“Heads up, there won’t be a WAN Show this week. Instead, we will continue to focus on addressing issues raised both internally and by the community during our production break. We appreciate you all for your patience.”
“Heads up, there won’t be a WAN Show this week. Instead, we will continue to focus on addressing issues raised both internally and by the community during our production break. We appreciate you all for your patience.”
They probably had some floatplane exclusives ready to go pre- scheduled. Asking about that from their paying customers honestly seems fair.
Pretty sure I saw another screenshot that said they did have a couple in the wings they asked about postponing.
But at a certain point the outrage has to apparently turn into a witch hunt and blaming them for stuff they didn’t or haven’t done, so here we are. There’s plenty of real stuff to be mad about without making anything up.
Does the floatplane subscription specifically say how many videos per month they get? If not, then it really isn’t “fair”
What it IS is (?) covering their asses. They already lost a sizeable chunk of floatplane cash for the month and recovering that is going to be hard*. So anything else that might hurt the floatplane bottom line needs to be avoided.
And I assume production is still going full bore internally. Because they only have so many filming days a month and still need videos for a week from now.
*: Calling it now. They are bringing scrap wars back or whatever it was called.
They have stopped releasing videos, maybe they could, you know, just postpone what they’ve already got?
That works for some videos. Others you would want to film a block of content ahead of time and then edit it into videos.
Its one of the things Steve was a bit harsh on in his video. Just getting someone back into the studio to re-record a three minute video can be a challenge when they are also head of writing (and busy sexually harassing everyone around them…). Odds are a good chunk of those three minute videos are filmed in the same two hour block of time weeks ahead of time.
Of course, this is what he alluded to when pointing out how insanely wrong the “random CPU” video was: ADR is a thing and all you need is a shot where the presenter’s mouth is not on screen. Yes, this doesn’t work for talking head shots. But for anything with B-Roll, you have the kind of fix that can be done in the time it takes to call someone on the phone.
The fact they don’t just fix it in post with audio is insane to me.
They can do it, I remember several insances where they have (f.e. Linus voicing over with his phone mic). It’s a bit jarring when not shot on the same equipment, but it’s so worth it