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I don't think there's anything bad between any of the cast members. It's just that Rifftrax is a pretty major business at this point, as big or bigger in nerd circles today as MST3K was back in the 90s. Asking Mike, Bill, and Kevin back to restart their old TV show would mean their own business being put on hiatus or outright ending. Rifftrax has a pretty big advantage over the other riffers anyway: they only produce and sell commentary tracks, not full copies of the film with their commentary over it, so they can legally make and sell riffs on any film in existence no matter its prominence. The low budget of MST3K is what restricted it to the shittiest of lovely B-movies and public domain shorts.
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chitoryu12 posted:I don't think there's anything bad between any of the cast members. It's just that Rifftrax is a pretty major business at this point, as big or bigger in nerd circles today as MST3K was back in the 90s. Asking Mike, Bill, and Kevin back to restart their old TV show would mean their own business being put on hiatus or outright ending. Comedy Central and then Sci Fi channel actually pretty good licensing arrangements, and many of the movies they covered, while not that great, had been major motion pictures, some even won movie awards, or had been very popular and expensive tv shows in their day. Really the time when they were restricted to the cheapest movies was the season on KTMA, a failing UHF independent channel in Minneapolis. Where low budget really came in was for the early VHS and DVD releases of episodes, where for the longest time Rhino and Shout could only afford the cheapest movies. They've slowly gone higher range and worn down more picky rights holders now, to the point that 142 of 176 cable episodes have been released on DVD.
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Nov 11, 2015 18:36
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Nintendo Kid posted:Absolutely nobody who was there when the show first started, or even when it was first on cable, was still there by the end, save Jim Mallon who was the pretty much never on screen producer guy and like maybe one other behind the scenes dude. Kevin Murphy too iirc
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Nov 11, 2015 18:51
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ayn rand hand job posted:Kevin Murphy too iirc Murphy was the second Servo.
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Nov 11, 2015 18:59
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He was originally the camera operator in the first season.
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A MST3K backer posted:I and my friends, fellow supporters over at another successful Kickstarter-originated project, Star Citizen, are circulating your URL there, too.
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Somehow I think all new episodes of the show will air before Star Citizen is out.
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Nov 12, 2015 00:27
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If you're wondering what the stretch goals are And other campaign facts Repeat to yourself "It's Kickstarter, I should really just relax."
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Nintendo Kid posted:Crow had two different actors, Servo had two actors with one of them changing the voice while he did it, Gypsy has been done by like 4 or 5 different people. It's hardly unheard of in MST3K! I don't mind them changing voices again, my problem was that the two voices in the pitch video sounded crappy. The Crow imitation was passable, but the Servo one sucked pretty bad.
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Nov 12, 2015 01:54
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Waffleman_ posted:If you're wondering what the stretch goals are la la la
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Nov 12, 2015 03:01
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chitoryu12 posted:la la la Let's fund some crappy movies The worst we can find (la la la) We'll have to pay to make them all And not get rewards in time
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Nov 12, 2015 03:03
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Makes sense, they're both cults.
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chitoryu12 posted:Murphy was the second Servo. Yeah but he started doing it in Season 2, that's a pretty long time.
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The MST3K kickstarter is indirectly starting to bug me. It's all because of a certain type of comment I've come across in different forums. It amounts to this: 'I'm guessing they can make a show for cheaper because it doesn't seem like it should cost more than 50k to make an episode.' Those people know nothing about making a TV show. I know barely a little bit more than them and that little bit more is this. A whole lot of poo poo goes into making a TV show, everything has to be paid for, and everyone involved has to get paid. 50k probably wouldn't even cover salaries.
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RandomPauI posted:The MST3K kickstarter is indirectly starting to bug me. It's all because of a certain type of comment I've come across in different forums. It amounts to this: 'I'm guessing they can make a show for cheaper because it doesn't seem like it should cost more than 50k to make an episode.' They're probably expecting it to be run out of someone's basement like an LP or something.
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Nintendo Kid posted:Comedy Central and then Sci Fi channel actually pretty good licensing arrangements, and many of the movies they covered, while not that great, had been major motion pictures, some even won movie awards, or had been very popular and expensive tv shows in their day. Really the time when they were restricted to the cheapest movies was the season on KTMA, a failing UHF independent channel in Minneapolis. Yeah, they played Marooned, which won an Oscar in 1970 for visual effects and yet somehow fell into public domain sometime in the 1980s-1990s and was released under the title Space Travelers. And of course, you had stuff like classic scifi like It Conquered The World and The Brain That Wouldn't Die, all of which is a far cry from the made-for-TV or localized foreign films.
