Posted by Ashly in Uncategorized on July 2nd, 2010
Hey folks, new HAWP is up. First one that Justin edited pretty much all by his lonesome. Woo Justin! Check it out.
Also, for all of you lovely people that donated to Must Come Down, I’ll be making a more official post that details when I’ll be sending everything out after the deadline for the fundraising has passed. Thank you so much everyone!
Anthony and Ash Burch and Ashley Davis and Justin Yngelmo are writers and game critics who make surreal videos in their spare time (or adorable ones, in Ashley's case). The videos aren't that bad.
Anthony, former features editor for Destructoid and creator of the Rev Rants series (now defunct) currently works at Gearbox Software and co-stars in Anthony Saves the World on The Escapist.
Ash acts in other crap, like the feature-length film Must Come Down, and maintains the blog How Games Saved My Life.
Davis likes to draw Pokémon and under appreciated video game characters on nomarios. She used to do Once Upon a Pixel, which aired on Gametrailers.
Justin constantly shoots web video for everywhere. He's developing a personal website right now.
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Great episode, love your dad, Justin very well done :]
Papa Burch living up to the name. I love it. Episode too, love that by ‘large standardized measurements’ loads.
Long time listener/first time caller etc…that was the first one that made me want to say how much I enjoyed it.
You guys made me laugh, big thanks!
“It does” XD LOOOOVED it XD Very awesome!
You’re Dad could so do a Lesuire Suit Larry HAWP
Great episode btw
This is edited brilliantly. Justin did an excellent job.
awesome episode guys, and mad props to Justin he nailed this one
i wish you guys would’ve warned about the spoilers on twitter or on here or something… i just got fable 2 recently and now it’s spoiled for me. :/
Statute of limitation on spoilers is expired. But I feel you. Now you will get no enjoyment out of the game. In fact, inserting the disc might even give you herpes. So much money and healthy sex life down the drain.
i don’t think my last comment went through? weird.
anyway, having a “statute of limitations” on spoilers is bullshit. not everyone can see things the moment they come out, you never know when someone hasn’t (i.e. friend of a friend never saw star wars, he didn’t even know “i am your father”), and giving a warning/checking if who you’re talking to minds only takes a few seconds anyway. it’s just common courtesy, especially when the thing in question is only a little under two years old.
i’m not extremely pissed or anything, but just really frustrated when i’ve been looking forward to playing this for a while, and didn’t really expect such huge spoilers coming from something that usually DOESN’T have spoilers or lets you know before you watch (giving a split second reaction time doesn’t really count).
Well, clearly Zoeker’s comment was in jest, but if I may?
There might not be a statute of limitations on spoilers, but be reasonable – If you hadn’t seen the Ring by now, it is reasonable to assume you aren’t going to, and that you are more likely to have the ending ruined by idle conversation than actually watch the thing. It gets kind of frustrating to start talking about a game, film or book that is getting on in years, only for someone to shush you because they haven’t experienced it yet.
But mostly, the HAWP epsiodes themselves, if we are honest, don’t always make much sense except to those who have played the subject game. They do seem to rely on a bit of inside knowledge of either the game, or the specific part of the game being referenced. I had to explain the Psychonauts episode to a friend who hadn’t even tried the game yet, all the while with him obsessing that I didn’t spoil it for him.
He still hasn’t played it.
Rich? The butler did it*.
* The butler didn’t do it**.
** I did.
i know, but i’ve seen people argue “statute of limitations” a thousand times when it comes to spoilers (and also suspect zoeker wasn’t saying that part in jest), and it’s never made a bit of sense to me. all it really does is give people an excuse to tell spoiler-shushers to… er, shush, and exclude themselves of any responsibility (which might be too strong of a word to actually apply to this, but you know what i mean). personally, i’d rather just take a brief moment to ask them if they mind or let them leave the room for a bit rather than kill their experience and go “statute of limitations!!!!!” when they’re annoyed.
my argument is that you never really know, and there’s a thousand reasons why someone hasn’t been able to see the movie (or whatever) yet. obviously people should take care to avoid things that would obviously have spoilers (such as fansites), but i also don’t think it’s unreasonable to expect people to quickly post a warning before, i dunno, a blog post they make, or (in a conversation) check with the person they’re talking to.
also, we have to keep in mind the context for this situation: fable 2 is not very old at all (certainly not nearly as old as the ring), and HAWP is almost always spoiler-free. i guess you could make the argument that it doesn’t make sense if you don’t know the context (though i don’t think that’s totally true since many of them are just funny, surreal conversations that are more tangentially related), but i think it’s pretty hard to not know what they mean by “your family dies.”
I hate long comment posts like mine, if I could I would create a comment system that limited you to 140 characters under the article, but linked to a proper forum style discussion should the reader wish it.
I do understand how you feel, a short while after I got System Shock 2, it must have been a few months later, the big character reveal was spoiled on the back page of PC Zone magazine. Being at college at the time I hadn’t been able to play the game all that much, so this spoiler coming out of the blue really angered me. But thinking about it, I just don’t see that being so bad if instead of a few months, it had been a year or more – it isn’t really their fault I haven’t played it, and I can’t really expect a magazine about PC games to censor itself when it comes to PC games for fear of alienating a group of people who clearly hadn’t listened to the magazine in the first place because they didn’t buy the game.
