Category: Random Musings

Restoration Process – 20 PerCent

With work taking time, restoring the old archive has been slow. At the very least, I can comfort myself with the fact that the majority of the commentaries are done (only missing one old commentary due to missing raw files and some playthrough commentaries). I’ve also started on restoring old vintage videos (some not even released) and the wrestling game matches. Some might even make it to YouTube.

In the meantime, I’m slowly uploading the remaining reviews onto the Dailymotion page. And come Canada Day, the 100th review will be posted on both channels on the same day… at the same time? Probably not.

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.

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. 

Restoration Process – 9 PerCent

Slowly getting there… still on reviews. Plenty of them left to go before I can start rendering other stuff… but at the rate I’m going… and provided nothing goes wrong… I might be able to sneak a commentary or two along the way… just to break the monotony.

Digging into the RAW Vegas files, I can add another casualty to the list… the Donkey Kong review for 2600. In this case, I must have “misplaced” the files and can’t find them. So this is one that I have to REDO somewhere down the line… all I have left is the original text review that I used for the dubbing…

Dang.

Restoration Process… 6 PerCent

Not much in terms of archive restoration; managed a couple reviews rendered back in one piece. Unfortunately, I’ve hit a bit of a snag when it came to rendering the Rebel Assault II review… the RAW Vegas file is incomplete. I honestly have no clue where the completed version is… if I even have it still. I did download a lower-quality MP4 file, but I really want a high-quality file on hand in case I ever need it.

It seems like my only option at the moment would be to restore the video, which will likely result in a brand-new edit. I’m debating whether it’d be worth it, though, since I really have no intention of revisiting the game in a reviewing format and any edits made would be fruitless since both DM and YT accounts have the review. I will give it a think.

Restoration Progress – 5 PerCent

Finished rendering a few more old reviews today. It’s still a long ways to go, but I think given the amount of time available to myself, I’m lucky to be getting any of this stuff redone at all. Of course, because of certain missing elements lost to the crash, I had to make some slight, minute edits to some of the older files – mostly a different opening panel. It’s a piss off that I’m even bothering with this, but it needs to be done… eventually.

Restoration Progress – 2 PerCent

Managed to re-render 25 older review of the archive, including a couple reviews for future postings. It should take me a couple more days to restore the review portion of the rendered archive, by which point, I’ll start on commentaries and later.

I’ll be posting regular updates on my progress regarding this archive restoration bit. While I will admit that these things won’t make for interesting reads long term, it is a way to get content (and post count) up. And if nothing else, it’ll be a nice gauge to progress how far I have to go before I can get back to making new content.

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