PlagueOfGripes

John Carpenter's Halloween: Michael Myers' Nature, Motives and Goal

Good news and bad news. Good news? A 3 hour essay on Michael Myers in the '78 film. Bad news? I can't monetize it at all.

It was claiming minutes of my own footage because it saw two still images from the film bookending them. It's easily the most aggressive I've ever seen the claim feature. Even if I turned the whole essay into still images, Youtube would still try to claim it as not mine. Even after I gave up and uploaded this exact video but with a forewo...

John Carpenter's The Thing: its Origin, its Nature, its Goal

This is the Youtube "theatrical cut" with the footage reduced to blurs and still images.
You can find the original, here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/john-carpenters-138816129

John Carpenter's The Thing: its Origin, its Nature, its Goal

An analysis on what John Carpenter's The Thing is and what it really wants. My favorite movie is The Thing, having been afflicted with it at an early age. This version doesn't worry about needing to use still images to deal with Youtube's various, hyper aggressive systems.

Why Huntress Wizard and Finn's Relationship Works

Art gripe time. I have a 1.5 hour video on The Thing waiting on Youtube, although it WILL be up on Patreon in full, regardless.

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/1239062827
https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/plagueofgripes/huntress-wizard-autumn

Dragonball's Next Transformation

Have another in a long line of Dragonball comedy videos. They take me a mere weeks upon weeks to write and create.

Stuff about Gaslight District: Melancholy Hill

Pitstop while I do other stuff.

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/1190003598

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/plagueofgripes/melancholy-hill

Technically Invincible: Samantha 'Atom Eve' Wilkins

Sorry for the wait. New PC, taxes, patreon, wrote and recorded a new script to send to editing, etc. Trying to crawl back into the game.

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/1180940451 

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/plagueofgripes/technicall...

Japan Doesn't Like Chiaotzu Either

A sequel to my Tien video. Done with patron stuff for a while, so now it's back to your regular stream of nonsense.

David Lynch's most important lesson

“Black has depth.. you can go into it.. And you start seeing what you're afraid of. You start seeing what you love, and it becomes like a dream.”

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/1148434798 

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/plagueofgripes/w...

Secret Level Tier List

Trying my hand at one of these. Is it worth watching? Kinda.

Niffty has a secret, and you're looking at it

Experimenting with shorts once more. Holiday week so it'll be very slow. VERY slow.

Daima VS GT: Which does Dragonball better?

Both get a point deduction for still forgetting Launch. Hoping this release being near Christmas doesn't hurt it.

Angela from Atlyss: that furry game with the rabbit cow dragon lady

Funny story: It's rare an art video gets demonetized the second I upload it. I removed the word 'badonkers' from the title and it went back to earning money. Youtube priorities.

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/1133139567 

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/plagueofgripes...

What's the problem with Darktide's cosmetic store?

I actually got some cool rock throws but it was was always in a garbage mission where the rest of the 20-30 minutes of footage was dog bites and fish net stockings.

How is gaming with other people more fun for YOU? Sons of The Forest

More of a general topic sort of video more than about a mechanic. Sons is better than Forest in almost every way. Maybe other than atmosphere and the combat being more preoccupied with unfairness and difficulty. A lot of ranged attacks required in either game.

Tunneling, Sweating, Toxicity: hooked on Dead by Daylight's central issue

As I keep shotgunning things I like at the channel, we get to see how wildly unsuccessful each topic is.

New podcast? New futures? Mapping messy futures with Winnie.

To make something nice, you have to make a mess first.

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/1122135612 

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/plagueofgripes/winnie-and-new-futures

Patreon is switch me to subscription billing on Nov 4.

Not a big deal, and nothing changes for you guys AFAIK. But I'd always retained the old billing model to try not to inconvenience anyone. But on November 4th, Patreon is putting everyone on the same sub model. Just a heads up for everyone.

~Eli, Plague of Gripes

Controversial Gamefreak Leaks and your Favorite Pokemon

Drawing: 16 hours. Editing: 8 hours.

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/1116573027 

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/plagueofgripes/gamefreak-leaks-and-your-favorite-pokemon 

The poll in question:

2024-10-31 20:13:54 +0000 UTC View Post

Controversy in Space Marine 2: do you feel like an Astartes?

Don't worry, I'll be back to drawing heresy soon. This is an experimental video that aimed to be 10-15 minutes long, which is VERY hard for me.

Tendi and T'Ana (Lower Decks): an Imperfect Lens for a Perfect Future

Behold as I ramble for an hour and a half about the nature of the human condition in Star Trek through the lens of a cartoon with the hot green lady.

Chief Miles O'Brien Rules: the most important person in Star Trek history!

The public release of my first Star Trek essay video! I may do more depending on if there's an audience for it.

Dark Souls to Elden Ring: What is everyone getting wrong?

At last, it is here. My next big butt project. This video is about Dark Souls and the value I find in it, and why that value hasn't been carried into the newer games. It took me a while to figure out a sort-of clickbaity title. Enjoy! I'll leave this up as Patreon-exclusive for about a week this time. Bear in mind that I may alter its visibility to be a premier a day or so prior, if it suddenly becomes private.

Waking up to Chronic Pain, Depression (and Why)

Winry seemed appropriate as a subject. For those interested in process, this time I tried going with almost exclusively sketch lines with a small amount of lining after doing color zoning.

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/1070342706 

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/plagueofg...

Danganronpa has a lot of Interesting Flaws (Akane)

I think I don't regret trying to explain Akane's understanding of what a "front tail" is.

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/1062664148 

https://www.newgrounds.com/art/view/plagueofgripes/akane-owari?updated=1718123009

Invincible: Debbie Grayson, Control and True Strength

An hour and a half of talking about writing and Invincible, for you.

The actual drawing only took 3 hours, 39 minutes. I panicked a bit when I realized I talked for an hour and a half, so I needed to only increase the video to about 230x instead of my normal 1,000x-2,000x.

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/Debbie-Grayson-1045029392 

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Dragon' s Dogma 2 Review (Minella)

My DD2 thoughts. Behold! Also, my opinion of Trickster ended up being that it was a good idea but didn't have enough vocation skills to warrant it as a class.

https://www.deviantart.com/gannadene/art/Dragon-s-Dogma-Manella-1038657399

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Thoughts on Toriyama, Dragonball, Creation

A followup to my latest video. In true fashion, I only remembered all the things I wanted to talk about in the final ten minutes.

Surviving Super: is Goku still Goku?

Rest in peace to the originator of all shonen. I grew up drawing the characters, and can't imagine a world without Dragonball. The news of Toriyama passing arrived the day before the video was meant to release. But it wouldn't be a Dragonball video without unexpected controversy.

Demon's Souls w/ German Spy @ PlagueOfGripes TTV (08 Feb, 2024)

Again, it's at: https://www.twitch.tv/plagueofgripes I may use the VoD in the future as a short Le...