December 27, 2016

Did you order more Shenanigans?

Hi All,
As you can see from the title, more fun and challenging stuff happened. There were no videos for a brief period because I was getting my internet swapped to the National Broadband Network, which led to no internet, which led to the expensive IT man coming and setting everything straight.


Then came Christmas.

We wanted to upload some Drunk Mario Party 2 (I think it's 2) from Liam's party that he had early December. It doesn't seem to want to stay still and keeps disappearing. The morning after the party, we checked Liam's computer to see if the footage recorded. I don't remember if he made sure it was recording, but he remembers there being a REC in the top-right corner of the screen. That's where it's supposed to be. We couldn't find where the footage supposedly went. I know what it's supposed to be called, but we couldn't find it on Liam's external hard drive or even on his computer hard drive.

Several weeks later I went to his house to work on my Hale Kane Comics (shameless plug) and he, while fucking around and doing shit all, randomly came across the footage.

On Christmas Eve I drove to his house to pick up the footage, and what he'd edited of it, and he had put everything on an 8 GB flash drive. Later on, at home, I tried plugging in the USB and seeing what he'd given me. Apparently there was nothing. I texted him and told him that I was only seeing the font for the videos, the only thing on the drive. He checked his computer and couldn't find the footage. He suggested that maybe he'd cut and pasted it. Upon reflection, this would not have happened, because the transfer would not have been possible because the footage is way too big for an 8 GB drive.

Our only conclusion is that the footage is haunted and mysteriously ghosts its way around the place.

So the schedule will remain normal. We want to do some more Nintendo 64 games because we can do that now. So far, that's everything.

Bye All!

December 3, 2016

Shenanigans

Hi All,
Today I did a thing:


I will do Red Week next week.

Liam had a party last night and we recorded some Mario Party on Nintendo 64, but we couldn't find the video footage. So we don't know what's going on with it. We plan to record more Nintendo 64 stuff now that we know we can.

We also did the Top 10 at the party, but after editing it I realised it's actually a Top 9 even though we uploaded more than 9 videos.

There's plenty more GM Industries stuff to come and plenty more Luigi's Mansion episodes too.
That's everything for right now, have a safe and happy Saturday!

Bye All!

November 23, 2016

General Motors Industries

Hi All,

Today I uploaded the first episode of G.M. Industries. Basically Liam is unavailable to record videos, so I have taken this opportunity to do videos without him. I know it means the channel would operate as though it's mine, but there are a few more episodes of Luigi's Mansion so things might work out as a side piece to IM.

I recorded some stuff with Reflex, who you might know from the popular Titan Souls series we did around this time last year. Today we recorded some V8 Supercars 3 and there will be another game afterwards which I am not going to spoil, but let's just say we've done it before.

Additionally, I have made plans to do more with another friend who has also been in videos before, except more recently than Reflex.

The previous post may help explain why Liam is unavailable, but apart from that I don't really know.

Bye All!

November 7, 2016

Two Wheeling

Hi All,

For the next few weeks you may notice a lack of videos when Liam is supposed to upload. This is because he is helping some of his family move house.



This means that it is highly likely that he will be unable to upload any Time Fcuk (on Saturdays) or World of Goo (Mon, Wed, Fridays). Luigi's Mansion will be fine. However, I am preparing for an exam, so episodes may occasionally be late uploads.

The October Top 10 will come out soon depending on whether I can find a good, quiet location in public somewhere. I don't want to embarrass myself by talking to a microphone about something on YouTube. Just a personal thing, because I care about my image.

Anyway,
Bye All!

October 9, 2016

That time of year again

Hi All,
Around August and October of every year, we get bogged down in studying and can't manage to record enough videos for AIM, and here we are again.
This Friday that just passed was supposed to be another recording session for World of Goo, but I had an essay to do and decided to cancel the session
Today I finished my essay, but now Liam's busy. There will be Luigi's Mansion episodes, but because we've run out of everything else, that's all that's going to go up this week.

