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Vaccines: A Measured Response is finally up!

Hey pals! Just thought I'd post here in case people didn't see - the final version of the Vaccines video is now public.

I'm catching up on sleep and getting some admin work done (YouTube just now reminded me I have three days to file some kind of tax form with them actually) and I'll have a poll  for $10 patrons on the next video, and some other stuff, up soon. "Some other stuff?" yes, I am that tired, that's how the words came out.

Take care!

Vaccines: A Measured Response is up for Patrons!

Hey gang!

Please find enclosed the full-length Patron draft of the Vaccines video! There's a few things that aren't entirely done yet, namely the colour grading of the live-action shots (my face is not normally that green, I hope), and the audio levels / music are still being worked on, but we wanted to work on that during the finalising process.

Because this video is essentially a full-length documentary, and covers A: Some really important science that needs to be got across acc...

April Update

Hey folks!

I was going to post this update on the first, and then worried people might think it was a joke, so I waited a little while.

Progress on the Vaccines video is going really well. Too well, in fact. We've done so much research and writing and editing and rewriting and consulting experts and digging through ancient archives for sources that the video was starting to feel way too long. We were looking at two or more hours, and for this particular topic, that's a lo...

First 20 Minutes of Vaccines: A Measured Response

Hey folks! Here's the first 20 minutes of the video.

This part is largely finished, except for the colour grading, which I'm finally getting someone else to do instead of ruining it all by myself. One thing Kat, my genius producer, has already pointed out while I was uploading this version, was that I describe Brendan Nyhan's study wrong for one sentence and conflate it with a similar but unrelated study, that'll be fixed. There's more things, like tweaking the animations and look of th...

SET TOUR BONUS VIDEO + January Update

Hey folks!

As I mentioned, because my family has moved out of the house my set was built in, the set is being 'retired' in the vaccines video. So while I still had it, we shot a little tour of the place just for posterity's sake. Check it out if you want to see what the back of the set looks like and hear random stories and get unasked-for advice about how to make youtube videos.

As for the Vaccines video itself, we were really aiming for January. However, we've accidentally falle...

Here's Some Art From The Fallout Video

Hey there!

I like experimenting with ways of breaking up videos that threaten to just be footage of one or two games, so the Fallout video had a few animated illustrations in the corner to help point out which game was being played, and also a small segment in the moral choices chapter had a cute little semi-animated storyboard I commissioned.

These were made by @sneksucks, who also drew the original Reasonableist Bear artwork, and probably some more stuff I've forgotten about. I ...

The War On Christmas Video's Here In Case You Missed It

Hey folks! I hope Christmas and new year's was vaguely passable.

The non-patron version of the Christmas video is finally here. There aren't that many changes since the patron version - I recorded a few things that didn't make it in because they were intended to be references back to the Vaccines video, which I didn't finish first, so it wouldn't make any sense. I'll post those bits when the Vaccines video is out so you can see how clever I almost managed to be.

If you're a new Pa...

Fallout: New Vegas is Genius, And Here's Why

Hey folks!

Please find enclosed the Fallout: New Vegas video. I'm really happy with it, I went for a faster and more defined sense of pace than normal to make sure it didn't get out of hand and become infinitely long. I love this game very much, so that was a clear risk. There's a very small segment that has no visuals at around 55:50 - I'm working with an artist on that part and we hit a delay, but I wanted to get this out without making you wait any longer.

You'll notice occasio...

First 20 Minutes of the Fallout: New Vegas Video

Hey pals,

First off, I'm really sorry about not posting videos as fast as I'd hoped. I got pretty sick toward the end of October - I don't think it was covid, but I was afraid of going to get checked and then spreading it or getting it for real, so I holed up and waited it out. Once I'd come out of it, the election was happening, and I basically didn't sleep for a week just watching that all unfold (and documenting as much of it as possible in case there's a video in all that).  2020-11-18 02:53:40 +0000 UTC View Post

OCTOBER UPDATE

Hey folks! Just thought I'd update you all on my progress.

The video that won the $10 patron poll, Anti-Vax: A Measured Response, is coming along! I tried to keep it under 40 minutes but it continuously threatened to balloon in size...and then a journalist who covered the anti-vaccine scare extensively in the early 2000s happened to release a really good book about the topic last month, which pointed us in some really interesting directions. So it's going places, but it's longer (and ta...

