Frustration

2025-06-30 16:58
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Hi Hole,

Another LOW REZ episode released, sent into the void again. It's quite gutting to have yet another episode just, bomb, yet again.

It's infuriating that we keep getting told, put out high quality content, the algorthm will find it and show it to the right audience. That's a bloody lie, I've uploaded over and over again and it just isn't growing or building, so it feels like a huge waste of time. I'm not expecting instant results, but when you see channels or creators out there who just push ready meal posts, or channels with just shorts but thousands of subscribers, after a few weeks for some of them, it does really get to you. 

I'm wondering what is the point in carrying on these projects, they get very little views or even interactions, the people who do view it appreciate it, but I can't help but feel that it's because they're in it.

I've been stressing myself out over getting these out, and it's just not worth it.
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Flying Spider Rope Hero | MR. MATT INTERNET VIDEO PROGRAMME

2020-03-24 12:30
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 Hello Internet,

This episode can be located here - https://youtu.be/tiJqj1jLWUc 

This episode came about from a random image posted on a Discord server ran by my mate Kiko, basically Tuna had posted an image for Flying Spider Rope Hero and I stupidly asked about why a spider hero who could fly would want rope, the only reason they would need rope is if they're tying up the bad guys in there and it wouldn't be for any form of momentum. Of course I was being sardonic and it would of course be a Spider Man rip off.

Little did I know that it would be even more disapointing than I initially thought, with the whole thing being an absolute botch job of cobbled together assets and a complete mess of a game.

The 'Gangsters' aren't really after you unless you attack first, which begs the question of who the real villian is in all of this. As seen in the video we eventually see that Flying Spider Rope Hero is just Spider Rope, removing all the extra stuff that isn't false.

The game is filled with false advertising, all over the app screen and within the game itself. I was really cracking up with laughter whilst reading the app store listing as it's just so botchy, I had to retake a few and in some instances I didn't realise I was laughing until I went back to edit it all together.

It was nice to be able to tie this into asset flips and why people are tempted to do something like this, flipping assets to get ad revenue is really tempting to some and using the right combination of guff can result in something that will get downloaded by quite a few people and then the ads bombarded all over the place.

SInce I have a network Ad Block on (cheers Pi Hole) I didn't realise how bad it was until I switched over to mobile data, the sheer amount of adverts is horrible, they pop up at every given chance. They even cover the wanted stars! They have wanted stars in this but due to the adverts you can't see them!

As fun as this review was, it's a game that I was delighted to get rid of afterwards.

Anyway, have a great day! Thanks for reading!


 

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Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet Review | MR. MATT INTERNET VIDEO PROGRAMME

2020-03-09 10:36
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Hello Internet,

This episode is here - https://youtu.be/ByuXOwaubYk 

This is probably my most 'episodey' feeling episode, it feels a lot more complete in terms of quality and how it's been put together, so I'm quite happy with this one.

However, due to it's a review for an older game that is for a very small demographic, the analytics are bad. I'm not really too fussed about viewing numbers and thing like that, I'm usually looking at numbers so much during the day in my work life, I shouldn't care too much about the viewership for this. However, it would've been nice to get some feedback on this episode, as the next one planned is going to be more of a satire centric episode.

The episode came together over a few days, I re-recorded the voice over about 3 times, still not 100% happy with it as there are a few lines that get stumbled over, but it is getting better than the initial ones. The final chair stuff was filmed very late on the Friday, after everything else was done, which is actually the opposite of what I usually do (chair stuff first, then VO then editing).

It seems like I'm giving out a lot about Sword Art Online: Fatal Bullet, but it is actually quite fun to play, I've enjoyed playing it with my younger Brother as this is exactly his sort of game. I did ask him on to give his thoughts but it didn't pan out.

Anyways, thanks for reading, have a fantastic day and see you again, at some point.

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Aren't You Aware? | MR. MATT INTERNET VIDEO PROGRAMME

2020-03-05 11:14
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 Hello Internet,

This episode is here - https://youtu.be/_V5S_MEu8RY

So this was a bit of a fun episode to do, I really love the 'Don't you know?' gaming facts along with the other series they do, so thought I would do a stupid version of that.