However we are going to try and record something multiplayer when Liam has a gap of time we can work with. Additionally we will have a recording session this Friday coming for more World of Goo. We don't know what's going to replace Jazz punk or if anything should.
Liam wants to find something to replace Civ 5 multiplayer, but I don't think we need to. We did fine when we were uploading Hotline Miami.
This sort of situation used to result in episodes of A.I. or A.M. Industries, but because Frank can't record we're just going to have to go slow.
A.M. Industries was created in August 2014. http://aimfilms.blogspot.com.au/2014/08/am-industries.html
A.I. Industries was created in October 2015. http://aimfilms.blogspot.com.au/2015/10/ai-industries.html

Bye All!

October 1, 2016

Trivia about Civ 5

Hi All,

I've just uploaded, tagged and annotated the last episode of Civ 5 multiplayer. While it's not called 'Finale' like most of our final episodes, that's what it is. Anyway, as I made the thumbnail I noticed a few things about the series as it came to an end.

1. I become increasingly insignificant in the thumbnail, mainly because I had a hangover in the last recording session.
2. Liam conquers the world. This isn't so unexpected as France encountered a revolution and in the thumbnail, Liam conquered the revolutionary province. That didn't actually happen in the episodes. The revolution did, but Liam never got any of my cities. By the end though, we agree that Russian conquest of France was inevitable.
3. The episode number gets smaller. Thumbnail creation is a difficult thing and the information you put up seems to become more unnecessary as time goes on because of the scene that you might create for the thumbnail.







Anyway, that's all the thumbnails I made since that session where we didn't record the footage.
Bye All!

September 17, 2016

Civ 5 pictures

Hi All,

I was looking through some of the pictures I made for the last five Civ 5 episodes and have decided to put them up here on the blog. I did this because I'm pretty sure that the list of Ihasnotomato and the Korea peace treaty were only shown for a few seconds. Even if I'm wrong, I'm putting them here anyway.



Also I thought I should put this picture of Germany here because it is actually wrong. It was the Allies who didn't want a unified Germany and the Soviet Union who did. Perhaps this is unsurprising as all the effort that France, USA and the UK went to in order to defeat Germany would have been a waste if Germany was returned all of its assets so it could start another war. This is unless you only believe that Hitler was a one off thing and that most Germans believed Hitler was a bad thing. For all I know, this could have been the case.

I will be uploading the next episode of Civ 5 multiplayer around 3pm today because Ihasnotomato uploaded the latest episode of Jazzpunk at 3am last night.

Bye All!

August 27, 2016

Reform Part 2: Channel Banner

Hi All,

Yesterday Liam added the new channel banner, officially replacing the old one and basically declaring part 2 of the changes.


It shows the two of us eating doritos, skittles and drinking alcoholic beverages. By the looks of things we're at a TV station because of all the screens and expensive microphones. Maybe we'll get there one day, but it's a fun picture to look at.

There's also a cigarette. I don't know why. Also there's a pizza box, because sometimes we have dinner.

Anyway, the next thing we're going to do is make the new channel trailer. To be honest, I have no idea how we're going to do it, but some things will be different. We won't say what series we do, or what the schedule is, because that clearly didn't work last time. Liam thinks we should just do a trailer saying what we're about. So we probably will, although I am now a bit excited about trying to replicate the TV station vibe that he's put up.

Bye All!

August 22, 2016

Reform Part 1: Outro and background

Hi All!

So at last, more than a month since things got real, we have some new looks coming on.
Pimples everywhere, ear piercings, tattoos and leather jackets. You name a period of our lives where we pretend to be unique; we'll start leaving.

Liam emailed me the new look stuff just before he uploaded the first episode of World of Goo, but then he quickly changed his mind on the colours. Here's what they were going to look like:


Now he's gone with a more blue and true look:

And here's the new World of Goo episode:
I've taken the new background and outro and am currently rendering episode 86 of Poke'mon Colosseum, which will go up tomorrow.

I expect there will be more visual changes on the channel, like a new channel banner and maybe a new logo, but we'll see.

Bye All!

August 13, 2016

Existential Crisis

Hi All!

Yesterday Liam came over to my house and we recorded Civ 5 for 3 hours and then the next Console Gaming Series game for almost 1 hour. The Civ 5 footage didn't capture, so I made a re-enactment and we'll probably record more Civ 5 sooner than expected because of this.
Now the workload has been balanced:

Liam: Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. PC Gaming series
Me: Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Console Gaming Series and Civ 5

Watch the video and comment; let me know if you think I should keep doing the re-enactments.

