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Thursday, December 31, 2009

New Year's Special is out!!!

Hey guys, the long-awaited New Year's Special is here!

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Episode Description: "2010 is approaching soon, and Master Chief is getting ready to host his own New Year's Eve party for the Hawaiian locals. You're invited! Warning, you might want to bring a fire extinguisher."

What's up, guys? Long time, no see. Thanks for letting me take off the holidays, I really had a lot of fun and relaxation. Here is the fruit of my labor. The video plot is Chief wanting to host a New Year's party in Hawaii. Some things go horribly wrong, and Chief feels like he failed as a party host.

I've run into a speed bump while trying to figure out the next video. I've been doing suggestions from the Season 3 Voting. Now, the remaining topics that I haven't done videos on, were either voted on only once by the guy who suggested the topic or not voted on at all. Some of the topics are very trivial (MCS at Playing Soccer, Karate), some were already made by others(MCS at Grocery Shopping), and some were already covered during other videos(MCS at Swimming). I don't want to break my promise to do all the topics, so I'll figure out how to combine the topics into one episode. After those, my finale for season 3 is here. MCS at Having a Kid.

Still no news on the CovieHuman55 Impersonation thing.

I contemplated making some Rock Band videos for the dead SuperAgent0007 channel, but the horrible quality of my capture card is too much to get by. I will eventually get a better card though.

For some reason, when I went to the video, it said "An error occurred. Please try again later." I think that's just because the video is still processing, but if this problem continues, I'll upload it again.

See you next decade,
Zomba
P.S. Thanks for a great Youtube year, guys!

Friday, December 18, 2009

Christmas Fanmail Out!

Here's the Christmas-themed episode 32, the last fanmail of 2009!

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Episode Info: "Welcome to the 2009 Christmas Fanmail Spectacular! Chief grabs his trademark Santa hat and tells the viewers his opinions on the 2012 apocalypse, eggnog, and the big guy in the red suit, all while delivering a ton of laughs!"

Questions from drew45footballskater, tokusatsunerd, TheGrub52, and 0224Spartan - thanks to all who sent Christmas questions!

First, no response from Youtube on the CovieHuman55 Impersonation thing yet.

On to happy news, Thanks for all the fanmail you guys sent me this year! I had my choice from many great questions! I don't know the true amount, but I estimate that over 30 users sent a total of over 120 questions this year! Thanks, guys!

Remember, no videos on the next 2 fridays, except for the New Year's Special. Also, tune in to that on New Year's Eve!

I will now use the "live shows" portion of my YT channel to put the dates of my upcoming regular MCS videos.

Alright guys, I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Kwanzaa, Happy New Year, and whatever else you like to celebrate - Happy Holidays!!!

See ya,
Zomba
P.S. I'm off to complete my week-before-Christmas routine: Upload a video, then watch AVGN's Bible Games!

Friday, December 11, 2009

Chief Show 5!

Here's the new Chief Show!

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Episode Description: "Chief celebrates the holidays early with Tiger Woods parodies and a Holiday Survival Guide!"

Okay, there may not be videos during the holidays except for the New Year's Special, but here's my gift to you. Ready? Here we go. NO STATIC!!!
Yep, I tried something called an MPEG Optimizer in my editing studio. It gave me NTSC quality with out static! The audio sounds like it has slightly less quality than before, but it's hardly noticeable, and I only heard this because I was knitpicking. If you have a problem with the audio, message me on Youtube, but there's no more static!

Anyway, back to the episode. This show has two segments, instead of three, but technically there's a skit inside the news part, so there's really three segments. There's a Tiger Woods parody and a Holiday Survival Guide! Also, one of the news stories in this video is a true Youtube scam that my friend, UltraHyperShadow, brought to my attention.

Send in more fanmail for Christmas-themed episode 32, if you haven't already. Thanks to those who have sent theirs. I have 4 questions picked out already, but if there's another good one, I'll add it. You got until the end of the weekend to send in this episode's fanmail. I must then start work on the episode.

I will be writing the script for the New Year's Special this weekend. It will upload on New Year's Eve.

