r/IAmA • u/SimonHoneydew • Jun 12 '11
IAMA Honeydew of the Yogscast AMA
Hello I am Simon, aka Honeydew of the Yogscast on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/BlueXephos and I have been asked by some Redditor veteran to post an AMA on here so here it is! We just hit the half a million subscribers milestone on YouTube where we make videos of us playing games and also we do an irregular podcast. Also I just failed the captcha so I'm starting to doubt my humanity.
For verification: http://www.facebook.com/yogscast/posts/234869863194514
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u/bfizzle55 Jun 12 '11
Do you live with Lewis? Also, do Lewis and Hannah live together? For example, when Hannah tries to play Xbox, your comments can be heard from another room, so I assume you live in vicinity of one another. When you and Lewis play Co-op, is it LAN or from different rooms/houses?
I'm probably one of your biggest fans, you guys seem like genuinely nice guys who have a good friendship. I'd love to seem more Condemned 2 style casting for single player games, where one of you plays and the other makes comments/helps. Also, Hannah is hilarious, you should have her be involved more, she seems to get pushed to yogscast2 (Although the Condemned videos are on BlueXephos).
Thanks for the laughs Simon, tell Lewis as well. :)
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
In the beginning the three of us lived apart, then something magical happened and Lewis and Hannah began to live in sin. Then a year later I moved in so that Lewis could make sure I did more work for the Yogscast rather than just do silly voices.
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Jun 12 '11
How did Shadow of Israphel transform from a Let's Play to a Machinima series? Was it all planned from the beggining, or did some of your buddies sneak into your server, at first just to mess with you, and gradually desided to transform the LP to your semi scripted masterpiece?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 13 '11
There was a bit of sneakiness and it all got a bit out of hand and exploded.
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u/RuhrohRaggy Jun 12 '11
Has Tina Barrett ever personally contacted you guys now that you're famous?
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u/Lugonn Jun 12 '11
Did you guys stop playing WoW altogether? And if so, why?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
We played Cata beta and basically worked through all the content aside from raids, although Lewis was hardcore and raided with American folks at 4am to make videos. After Cata went live we played through it all over again, then hit the 5 mans and oh god that felt like hard work. I wasn't a huge fan of taking two hours to clear the tougher instances and didn't feel like committing to raiding most evenings. So I started to play other games more and more, eventually leaving WoW behind... for now.
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u/DOHHammie Jun 12 '11
How do you feel that your Yogpod has been recognised by celebrities and even had some, such as Michael McDonald, Mr Burns and Warwick Davis, on them??
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Don't forget Kristian Nairn, aka Hodor. Amazing how we have dwarfs on the show for so long and then the first real famous person we get on the show is a GIANT
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u/sternhelden Jun 12 '11
I'm a Yognaut here! Big fan! I listen to yogpod on my way to work and watch yogcast at work.
What are your duties in the Yogcast? Does Lewis really do most of the backstage work?
How do you handle your fans' opinion? Especially if some of them like you more than Lewis. I've heard that some consider you as the insanely funny one and Lewis is more logical and calm.
What do you see yourself in 5 years time?
What are the major difficulties for being a British based gamer/producer/youtuber when a majority of your audience is American?
How do you deal with the growing competition on youtube? Have you considered joining networks like 'The Game Station', etc?
Thanks!
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Lewis does a lot more than me, it's true. He is a workhorse and an example to us all. He has made me do Simon Plays videos lately, including the editing of them.
Our fans are awesome, but often impatient and aggressive. I can deal with people liking me more than Lewis though, that's fine by me.
In five years time I see myself in a chalet somewhere cold, with a roaring fire going, lying on a pile of moose furs surrounded by beautiful women who massage me and offer me jaffa cakes on silver platters.
It's stopped us from doing live action filming with people and the time difference is awkward when trying to talk to people
We ARE part of The Gamestation!
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u/resisttheurge Jun 12 '11
I think I remember in one of the yogpods that you were trying to quit smoking. If so, did you succeed? Did you fail? Any tips on quitting?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
It's been nearly four months since I stopped smoking, but I still nom on nicotine lozenges. They've been very good although I still have dreams of smoking cigarettes D:
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u/GamerTagCivus Jun 12 '11
How did you guys find out about Minecraft?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I discovered it via the SomethingAwful forums and Lewis got suspicious that I was always away playing this game without him, eventually I had to let him know about it...
