Flying Buttress

Early Access - Chapter Five

Hey peeps,

So here's the next one - Another 10+ min video.  And quite a lot happens too.  What's the universe equivalent of 'Globe-trotty'?  Space-trotty?  Plus there's a bit of something for everyone - Romance.  Action.  Bit of suspense.  Comedy.  And it's educational.

Unfortunately, I'm gonna have to take a bit of a break at this point.  I've made quite a lot of videos over the past couple of weeks (for my channel and for Hiru) and as...

Early Access - Chapter Four

Hello,

So I think i'm doing a much better job of ensuring each episode has some funny in it with this series. Or at least I hope I am anyway. I'm also trying to spice things up visually a little bit. I basically want to always feel like the current series I'm working on is the best one yet. I don't know if that's a healthy attitude to have or the best way to end up having a breakdown but whatevs.

In terms of keeping on top of videos and stuff... I'm still just about hanging in the...

Early Access - Chapter Three

Hello,

T'is a 10 minute video for a change. I don't think any of my videos have been 10 minutes long for ages (except the SuperCuts)  

YouTube vids used to 'have' to be 10 minutes long in order to put that extra ad in and I always used to come up a little bit short. And then YT reduced it to 8 minutes and now I always seem to come up a little bit short for 8 minutes instead. Almost like I'm subconsciously doing it on purpose.

Also... I dunno why I used exclusively My Li...

Early Access - Chapter Two

G'morning...

"Myuh Myuh Myuh Myuh Myuh" …and so on and so forth.

I have a feeling I'm going to fall behind fairly soon.  Next chapters over ten minutes long.  Haven't even written the one after yet.  Plus I'm trying to get a Hiru video finished and will potentially be editing quite a few smaller Hiru videos for April as well.  But I'll keep you posted.

Anywho - Today is a good day.  A whole bunch of new things to watch.  Invincible on Amazon P...

Early Access - Rise of the Horde: Chapter One

Hello,

Feels like it's been a while.  As promised - here's the next episode for you to watch 3 days early (if you want).

I dunno why but the 'opening credits' thing had me rolling.  It's really stupid.  The prologue of this book feels very Superman-esque to me... so I was gonna do a little bit of an homage to the old Richard Donner movie.  But then I ended up just doing a really dumb throw-away gag instead.  

But so far... i'm feeling good about this...

Shadows Rising SuperCut

Howdy Doody,

I'm finally back on fibre broadband.  Only took 6 weeks.  FeelsGoodMan.  

I mean... it still took all bloody day to upload this SuperCut today to YouTube.  But I suppose that is because it's a 31Gb video.  Just keep in mind it's only just finished processing the SD version so... the quality may be a bit shit until it's finished processing the HD and 2K versions.  

I figured I may as well give you access to it now.  And it'll pr...

New Series!

Hello,

Disclaimer:  I don't know when I'm going to upload this video yet so... keep that in mind.  Just in case you watch this and then have to wait bloody ages for Chapter One.

So... I got a bit carried away today / yesterday and spent about 14 hours straight making this.   So I guess I'm doing Rise of the Horde next.  

To be honest - MadiBean mentioned that Rise of the Horde was their favourite and then KBRedStar suggested Tides of...

Early Access - Epilogue

Hello

Sorry I didn't get this one up earlier for you lovely peeps.  I didn't get a chance at all this weekend to record the script and it was kinda annoying because I knew the script was only like... 1 minute long or something.

But on the plus side - I've basically built the SuperCut already.  I started working on it on Saturday and managed to get 33 out of the 34 videos rendered without Intros and Outros.  It used to take me a week on my old PC.  I underestima...

A Whole Lotta Early Access

Hey,

So... I'm just gonna drop all the remaining videos on Tuesday.  Tomorrow's video (Chapter Twenty Nine) is basically the finale.  Everything afterwards is just housekeeping and ties up the minor plot threads.  And they're all a bit short so sod it - I'll put em' all up.  

I haven't finished the epilogue video yet but I'll make sure you lovely peeps get early access to that as well.  It's not that important, tbh.  Vast bulk of it is just gonna be t...

Early Access - Chapter Twenty Nine

Hello,

I needed to reupload Chapter Twenty Eight with an updated Patron credits bit at the end cos there's been some changes and stuff.  It's getting a bit confusing lol.  Patreon insists on taking money on the 1st of the month so if someone deletes their pledge after they've paid... then I feel like they still deserve to be in the credits for the rest of the month.  Cos I'm a nice guy.  