Hmm. Not entirely sure what I am getting at there. I agree, is kind of what I am saying, but ask for a level of understanding for those of us who want to talk about something without worrying that someone is going to shout “Motherfucker!” every time we do.
As for the videos here being in context, I might just be clouded by personal experience – linking these videos to my brother gets a variety of responses, but he does tend to moan if I send him one for a game he hasn’t played, citing that he won’t get the joke straight away.
Also, in the Ring, the butler didn’t do it, and nor did I.
It was Frank Drebin, Police Squad.
how do I get that ending theme its really kool I want it plis a hint of how i kan get it
shit, i’d go to a papa burch orgy.
AND I’M A STR8 DOOD
I love me some poppa Burch, but with the music in this episode I got the first taste of his malevolent undertones. I will say, I would not mess with the P-Burch we saw in this episode. Best case scenario he’d sick his pack of rabid prostitutes on me. On second thought, maybe I WILL mess with that P-Burch.
Yous guys are the fuckin hawtness. I totally dig the air that you breath and the gravel you walk on when you’re just getting home. I love that yellow tint your whole house seems to have when you don’t adjust the white balance, The wind whispers your name, but with a slight lisp, so that I can’t quite make it out if I’m standing near an air conditioner. You’ve been proven to heal minor cuts and abrasions and we’ve got 12 chocolate bunnies….. 11! 11 chocolate bunnies! Keep it up, guys!
lawl.
Hi Anthony and Ashly,
This may be an unusual comment, but I wanted to express my appreciation for the videos you make. I hope this isn’t straying into TMI, but I suffer from a few mental disorders for which I have only recently begun treatment. Not the least of these is lethargic depression that has left me unable to get out of bed many days, and has left me emotionally numbed.
I discovered HAWP a few days ago and have been working my way through the episodes since. I just finished watching your latest one. For the first time in over a year, I’ve been laughing and feeling genuinely happy thanks to your videos. I don’t know if either of you have ever experienced this personally, but experiencing such genuine amusement after months and months of numbness and hopelessness is an amazing feeling.
Most people may think it’s silly to have such a strong emotional reaction to some funny internet videos, but they’ve been a very real step on my road to recovery, and I wanted to thank you for that.
Let me know if you’re ever in Montreal and I’ll buy you both a beer. Take care, and keep up the good work.
- Anonymous
This is amazing to hear – I’m so glad that our videos have had such an affect on you. I hope you only continue to improve and I hope our videos continue to help!
Thanks Ashly, I’m glad to hear back.
I was pretty amazed myself. I found a link to HAWP on Reddit and I really wasn’t expecting to be instantly hooked the way I was. I think it’s partly your brilliant comedic timing, and partly that I can kind of relate it to the relationship my younger brother and I have in a lot of ways.
I’m looking forward to grabbing the DVD when I have the cash, and to watching Must Come Down when it’s out!
Thanks again, and have a good one.
Am I the only one who is having a problem viewing the video? On both IE and Firefox, it will play through an ad and then say that the video has finished. When I refresh, it say the video has finished. Replaying doesn’t work.
HAAAAALP
Great episode. Papa Burch is my hero because that IS the most fulfilling end to that game.
Let me explain.
So the first time I finished the game I saved my family. Even though my spouse feared me, my child who I named Harley-Quinn adored me. I would come home and we would giggle over all the “scary” expressions I could do and ask me for a mace. She was the only NPC I felt anything for because unlike my dog, she never had me dig up condoms in the forest.
But I arrive at my humble home in Bowerstone to find my family waiting for me as if nothing had happend. It was like I was the only one who cared. I walk through the door and my wife is asking me for newer furniture and my child was oddly unresponsive to my affections. There was such a huge disconnect that I ended that file.
The next game I saved the “x” number of people who “died” while constructing the Spire. I return to find a statue of myself and no other changes. There was not the slightest perceived increase in the number of NPCs walking around so I had to assume that I had saved everyone’s second cousin or absentee father. So the feeling was, “Thank you Mr. Landlord for saving our dead weight relatives at the cost of your beloved wife, whosherface, and your son, whatshisname… The sink is running and I’ll be late on this month’s rent.”
I was supposed to feel something for making the “ultimate” sacrifice of personal happiness but felt nothing because there was no difference in the game world where I saved my family or saved the people.
The final play through I ignored all possible connections (save the one for my sister who is still the only NPC who does not take me for granted aside from my dog.) I over charged rent, spent the nights in taverns, killed any who I pleased, because the only motivation I could claim any more was my bloody revenge and that’s it. I also tried really really really hard to kill Hammer, but the goddamn plot demands. So I took the money and ran. Reaver being the sanest person in that game I chose to emulate him.
So thank you Papa Burch for not falling prey to Peter Molyneux’s bullshit promises of love.
I was never this disappointed with Fable 1.