Oh wow... its been awhile since I got to make a news post (And for good reason, the last time I did, it made people start bleeding from their eyes... I admit NOTHING!) and boy did I miss this...
Today I have a number of things to go over so sit right back and grab a chair as I ramble on and on. Kay?
Two weeks ago I ended up being kidnapped from my home in Jersey by twocompleteidiots and dragged to a place known as AnimeNext for the weekend along with a stockpile of shirts.
Lots of crazy shenanigans followed such as meeting variouscrazycosplayers....
And then stumbling across a complete Season 1 showing of YGO:TAS that they just happened to be showing... Many thanks to the con staff who let me barge in and disrupt the natural order that night to throw out some announcements! Also welcome to any new Abridged Series fans that may of been introduced to the series through that showing and hope you stick around on the site!
While there I ran across a couple good friends of mine such as Dave Lister of Paradox Lost fame as well as Chris Malone from Blue and Blond. Always awesome to see them.
Also ran into the crew of the Mad Gear store who gladly let us sell our box of extra shirts at their booth.... and from now on, will be helping to carry Abridged Series shirts at cons that we can't make it to! Aren't they such nice guys?
After meeting up with some awesome of the fans after the Abridged showing and all going out to a bar (unlike the FAIL BAR we have on the site) three of us decided to go on a trip at 2 am to find the legendary White Castle that was in the area... but unfortunately it ended up not existing.... THE WHITE CASTLE IS A LIE! so a pair of Things and I headed to the nearest IHOP instead. Twas a very enlightening experience to say the least!
All in all the convention was a complete blast and I am glad I ended up going at last second.
Next year you can be SURE to see us at AnimeNext is a more "official" presence! :P
Just be sure you stay away from Thing 1 and Thing 2..... x.x
Pure EVIL I tell ya!
Speaking of cons in the future, this brings us to our next thing on the agenda! UPCOMING CONS!
This upcoming weekend if you are in the LA area and going to Anime Expo, I would suggest you stop on by Booth #545 which is the Mad Gear booth since they will be carrying Abridged Series shirts for those of you who have been too scared to order them online!
Also the always incredible edible Dave Stanworth of Snafu Comics will also be attending in the Artist Alley so if you are there, go say hello to him, bring him food or something, and if you ordered a shirt and haven't recived it yet you can go there and bug the crap outta him!
Its ok, he's use to it by now!
In a few weeks, a bunch of the site staff (including possibly LK... possibly... hopfully...) will all be attending Comic Con San Diego together from July 23rd to the 27th! More news on that as well as who will be attending and possible Abridged users meetup will be posted soonish.
And then to finish off the summer hell run of conventions, Otakon will be happening at the Baltimore convention center August 8th through the 10th at which we will be sharing a booth with Snafu Comics, right across from theseidiots. Do I hear whispers of some super special awesome secret convention exclusive merchandise? I THINK SO!
Also at Otakon there will be a showing of Season 1 of YGO:TAS for those of you who aren't tired of seeing it over and over again on the site and want to watch it in a room with likeminded indivduals! I am sure many scared congoers like myself will be terrified at the unison calls of "IN AMERICA!!" coming from the depths of the video room!
Finally on the list, I have saved the best for last...
Next week Shark Robot will be holding a MASSIVE preorder for a bunch of new gear... Including BRAND NEW ABRIDGED SERIES SHIRTS!!
Now I could be mean and just leave you with that tease but no...
Here is your first glimpses of all the new shirt designs coming out from our side!
The first two come to us from two different sources then all the rest of the shirts so far....
Anytime Is A Good Time To Destroy The World:
This shirt was done by a good friend of mine, CelesJessa who is an incredible artist! You should go check out her work sometime!
Catapult Turtle Gambit:
By our very own lovable, dishes doing Moderator, Underling-ling
Front:
Back:
These following two were both done by the always awesome resident YGO:TAS shirt artist Jojo
I'm Not A Freaky Fish Guy:
Front:
Back:
And then finally, BROOKLYN RAGE!!!:
Also there will be a new button set featuring those four designs AND a special button designed by Snafu Dave: "REAL Men Play Childrens Card Games!".
So look for that coming within the next week or so!
And now its late and teh Krozey is very tired so I must bid you all a fond farewell for now!
Super Sneaky Surprise Edit:
For those of you at Anime Expo right now the Snafu Comics booth is in the #1300 row next to VG Cats. Stop on by and give Dave a muffin, will ya?
Not the most varied of caption contest entries this week. I was kinda hoping the image would force people to get creative, but the most interesting thing people did was point out that a door resembled a time machine from a cheesy British sci-fi series. C'est la vie.
New rule. Entries that unnecessarily use images as jokes (e.g. simply slapping speech bubbles onto the picture) will be frowned upon and will have less chance of winning. I strongly encourage everyone to just use text. However, that isn't to say photoshopping is banned altogether. It's about having fun, after all. Just don't tell HeavyDDR that.
So, some of you guys know about this already but as of this evening in a few hours I will no longer be with you guys here at Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series website. Some of you are asking "How can you leave this extremely kick ass and incredibly awesome website?" Well, the reason I will no longer be active on this site is that I enlisted in the US Army and I am shipping out for Basic Training in South Carolina tomorrow morning.
And yes, some of you may be saying "Well shouldn't this be in your journal?" Maybe... but none of you read it anyway....
However, I want to wish LK, Kroze, and the rest of the kick ass staff here all the best in the coming months as well as you users. You have made this site possible by your continued support. I hope to see this site alive and kicking when I get back and stop by from time to time. Thank you all for making these past months being your moderator/admin enjoyable.
