Blamimation: Episode 1

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Soliloquy

Well, Kris and Scott have started posting Blamimations on PA-TV. For those of you who don't remember/have no idea what we're talking about, There was a time years ago that Kris Straub of Starslip and chainsawsuit teamed up with Scott Kurtz of PvP To make a bunch of low-budget flash animations that were pretty hilarious.

They started it up again, hosting them on PA-TV.

The first episode is pretty awesome for what it is: two guys joking around and making a flash animation from the result.
 
North_Ranger

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"Awesome" does not quite capture the emotion I was feeling when I watched that bit.

It was more like "Was I supposed to laugh?". At least in the end we got a hint where the episode had come from...
 
Dave

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I can see what they were going for, but it didn't do anything for me. I hate to say it, but the barely hiding the laughing came across to me as nothing more than amateurish. I know that's what they were going for but I didn't dig it.
 
Gusto

Gusto

Get Sharpe was taken [I'm pretty sure] word-for-word from a Daily Affirmation back in like May of '07. I've definitely heard that bit before.

So that part was kinda lame. Night Driver was better.
 
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Lumax

Silver Jelly said:
Don't listen to the mad Northsman. Blamnimations are some of the funniest things Scott has ever made!
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That's not exactly a ringing endorsement.

Its like saying, "It was the least smelly shit he's ever taken!"
 
North_Ranger

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BTW, what number is this in Scott's New Project list? I remember
#1 the pay-to-play fan club. Asset Bar, was it?
#2 Ding (hasn't updated since... last year?)
#3 the new Tales by Tavernlight with the ax-happy dwarf

I'm pretty sure there's more... and if the pattern holds, he'll be losing interest in this one as well in... two months?
 
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GeneralOrder24

Eh, In the past, the blamimations were kinda funny. This one had alot of potential, but never seemed to maximize it. Here's hoping they pick up in the future.
 
Dave

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Look at the link. It takes you to Penny Arcade. THEY don't do things 1/2 way. This has a chance to get better.
 
Baerdog

Baerdog

it was alright. I think I liked Night Driver better than Get Sharpe but neither one had me laughing as hard as I usually do at Penny Arcade stuff.
 
strawman

strawman

There wasn't anything in it that appealed to me. It was like going to a birthday party where the host hired two local comedians that absolutely crack each other up during the act, with a random chuckle coming from somewhere in the audience occasionally, and more likely than not it was because they were laughing at some snide remark made near them.

The host, of course, knows the comedians and laughs uproariously throughout the act elbowing people next to them and saying, "aren't they the funniest!" and "Oh, oh, watch this, they're going to do the ferret bit, and, and, oh, you're just going to love it!"

But at least they are doing what they love, and they have an audience that appreciates it, so I don't mean to rain on their parade.

It just wasn't for me.
 
Espy

Espy

Yeah... it did nothing for me but honestly, despite my finding Kris really funny most of the time, the blaminations stuff they do never appealed to me.
 
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Philosopher B.

I liked the old blamimation thingummies. This one kinda bored me a little. Best part of it was the one guy's chest hair. End logo was good, too.
 
Dave

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Episode 2 is up and it's MUCH funnier!


Plus you'll recognize the first comic from our old You.0 comics...
 
North_Ranger

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OH MY FUCKING GOD, THE LAMENESS!! IT BURNS!!! IT F***IN' BURNSSS!!!

Please, somebody, stop them from making this s*it! Or at least make Straub pull out before he's dragged into the abyss!

I am crying tears of shame here, and trying NOT to imagine Kurt dressed up as Mantara!

PLEASE, NO MORE!!! I'M CALLING UNCLE!! PLEASE, GOD!!
 
Frank

Frank

I chuckled quite a bit. It reminds me of when a friend and I start riffing the stupidest shit ever at each other and we end up bringing one another to tears laughing so hard. Stuff like garbage mermaids and the SS Pussyshovel and the like.
 
phil

phil

Oh jesus fuck that was hard to watch. I couldn't even finish the mermaid one. I'm surprised though that it doesn't just end with with scott talking about how thankful he is to be such a pioneer of shitty animations.
 
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Soliloquy

You know, one of the reasons that I was excited about blamimations was my hope that Straub would bring back Deep King. But now that he brought it back... it was just the two episodes of deep king that he already did, pasted together.

And with different voice acting, which didn't seem nearly as funny. I blame Scott :(
 
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