Author: dtm666

I ramble about things.

Random Thoughts On… TGWTG's Special

…or rather the lack of a special. Apparently, it’s still be worked on, but I find it rather odd that it isn’t ready yet, since in the past couple years, their anniversary special would either be released already or in progress by this time of year. Mind you, I found their prior attempts at epics to be dismal (and made a couple reviews out of it) but if they’re taking the extra time to make it actually something resembling good and something that the casual fan or outsider could enjoy, then that’s probably a good thing. While there are some things they can’t fix – if the performances themselves are shit, there’s not much they can do about that – the extra time allotted could be used to make the most of what they could.

In any case, I really hope that the TGWTG people can put out a product that can be enjoyed by as much as of an audience as possible. There’s no point in making a film for the fans because the sad truth is that the majority of die-hard fans will like whatever shit that site produces. And that’s not an insult or low blow. That’s the goddamn truth. So building a product with such a limited (in more ways than one) audience seems short-sighted and foolish in my view.
I have said this before and I’ll say it again; Doug, don’t fuck this up.

On that note… Spoony is apparently gone from TGWTG.

Source: http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/thenews/35675-a-farewell-to-noah-antwiler-aka-spoonyone-with-ca

Surprised to hear about this. Don’t know if anything happened and I don’t want to speculate… but yeah. Didn’t see that coming.

Best of luck, Noah.

Discovering Old Stuff

What little time I have at home during the week is spent rebuilding archives. I’ve done most of the old reviews (only a couple need be rebuilt altogether) and I’m halfway through the commentaries. However, I did come across some old files. One’s an old commentary that was never released (but will be now), and the other’s a set of videos that I never recorded any solid commentary. If nothing else, it’ll add to some reserve videos in the back catalogue of videos for future updates.

In-FAQ?

A couple folks who claim to have been followers of the old DTM Webstation website I used to do (I find that alone highly suspect, but I digress) have been wondering if there was any chance I was going to bring back the InFrequently Asked Questions page…

I honestly have no idea… it might not be a bad idea… but I have no idea… we’ll see.

Restoration Process 11 PerCent

Finished redoing the early set of reviews. Began work on restoring some commentary videos. The commentaries are pretty easy to restore in this case; a couple of them are simply merged versions of previously 2-part commentary videos and the rest are more or less intact. The only issue is that the rendering takes quite a bit of time to pull off, which means I have to keep busy on other things. So we’ll see.

In the meantime, I’ve slowly begun work on more reviews for a future event. More on that later down the road.

RA2:SE review… ??? LULZ1

I mentioned in a previous blog post that my hard drive containing my video archive crashed and I have been rebuilding these rendered videos using the raw Vegas files. Unfortunately, due to my earlier inexperience and mismanagement of files, I lost a couple reviews. One of them was Rebel Assault II, the 2010 review. I was originally going to do a rebuild of the file, but I think it would be partly interesting to put together a “special edition” of the review. This would include re-ripped footage, re-edits, and possibly a redub.

The re-edit MIGHT be seen online. We’ll see.