Kroze Super Secret Edit (TM):
Just for old time's sake....
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, I started the last caption contest. And now it is to be judged. The TRAITORTRAITORTRAITOR winner is WillPhanto1 with this idolic entry:
Be sure to stalk our friend WillPhanto1 to the point of insanity and/or homocidal rage. Or maybe that was all in his head.
Nope, no sign of a new Eden episode. It's almost as if making those videos takes time and effort! Who'da thunkit?
My videos, however, require nothing but 100% laziness and complacency. And that's why you've got yourself a new one! Just head on over to our Episodes section to check out Episode 29, guaranteed to be despised by the likes of HeavyDDR and... well... mostly just him. But he counts for at least ten people in my book. At this rate, it won't be long before the Abridged Store will be selling HeavyDDR plushies. Squeeze their tummies and they tell you how much they loathe you.
But yeah, it's a new episode. And you're probably too busy watching it to read this part of the news post. So I'm just going to stop writi
Kroze's Super special awesome crazy insanely named edit:
Forgot to mention this earler but a fan asked we bring this to our attention seeing as how it has to do with her job.
She works at Beckett's Unofficial Yu-Gi-Oh Magazine and they haven't been doing so hot for the past few issues and if sales don't pick up, it could go under.
I would like to ask all the fans of our series, if they get the chance please check out the Magazine, and if you like what you see, please pick up a copy to help with their sales.
So you cried, you begged, you got down on your knees, walked through broken glass, and you even tried to blackmail me with photoshopped pictures of my head on a picture of Miley Cyrus' body. But none of it worked! Until now.
Finally, you've got what you wanted. A brand new episode of Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series. Feel free to peruse our episodes section to discover it for yourself, or simply watch it at the top of the page. But if you do it like that you're missing out. I think. I don't know, I don't even watch the episodes after I make 'em. I allow them to fade into obscurity until people quote the entire thing back at me, and then I suffer through nightmarish flashbacks to the time when this whole thing was but an iota of a concept in the back of my mind.
Anyway, enjoy the goofy video.
And start nagging Kroze for new episodes of Eden. Feel free to use the Hannah Montana method. He's very susceptible to that sort of thing.
To everyone out there asking for WMV downloads, we are currently working on getting our Season One torrent tracker back up online. Also, for everyone asking about individual episode downloads, the popularity of this series is actually the reason we can't have one up and running. The amount of bandwidth required for such a server to be up and running with the amount of downloads that would be hitting it with all the fans that would be downloading the episodes would be ENORMOUS. For the time being, QuickTime downloads are the only ones being offered for the time being. We wish there was some way to get you the WMV downloads in a more efficient manner but until we find a way to do so, there's nothing we can do. -Dix
You may recall a certain Godzilla fanatic attempting to start a caption contest that involved an image from some extraneous movie featuring sweaty Japanese men giant rubber costumes. This caption contest never happened. Erase it from your memory.
This is your real caption contest image for this week:
Yes, it's a naked pharaoh. Bonus points for managing to insult Godzilla movies and imply that King Kong could easily whup Godzilla's leathery butt any day of the week.
This news post is for those of you who are insane enough to not be playing Grand Theft Auto IV till their retinas bleed. And to those people I have nothing but the purest animosity. Animosity, I tell you. Just ask Lanipator. He knows. And to the ones who ARE playing it - if you're not listening to The Journey, I have plenty of animosity for you guys too. Unadulterated. Like an animal.
You may have noticed I uploaded a few small videos and one rather large video, which can be viewed on our episodes section. The first two are a couple of silly puppet things I threw together, posing as that rich and talented voice actor known only as Dan Green. The second one is the original Abridged Movie, which at least a half dozen of you are still interested in watching for the umpteenth time.
Also, I'd like to announce that Kroze can't steal cars and kill hookers for s**t.
Hey guys!
Its your friendly neighborhood Spiderman Kroze here...
As you may have noticed, the site was down for a few days due to a big attack on our entire server network, corrupting data and destroying things... as you see, we managed to get the site back up!
BUT (yes, there is always a but... just look at BadwolfTyler! :P) there was some minor problems with restoring everything to its previous state.
For one as you may have noticed, the site has completely traveled back in time to last November. Sadly this is the most recent, non-corrupted version of the database we had backed up so everything that was done after November is completely gone for better or for worse.
Posts, Threads, and even Users...
If you made your account here on the site after November, it most likely doesn't exist right now so you will have to reregister for the site. There is no way around that.
On the plus side, if you reregister as the same user name as you once had, you will have your avatar back as if nothing has happened!
If you find any errors on the site, feel free to post them in the "Help" subforum so that we may fix them as fast as we possibly can.
Another bit of good news, expect to see a new episode from LK very very soon as he has been working pretty damn hard on it for the masses to consume so look for that soon!
Teh Kroze now returns you to your regularly scheduled site!
Hey, in case you haven't already seen it, the video of our Nekocon Abridged Showing introduction is now up for your viewing pleasure. I have also utilised my crafty HTML skills to embed it in this news post. Damn, I'm a genius. Also we now have news alerts in your watchlist, as you may have already seen, so there's that for this week's site update.
And for those wondering, the Disc Error was all my fault due to me burning a Data DVD rather than a VIdeo DVD... yeah... I fail at burning DVD's.
Oh and Nekocon was a convention in Virginia.
-Dix
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