Just for fun, I submitted an application to the Youtube Partner Program. They didn't accept it, and their reason why was "Users who are accepted into the program must constantly follow Community Guidelines. Your account history shows that you haven't always done this." They said that because I had to pull an Angry Video Game Nerd best clips video. ScrewAttack sent me a copyright claim. Excuse my language, but this is bullshit. I put the credits on the video, yes I know that's still copyright infringement, but if anything, I was promoting the videos. Basically, I have been shut out from the Program, probably permanently, considering this AVGN thing was almost 2 years ago. Granted, the money is nice, but just the idea of not having a chance to be accepted while people like the IrateGamer were, is just embarrassing. Change or no extra change, I enjoy making videos, and will continue to do so. :)

I haven't heard anything back from YTube about the CovieHuman55 thing.

Have a great weekend!
-Zomba

Friday, December 4, 2009

Fanmail Returns

Yay, the final of my series has returned!

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Episode Description: "Watch Master Chief meet Chuck Norris, show off a song he recorded, give his opinions on ODST, and find out whether he's a Trekkie, all in this exciting fanmail!"

The questions in this episode, are a mix of questions I intended to do for this fanmail, back in May, and new ones that were sent to me in my absence. In order of appearance, GuitarnScythes, ajle9550, kamock45, and 666Superbeast666 provided the questions for this addition of fanmail.

Send me Christmas-themed questions! In case you don't know, there will be a Christmas -themed fanmail episode, number 32, on December 18th. Send me some questions about Christmas! Remember, even if you were featured this season, you can still send fanmail!

When I came back, the issue of the static in the audio of my videos became a huge deal to me. Now, I can barely watch the video with all the static. It must be even worse for you guys. I'm sorry and I'm working on it. I tried a new NTSC video type as a Privately-viewable test. When it was uploaded to Youtube, the video quality sucked and the audio (though it had no static) sounded muffled and of bad quality. Oddly, when I save my videos, they don't have any static. When I upload to Youtube, the static begins. It must be a problem Youtube has with Dolby Digital 5.1, which the NTSC audio is defaultly saved as. I'm pretty sure I can set custom audio settings, so I will try it in the future.

I officially announced my two week vacation during Christmas. Sorry, but I love Christmas. It's my favorite holiday and I refuse to work on that week, 'cept for the New Year's Special.

You may recall I talked about CovieHuman55 in the last blog entry. I filed an impersonation complaint, highlighting the videos in question and adding some additional info for Youtube staff. I did this on Wednesday, and I have yet to hear back from Youtube. I doubt Youtube will do anything, but Covie is at least blocked. He put his crappy, topic-stealing videos as responses to mine, but they no longer show up as responses and never will, again.

On a happy note, have a good weekend!

Zomba
P.S. I may be late answering your comments. I'm a huge soccer fan and I want to stay off the Internet, because I recorded the soccer World Cup draw on TV, and don't want to know the results until I watch it.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

Master Chief Owns a Pet!

I realized I would be busy tomorrow, so here's the video one day early! (You guys know by now that my release dates mean almost nothing :D)

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Video Info: "Chief and his family have been enjoying their Hawaii vacation. As the trip comes to a close, Cortana and Sam let MC know that they want a pet. Master Chief is unhappy with their choice, but all is fine until Master Chief causes a horrible accident!"

There's a small twist at the end of this one, nothing too radical though.

I deleted all the comments on the "Vote for the Next Video!" vid. I was dumb doing this, because now I have no idea who came up with the idea for Owning a Pet. If anyone knows, please message me and I will put his/her name in the info.

I believe there is another video call "Master Chief Sucks at Owning a Pet" on Youtube. This was made by CovieHuman55. Ironically, he is one of my biggest viewers and you can frequently see his comments on my videos. Covie stole the idea, along with multiple other topics, when I did my season 3 voting. I'm not so much mad that he made the video, as I'm mad that people will get his vid confused with mind. In case you're confused, mine's the better one. :) I will still make videos on the topics he stole from me, don't worry. I may have to release titles of my new videos only soon before they will uploaded, so douchebag here doesn't steal the idea.

There will be no videos on Friday, December 25 (Christmas Day) or Friday, January 1 (New Year's Day). I'm taking the holidays off. There will, however, be the New Year's Special on 12/31.

There will be a Christmas-themed fanmail on December 18. I will ask for Christmas questions this Friday. Send them in!

Sincerely,
Zomba