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I'm glad the last line of that article made reference to Edgar Allan Poe's The Telltale Heart because that's what I was thinking of the whole time I read it.
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May 14, 2021 01:17
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AAAAGH! IT'S THE BUZZING OF THAT HIDEOUS HOG!
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May 14, 2021 03:11
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Pat made a video about what if Dragon Quest beat Final Fantasy. What a goddamn fever dream. Kingdom Hearts is a Hanna-Barbera crossover. Never 4get Boo Boo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuQgafov0pA
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May 25, 2021 03:20
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Everyone rembers when Aerith got booboo'd
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May 25, 2021 04:28
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big ol' necro, because the Polygon crew is making videos in person again https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbEBGf1J_qw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwB2zguYoco
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Those were both awesome but the clay dnd thing was amazing
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Jul 14, 2022 19:53
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https://twitter.com/thejenna/status/1552685019990265856 :/ they're starting to break up the team
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Jul 28, 2022 17:12
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Well, poo poo.
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Jul 28, 2022 17:16
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That really sucks to hear. The Polygon video team was the only real thing making me check out their content and Jenna was a big part of them. I'm probably only really going to follow the Besties from now on. I wonder if Pat and Simone will still be around.
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Jul 28, 2022 17:46
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Sounds like at least Pat and Clayton are pissed off about it, so wouldn't be too surprised if we see some other departures soon. Of course finding a job is hard so who knows.
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Jul 28, 2022 18:36
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If I'm honest I kinda fell off Polygon content after BDG left. Are there any highlights since then I should check out?
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Jul 28, 2022 18:37
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Didn't they just sign a new union contract or....something? I remember Pat was seriousposting about something anyway and it sounded like they got some kind of win, but I guess not!
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Jul 28, 2022 18:38
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101 posted:If I'm honest I kinda fell off Polygon content after BDG left. Are there any highlights since then I should check out? IMO most of their video essays are pretty drat good, but this one from Pat is definitely a stand-out: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JIEB5DKzJLM On a totally different vibe I also enjoyed this video of them playing a game in real life: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwB2zguYoco
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Jul 28, 2022 18:50
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pat has issued a statement https://twitter.com/Pizza_Suplex/status/1552704918234038272?s=20&t=IXkysKgXMSLQdfmIqWcTug
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Jul 28, 2022 19:07
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That's a bummer, and lovely of Vox. What a bad situation for something that was previously basically just the ideal of nerdy good time fun. I've been rewatching the "BDG plays HL for the first time" streams as background entertainment, and they are really great.
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Jul 28, 2022 23:30
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Bayham Badger posted:That's a bummer, and lovely of Vox. What a bad situation for something that was previously basically just the ideal of nerdy good time fun. I've been rewatching the "BDG plays HL for the first time" streams as background entertainment, and they are really great. Do you have a link to this?
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Jul 29, 2022 00:53
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Man I hate this, I wish I could boycott Vox media without harming the crew actually making things.
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Jul 29, 2022 00:59
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It's all been pretty downhill since around the time the McElroy's left and the video team went from getting to put out creative and weird videos (I particularly miss GameOgre, SEO Play and Gill & Gilbert) to just the occasional short video essay and maybe Overboard, with everything being carried along with BDG's runaway success with Unraveled. The essays have still been good, Jenna's mini-series on horror elements in particular, but it's not the same and it's not the reason I started watching their content in the first place. Not much to do other than follow the cool folks when they move on and see what they make next.
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Jul 29, 2022 01:45
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Ariong posted:Do you have a link to this? https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLfHsBTztwK8692rpsh1PY_NYsj8PPHKF2
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Jul 29, 2022 02:08
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Pat is a really talented video producer and it sucks that Vox seemingly want him to languish. Same for Simone and Clayton. Jenna was great too. I don’t really understand what they do all the time. There’s like 4 people on the video team and Polygon barely make a video per fortnight. We’re a far cry from when Justin / Griffin / Pat / BDG were grinding out videos weekly. It’s sad. well why not fucked around with this message at 08:54 on Jul 30, 2022 |
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Jul 30, 2022 08:51
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Yeah I’ve been puzzled by the same thing for the last couple years, or at least since Brian left…what do they do all day? I guess it’s probably that Vox wants their videos to be more produced and less of the casual “play a game together and gently caress around” type thing that they used to do, and that probably takes a bit longer. But agreed that their talents are being completely wasted, they are not only talented at video production but funny too and Polygon or Vox or whoever just won’t let them be funny anymore. The only thing that lets Pat off the chain anymore is when he gets to interview Ben Schwartz biannually when a Sonic movie comes out.