I think the Tapeworm and Slow-Mo Guys bits work quite nicely, along with the delivery of the Living In Doors bit, that I was quite happy with. First time messing around with keying on video, I had to use my Toko hoodie to snip the area around my face off so I could mount it in a door. I had planned to stick something to the door to provide a tracking point so I could make it even more terrifying. I definately learned quite a bit from doing this episode, the keying bits will be useful in future episodes and also practicing tracking within a video will be needed.

I'd like to revisit this format of episode again in the future, when I have a few more ideas of 'Fhacks' that I can use.

Oh! I also got my first copyright notice, it was on the 'Hold the Phone' episode for the Apprentice clips I used, it's not a strike but it is going to affect that video.

Anyways! Thanks for reading, have a great day!

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Gears POP! Review | MR. MATT INTERNET VIDEO PROGRAMME

2020-02-25 12:11
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Hello Internet,

Latest Episode is here - https://youtu.be/HlAVCgylM_g 

I didn't want to do another mobile game review again so quickly, but the episode I had planned didn't quite work as quickly as I hoped, so I'm banking it for later.

This episode actually turned out better than I expected, I realised I actually do enjoy Gears POP! more than I thought whilst reviewing it and have actually been playing a bit more of it as of late. It was actually quite cool to get a reply from the Twitter feed as well, wasn't expecting that.

The big joke at the end of the episode, summoning BubblePOP as a result of saying POP too much was making me laugh, but when it came to actually excute it in editing it err... didn't quite work as planned. I shouldn't have rushed doing that so much but the deadline was looming, if I get a chance to re-do it I'll probably spend a bit more time on building up a few animation shots instead of attempting to work within a single clip of the video.

Got a few ideas for the next few episodes, since I'm away this weekend I've got to finish an episode and get it scheduled before Friday, then work on the biggest episodes next week. I am hoping to get a bit of filming done over the weekend, I've got one sequence that needs more than 1 person to work and it might be a good oppotunity to get it in the can.

Anyways, thanks for reading and have a fantastic day!

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Hold the Phone | MR. MATT INTERNET VIDEO PROGRAMME

2020-02-19 11:44
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 Hello Internet,

Latest episode is here - https://youtu.be/xNT7wgUW754

Bit more of an observation episode, trying to explain why people hold their phones in such an odd manner, I really don't get why people do it as surely it's not a great experiance for either party to use a phone like that.

If it's in a speaker phone setting it's boosting the input from the microphone and getting mroe background noise, making it harder to make out what is actualyl being said, along with having to constantly move it back and forth between ear and mouth rather than covering both halfs at once against your head.

Although I say in the video I don't know, I kinda lean towards the reality TV option more, as we know that media innoculation theory can result in some odd behaviours, if they see people doing it on the telly/streaming service then they're more likely to emulate it not knowing it's a trick for the audiences sake.

I've seen more people doing this and in situations where it doesn't really need it, such as standing in a park or walking down a road. It's just one of those things that comes across as inefficent and odd, but people can do what they want with their phones at the end of the day.

Another episode which has more VO than chair stuff, I did record more chair bits but they went unused as I didn't go all in with the Star Trek comparison. The new style of credits introduced in the previous episode are quite helpful as they allow those link bits for YouTube and won't look werid if I move them to another site.

Cheers for reading, have a great day!

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Top 10 Things! | MR. MATT INTERNET VIDEO PROGRAMME

2020-02-11 10:40
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The latest episode is here - https://youtu.be/wIMAVhZLc-I

So this one is going over Top 10 lists, I do love me a good Top 10 list but sometimes I think they've gone a little overboard, when a Top 10 list is done right it can be an insightful look over a specific field and attempt to rank the contents according to an arbitrary scale that the creator has put together which you will either agree or disagree with, so the ones that have merit are typically done by those you have a rapport with.

I thought for a while about why Top 10 lists have become so popular, I think part of it is the easy content delivery and manufacture of it, I can see how a channel that puts together a template for constructing top 10 lists can squirt them out at a very rapid rate, with a very fast turn around letting them have a quick reaction to cultural trends (for instance, Show X has become popular, here are 10 things you may have missed or 10 plot points or 10 Horses that got a look etc.).

