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Arc Hammer
Mar 4, 2013

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Kim Justice posted:

Well, here it is folks. It's April 2nd. If you're Mike Michaud, this will not be a good day. Presenting a record of events while working for TGWTG.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WZFkR__B3Mk9EYQglvislMUx9HWvWhOaBP820UBa4dA/preview

The document is very long. There's a condensed version linked at the start.

EDIT: Mike Michaud is a vile scumfuck.

Jesus loving Christ that Dr. Gonzo section. Michaud trying to monetize Justin Carmical's suicide while simultaneously bullying the hell out of someone trying to help.

Arc Hammer fucked around with this message at 15:35 on Apr 2, 2018

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Mar 4, 2013

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Lightning Knight posted:

I was totally wrong about Shaun’s video, and it actually completely owns. :allears:

I'm watching a lot of these streams for the first time (because lol as if I'm going to give a loving Nazi views), but I am absolutely amazed that none of these Nazi morons haven't been shot yet.

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Mar 4, 2013

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Witcher 3 has that in a few instances. It keeps track of which dialogue options you chose and then secondary options might change depending in the order you picked them in. One that immediately jumps out is if you don't ask yen how she's feeling right away she'll complain and if you only then ask her how she's doing she'll respond with sarcasm rather than empathy like if you'd chosen that option first.

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Mar 4, 2013

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I thought Avellone wasn't the lead writer on honest Hearts.

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Mar 4, 2013

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I do appreciate that at every interaction with Ulysses you can just tell him he's full of poo poo and you've never been to the Divide before.

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Mar 4, 2013

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Max Wilco posted:

I've done that, too. They do make mention of Ulysses in all of the DLCs, so I thought maybe there was an explicit reference to something at the end of Honest Hearts that I had just forgotten about.

Joshua graham mentions that you're not the courier he was expecting and then he mentions that to get to the Mojave via the north the Legion needed to take the path through Death Valley because of what happened at the Divide cutting off the land route both ncr and legion aimed to control.

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Mar 4, 2013

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The Tenpenny/Ghoul quest is on par with an average quest in New Vegas. Some of the Casino questslines get downright labyrinthian.

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Mar 4, 2013

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Dan did you get stuck on camera duty for that whole trip to New Zealand?

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Mar 4, 2013

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The interview with Oin's actor was great but it hammered home just how unfixable the movies are. It doesn't matter how much you edit out to make one four hour film if the main cast got increasingly sidelined as production went on. It's not just a matter of the good stuff getting buried, but of the emotional core getting overruled by the need for action scenes.

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Mar 4, 2013

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I wonder if/when Sage will skip town. Guy has his own support base and connections to the anime industry so he really has little reason to stick around on CA.

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Mar 4, 2013

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MonsieurChoc posted:



(Why the gently caress didn't they have the elf sing when they arrive at Rivendell? Why the Goblin Town song last only a few seconds?)

The Extended Version has you covered. Of course why the hell they made extended editions for the freaking Hobbit is baffling to me.

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Mar 4, 2013

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That's exactly what did happen with Fallout 3 and 4 with regards to each zone feeling different. Todd Howard has gone on record saying that designers approach him with ideas on certain areas and he signs off on them with a carte blanche. So each person goes to Todd and then back to their own project. The trouble is that the connection only goes to Todd and not to other developers, and Todd seems pretty notorious for not being able to maintain consistency between his dev groups. So while you have a wealth of creativity you lack a consistency of quality and cohesiveness because Todd doesn't want to step on someone's toes but then these groups don't talk to each other. So you end up with one area being really well done right next to another area that was half-assed with no explanation for why they are right next door to one another.

It's not as bad in fallout 4 since thy tried to make some interconnected zones with the various raider bases, but the quality swing is still in full effect.

Bethesda's design ethos seems like Valve's "work on whatever you want" approach except with even less oversight or quality assurance.