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Jul 30, 2022 17:47
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Not true. They also let him interview Ben for Space Force
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Jul 30, 2022 18:27
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Alternate universe where Ben is in an improv duo with Pat instead of sketchy Tom Middleditch
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Jul 30, 2022 18:29
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A large part of the problem is that to produce consistent, polished, lucrative video content you need dozens of people, not the six or seven that Polygon's team has centered around When your talent is also tasked with doing their own research, writing, camerawork, lighting, staging, art design, editing and marketing, your throughput drops tremendously Just off the top of my head if I think of what I'd consider prolific and successful channels that trend towards the top of the algorithim, things like smosh, mythical, bon appetit, babish, first we feast, vice, whatever, all those have very large and specialized teams helping to get all of those necessary jobs done All of the above also rely on big sources of alternative revenue (merch, conventions, books, sponsored content, collaborations) that serve to fund the less profitable videos, the point of which is to build the brand and drive the alternative revenue (and entertain, I guess) It's a no-poo poo-sherlock situation when Vox doesn't fully support the content and then throws a fit and makes further cuts because they can't make six profitable videos a week I genuinely feel bad for them all, because for a while it was very good content and felt like a legitimately engaging group of people doing something they loved, and it's just been withering on the vine because the bosses upstairs forgot to water them on occasion Much like the fracas around Bon Appétit, I hope they all peace out and use their clout to build something more personally and financially enriching
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Jul 30, 2022 18:42
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Yeah, Jenna mentioned on her first post-layoff stream that she had the distinct impression that Vox management -- whether they were consciously doing it or not -- was pivoting away from making video content, because the Polygon video team was already down one person and having to really scramble to get things done before they laid her off. (At least there's one bit of good news: the contract the union negotiated with Vox meant that when they laid her off, she got a good severance package, and in the very unlikely event that Vox reverses itself in the next six months and decides they want to staff up the video team properly, she has right of first refusal and could come back at the same pay grade.)
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Trilobite posted:Yeah, Jenna mentioned on her first post-layoff stream that she had the distinct impression that Vox management -- whether they were consciously doing it or not -- was pivoting away from making video content, because the Polygon video team was already down one person and having to really scramble to get things done before they laid her off. Iirc the Facebook video scandal was really what started the end. The numbers were inflated and vox probably didn't make a ton of money off them, so they reacted by cutting down the team who didn't make them millions (and talked real loud about forming a union). This is literally just anti-unionization poo poo wrapped up in an financial blanket.
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Facebook ruins everything. The recent fighting game and horse videos have been excellent, as is Pat’s long hair.
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BDG posted a real one about the US health care system: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wpHszfnJns I wanted to make a "BDG is unraveled by the US health care system" joke here so imagine I did that
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As a Canadian, it was surprisingly informative while being quite funny and also terrifying. What are you people dealing with
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Morpheus posted:As a Canadian, it was surprisingly informative while being quite funny and also terrifying. What are you people dealing with Our shits all hosed up! 
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Morpheus posted:As a Canadian, it was surprisingly informative while being quite funny and also terrifying. What are you people dealing with A living, perpetual hell!
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take boat posted:BDG posted a real one about the US health care system: Yeah that is a more straightforward and user-friendly description of health insurance than any employee handbook i've ever had of course it's still incomprehensible but that's how they get ya
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Morpheus posted:As a Canadian, it was surprisingly informative while being quite funny and also terrifying. What are you people dealing with I mean, we're also dealing with the eyes and teeth section of the vid too.
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I like BDG a lot but man I can think of few things conceptually that I don’t want to watch more than a comedic breakdown of the horrible hosed us healthcare system.
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If you do watch it, towards the end he says something along the lines of "this whole thing is something I should really be venting to my therapist of four years about, but my new insurance makes it so I can't talk to them anymore, so I made this video instead" I found it pretty informative and not unbearably cringy, it has a little bit of Adam Ruins Everything vibes to it, which makes sense because he's been doing some CollegeHumor stuff recently
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Yeah, the gags don't interfere with the point too much, it's a good video
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I wish Clayton would stop trying to be like BDG. He's a good writer but he doesn't have the chops to be goofy.
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Hard agree, and it doesn't help that his videos are the most milquetoast nothings right out of the gate I know I watched the one he released a couple of days ago, but I genuinely could not tell you what it was about, nor any other video he's ever made And that's not a slight on my memory, because I could easily explain the content of multifarious pat/simone/jenna videos to you offhand, but trying to recall anything of Clayton's is just a big blank spot Although I guess that's not fair, I do remember he did a serious video about the background behind sim city's algorithm that was pretty well researched
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