{"id":9792,"date":"2010-10-28T09:15:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T14:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9792"},"modified":"2010-10-28T10:03:23","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T15:03:23","slug":"about-spoiler-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=9792","title":{"rendered":"About Spoiler Warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, Spoiler Warning was slated to begin this week. The delay is 100% my fault. I decided more or less at the last minute to muck around with the show. <\/p>\n

One of my ongoing worries with the show is that it does a bad job at setting up the premise for newcomers. Unless someone watches the very first episode (which is probably our worst<\/em> episode, so this isn’t something we want to encourage) they won’t get it. They’ll see footage and people talking and assume, “Oh, another MST3K \/ Unskippable ripoff. Pass.” The thrust of the show is to have the sort of conversations about a game that you would have with your friends while sitting on the couch and passing the controller around. <\/p>\n

But we don’t want to have to re-explain the premise at the top of every episode. Finally I pitched the idea of just depicting the premise, and Rutskarn delivered:<\/p>\n

spoiler_warning_splash.jpg<\/td><\/tr><\/table><\/p>\n

We might fiddle with this a bit. Labeling the empty seat “YOU” was my idea, but now that I see it in action I’m not crazy about it. But Rutskarn did a tremendous job. While I haven’t met her myself, I have it on good authority that the drawing of Mumbles is uncanny<\/em> in its likeness to the genuine article. At any rate, this will lead off the show for the foreseeable future. <\/p>\n

Also, Josh is getting a (gifted) copy of Adobe Premiere Elements, which should eliminate his twice-weekly torment at the hands of Windows Movie Maker.<\/p>\n

Also, I’ve been wanting to tighten up the show a bit. I dislike the time we squander at the start of every episode. (Particularly at the start of a new series, when viewers are most likely just looking a menu while we talk.) Also, the cross-talk gets on my nerves. So, I’ve been trying to look for ways to mitigate both of these and make the show a little more polished. We even went so far as to edit out bits of off-topic rambling at the introduction. I realize that most of you would rather just have an extra minute or two of unpolished video than wait for an entire week, but I hope you’ll indulge me this delay. The drive that makes me able to run this site also demands that I do this sort of thing now and again. And it’s much less disruptive to do this between series then to stop in the middle of a series. <\/p>\n

The show will launch soon. Sorry again about the delay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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