Comments on: The Subtractions

By: headcrablunch

headcrablunch — Thu, 14 May 2009 21:41:58 +0000

This is AWESOME but when is episode 9 out?

Keep up the effort! You guys are the best!!!

By: hl2lover14

hl2lover14 — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:57:24 +0000

Come on every time I predict it comes true release Episode 9 today!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:56:06 +0000

sorry part 3…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:55:24 +0000

OMG I jusy watched ep 1.14 part 1….and I realized that when player and Ellis were in the deathroom trying to find exit, there was the whale noise just like in 2.7 when Player was alone in deathroom. Wow what could this mean??

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 14 May 2009 01:06:21 +0000

Guys can you drop the youtube thing…getting annoying everytime I check comments.

Also can’t wait for EP. 9….predict tommorow (Thursday)

By: Flash879

Flash879 — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:01:44 +0000

You guys are not looking at the lulz and instead looking at the gooey slime covering the lulz. The scene you didn’t film would have been hilarious just for the instance of Ahmad using his newfound catchphrase.

“Awwwwwww! SNAP!”

By: Grif

Grif — Wed, 13 May 2009 02:02:12 +0000

Well I understand your point about not posting multipart episodes on You Tube, but if you say click here to watch the next segment in the description and an annotation (and probably in the video as well for people who turn of the annotations), shouldn’t that work? I know you said that it is a pain in the ass to do, but it really isn’t.

Pfft, for you it’s easy, all you have to do is sit back and watch. For us, on the other hand, it’s kind of annoying. Also, we already do all the stuff you mentioned. Doesn’t help.

We’re not opposed to having episodes longer than 10 minutes. We’ve done it quite a few times (trust me, Nick complains every time it goes over). We just do our best to avoid it whenever we think we can.

There’s really no point in talking about YouTube. Our method is set and it would be dumb to change this close to the finish line.

I’ve had to do this before to, and I know you do this with some episodes. I just wish you guys didn’t feel limited by the 10 minutes. But whatever, its your video.

By: Pharoahgakash

Pharoahgakash — Tue, 12 May 2009 22:56:47 +0000

Yeah youtube screwed me over on my account as well… As in, the robots suspended my account due to some 3-strikes rule with video infringement. Anyway, i went ahead and re-made my account so no big. The sad thing is, the summer vacation was lost. meaning, i cannot locate it anywhere, i did still have the newer tribute i made… but it still sucks since it was getting kinda popular. Anyway what you guys where thinking of, was the Youtube Partners, where if your eligible, you can get Partner Ship, this allows you to post longer videos, but you need a insanely high amount of video views in order to do so…

By: Eddy

Eddy — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:47:28 +0000

just out of interest are oyu guys still using gmod much for any of your filming? or what im edgeing towards is, i think you should use it for epic effects in the finale/movie

We don’t use GMod too much anymore if we can help it. It has a different look than Counter-Strike, and we usually have lots of issues in it. However, we do use it for our faceposed scenes.

Don’t worry, the movie should have some cool effects and such. And the finale will be pretty effects heavy as well.

By: JJ

JJ — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:33:44 +0000

OK, first off, everyone seems fixated on things getting cut out of the show to fit episodes onto YouTube, when it’s rarely actually an issue in practice. There have only been three episodes TOTAL, including this one, that had content produced and then removed after the fact.

There are several good reasons for deleting a scene. Some are:

1) The scene is a dud, and kills the pacing of the episode.

2) The scene is funny, but kills the pacing of the episode.

3) The scene makes the episode slightly longer than 10 minutes, which is too long for basic YouTube but too short to make splitting it in half really worthwhile. This is the case with 8.

Splitting episodes for YouTube oftentimes kills the pacing because it wasn’t planned for in the writing stage. It’s also definitely a pain in the ass because there are folks on YouTube who watch the second half first, or complain about the half-episode being too short, etc.

Splitting is to be avoided unless the length of the episode (or movie) is necessary to tell the whole story. When the movie premieres, it’ll be split on YouTube, but that won’t be the ideal way to watch it AT ALL, and in fact it will only be posted there because YouTube is a necessary evil.

Part of our reasoning is that we want to control your experience watching the episode as much as possible. To that end, it’s important that YouTube viewers get the same viewing experience as our website visitors whenever possible.

It’s also my firm belief that 10 minute episodes have just been good for the overall pacing and quality of the show.

Anyways, that was a bit of a rant. As you were.