So, Ben's turn to news post today. Hi everybody, how're you doing. A couple of shocking turn of events have been transpiring recently. We added two more to our Mod force, Joel and DarkWarrior. I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS. It's hard to overstate my satisfaction. They've been doing a great job so far and I hope you welcome them to our community with open arms. They do what they must because they can, for the good of all of us. Except the ones who are dead.
The new shirts are coming along well. They should be here very, very soon. We're out of beta, we're releasing on time.
If anybody is going to Nekocon on November 2nd - 4th in Virginia, look out for us (and by 'us' I mean Kroze and Dix)! We will hopefully be selling the new shirts at our booth and there will also be a screening of The Abridged Series (hopefully). More info closer to the date. But if you intend on going out to Virginia some time then, mark the date in your calendar! If you can't make it, that's okay. There's no sense crying over every mistake. Just keep on trying till you run out of cake.
Anyway, this cake is great. It's so delicious and moist. Look at me still talking when there's coding to do. I've experiments to run, there is research to be done. I'm doing programming and I'm still alive. I feel FANTASTIC and I'm still alive. While you're dying I'll be still alive. And when you're dead I will be still alive. STILL ALIVE.
Yep, The Abridged Series site has just hit over 9,000 users and I couldn't be more happier about how fast this site is growing!
In celebration of that, I have decided to make a few announcements that I am sure will have all of you squealing with glee...
Now you know our nice little store we have up there that many of you have ordered some super special awesome T-Shirts from? Well thats about to go bye bye!
Thats right! We are completely scrapping the store and the shirt designs in it and totally starting over with better quality shirts at lower prices with better designs!
This is all thanks to my good friends Dave at Snafu-Comics.com who is printing the new shirts and handling the store and Jojo from Dead Squirrel Comics who worked on the new shirt designs. If you have a chance you should check out both their sites sometime *Wink wink*.
Now all this information would just be a complete tease if I didn't give you guys some nice previews of the new shirts, right? :P
First up we have the infamous "Screw the Rules, I have Money!" shirt: Here
Haven't you always wanted a shirt that tells people you are more "Super Special Awesome" then them: Here
Whats that in the sky? Is it a bird? Is it a plane? NO! Its "Limeyman": Here
Back: Here
And I think Teddy here says all that needs to be said about this one: Here
Now keep in mind that those images are just the prototypes of the new shirts and little things may or may not change between them and the final versions. Hopefully the shirts will be up for pre-order within the next week or so. For now, those pictures will have to be enough to keep all of you satisfied!
Now onto the next order of business.... NEW SITE FEATURES!
As I am sure many of you are aware, we have added various new things to the site... Blogs and Friends Lists.
All users now have a blog which they can use to their hearts content writing about whatever they feel like and people can comment on these blogs. And just in case you always wanna be updated when someone makes a new entry in their blog, all users have their own RSS feeds to go with their blogs!
To use it, its just like making a new thread on the forums, its that simple!
Also, just like the threads on this site, you can "Watch" peoples blogs and will receive an alert when whoever you are watching decides to make a new entry.
With over nine thousand users on this site, its getting kind of hard to keep a hold of people you normally talk with and that is why we implemented Friends Lists. Now you can have easy access to your friends profiles on the site and are able to tell when they are online or not! To add a user as a "Friend" simply go to their profile, and hit the "Add Friend" button. He or she will then be added to your list which you can access by going into your profile!
And to go along with Friends Lists, we added User Search as well to be able to find people. You can find it in the "Users Online" section of the site. Just type in the desired users name and hit enter!
Nothing to it!
And finally, its that time of the week everyone!
No, not THAT time where I take off all my clothes and run around the site naked... thats tomorrow silly!
Since LK is gone, its up to me to work it good for the almighty Caption Contest!
This entry by insanehusky just made me wet myself with its photoshopped genius! Its my new desktop background!
The runners up by Helix and VampireLemons were not too shabby either!
And because my ego is bigger then Kaiba's, I must give a special mention to 007flash's entry because that is exactly what I have been doing since LK left... MUAHAHHAHAAHHA!!
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Now for this week's Caption Contest, I just can't resist giving you an insane old man and an crazy evil villain to work your magic on...
NOW GET TO WORK ON GIVING ME SOME FUNNY CAPTIONS YOU FOOLISH FOOLS!
In other news:
OMGWTFBBQ!!11!! SONIC IS IN SUPER SMASH BROS BRAWL!!!!!11!! *Splooge*
Yeah, I just can't help myself... I'm a huge Sonic fanboy and I am not ashamed to admit it! :P
I believe that covers everything... so until next time loyal Kroze followers!
Peace!
LIVE AND LEARN!!!! HANGING ON THE EDGE OF TOMORROW!!!!
