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Thursday, January 31, 2013

Discord Came to Discord's Domain

So early this morning I received word from Mike Brockhoff that John De Lancie could join us for a quick interview and discussion about "Bronies", the documentary. Just a few hours later I had a working livestream channel, and Discord's Domain had coordinated with BabbleWithBronies and Bronystate to do some backup livestreams as well. Not even a full day later, the interview is done. Quite short-notice, but it ended well. Read on after the page break!

It's worth mentioning that unlike the documentary it discusses, there's no good reason this interview can't be all over youtube. Here, take a copy: the things De Lancie mentions here really should be heard.

For those short on time, here are a few of the most important points:
(not all of them, so you might as well watch at some point anyway).

The documentary is meant to inform people in general about the brony community, not only to entertain bronies.
The uploads of the documentary on youtube really are causing harm, preventing the documentary from really finding the general audience it was more-or-less intended to find.
In the world of documentaries, to have a documentary fully made in just six months is actually really impressive. (I wonder if any of the people on the technical side would be willing to enlighten us about how they did it)

Thanks to Mike Brockhoff, for letting me know about this opportunity. Thanks to the folks at Bronystate for lending a helping hand, Thanks very much to Elliott from BabbleWithBronies and all his interviewing experience/expertise, and thanks most of all to John De Lancie. Whom is a very busy man, yet still set aside the time to do this with us. I wanted to give him a 3D printed Twilight Sparkle for all his trouble, courtesy of The CollabLab (WPI's up-and-coming makerspace) but before I could mention it to him he was already off to his next order of business... Oh well, I'll get it to him if I can, and if he would like it. I do hope he gets an occasional respite from that busy schedule of his.

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CptPudgeMuffin 91p · 634 weeks ago

Seriously?! People are posting the documentary on Youtube?! ****ing inconsiderate jackasses! Even after it was made clear that it would ruin the documentary's standing with anyone outside the fandom? *Muffin Rage! *(a terrifying image, I know) We should boycott those videos and burn the ones responsable! They're probably not even bronies.

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EggheadDash 111p · 634 weeks ago

InB4 it's all the trolls posting it just because John said not to.

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FPLOON 124p · 634 weeks ago

I thought that was already a given...

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dogman15 122p · 634 weeks ago

As far as YouTube uploads go, I think the YT uploads are only private or unlisted, so it's not like someone could find it by using the YouTube search bar. You have to lurk around in /mlp/ (and similar places) at just the right times to even find a YouTube link, at which point the "good guy" lurkers (like me), if they find a link, show it to the director or producer of the film. I really don't think these sorts of "secret" YT uploads of the film should be of concern to them, because they're so hard to find under normal circumstances, which is what big-name official distributors will be noticing and looking at. And the majority of people in this world don't use torrent services (myself included). They're too complicated to figure out how to use, for most people, and they're nearly impossible to police or control.

In other words, I'd say official distribution of the film is in good hands.

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EggheadDash 111p · 634 weeks ago

I'd have to disagree Torrents aren't that difficult to use once you realize you need a separate client. I've torrented a few things in my day (though recently they've all been legal or at least ethical, such as a game from the Humble Bundle 5 that I paid for, a replacement for a corrupted file for Arma 2 and a version of DayZ which wasn't in Six Launcher yet. Unfortunately UNT has a strict policy against piracy and the way they track it is through torrents, despite the fact that there arr plenty of other ways to get fules illegally such as direct downloads from RapidShare and the fact that torrents are not inherently illegal, just popular for pirates. And the penalty if you dare use a certain file format? They disconnect your internet and make you pay $100 to have some specialist format your drive, important, irreplaceable files be damned. Plus the people in charge of tech stuff are technological retarded (as evidenced by the UNT website being coded almost entirely in malformed javascript and them forcing us to use other, external websites that are also poorly designed) and probably wouldn't know or care the difference between a legal torrent and an illegal one. Though I could probably just spoof myself a brand new MAC address since that's how they track these sorts of things.) But, I digress.

I also disagree about the youtube links. I find it quite a common practice for people to essentially upload "Link' videos, such as this guy who uploads LPS episodes (which I am amazed I have still kept up with) as unlisted, then adds links to them in his (public) link video as an annotation. I've also seen this practice with pony episodes. I've also found people who upload pony episodes unlisted and then post a big block of links to some external site. If someone wanted to find the documentary on Youtube, they absolutely could.

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dogman15 122p · 634 weeks ago

Let me emphasize again: The average person wouldn't be able to find the documentary on YouTube or torrent sites. And despite what you say, there are still lots of people who either don't know what a torrent is, or they don't want to bother with one. For LPS episodes, there's an easy list here. For MLP, one was once able to use this site, but Hasbro has zapped the episodes they used and they haven't updated the embedded videos link.

Did you misspell are as "arr" on purpose because you referenced pirates in the same sentence? What is this certain file format? By "UNT" do you mean University of North Texas? Their website looks similar to the construction of my schools' websites, SFSU (current) and DVC (past). Oh, and you said "fules" when you meant "files".

In conclusion, I still am convinced that the Bronies documentary crew doesn't have too much to worry about when it comes to film festival owners and professional distribution companies looking to see if the film is on YouTube already.

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EggheadDash 111p · 634 weeks ago

#1 I actually just go to that guy's channel for the LPS eps. He's just the best at it, getting us no watermark 1080p and all. As for the websites, I was more referring to the my.unt.edu site, and the now abandoned Blackboard Vista was similarly bad. On My UN/T all links are in javascript, meaning you can't middle click them to open in a new tab, and sometimes they flat out refuse to work. Also I sometimes get cockblocked by the "EIS System" which asks for a login, but only site admins have one. As for the typos, I wrote that comment on mobile, so I'm amazed there weren't MORE spelling errors.

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