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| New Episodes Host |
| (195 comments, posted 1 year ago by Ben) |
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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| Caption Contest #8 |
| (486 comments, posted 1 year ago by LittleKuriboh) |
araloki won last week's contest with the following caption:
"Marik: There's trouble in Cairo, time for me to reveal my secret identity, TORSO MAN!
Odion: Sir... you don't have any super powers.
Marik: TORSO MAN AWAY! WHOOSH! ZOOM!"
Odion: ......."
The official runner-up was Voa's Bat-tastic caption, alongside Helix's very traumatising image. Oh, and as always, Dawn rolfs it up.
Here's the new picture to fiddle about with.
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| Caption Contest #7 |
| (694 comments, posted 1 year ago by LittleKuriboh) |
First off, a few people were telling me that I should stop doing the Caption Contest if it interferes with making new abridged episodes. Rest assured, the Caption Contest takes me maybe an hour to work on. It's not distracting me from anything. What is distracting me from making new videos is the fact that I just got engaged - but obviously, that's not something I can just put aside.
Let it be known that I am working on new episodes - and there's a few other videos in store that aren't part of the series, but they'll be fun nonetheless.
Last week's winner was Hashmere with the following caption:
Mostly because I think Weevil looks good with a monocle. But then, who doesn't look good with a monocle?
The runners up were OrangeSoda, Vinny187, and Helix.
Here's the new picture... Wait for it...
I'm just asking for trouble with this one. And to get thing's started, I'm gonna throw in a caption of my own:
Marik re-enacts the infamous Lex Luger vs Shirt video.
"Superbrawl Saturday?! I don't know!"
Fixed link to OrangeSoda's entry... no need to thank me by showering me with diamonds or gold... OR GOLD DIAMONDS! Yeah! I really like those...
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I'm on to you!
- Kroze
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| Caption Contest #6 |
| (573 comments, posted 1 year ago by LittleKuriboh) |
3ntropy won last week's contest with the following entry:
And now for something completely different... A new caption image.
Like, good luck, or something.
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| Our Survey Says... |
| (80 comments, posted 1 year ago by Ben) |
Hi. Me again. I need to ask a quick question to those visitors that live in the UK. Say there was a live event hosted in the UK, where you could meet LittleKuriboh, chat with loads of other fans, and generally have a cool day out... would you go? We (I) need to know how much interest there is for this kind of event before anything happens. Please vote with the super-quick form below and it'll help out big time. Your vote is hugely beneficial!
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| Watching |
| (38 comments, posted 1 year ago by Ben) |
Do you follow topics? Is there one you always post in? Wouldn't it be nice if you could get updates whenever there's a new post made in that topic? Well, gosh darnit, I've made that possible for you lovely people today.
When in a topic, click the "Watch" button. Now, whenever you're strolling around anywhere else on the site and that topic is updated, you will get a polite message saying you should get down there!
Try it out on any topic you like. Hey, even this news post's topic. Then go off elsewhere in the forum and soon you'll see what I mean. Have a nice day now!
- Ben, your friendly site developer.
[ And by friendly I mean I'm going to kill you. ]
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| Caption Contest #5 |
| (761 comments, posted 1 year ago by LittleKuriboh) |
Here's last week's winning entry by phaseshifter:
"What? If you played this game, you'd hide your face too!"
The bonus Dawn/Hikari prize was given to lapiszero for their scintillating series of Scientology subtitles.
And now I command you to make up something funny regarding the following image:
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| Caption Contest #4 |
| (1034 comments, posted 1 year ago by LittleKuriboh) |
Last week's winner was AngelReaper with this this very warmhearted little caption:
Now let's see if I can find a screenshot that WON'T lead to thousands upon thousands of sex jokes. Bonus points for managing to include Dawn/Hikari from Pokémon in the picture. Preferably pointing and rolfing at something.
Here we go:
Break a leg, people!
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| Season Two Premiere |
| (127 comments, posted 1 year ago by LittleKuriboh) |
Hey there folks. Sorry that I was unable to do the Caption Contest on time this week - I've been rather busy. But I promise I'll judge it tomorrow fair and square, and bring you yet another picture to ridicule.
In the meantime, episode 23 has been uploaded successfully. You can go watch it by clicking on the "Episodes" link at the top of the site, and then going to Season 2. Or alternatively, just click the following bunch of text:
Season Two
Enjoy!
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| Caption Contest #3 |
| (1069 comments, posted 1 year ago by LittleKuriboh) |
Last week's contest was a toughie, since there were about four I liked equally, but here's the winning entry by Hellblazer215
Just thought I'd point out, you don't HAVE to make your captions in the form of an image - a simple line of text will do. Also, please don't send captions directly to me. Post them in the thread (See where it says the number of comments at the top? Click on that)
Here's the new picture to caption.
In other news, I've written the script for episode 23, so I'll be working on that for the next week or so.
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