trying something new with the patron version of this video:

Normally I do a ‘pacing pass’ towards the end, where I realise last-minute some segments would be better off removed, so the main ideas flow better, and the video justifies its runtime without (too many) pointless tangents. I usually set them...

Pride Month Update

Hey! Happy Pride Month! Just wanted to give you a quick update on how things are going.

The next video, currently titled "Plagiarism Video I Don't Have A Title For Yet," is coming along really well. I started researching and making notes for it in December last year, but made it the main focus when certain events transpired lately.

My original goal was to get it out during pride month. However, you're not gonna believe this, but I accidentally stumbled upon an ev...

New Video: Myst is (Still) Genius, And Here's Why

Hey!

Please find enclosed a video about Myst, which I made at the behest of $10 backers voting on it for the next bonus video. I'd intended for it to be a little shorter, more like a proof-of-concept for a full video later on, but as is my custom at this point, it exploded out of my control and became the full-length video it would have been anyway.

I'm keeping it just for patrons for the foreseeable future. I really appreciate the constant support (and patience) you folk...

New Bonus Video: Remaking My Destroyed Set With The Magic of Open Source

Fancy seeing you here, friend. I hope Christmas treated you well. Mine went great, except I sat next to an Aunt who was getting over some kind of Flu (not covid thankfully!) and managed to get sick. I lost my voice and needed to wait a bit until I could re-record some of the voiceover for this here bonus video, so sorry for the delay. On the plus side, I missed both of the New Year's parties I was invited to, so I probably seem real cool and aloof - a much-needed social win for Harry.

P...

Christmas Update

Hello, Smellies.

Happy Christmas (we said 'Happy,' not 'Merry,' in my household, and it's the only tradition I respect) to everyone who celebrates it.

Since I forgot to post about it here, as you probably saw, the Oof video went up for everyone else. It has, uh, exploded, in a way I wasn't fully prepared for. As a result, a lot of people have reached out with more stories and interesting notes. Somewhat ...

HOT NEW VIDEO, "THE ROBLOX OOF", is up for Patrons!

HELLO YOU SLIMES,

Please find enclosed the patron draft of the the worst thing ever made.

This video is, or was supposed to be about, the Roblox Oof. The original plan was for this video to be out in early September, as a quicker 30-40 minute video to stave off the burnout from longer videos, but then....all this happened. I can't hide from long videos. They find me.

We're still waiting for a few people to get back to us, but we figured hey, patrons should ...

Video Retrospectives 3 - Cultural Marxism : A Measured Response

Howdy gang! I can't stop saying howdy and I don't know why

Here's the third video retrospective, on the Cultural Marxism video, my life around the time I made it, and what happened to the players involved - Rocking MR. E, The Golden One, Davis Aurini, and the BNP Youth spokesperson (my god, that one's a doozy).

Thanks to the $10 backers who voted on this! The next $10 backer-poll will be up in about a week and a half while I focus on the GBNews video.

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1 Million Subscriber / Ukraine Charity Stream Archive

Hey folks!

I'm currently working on the GBNews video and the Retrospective on the Cultural Marxism video (which should be up on the 1st or 2nd!), but I saw some people asking if they could see the stream I did watching my channel go over 1 million subscribers. It was a fun little thing I got to do, since I happened to be free during the period it seemed like it was gonna happen.

After we went over I turned the stream into a fundraiser for Ukraine, played Chess, and had some other ...

pancake.mp4 extended edition

Hello, beings.

In case you missed it (and I hope you did), I tweeted a picture of a destroyed-looking pancake a few days ago as a way of reviewing some bad instant pancake mix, and then when people called me a horrible cook I spent a full day of my life filming a video response and making my intern...

April Update!

Hey pals! I've got some updates on upcoming videos and the state of the Patreon for you.

First off, I've decided to change the $10 tier. I discussed this a while back and people seemed receptive to it, but the short of it is, being able to vote on my next video doesn't seem as rewarding considering the types of video I make. It takes a long time to make most of my videos, so voting only comes around every few months at best (at worst, every five years). It also isn't great for me, becau...

The Deus Ex Video is Finally Done!

Hey folks! Just to let you know the video's finally up for everyone on YouTube.

I'm going to do a lie-in this weekend and then have an update on how other videos are going ASAP. I didn't give proper updates on this video the way I'd have preferred to, in retrospect - it felt really close to being finished for, like, two months, so I waited on updates, since it seemed like it was about to just be done. Thanks for being so patient about this!

I'm never ("and th...