 

Building this episode was actually quite difficult, I had put together some of the construction parts but I decided to go a bit overboard with it, adding way too many transitions and animations to make it over the top. Since I asked my friends on Facebook for suggestions, I got a wild group of things to construct around, oddly enough I had 2 people suggest Chris Morris related things (Clarkycat and Robopleagic Wrong Cock), which is partly why I went overboard with the transitions as Brass Eye/The Day Today are huge inspirations of mine.

I'm also influenced by Tim and Eric hence the little weird scream bit at the very start, as this was seen in the first episode of Tim and Eric Awesome Show Good Job! when Tim turns himself into a cat and keeps switching back to a naked screaming small version of himself.

As long as it took to make this episode I really had fun making it, I'm actually quite happy with how it has come together and the overall tone of it. As strange as it seems, the flipping numbers at the end is actually one of the bits I'm most happy with, considering it was made at a whim to cover the final part of the video, it came out well and reminds me of Sesame Street.

I had recorded more chair talking bits but I forgot to use them! I got to around 5 and realised I had forgot to put in little parts talking about lists, by the time I realised I thought it would spoil the flow of the episode.

Thanks for reading, have a fantastic day!

 

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Reacts? | MR. MATT INTERNET VIDEO PROGRAMME

2020-02-06 12:46
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 Hello Internet,

So the latest episode is here - https://youtu.be/OcVh-ImvXpc

This one is a bit of a strange one, I'm not knocking all react videos as some are quite interesting and fall within the remit of someone who knows about the topic they're covering, usually if a games journalist is reacting to a press release or someone from one of those fighting game communities is reacting to a new game/fighter/costume DLC ect. they typically have a purpose and entertainment value. I'm just not a big fan of ones that are reacts for normal videos where there is no additional input to the content being shown, you know the ones I'm on about, loud, massive overreaction ones where the entertainment is supposed to be from how someone is viewing things.

I get the impression that these are just an extension of the old shock image, then shock video reactions that you'd do with people in meat space. You remember right? When you used to call someone over and go 'Look at this Tubgirl thing' and wait for the horror on their face, you obviously being desensitised to it by looking and showing it for so long. I did something similar with a simfile contest over a decade ago and got banned, still worth it.

Anyway, the video is probably the most abstract thing I've done on the channel thus far, with an escalation of reactions over and over. The original content being lost in-amongst all the reactions, eventually watering it down to nothing but background noise.

You might have noticed a botch at the start, the usual phase in on the chair had a small bit where I wander in, bloody irked that I didn't catch that but it's usually the first and easiest thing to put in.

I think I'll mess around with the next intro.

One of the fun things about this video is that when I was recording the reaction with the mask on, I realised that the things I was saying would be heavily distorted because of said mask, so I thought that I would record a voice over in post. Whilst I was editing the episode my Daughter decided to watch me work, I thought it would be a bit of a lark to record one of her songs as she loves playing around with the mic and pop shield, her 'Lemon's Lemon's' song is something she sings often and I thought I would include it within the video.

This is the first video to feature no voice over from myself, but from a guest 😊
Thanks for reading, have a great day!

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Theme song and outro

2020-01-30 22:50
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 Hello Internet,

You may have noticed that the opening theme is an incredibly distorted version of "Once I caught a Fish Alive", heavily distorted and sped up at different rates on each episode.

The origin of this was actually one of my Daughter's story books, it has slightly dying batteries and what used to the cheerful song about counting and fish, became a distorted nightmare fuel. I decided to record it and come up with a use later, when I started sketching out the show I figured that I would go with the Mankind (from them wrestlings) style of intro and outro. Mankind was one of the few wrestlers to have a different intro and outro, a distorted fragmented theme for entering and a calm peace for leaving the ring (well when he won). 

For the show I went with the distorted intro theme I hashed together and the cheerful cherpy outro, to contrast the odd nature of the show in the middle. 

I think I thought about that a bit too much. 

Cheers for reading and have a great day

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10 Subs Special | Mr. Matt Internet Video Programme

2020-01-30 15:28
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 Hello Internet,

So I made a bit of a weird video to celebrate getting to 10 Subs, it's obviously a joke video as well... see for yourself - https://youtu.be/Si5hW2nyrLI

I'm really quite happy I've gotten up to 10, well 11 now, as I thought I would get 1 or 2. Videos are hovering around 20 views so that's nice as well.