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RandomPauI posted:The MST3K kickstarter is indirectly starting to bug me. It's all because of a certain type of comment I've come across in different forums. It amounts to this: 'I'm guessing they can make a show for cheaper because it doesn't seem like it should cost more than 50k to make an episode.' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MszYiKczYls
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Nemo2342 posted:I don't mind them changing voices again, my problem was that the two voices in the pitch video sounded crappy. The Crow imitation was passable, but the Servo one sucked pretty bad. Have you perhaps considered sending them a huge banner that reads "I HATE TOM SERVO'S NEW VOICE"?
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Nov 12, 2015 11:37
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Banners are expensive. We need to start a Kickstarter to fund our Kickstarter heckle.
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If you're an awful kickstarter thread regular checkout this guy. I find his stuff pretty funny and on point, and way better than the retsepurae kickstarter stuff.
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unpacked robinhood posted:If you're an awful kickstarter thread regular checkout this guy. I find his stuff pretty funny and on point, and way better than the retsepurae kickstarter stuff. You should maybe link directly to his Kickstarter Crap playlist because the video that came up on his main channel was pretty annoying
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unpacked robinhood posted:If you're an awful kickstarter thread regular checkout this guy. I find his stuff pretty funny and on point, and way better than the retsepurae kickstarter stuff.
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Cheez posted:When does he get to the funny part instead of the "lol I'm so wacky and I'm gonna talk in a weird way and ramble a lot" part? I don't know. I think he's pretty good honestly. Watch his Skarp Razor video maybe ? that's how I discovered him. It's ok if you find him unfunny.
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unpacked robinhood posted:If you're an awful kickstarter thread regular checkout this guy. I find his stuff pretty funny and on point, and way better than the retsepurae kickstarter stuff. The first video to catch my eye is one where he describes himself as drinking a "THICK JAP DRINK".
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyiDjR2Ayf4 I had never heard of the guy but I checked out some of the Kickstarter videos and the ones where he makes fun of super obvious liars/scammers are pretty funny. I think this is a good one to start on.
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chitoryu12 posted:The first video to catch my eye is one where he describes himself as drinking a "THICK JAP DRINK". Pretty good username imo
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unpacked robinhood posted:If you're an awful kickstarter thread regular checkout this guy. I find his stuff pretty funny and on point, and way better than the retsepurae kickstarter stuff. No.
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I will say this for him, he's tracked down some absolutely amazing KS projects like PATENT PENDING The Bubble Hat PATENT PENDING (a new type of gridiron helmet which protects against brain injuries) which I wouldn't have seen otherwise.
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I hadn't heard of the shower apron either (prevents your hair from getting into your rear end in a top hat when you shower)
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CJacobs posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyiDjR2Ayf4 The Dayron one is the best. It's not all that "wacky" -- but still funny -- and the actual Kickstarter is completely loving insane.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfoQV41fd74 Here's another good one.
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https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/insomniaitalia/sectors-game-by-insomnia-italia?ref=category_newest The Game Mode & Features section is pretty interesting...
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I want to train a markov chain generator with all the videogame Kickstarter pitches and see if it can generate anything good.
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Germstore posted:I want to train a markov chain generator with all the videogame Kickstarter pitches and see if it can generate anything good. Couldn't be any worse than most of the pitches. Gotta admit the PEGI 18 statement at the start of the reveal video tickled me
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unpacked robinhood posted:If you're an awful kickstarter thread regular checkout this guy. I find his stuff pretty funny and on point, and way better than the retsepurae kickstarter stuff. He is bad and you are bad for liking him. Though all of the Kickstarters he mocks are even more bad, at least.
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CROWS EVERYWHERE posted:He is bad and you are bad for liking him. I like him, he's like a mild man's daniel tosh except he doesn't make vile rape jokes because ha ha rape is funny right? edit: Dude tries way too hard to emulate Tosh's comedy though, which is not necessarily a point in his favor because Tosh is not funny.
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Germstore posted:I want to train a markov chain generator with all the videogame Kickstarter pitches and see if it can generate anything good. i coulda sworn someone did this and it gave us gems like "dark souls, but more like dark souls and also a roguelike".
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jpmeyer posted:"dark souls, but more like dark souls and also a roguelike". Would definitely play.
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This got suspended in record time and it's definitely loving braindead.
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Noyemi K posted:This got suspended in record time and it's definitely loving braindead. He must also drive like a moron because 10L/100km with a C2 is crap mileage.
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