A Bonus Video About Trigun and other extra RWBY stuff

Hey pals,

I've spent the past couple of weeks monitoring the reactions to the RWBY video, doing research and writing for various videos (including the dreaded prequel project), and editing together this piece of the RWBY analysis, which I had cut out in the editing process.

Originally I wanted to talk about Trigun, and use it as an example of how character design can be used to inform us about a character instead of just abstractly 'looking cool'. I even brought this up i...

"RWBY Is Disappointing" Has Escaped

Hey it's really up! For everyone! Go watch it!

Thanks for sticking with me through this nightmare. There were some delays because of dealing with copyright, and also some animation needed rewriting and copious reworking, and there was quite a lot of re-editing based on your feedback. Thanks so much to everyone who left some really useful notes and thoughts about the three (wow, three) patron drafts of the video, it really helped make this thing as good as I could make it. Of course now ...

"RWBY is Disappointing, and Here's Why" is now up for Patrons!

EDIT 19/07/2020: - I've made quite a few changes to this video, including completely rewriting a few parts and adding some more stuff. I really appreciate the feedback I've been given so far, to the point I'm annoyed people are still going to be seeing this version for a while until the new one goes up. Thanks so much for helping me out with all your notes and criticism!

While I wait for final approval from some lawyers and get the animation finished, I've replaced the video with an imp...

Here's the First 20 Minutes of the RWBY Video while I solve the Content ID Nightmare

Hey folks!

Thanks for being so patient. 'A few days' turned into a few more days because it turns out that Rooster Teeth, despite being a company founded entirely on appropriating Halo video game footage, are incredibly precious about anyone appropriating their material, in any fashion. Almost all their footage is flagged as 'blocked in all countries' and cannot be played anywhere, and all the footage that isn't blocked is automatically monetized by RT, so they get all...

VIDEO UPDATE + WEIRD BONUS VIDEO

Howdy friends.

The RWBY video is nearly done. I'm looking to have it out for patrons in just a couple more days. I'm really happy with it, I've managed to cut and pace it from almost three hours to around two and a quarter. The fun thing about making long videos is every point and joke has to justify itself way more than a 20-minute video, where you can kind of get away with padding it to 30. Counter-intuitively, this is probably the most tightly-paced video I've done.

Normally to...

June Update

Hey folks,

Just a quick update, thanks for being patient about how long the RWBY video is taking. Trying to properly pace my points while still making the video entertaining to watch (especially for non-viewers of the show) is turning out to be harder than I thought. The video script really got away from me for a bit, it was like 60,000 words at one point and still not finished. Covid isolation has affected my productivity more than I've hoped, I felt like I was one of those people who ...

Video Retrospectives 1: Sarkeesian Effect: A Measured Response

Happy May, everyone. Society's still shut down here, but at least that gives me time to focus on the RWBY video, and also, the, uh....star wars videos. OH NO 

Here's April's bonus video: The first in a series looking back at my older videos, the choices I made, what I learned about them, and what I'd do differently. Think of this as a kind of mix of a bts, an analysis of my old work, and semi-commentary track. It's not much of a commentary track though because this one is so short....

GRAPHS BONUS VIDEO!

Hey folks! I hope you're all doing well, what with the major global crisis and everything.

Please find enclosed a patreon-exclusive video about Graphs - what they are, how they work, how I use them, and how I've changed using them.

Since the recent outbreak means I can't make a trip I'd planned to the USA to interview people for RWBY, I decided to take a lot of extra time getting this video just right. And frankly, it's my favourite video I've ever made. Normally it takes me six m...

War on Christmas: A Measured Response [BACKER VERSION]

Hey, here’s the War on Christmas video. Get it before it melts. Global warming joke here

EDIT: I tried using Vimeo's Patreon integration with this video, but it didn't seem to work for several people, so it's unlisted on YouTube now!

Coming up I’ve got a little bonus video for you about GRAPHS. That sounds fun, right?! No seriously trust me

NEW VIDEO & CHANGEOVER ANNOUNCEMENT

Woooosh!