So that thing I'm holding up that is supposed to be one of those YouTubes plaques that popular channels have in the backgrounds, I just thought I would try and make it look like something dripping and being quite grim, along with the state of the 'letter' that came with it, to create a rather slapdash and messed up feel to it all, basically like my content thus far!

Cats were on one whilst filming as well, they kept rushing about the front room hence the looks over to see what they were doing, was really worried they were going to take out the microphone lead or phone.

Got the chair chatting done in 1 take with only 1 botch, which I'm quite pleased about, along with the editing that took about 40 minutes.I only had to reshoot one thing which was the letter, it initially was done in orange crayon but when viewing the footage during editing it was near impossible to see the text, so I redid it in purple felt-tip and reshot, it's the reason the PS bit is slightly different (by one word, but it is still irksome).

Bloody delighted that I got the tracking working so the censorship of the plaque worked, will have to make use of the tracking feature in future again for some of the graphics as I have a few ideas of things I want to do.

I have a few ideas for some future videos, one of which is going to be interesting as I'm going to have to rely on someone else providing some footage, from my experiance on past projects working with other people can be rather difficult when they aren't in the same location and I'm not a fan of badgering people, so that video might take a long while to come out (or it might be coming soon, I hope it's soon!)

Anyway, enough rambling, thank you so much for reading, have a fantastic day!

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Infinitode 2 Review | Mr. Matt Internet Video Programme

2020-01-27 12:16
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 Hello Internet,

This episode can be found here - https://youtu.be/JM83g0rHzps

As you can probably tell, I quite like Infinitode 2. Been playing this one for a while (basically since it was released in 2019) and had been playing the first Infinitode for a while before.

It's probably one of the best tower defense games I've played in a long while, I went mad for Defense Grid (1 and 2) back when they were released and I love how this has an evolution, with a progressive RPG element where you develop the towers and level them up, both temporarly within the game and perminently with the skill trees.

Filming was pretty easy for this one, although as you might notice, the end was a little cut off. Anna came through just as I was getting to the end so it resulted in chopping off the sounds of the door opening. Oh well! I typically have about 20-30 minutes to film the chair stuff so I have to get through it as quickly as possible.

Annoyingly the chair stuff audio still seems slightly off, I need to sort ouf the clip mic I have to make sure it's being picked up as cleanly as possible.

Audio was done in one sitting which has made it much easier to sort out in post and made getting it chopped up and edited in a breeze.

Overall I think the editing on this episode took about 6 hours or so, I should've spent more time on the awful box art at the start though, I mean I really could have made Infinate Toad 2 look more asset swapped hell, eh, maybe next time.

Cheers for reading, have a great day!

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Mario Kart Review | Mr. Matt Internet Video Programme

2020-01-24 16:29
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Hello Internet,

My review for Mario Kart Tour went up here - https://youtu.be/TCYeaEBbyh4

Some bits and bobs about it, I filmed the seat stuff in one session in an evening and had about 3 recording sessions for the voice over bits, as a result the voice over parts have an inconsistanty to them which is slightly irksome. For the next video I need to get better at sticking to the script for the voice over parts, if I can get it done in one session it should result in a more consistant edit later.

One of the funny things about the recording of this episode was Miko kept leaping around everywhere, hence the looking over every-now-and-then at something out of shot, plus the out-take at the end, she really does love hopping up at the worst possible time, or best possible time if you change perspectives.

Whilst I come across as quite negative about Mario Kart Tour, I do enjoy some elements of it, I've been playing it for quite a few weeks but have gotten to the point where I'm wondering what is it I enjoy about it, the graphics are nice, soundtrack is typical Mario Kart fare so that's nice, overall it's just nice... and that is a bit of a problem, I'm not clamouring back into it as once you hit a bit of a wall with rankings, your left with just leveling up all the random stuff they make you level up which results in nothing much happening. It's a bit like cheap vanilla ice cream, it's alright but you're thinking about the better Ice Cream at the back of the freezer whilst you're eating it.

Cheers for reading
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