Bye All!

July 26, 2016

Tags

Hi All,

Mabeanie here again to tell you how I feel about tags and why they disappeared from videos I uploaded, and then again why they're back.

I originally tagged videos because I believed that it contributed in videos getting more views, however I started to notice that some videos that Frank made for AIM were getting more views despite not having tags, and in some instances they didn't even have a description. So I stopped because I didn't think it mattered anymore.

Now I tag videos because it will help people, who are interested, find videos related to their topic of interest. If you type in 'sex' into the search bar on our channel (not the YouTube search bar) you will find a bunch of Poke'mon Colosseum episodes because apparently we talk about sex a lot. We're probably compensating for something. Apparently if you type in 'butt' you still get a lot of Poke'mon episodes. If you type in 'women' there's a bit more variety in that there is a lot of Sonic Adventure DX episodes. I don't know why. Try typing up random things and see what comes up.

Okay done.
Bye All!

July 18, 2016

Correction Update

The schedule will be for the foreseeable duture will go as follows:

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will be Tf2 > Overwatch (PC gaming series)
Tuesdays and Thursdays will be Banjo-Kazooie > Pokemon Colosseum (Console gaming series)
Saturdays will continue to be Civ 5 until further notice

The Reform will happen

Hi All,

On Saturday Liam and I went to Avcon in Adelaide and on the bus ride there we decided to make the AIM channel more IM-centred because Frank is unlikely to be available for recording within the rest of the year and the foreseeable future. Frank described his life as being no different to when he first settled down in America. So AIM will get a big reform regarding the schedule.

Currently the schedule is like this:
After the reform we will see:
Banjo-Kazooie Catch up > Overwatch (drunk with Ben). Begins either Thursday 21st of July after Banjo ends or Tuesday 26th so a full week of it is uploaded.*
TF2 > more TF2 > Poke'mon Colosseum > Worms Inbetweenie > Next CGS game.** On Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Civ 5 > More Civ 5.*** On Saturdays.


Liam spoke about doing a 'PC gaming series' after the next Console Gaming Series is done (it will be relatively brief anyway) so we'll see what happens. We didn't really discuss that far ahead because obviously we've got the next two months recorded just about.

Liam also spoke about changing the imagery of AIM, such as the much-needed outro card for IM Industries.

Basically the reform will put Frank in the background. Officially he is in the foreground with Liam and I, but in reality he is in the background and is only relevant when we talk about him rather than with him. We last spoke to him verbally in February when we recorded Hotline Miami. Frank had called Ben on Skype and so we ended up talking to him until we thought we could ring him back on my Skype. It didn't work.

So that's everything that I have to say so far. Maybe I'll do an animation soon, but it really depends on whether I can be bothered or not. I have to find a clip that makes me really want to do it.

Bye All!

*Personally I believe that Overwatch should go up as soon as possible, however Liam is very busy with Ihasnochille, Uni and basically 4 out of the 6 videos that go up on AIM right now. He's coming over today, so I'll get him to give me the Overwatch stuff to edit.

**The next Console Gaming Series will be kept secret until the first episode goes up.

***Civ 5 will continue until the end of the game, which will end either by our world domination victory or the beginning of the year 2050; whatever comes first. We haven't disabled any other victory conditions, it's just that domination seems more likely.

July 13, 2016

Panic Defense

Hi All,

Yesterday I tweeted this:

Basically I've been bored at home. I have tons of editing to do, but it's a matter of being bothered to do it. Yesterday, I don't know what triggered it (but I'll touch on that later in the post), I had a spike of thoughts that AIM needs to change, for better or worse.
 
The trailer needs to change and we've been a bit lax when it has come to making the new one because we want to do one that is different to the ones we've done before.  The trailer is more than 50% outdated, with Synergy, Left 4 Dead 2 and overall Akirasora being out of the picture from more than 9 months. Portal 2, Metroid 2 and Quasar in general haven't been uploaded for roughly the same amount of time. IM Industries is pretty much the only thing that is relatively accurately described in the current trailer, although I did have the thought that we don't do many PC game one-offs. This is probably true because TF2 was a recording session I was thinking about turning into a montage video, but obviously I decided against it. Lastly the schedule is out of date. At AIM Industries we tend to change things quite often and the schedule in particular isn't updated as often as it should be. In fact, there is a blog page linked to from the channel that needs updating. Overall, we need a new trailer.


