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Feedback and Half Life: Alyx - Jeff

Thank you very much for all your feedback on the last post, everyone. I promise I have read it all, even though I can't respond to everything I'm afraid. Thank you for being so understanding and supportive.

I don't necessarily want to abort the Sons of the Forest video follow ...

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Sons of the Forest problems

This has been a very difficult preproduction week thus far. And this will be a difficult post to make. But here goes.

For the last couple of days I've been intensely stressing over the footage for the Sons of the Forest video. As I've been wrestling with an uncomfortable realisation as a cr...

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Preparing for the next project & pre-production

Good afternoon everybody. Just to let you know that with HELLDIVERS 2 public and then a week taken off as a break, I'm ready to get started with the next edit.

Actually the timing was really excellent. For last week saw me finally secure a new place that isn't this cramped lit...

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Helldivers 2 bullshittery - Update #4

Good evening all. I'm back from a family BBQ. Lulu got lots of cuddles from various family members as she was passed around from lap to lap. And she came back thoroughly full of chicken and cheese.

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NEW VIDEO - Random HELLDIVERS 2 bullshittery

Good afternoon everybody. It's the end of the 5th week of work on HELLDIVERS 2 bullshittery. And I've been able to finish it and get a render ready. Here is the link. Thank you very much for waiting - https://youtu.be/FXjEs46j8Eo View Post

Helldivers 2 bullshittery - Update #3

Good evening all. Quick post to update you all as I'm deep in the editing trying to deliver the video for you all.

It's the 5th week of work of Helldivers 2 bullshittery and I'm working it through quality assurance. For those interested, I've made another one of those ...

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Helldivers 2 bullshittery - Update #2

Good evening folks. Hope you're having a lovely week. It's the end of week 3 on the latest bullshittery video this is the progress so far:

  • Week 1 - Pre-production to find the necessary scenes from about 35 hours of footage

  • Week 2...

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Helldivers 2 bullshittery - Update #1

Good evening folks. Thank you again for partaking in that poll in the last post. Helldivers 2 was the clear winner. Therefore I've enthusiastically spent the last 8 days on it.

For those unfamiliar - at the start of each bullshittery project - a "master" project file i...

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June 2024 - Which project would you prefer I focus on next?

Good morning all. This is the follow up post to the one on Saturday.

Having worked on that video-essay for 3 months or so, it would be nice to have a change of pace before going back to it afterwards. Is there a potential bullshittery you'd like me to make?

Brainstorming with the chat...

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Sons of the Forest - Update #9 - Next 20 minutes

Good afternoon all. I've been able to finish another work-in-progress chunk of this Sons of Forest video-essay. An unlisted video link is here for those interested - https://youtu.be/p7ROvAjV7-w

This one consists of segmen...

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Sons of the Forest - Update #8 - First 45 minutes

Good evening everybody. I've managed to complete the first chunk of that Sons of the Forest video. I've made an Unlisted link for you here. Sorry that this took ages. I was hoping to have it by last Friday. But I ended the week with about 60 issues that had to get worked through - 2024-06-05 22:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post

Sons of the Forest - Update #7

Good morning everybody. It's the end of week 9 on the latest project and here's summary on progress:

  • Broadly I'm working on a follow up to The Forest video essay. This time on Sons of the Forest. It consists of 40 segments and is roughly 3 hours long.

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Sons of the Forest - Update #6

Good evening all. It's the end of week number 7 on the latest video-essay for Sons of the Forest. And here's a summary on progress.

I must apologise for week 6, for despite my desire to dive into the project immediately, I came down w...

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Sons of the Forest - Update #5

Thanks for taking part in the polls everybody. So the final tally of opinion was

  • 1.) Option 1 - Just continue with Sons of the Forest = 556 votes

  • 2.) Option 2 - Set this to one side and continue it later = 195 votes...

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Sons of the Forest - Update #4 - Pre-production complete

Good afternoon all, hope you're all smashing. It's the end of the 5th week of pre-production work on a Sons of the Forest video-essay. And it went something like this:

  • Week 1 & 2:...

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Sons of the Forest - Update #3

Good evening all. It's the 4th week of work on a Sons of the Forest video-essay and here's an update on progress:

  • I've finished planning out the overall structure (completed last week) - resulting in about 40 points to talk about in sequence. Which currently occupy my wall as a guid...