Pretend I just swung in on a rope from offscreen. Wow! How’d he do that?

First off, I’m uploading the War on Christmas Measured Response right now. It’ll be in the next post! I realised I wasn’t going to finish it for last Christmas, so I took a proper break to spend more time with my family and then went all out on making it the best video I could possibly make, and I’m really pleased with how it worked out. While I was making it I learned a l...

WAR ON CHRISTMAS Update

Hey folks!

So I decided very last-minute to do a video on the War on Christmas. I basically made notes while doing my annual 'watch weirdos complain about Christmas and laugh' a-thon to amuse myself, and then realised I'd written most of a video script by accident. Then I made some very poor decisions while out buying props. 

However, it won't be done in time for anywhere near Christmas, or possibly even ...

Results from first poll! Also minor updates

Hey folks!

A day or so ago the first poll for $10 patrons finished, so the next video is going to be about why RWBY is garbage. I'm looking for that to come out in Mid-January. I'm gonna try to get some other small things out  before then though, like stuff from the Pathologic video, I'm away from my main PC right now though.

Oh, and, I'm in touch with one of the lawyers in the sandy hook parent's case against Alex Jones. If anything comes of that I'll keep you posted, I'd lo...

The Master List + some notes

Wow! Another month has begun. Ah, the horrendous passage of time. I love it.

Just wanted to make sure everyone saw, I've put together a spreadsheet of all the videos I've thought of making, or started working on in some form. Feel free to suggest more here or on the sheet itself, let me know what really jumps out, if there's something else you'd prefer, etc.

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PATHOLOGIC IS GENIUS AND HERE'S WHY PREMIERES TONIGHT!

The video is scheduled to Premiere at 11 PM GMT tonight! I know you Patrons have technically already seen it but feel free to come hang out and watch people see it for the first time.

I've tried to re-record all the names I was given corrections for, I'm really sorry if I've missed any, let me know and I'll make it up to you somehow in the next video :)

I'm getting on a plane tomorrow and I'll be in the states for a while, but I have a ton of things that went into this vid to show...

Final Credits Test (please check!)

Here's the final credits reading + scroll of names! It's almost 11 minutes, which i think demonstrates why I can't do these at the end of videos any more lol

Let me know if you need me to retake your name or if there's some kind of spelling mishap, adobe premiere is bad at using non-western text.

Please check asap, I wanna try to get this out before tomorrow night-ish!

Thanks again!

PATHOLOGIC IS GENIUS AND HERE'S WHY [BACKER EDITION]

Hey folks!

So this video is two hours long and about a pretty niche game, so I welcome any feedback you have on it. I'm really happy with how it turned out but as always I wonder if maybe I should redo all the music or all the volume controls and I'll probably do some minor tinkering for the next little bit.

I'm working right now on the credits, which I'll post in a separate video ASAP. Please watch it and check I got your name listed as you want and spoken properly! (I didn't wan...

Final Credits Reading Coming Up!

Hey folks,

As I've mentioned previously, I have decided to change one of my backer rewards. I'm never going to stop being grateful for every single one of you, but the (current) reward for $10 patrons, where I read out your names in the credits, threatens to really add a long tail to videos, and I've been putting off officially changing this for far too long.

So the next video, which is about Pathologic, is going to be the final time I read $10 patrons' names out in the credits. I...

Zoe Blade's 'raining' song from the new video

Here's the song I paid Zoe to do for the end of the Scanline about Director's Cuts, in MP3 and FLAC format.

Update soon. Love you!

Regarding Night in the Woods

Hello friends. I hope you're doing well.

I'm writing this at 3 AM as I prepare for several long flights on my way to XOXO, to do a talk about the Nightmare Stream I did earlier this year. I just realised now I never talked about it here on Patreon. Huh. Wow. Maybe I should make some kind of proper post-mortem of that amazing, crazy thing, some time. I could only have afforded to take the time to prepare and execute such a thing because I'm supported by you. So I definitely owe you all t...

Scanline: Director's Cuts (Patron Version)

Hey folks!

Here's the early version of the new video for Patrons.

I'll announce my future video plans in a longer post soon. Thanks for your patience!