The other point that I wanted to make is that Akirasora hasn't been in a video in more than 9 months, however we did speak to him in February when we recorded Hotline Miami. His lack of a presence got me thinking that maybe we should kick him out of the group, however I tried to emphasise that we just need to get Frank's view of events. I emailed him yesterday and he has since replied, explaining that he has a limited internet connection and so can't record videos with us and that his headset doesn't work anymore so he can't talk to us. He seemed very confused about my sudden burst of panic (or whatever you want to call it) and from the sound of things nothing has changed for him in 4 months. I replied immediately (after calming myself down from the sudden realisation that he is a person with feelings who may as well have been living under a rock since we last spoke to him), and said that IM will have to take a much larger role in the operation of the channel as we've been running under the assumption that at any moment Frank could become available for recording. From the sound of his email, this isn't going to happen for quite a while. I also said that we should definitely keep communications going between us.

Liam will be coming over to my house this coming weekend and we will work on the trailer for AIM Industries. I expect that we will also iron out any misconceptions about the current situation.


Lastly, I find it important to work out what triggered my burst of panic. We have gained subscribers since the launch of the TF2 series, with 2 subscribers being gained in the last 30 days and 1 in the 30 -day period before that. One of the new subscribers, our most recent actually, commented that he likes our TF2 stuff and so he subscribed. This got me thinking that IM Industries, as a section of AIM, has gained support rather than AIM as a whole. The subscriber gain, the comment (I guess) and the need for a new trailer probably triggered the burst of panic inside me, and so in my head I declared a state of emergency. Right now, I believe the state of emergency is over, but AIM will have to change. I still feel a bit uneasy over this situation.

Thanks for reading,
Bye All!

June 30, 2016

"Holidays"

Hi All,
While I'm waiting for the Top 10 Videos and Video Of The Month of May, I realised that I haven't properly filled everyone in on what's been happening with AIM lately.

Firstly the TF2 series has gone well so far, and we've even recorded more, and the thumbnails just seem to get better every time. Definitely a good change in pace, making every video special.

Secondly there was a week of no videos being a thing, because Ihasnotomato was on holiday to Darwin for a bit (I'll embed his tweets), and now that Liam's back from holidays he has Uni stuff to work on and so he's got less time to upload videos. Our holiday times are out of sync; so when mine begin, his end.  There is more Civ 5 and Banjo-Kazooie that has not been uploaded yet, but we'll have to rearrange the schedule once Banjo-Kazooie is over and we'll definitely continue the Civ 5 game.


Lastly, we have not been able to record more Poke'mon lately because I've been involved in my house's renovations and so there's no full day to set aside. We might be able to arrange recording sessions for a few hours a day, but the problem is that I'm not in charge of the renovations and so I can't predict or arrange for the renovations to not take place. I can merely seize opportunities as they present themselves. Meanwhile, anything online multiplayer will be a better choice, so maybe more TF2 or Gmod or something.

So for me they're not really holidays at all.

Bye All!

June 9, 2016

Holy Show: New Stuff

Not a fan of swearing.

Hi All,

There will be a new show on AIM next week featuring Ihasnotomato and I playing Team Fortress 2. The thumbnails will be amazing:


Oops, I need to fix the second one. They look freaking awesome and are colour contrasted, just to prove that doing Art wasn't a total waste of time in High School.

That's pretty much it.
Bye All!

June 6, 2016

Just a little update

Hi All,

It's been a while and a few things have happened so I thought I should do an update to let you all know what exactly is going on.

I went to a party with Liam on the weekend just gone and he acknowledged that he missed a day of uploading Civ 5. He did upload that weekend's episode though, but I wonder if he plans to upload the one he missed. In the video manager it shows that he attempted to upload two episodes; episode 13 and 14 of Civ 5. I don't know what went wrong, but obviously 14 failed and so he had to upload it again.