But then there's situations where payments get declined or whatever... an...

Early Access - Chapter Twenty Eight

Hello,

We're getting very close to the ending now.  To be fair, Chapter Twenty Nine is basically like the grand finale of the main conflict.  And then the remaining 4 videos tie up smaller plot threads.  So that's cool.

Anyway - This internet situation I've been having has turned into a saga.  And now i'm going to vent about it so I apologise...

We still don't have proper broadband.  This has been going on for four weeks now.  And I'm pretty sur...

Early Access - Chapter Twenty Seven

Hello,

So... here's a funny story.  My 'proper' internet was supposed to be activated yesterday.  'Supposed to be' being the key words there.  It has not been.  So that's great.  They told us it would be activated anytime before 23:59 on 22nd of February and yet... even by about 16:30... I had a sneaky feeling that they were full of shit.  So I'm still stuck with this crappy 4G connection for now.

Anyway - What did you think of BlizzCon?  Imo... ...

Early Access - Chapter Twenty Six

Hello,

This one's a bit more interesting.  Nice callback to the short story 'Dark Mirror' by Steve Danuser which you can download here... https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-gb/story/short-story/dark-mirror 

I may actually do one of those short stories next, ya know.  I still have the massive undertaking of adapting most of the novels but... might be a nice change of p...

Early Access - Chapter Twenty Five

Hello,

Another 'Talanji talks to Bwonsamdi on a balcony' episode.  Although it does shed some further light on some stuff. 

I'm in the process of writing the Chapter Twenty Nine video.  It's a complicated one.  All these remaining chapters are fairly short except Chapter Twenty Nine where everything happens.  

No idea how I'm gonna edit it yet... may have to trim some fat.  I try to avoid cutting stuff from the story but sometimes I have to acce...

Early Access - Chapter Twenty Four

Hello,

Ok. Here's the next video.  We're back to normal now.  FeelsGoodMan.

I've still got a further three videos already made so I'm like... two weeks ahead of myself at the moment.  I'm gonna keep making vids (albeit at a slightly more leisurely pace than usual) but I reckon I could potentially finish all the episodes within a few weeks and then just drop em' all at once.  

Or continue to upload them Tuesdays and Fridays, get the supercut done... start ...

And we're back... kinda

Hey peeps...

So this 4G hub thing is a bit poo.  And by poo, I mean... I was on full fibre broadband before.
And now I'm getting anywhere between 0.55mbps and about 12mbps download speeds.   Depending on how the hub is feeling at that particular moment.  

Butt... it's nice to be somewhat connected again.  I'll just have to make do with this until my actual internet is activated on the 22nd.  

Anyway - I know I gave you guys early access to C...

Another Update

Hey peeps...

So you may have seen in the YT Post or the tweet or on discord that I've got internet problems. I've also gone over my data allowance on my phone so I'm going to probably get a nice bill next month.

As a result... my plan to come back on Tuesday couldn't happen. And, because my ISP cut us off completely... they basically have to treat us as if we're a completely new customer. And couldn't confirm how long it's going to take to get us connected other than "your or...

Update

Hello

Just a quick post to let you all know how things are going...

So far, I've got my next two vids finished and about 60% of Hiru's 'History of Retcons' vid done.

There's a chunk about Illidan so I'm currently cutting bits from my Illidan series to fill that part. I'm finding it kinda amusing to just put random bits in that don't really fit with what Hiru's saying but I should probably stop doing that.

I reckon I'll upload the Chapter 22 vid next Tuesday so...

Early Access - Chapter Twenty Two

Hello,

So... I'm (slightly reluctantly) gonna take a break.  Which means you lovely peeps are getting this video a lot earlier than everyone else.  lol.  Which is why I've put it on Google Drive rather than YouTube this time around.  But I apologise for not giving you a bit more notice.  I like to usually try and give people a heads up (especially Patrons) but this has been a bit of a spur of the moment decision.  I guess I did mention there was a break com...

Early Access - Chapter Twenty One

Hello,

Here's the next video.  It's a fun one.  I tried to make a reference to that really annoying World Quest in the Port of Zandalar where you chase a bunch of kids but... it's probably just gonna confuse people.  

In other news - I've been levelling an alt (when I can) recently.  A Kul Tiran Guardian Druid.  I chose Pandaria cos it's been a while since I did those zones.  And I genuinely feel like they should prescribe it as a form of meditation f...