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Sons of the Forest - Update #2

Good afternoon everybody. It's the second week of work on the current video-essay. Here's how things are currently going. My current objectives are:

  • Review the Sons of the Forest streams for useful moments.

  • Identify the points in the prior video-essay that I'd like to...

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Sons of the Forest - Pre-production and script (for now)

Good afternoon everybody. I'm back from a week-or-so of rest after the last video. During that time I did a bunch of cleaning and cooking projects - the latter being a minor hobby of mine.

And sufficiently inspired by a recent playthrough of Sons of the Forest, I realised that I'd never tas...

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NEW VIDEO - Arma 3 Prairie Fire Bullshittery

Good afternoon everybody. It's been a week of quality assurance since the last update. And I think I've been able to iron out the errors in the latest bullshittery. I have a link for those interested? Let me know what you think of it and as always, thank you sincerely for your extreme patience an...

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Arma 3 Prairie Fire Bullshittery - Update #3

Good evening folks. Apologies for the fairly late post. I should have typed up one about a week ago. I've actually jumped quite far ahead in the edit.

  • In the last post I said that I'd completed the initial cut and was moving onto keyframing/animating.
  • I was actually able to c...

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Arma 3 Prairie Fire Bullshittery - Update #2

Good afternoon everybody. Hope you're doing well. It's been a week and a half since work started on Arma 3 Prairie Fire Bullshittery and here's an update on how things are going.

Things have properly conspired against me a bit, corr blimey. It's been a real uphill battle:

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Arma 3 Prairie Fire Bullshittery - Update #1

Good evening folks. Thank you for participating in the recent polls. It appears that Arma 3 Prairie Fire (Vietnam) was the clear winner. I will endeavour to deliver you a Arma bullshittery - starting today. 

For those unfamiliar with my process, there are 4 phases:

  •  1....

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Feb 2024 - Which project would you prefer I focus on next?

Greetings folks. I hope you're all doing smashing.


I'm currently taking this week off to chill, whilst also penning some (potential) video-essay scripts that might take off later. All is well over here. In the meantime however, I figured I'd go through some potential bullshittery...

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NEW VIDEO - Divinity Bullshittery (part 4)

Good evening everybody. I've managed to finish the latest bullshittery and have a link for you if you're interested. It's Divinity bullshittery (part 4) - https://youtu.be/8H_R8dJ7x8o 

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Divinity Bullshittery - Update #4

Happy New Year everybody. I hope you've all had a smashing one. And Christmas before that.

It's been a couple of weeks since the last update. And I've been squirreling away on the keyframing/animation phase for the next bullshittery. And though the second week proved difficult due to sickne...

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Divinity Bullshittery - Update #3

Good evening everyone. A short update, as it's been a week since the last post and I'd like to keep everyone in the loop.

Thank you for all your feedback concerning the draft. It's restored my confidence considerably. I felt happy enough to proceed to full keyframing. It's already started a...

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Divinity Bullshittery - Update #2 - Draft version

Good evening everybody. Hope you're all doing well this week.

Over the course of two weeks I've been able to cut together a Divinity bullshittery. And have also perform some quality assurance (mostly audio) to bring it into a watchable state. I've intentionally skip the middle part, for the...

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Divinity Bullshittery - Update #1

Good evening everybody. A quick update on progress. Keeping it as succinct as possible in a TL;DR:

  • Off the back of a couple of weeks of pre-production, I was able to cut together a rough draft of a Divinity bullshittery last week.
  • I'm currently trying to trim...

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Divinity Bullshittery - Preproduction scrubbing #3

Good afternoon all. Another update. With a TL;DR first:

  • I've spent a couple of weeks reviewing livestream footage for Divinity 2. Trying to determine if there are enough gags for a bullshittery episode.
  • I feel the answer is yes. And will start cutting one tog...

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Divinity Bullshittery - Preproduction scrubbing #2

Good evening everybody. Hope you've all had a lovely weekend. A complicated post below. But for those swinging through, here's the TL;DR:

  • Last week I've been categorising highlights in a "master" project file for Divinity. Carefully watching through the livestreams to identify useful ...

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