We've both been very busy with University, as its the end of the semester and so stuff's getting tense with major assessments and tests. Nevertheless we are both approaching the last assessments we have to do and from what I heard from Liam coupled with my own study situation, we should be able to do another recording session either late next week or the week after, depending on when my only exam is.

I did get worried that we weren't getting any views on Poke'mon Colosseum and so I thought that we should try to draw more attention to the series. It took a few days for all the episodes that didn't have any views to increase to 1 view, so I'm satisfied.

I don't know how many episodes of Banjo-Kazooie are left, but the number of episodes we have left of any series are one of the key factors in determining what we record as well as where.

That's everything. I did tweet about a few episodes that we've uploaded which I thought were pretty good, so I'll embed them in this post.

Bye All!

April 22, 2016

New stuff

Hi All,

Yesterday I went to Ihasnotomato's house where we recorded some Banjo-Kazooie for AIM as well as Cooking with Kylo Ren; the first skit for STAIM WAIM.
While I was there I made him make the new AM logo and now I have just applied it to the blog background.
It feels like there's a lot to talk about, but there isn't. STAIM WAIM skits will come out when we think of new ideas. Banjo-Kazooie will be uploaded in addition to Poke'mon Colosseum and Civ 5. We have no plans to record more Banjo-Kazooie as we only played it because Ihasnotomato needed to get back up to where he was at in his Let's Play, but he didn't really feel like doing so.

Bye All!

PS: Liam's thinking about making a new AIM logo.


April 8, 2016

Ihasnotomato editing Civ 5

Hi All!

It has certainly appeared that I edit and upload pretty much all of the AIM stuff at the moment because it's all recorded at my house. This changed on the day we last recorded Poke'mon and Civilization 5 when Ihasnotomato offered to edit Civ 5, which will be an interesting thing to see happen. He has a different editing style to me and at the same time the recording session was very different to the last one, so I certainly look forward to seeing his episodes.

Thanks and Bye!

March 25, 2016

Lessons of the Top 10 Videos and Video Of The Month series

Hi All,

The purpose of the Top 10 series has always been to evaluate our progress as a channel and reflect on what works and what doesn't as a way of explaining why thinks worked out the way they did.

It also serves as a historical series that shows the past and allows us to reflect on the present and more recent past. In addition it functions as the only video series any subscriber would need to watch as it features the best moments (according to us) in every video we upload each month.

Finally I have decided to analyse all of the Top 10 videos and see where we fell short. Here are my conclusions:

  • We need to upload at least 10 videos per month.
  • We need to upload a variety of videos; meaning a full schedule of AIM, IM and Quasar at least.
The best month for us was August 2015 when we did the 4 year anniversary video with it reaching 18 views and having 10 videos uploaded that month.

The worst month was November 2015 where we uploaded 3 videos, all of which were IM Industries and the number 1 video reached 2 views.

We will continue to do the Top 10 videos.

Bye All!

March 14, 2016

March 7, 2016

The Trapinch Trilogy

 From Poke'mon Colosseum - ep. 36: Tysplosive Controversy
Credit for Trapinch 3: http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss252/ChocoboKing2009/Trapinch.jpg


March 2, 2016

I Don't Know

Hi All,

On Saturday I uploaded the first episode of Civilization 5. It's done really well so far with 15 views last time I checked. So that's probably going to be #1 in the Top 10 of February. Because it's done so well I don't know if we're doing the wrong thing with sticking to our unofficial schedule of Monday Wednesday and Friday being Poke'mon and Saturday being Civ 5 and later on another game we recorded on Sunday.

On Sunday we got to talk to Frank, and luckily Liam recorded a bit of our conversation before we lost connection with him. We didn't discuss AIM stuff with Frank, and since then we haven't heard from him.

I'll do the Top 10 of February on the weekend depending on if YouTube has calculated everything or not. I've picked the location, so it should be fairly easy to do.

I'm back at Uni now, but that shouldn't impact uploading too much because I'll be home most of the time.

That's pretty much everything.

Bye All!

February 25, 2016

Liam got a new computer

Hi All,

So on the 23rd of February Liam got a new computer. This means he can make the thumbnails for Civ 5, edit the videos that we need editing and do other stuff that isn't related to AIM.