Early Access - Chapter Twenty

Hello,

Short and sweet episode again.  At least it sheds a bit more light on Apari's past though.  Sometimes these short chapters can feel a bit filler-ish.  Like those episodes of 'Friends' where they'd all sit round a table and discuss previous episodes of 'Friends'.  

In other news - I'm kinda excited for WandaVision starting on Friday.  Big MCU fan here.  The title is poo and the show looks kinda weird but... I'm holding out hope that it leans mor...

Early Access - Chapter Nineteen

Hello.  How's it going?

So the worlds gone mental.  Or... more mental anyway.

I know there's an old saying that's basically like... 'When the whole world seems crazy to you; you're the crazy one' but I'm calling bullshit on that.  World's gone mental.

I don't even know what to say.  I'd usually just ramble in these Early Access posts about any old bollocks that pops into my head but I'm gobsmacked.  lol.  My brains empty.  All I can hear is...

Early Access - Chapter 18

Hello,

I enjoyed this one.  The whole *panting* thing - It's those kinds of jokes that really tickle me.  If I had the balls... I'd have stayed in that moment for about 10 minutes.  The trick to that kind of joke is to either do it for just a bit too long or go to the extreme and do it for waaaaaaaay too long.  So long that it becomes irritating, people start to get angry... but then start to laugh because of how irritating it is.  I even foreshadow it with the ...

Early Access - Chapter Seventeen

Hello.  Happy New Year!

Doing a little experiment with this one.  Not only do the WoW models look a lot better on my new PC but I can utilise the much better hardware to render the videos at a higher quality.

So... basically... that's what I did.  lol.  I've rendered this one at 1440p 60fps.  I'm hoping that the improved quality doesn't result in the videos losing some of their charm -- If you watch it... let me know what you think.

The only problem ...

Early Access - Chapter Sixteen? (I can't keep track anymore)

Hello!

Long time, no see.  lol.  Feels like it's been ages. 

How'd your Christmas / Holiday season go?  Mine was nice.  Makes me laugh; when I was a kid... Christmas was all about the presents.  But nowadays... it's all about the food.  Especially cheese.  

My new PC is here.  So I will be doing a whole bunch of copying files / transferring.... plus downloading, etc.  It's a daunting task but once it's done, it's done.  ...

Very Early Access - Chapter Fifteen

Hello,

So here's next Tuesday's video for you nice and early.  I've put this one on Google Drive cos otherwise it'll just be sat on YouTube (unlisted) for a week.

And now it's officially my Christmas break.  lol.  Nah i'll probably try and get more vids done so I can get ahead of myself a bit tbh.  I should also be back to making vids for Hiru again soon.  Gonna need that moolah considering I've spent 2.5k on a new PC.  

I'm not usually one to s...

Early Access / Merry Christmas and stuff

Hello,

So - as the outro of this one suggests... I'm not gonna bother uploading a video on Christmas day (which is a Friday this year).  Not that I care too much about the way a video performs... but it does seem kinda pointless.

I will work on the Chapter Fifteen video and upload it at some point next week.  So you'll get that earlier than everyone else cos it won't be up on YouTube until the 29th December.  

So I will be posting again before next Friday but....

Early Access - Chapter Thirteen

Hello,

Think I had a brain fart at the beginning of this one.  To be fair... I've had a stomach bug, the sniffles and my face nerve started hurting again this week.  It was great.  Loved every minute of it.  lol.  It's weird though - I can't remember ever having multiple ailments at the same time.  Like... when you're ill... you usually only have to worry about one thing, right?  Or is that just me?

Anyway - I don't wanna freak anyone out but... ...

Early Access - Shadows Rising - Chapter Twelve

Hello,

So this new method of sharing vids early is confusing me a little bit.  lol.  But only cos I'm a creature of habit and I've been using the Google Drive method for years.  Hopefully it's working?  Let me know if it isn't.

In other news - I'm starting to slightly regret my choice of Venthyr as covenant.  The campaign so far has been a bit... lame.  In comparison to some of the other ones, I mean.  I was levelling an alt and decided to join t...

Early Access (Trying something different) - Chapter Eleven

Hello,

Google Drive has been shitting the bed for about a week and is just not processing videos.  And since Google are outright refusing to accept it's a fault on their end despite countless people moaning about it on their forum... 

I'm trying a different method of delivering videos early to you lovely peeps.  Basically I've uploaded the video to YouTube but it's set as 'Unlisted'.  I was under the impression this was a bad way of doing it because the video w...