LIVE AND LEARN!!! FROM THE WORKS OF YESTERDAY!!!
LIVE AND LEARN!!!! IF YOU BEG OR IF YOU BORROW!!!
LIVE AND LEARN!!! YOU MAY NEVER FIND YOUR WAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!
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Kay, I'll shut up now...
(Omega is so gonna kill me for that..)
EDIT: Shirt preview pictures weren't showing up so they had to be changed into links.... sorry about that...
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***MESSAGE FROM MAGICK ABOUT RANDOM WEBSITEUNAVAILABILITY****
PLEASE if you notice the site is down, PLEASE send an e-mail to magicksoft@gmail.com.
We are still experiencing some difficulties, I'm working hard to fix these problems, and I appreciate your patience.
I have ordered a new server and we will be moving there in the next few days.
I regret to inform you that, due to certain circumstances (i.e. I'm moving into a new place and finding a new job), I won't be able to visit the website or make new episodes for a while. I won't even be able to run the Caption Contest, which I'm sure is heartbreaking to you all. However, I shall return eventually. Probably within a month or two. And that day shall be glorious and stuff.
In the meantime, I leave the Caption Contest in the somewhat capable hands of Kroze - or whoever he deems worthy of handing the task over to himself.
Winner this week is mother****ing Cyberlink420 with his mother****ing entry which goes as mother****ing follows:
Mako: That is the LAST time I act as a stunt double for Samuel L. Jackson!
Hilarious, I'm sure you'll agree. And if you don't, then... There you have it. Runners-up (or is that runner-ups?) were cappy1510, Meowzy, and CybrSpacJake. Wow, lotta people with "cyber" in their name... You'd think we were on the internets or something.
Here's the new picturemadoodle:
Bonus points for explaining where KaibaCorp brand milk comes from.
Sorry I didn't update this yesterday - but what with the new episodes and all, I figured you'd be too busy watching those to think of captions. Or maybe I just forgot. We'll never know! By the way, those new episodes are still there in the Episodes section. Go look! Also, for all our registered users, you know have the option to create your own blog. It should be right next to your username at the top of the screen.
Last week's winner was LadyAbaxa with Yugi's last known photo:
So you've waited long enough, and finally your patience has paid off. We have new videos available in the Episodes section. Two whole new episodes, and another video that depicts the trials and tribulations of a Yu-Gi-Oh villain.
Just to clarify - the episodes are not made on any strict schedule. I know these videos were a tad "late" in the making, but they were made all the same. I'll never stop making the series - it just gets delayed from time to time.
Besides, if you ever get bored of waiting for my show, you could always go watch actual Yu-Gi-Oh episodes. *snort*
Hello everyone. Huge announcement for you today concerning the episodes situation. As you may know for a while now we've been serving episode downloads from our server and flash streaming from Brightcove. Yeah... turns out that wasn't a very effective solution. So we're changing, and we're changing to Revver.
So why is this a good change? Well let me walk you through the things that make Revver so awesome.
1. It's Just Like YouTube
Revver is a whole video sharing website, just like YouTube is. Fortunately for us that means if we get loads of views on our episodes we'll climb up the "Most Watched" list on the site and probably end up on the front page. If one of our episodes gets on the front page of Revver, LOADS of people are going to see it. I'm talking about a gazillion people. And getting the word out of YGOTAS is good, right?
2. Advertising
I know what you're going to say. "Oh dudes, you're selling out." Well, not really. He's why. The ads at the bottom of the site do NOT provide us with enough money. We're nowhere close to breaking even, and running the site is a majorly expensive endeavour. We're losing money keeping the site alive, I don't know the exact number of how much we're losing, but I don't particularly want to know. Fortunately hosting on Revver not only takes the download hits off of our servers, but also allows us to embed REALLY short, unannoying ads. How much do these ads help? Imagine if we took the banner at the bottom of the page and duplicated it 6 times all over the place. That is how much more money we'd be getting. And we need money to keep the servers from dying! So advertising in the episodes is a good thing, because I prefer the servers being alive over dead.
3. MAKE MONEY ON SHARING IT.
If you get a friend into the Abridged Series, you can get a cut from the ad revenue! When you're watching one of our videos on Revver.com and you're signed in, you can spread the link to the video with your special sharer ID attached which means that you get 20% of all ad revenue (we get 40%, Revver gets 40%). So if there's ever been a time to tell friends about TAS, this is the time.
I would really love to hear your guys thoughts on this. This site is FOR the community, and I'm just one man - there's 7,422 others that also use the site and want it there way. So if you have any suggestions, criticisms, ideas, I would be extremely happy to hear them. Thanks, and rock on.
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