I figured I should put that out there because as I'm already covering the situation I might as well clear up things, no matter how many blog posts it takes.

I want to get Liam to do a post, but I can't think of anything he could say.

There's a bunch more videos too:




Bye All!

February 21, 2016

Why we rarely uploaded recently

Hi All,

I just looked at the last blog post and I don't think I explained why we didn't upload much in the past month or so.

It's my fault really. I wanted a fresh start to the year, but that wasn't going to happen while Liam's internet connection wasn't suitable for uploading. I had videos I could have uploaded the day after we recorded them, but I didn't do it. So clearly I didn't observe the situation very well.

Sorry about all the confusion, and I hope I've cleared it all up.
Bye All!

February 20, 2016

More Problems, But More Videos

Hi All!

Yesterday Liam came over to my house and we made a bunch of videos. He made the Top 10 Videos and Video Of The Month of December 2015 and I finished the Circle Jerk animation. Both of those videos are up now, so from this point onwards we are going to be more active on the channel.



We recorded Civilization 5 and the gameplay captured fine, so there's that to look forward to.

Liam's still working on the new channel art in his spare time, but we don't have a schedule worked out yet because we haven't made consistent contact with Frank yet. Despite that there will be at least three videos uploaded next week: Two Poke'mon videos and my Top 10 Videos and Video Of The Month of January 2016. Liam will do the thumbnail art for Civ 5 at some point, so the possibility of videos being uploaded soon relies on me telling him what I want and him drawing the picture or making the thumbnail entirely.

Unfortunately the videos we recorded in 2015 with Hacker_Reflex are having problems. Only one console game's footage was put on Liam's flash drive when it should have been two. We don't have the audio recordings of our voices for any of the recordings that we haven't already uploaded. So we don't know what to do when it comes to that.

We looked everywhere on Liam's external hard drive for anything recorded on the day and only the stuff we'd already uploaded was available.

It looked like we had a solution to our upload problem, but clearly there was more to it than lack of time for Liam to edit.

Regarding that I'll keep you posted, but when it comes to the channel look forward to more videos. When Frank is available to record videos I will try and get us to record some A.M. Industries stuff.


Liam's computer is broken: Specifically it had been slowing down for a long time and like my last computer it has slowed down to the point where it can't boot up anymore. He'd taken it to the repair shop multiple times, but it just can't be fixed. At least that's what Liam says the repairer said.

So that's the update for now.
Bye All!

February 14, 2016

Ihasnotomato computer trouble

Hi  all,

Yesterday I spoke with Liam and he said he needs a new computer because his is broken and cannot be fixed.
So next Friday he'll give me the footage to start uploading last year's videos and then begin uploading this year's videos. Mainly Pokémon.

Bye all!

February 4, 2016

Things have started

Hi All!

What things have started?
Liam's back at uni so he's busy. Nevertheless we haven't been uploading much because his computer's getting fixed and I don't want to upload any 2016 stuff until everything from 2015 is up.

I made an animation which needs to be dumbed down to being PG, we recorded more Poke'mon Colosseum and it's pretty much 'tag, you're it' when it comes to animations because I have now done two.

I don't start uni until March and I haven't spoken to Frank yet so I've got no idea what's going on when it comes to him.

Lastly, Liam wants to do a new channel banner for this year. That's pretty much it.

Bye All!

January 2, 2016

More Lowdown

Hi All,

Mabeanie here to say that during New Years celebrations myself and Ihasnotomato found ourselves discussing AIM Industries. We both came to agree that for a clean slate for 2016 we need to clear out all of the 2015 stuff that didn't get uploaded before New Years. So what we're gonna do is share the load on video uploads, seeing as there isn't any Poke'mon to upload until the next recording session, and when everything from 2015 is uploaded we will begin uploading the 2016 stuff.

It dawned on me recently that AIM actually hasn't had a fresh start before. Only the Console Gaming Series has, when it comes to Sonic Adventure DX beginning when AIM came back from holiday, and now Poke'mon Colosseum with New Years happening between recording sessions.

I thought that maybe it's because I make sure to upload everything before the new year, but that isn't the case for 2014, when V8supercars was uploaded across the period of late 2013 and early 2014.

So that's my thoughts and the lowdown on AIM stuff.

Bye All!