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Mar 4, 2013

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The recordings are going to be juicy. Or Michaud will issue five thousand DMCA takedowns after Doug says something retarded.

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Mar 4, 2013

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Should be "sorry you feel that way"

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Mar 4, 2013

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Playstation 4 posted:

If people with variants of those opinions had any self awareness, rkajdi would have banned himself eons ago.

Am I getting deja vu or did I see this exact same response about a month ago the last time But b said something stupid?

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Mar 4, 2013

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FoldableHuman posted:

Does "being hired literally to be dedicated experienced camera operator" count as "stuck"?

I guess not, and that's a good thing. I did think the one shot of you sitting in front of Bag End wax nice.

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Mar 4, 2013

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Puppy Time posted:

He comments in reaction to things on it. It's nothing super unusual, though, from the bit I watched, so... eh. Marzgurl's stream reading the "apology" was better for entertainment. This stream seems just like something for people who haven't read the thing.

He's not doing it with hyperbolic flair. He's just utterly drained by the end of the document, especially anonymous 1's account. It's one thing to read something but hearing it out loud can also put things into a new perspective. In this case it highlights just how awful things got.

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Mar 4, 2013

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The problem is with management not content producers. You treat the cause first not the symptoms, and in this case it's hardly ad if the content producers are symptoms of one man's sociopathy

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Mar 4, 2013

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That whole review was written with the conceit that the show was only popular because fourteen year old Doug jerked off to it and that made it "mature". Sage doesn't like magical girl shows but at least he justifies his dislike for personal reasons and still gives a well thought out explanation for why a show exists and how it found an audience abroad.

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Mar 4, 2013

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Motto posted:

Though Sailor Moon also has the historical twist of being created by a woman who was then shut out from input on the now most well-known version of it.

She did get involved in the reboot from a a couple years back, though, right? That one actually has a really neat looking art style while I thought the old show just looked pretty bog standard for 90s anime.

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DEEP STATE PLOT posted:

after that document came out detailing the poo poo michaud and the walkers have pulled over the years came out, anyone not bailing from channel awesome kinda creeps me out to be honest. even more so after that loving joke of an 'apology' they put out.

Again, I'll repeat: don't do this to content creators. UNless they're mentioned as being negative forces don't start judging them for the poo poo the management pulls. Don't make assumptions.

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Mar 4, 2013

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That's not Welshy, that's Sad Panda.

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Mar 4, 2013

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lornekates posted:

So, what are the chances that CA holds another huge talent-pickup?

Will they get anyone? Will the site just be full of naieve 15-year olds who don't have the real-world experience or maturity to steer clear of a bad deal-- because EXPOSURE IS AWESOME and they'll be the next $1,000,000 You Tube Star?

I don't think they can do it. The internet landscape has changed too much and they have absolutely not kept up with the times. Channel Awesome as a website is irrelevant.

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Mar 4, 2013

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Raycevick takes a look at some interesting little games he picked up.

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His star trek crossover with linkara was so bad because Insurrection's development is legitimately fascinating as is its position in the series but Doug just tells Lewis to gently caress off with the nerd poo poo so he can yell some more.

Reminder that Doug's favourite next generation movie is Nemesis.


Nemesis.

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The idea if a crossover isn't bad in the slightest. It comes down to execution. Compare a Doug written crossover to any of Brad, Phelan and Allison's crossovers. There's a sense of genuineness about them because they're just being themselves rather than contorting into a foil for Doug's nonsense. Phelan's Ali Baba video with Harry Partridge is wonderful because of how much they rip into the nonsense of crossover scripts.

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Mar 4, 2013

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Stealing this from the fanart thread:

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He did A Talking Cat? Now that I think about it that film does look pretty similar to bigfoot versus db cooper

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Mar 4, 2013

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Come on Bennett, if you can lose 190 pounds you can lose channel awful

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Let the past die. Kill it if you have to.

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Sage still on the site, inaccurate. Should be him turning from 300 pound Sage into 180 pound Sage at least.

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