Halforums Academy 2 Story Commentary Thread
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Oh yeah, it was the studying that hurt his track performance and not the ton of lunches he went to. I guess all that politeness paid off considering his popularity.
Blame the Boston Celtics. Back when I used to play gigs every week with the band, it was crazy how many people came up to us and told us how they loved that "seltic music""CELT Z", like "cat", not "SELT-Z". There is no "s" at the beginning.
Also, love it otherwise.
Meh. Gas knows, but he's been doing this to me since Cards Against Humanity, so I guess I'm stuck with it.Blame the Boston Celtics. Back when I used to play gigs every week with the band, it was crazy how many people came up to us and told us how they loved that "seltic music"
Things escalated quickly.
GasBandit
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Aqua CeltZ to the rescue. Whew![DOUBLEPOST=1415368344,1415368202][/DOUBLEPOST]Meh. Gas knows, but he's been doing this to me since Cards Against Humanity, so I guess I'm stuck with it.
And he doesn't even have the "always hungry" trait! I guess that only stops you from inviting OTHERS to lunch more than once.
Also, he managed gym class just fine after lunch... so I don't think it was the lunches that hurt him at track later.. but I could be wrong.
EVERYTHING I KNOW IS A LIE!"CELT Z", like "cat", not "SELT-Z". There is no "s" at the beginning.
Also, love it otherwise.
I had an insane argument with my dad over how to pronounce Celtic. Just like Tin said, he cited the Boston Celtics as the reason why I was wrong."CELT Z", like "cat", not "SELT-Z". There is no "s" at the beginning.
Also, love it otherwise.
GasBandit
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The crazy thing is I KNOW IT'S A HARD C... I just can't seem to stop myself! Whenever I talk about "celtic mythology" or "lore" or so on and so forth, I say it right... but when I see it out of a Hibernian context it immediately reverts to bahstin selticks.[DOUBLEPOST=1415381637,1415381553][/DOUBLEPOST]Also, I shot almost my entire music wad on the first episode. I'm gonna have to dig for more royalty free stuff for day two... and I'll probably be reusing music by no later than day 5 at this rate.
Can't you use the same music? I know a lot of tv shows (cartoons, in particular) have stock music. It's up to you, but it really doesn't bother me if you reuse it.
GasBandit
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There's no technical reason I can't, but I need to keep the audio as fresh as I can, or people will start to nod off around day 13 when I'm saying "He talks to Gusto. Bones wants to talk. Seltzy asks for help with studying." for the 900th time with the same music track behind it. Plus, if you followed HFA1, you know I love to insert subtle jokes in background elements for the observant.
I have an endless source of royalty-free stock music available to me, both professionally and through youtube (they provide it free for content creators to use), it's just a matter of digging through the immense pile for stuff that fits. I'd dug out 6 or 8 selections already before I started production that I thought could be useful, but just about all of them got used already.
fade
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First I was like, "Why am I getting upvotes on this?".
Then I watched the video. Ha.
That's basically the point. We're indulging in the ridiculousness of Japanese dating/life-sims combined with the quirkiness of our fellow Halforumites. I guess it's kind of a form of machinima, when you get down to it - not to the same point as RvB or The Strangerhood, naturally, but kind of the same idea.
Heh, imagine GasBandit working for Rooster Teeth.
GasBandit
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Actually, the skirts just blow up a lot in the low poly models... in the high poly models, the girls' skirts are all below the knee.
Not to say it isn't a porn game, cause it's totally a porn game. But when you strip out the porn (and I do strip out all the porn for this exercise), it's actually also still a very entertaining social simulator. Try reading through the posts from last years' game, if you haven't already.[DOUBLEPOST=1415394579,1415394269][/DOUBLEPOST]That said, I'm also a little disappointed that Illusion decided to "toonify" the art/models more in the sequel. The models from the first Artificial Academy were more quasirealistic, and I really appreciated the artistry that went into the faces and such. The Gainax factor was also kept to a minimum. But I guess we all know what sells in Japan is different from what appeals to western audiences, and this was clearly never meant to be marketed in the US.[DOUBLEPOST=1415394985][/DOUBLEPOST]To illustrate what I mean with the art, compare Mindy Tective from last year, with basically the same character from this year.
Last year's Shakey vs this year's Shakey -
Last year's Kags vs this year's
Last year's Gusto vs this year's
Everyone says my name wrong too. SOLIDARITY!"CELT Z", like "cat", not "SELT-Z". There is no "s" at the beginning.
Also, love it otherwise.
@GasBandit this is great!! I love the new video format.
So excited!!(EDIT: as an aside, despite the more cartoony look, I love my new avi! She's adorable. And the fan blowing all the girls' hair is pretty fantastic.)
GasBandit
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And nowhere is it perhaps more apparent than in last year's Dirona vs this year's -
Both of them have the bust size slider as far to the right as I felt it could go without getting absolutely stupid (and it was put there by her request for historical accuracy purposes), but there was almost no "jubbly" physics going on last year and they clipped through limbs a whole lot less. And of course, the anime factor on the face is obviously very ratcheted up.[DOUBLEPOST=1415396899,1415396823][/DOUBLEPOST]
... Did I say it wrong in the video too? Does it not rhyme with "bags?"
It does not rhyme with bags.
More like 'cogs'. Like, cogs in a watch. But Jay and Dave have straight up told me (a long time ago) that they would never remember so they were going to continue with Kags ryhming with bags. So, I'm not really bothered if you don't change how you want to say it.
Hee hee.... "Seltzer." *grins*
In all seriousness, I get you on that... Charon is so often mispronounced, it's why I went with the phonetic for Lana's last name.
The video format is great, but I can see how it might end up wearing on you after a while... Thanks for putting forth so much effort on what is essentially nothing more than a bit of forum fanfiction.
In all seriousness, I get you on that... Charon is so often mispronounced, it's why I went with the phonetic for Lana's last name.
The video format is great, but I can see how it might end up wearing on you after a while... Thanks for putting forth so much effort on what is essentially nothing more than a bit of forum fanfiction.
It's pronounced "Leeeetle Kagseeen"?
GasBandit
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Yeah, that goes double for me, I'll never be able to say "Kogs."[DOUBLEPOST=1415397741,1415397592][/DOUBLEPOST]It does not rhyme with bags.
At first, even the photo/text format was hard last year, and like that, I expect this will get easier and faster with time and practice.The video format is great, but I can see how it might end up wearing on you after a while... Thanks for putting forth so much effort on what is essentially nothing more than a bit of forum fanfiction.
I'm also considering I may have to finally find some REAL video authoring software... this ep was so big and convoluted it actually went full blown "overzealous prom date mode" and gagged the hell out of windows movie maker (which is, after all, a 32 bit application), and I ended up having to produce it in 3 parts and then produce it AGAIN to merge all 3 parts together. I was worried how that would affect video quality (compressing and recompressing and then youtube compression on top of that), but it doesn't seem to have done much damage.
Carry on soldier.
GasBandit
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With as fast as I have to say things sometimes doing this narration, I'm very worried what a clipped guttural pronunciation would do to that word. Say "Terrik ran all over the school looking for Kogs" as fast as you can and realize what I mean.It would be a sin not to say kogs.
GasBandit
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We need new shirts.
HALFORUMS
"It seems they're up to no good."
Also bear in mind it is now possible to tell POSITIVE rumors as well, Anime Gusto just chooses to neg.
I think my cartoonish Poptart is cute, too! She's just how I wanted her to look.