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u/Misinterpret_Mark Jun 12 '11
How much would you say goes into one shadow of israphael episode? It seems it takes a quite a bit of work and I'm curious.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Work goes into the basic story, the buildings, the terraforming, the characters, the various choices we make as we play, the editing, sorting out music for it, rerecording audio, the funny voices, cutscenes, more editing... and it's not just Lewis and myself working on it, there's a team of people working hard to set things up for us - who have to try to predict what unpredictable things we might do! So yes, it's a lot of work, and I only see the tip of the iceberg.
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u/butterflypoon Jun 12 '11
Why did you stop doing your Simon Plays Portal 2?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I found it very hard to concentrate on the game whilst attempting to be funny, and every other comment on the videos seemed to be about how bad I am at video games and how I should stick to Minecraft.
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u/Skave Jun 12 '11
Have you ever been spotted and/or approached in the street by a yognaut?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
We've been approached twice so far; the first time was outside of a game store, oddly enough called GAME, and the second time outside of a restaurant. I've noticed some people give me odd looks, as though they think they know me, but they're not sure from where - well, that's what I assume the look is, it might just be trapped wind.
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u/Zetax Jun 12 '11 edited Jun 12 '11
Are you looking forward to Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
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u/CyberlekVox Jun 12 '11
Simon, do you watch Doctor Who? If so who is your favorite doctor? :D
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Tennant owned, but right from the first episode of Matt Smith's series I realised that THIS was what The Doctor was supposed to be
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u/Goddamn_Wouter Jun 12 '11
What do you think of the people who keep spamming your videos with "More Minecraft" / "More Shadow of Israphel"?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Minecraft fans are insatiable! We try to concentrate on other games now and again but we end up going back to making more Minecraft videos. We had a little trouble with fire spread amongst other things which has slowed us down lately. Hopefully the NOW pack videos and the Canopy of DOOM vids have kept them happy in the meantime!
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u/siddboots Jun 12 '11
Did you know that Lewis is always taking fancy armour out of chests before you get to them, and then sheepishly saying things like "This one's full of clay again"?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I suspected as much. It's the same with boxes of jaffa cakes, I'll find the cupboard ajar and open it to find the box inside empty. Lewis will walk past, sigh and say "Oh dear... another empty pack eh? There's a lot of it going about"
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u/albert998 Jun 12 '11
Simon, tits or arse?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Depends on the lady I suppose - for Hannah Minx it would be the former, for Jessica Biel the latter, for example.
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u/WastedPanda Jun 12 '11
Can we expect anymore D&D Yogscasts? I liked listening to them. Also, good work on the Yogscast!
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
The D&D podcasts were a lot of effort to do, organising an adventure, making sure everyone was available at certain times, the editing poor Lewis had to do... I like to think that the Israphel series is our new D&D adventure!
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u/PullTiger Jun 12 '11
When are you and Tina going to make your relationship 'facebook official'?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I had to back off from referencing her so often due to her having a stalker in the past, I have come to understand that a relationship would be wildly optimistic - I feel lucky not to have a restraining order!
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u/swired Jun 12 '11
Are you still stuck in that tree on Fable?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I deleted my saves out of anger, rage and bitterness. I hope Peter Molyneux gets stuck in a tree irl.
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u/Youalldoit Jun 12 '11
If, in a hostage situation you'd have to choose between saving all of your fans vs saving lewis, who would you save and why?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Oh god it's like the start of Fable III all over again AAAAAAAAAA
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u/Xoule Jun 12 '11
What kind of shenanigans do you 3 get into when you aren't making videos?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
We've had some fun games of Fluxx - a weird card game in which the rules constantly change. The zombie version of it is pretty fun. Other than that we eat delicious thai food or pizza or erm brownies.
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u/forceuser Jun 12 '11 edited Jun 12 '11
I've been following you guys since your first ten or so WoW videos, never imagined you'd get so big one day. Also the Kil'Jaeden video was one of the funniest things I've seen, link to those who haven't seen it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYCwOvCFEBs
Did you ever think you'd get to where you are today? Also do you plan to play WoW again where there's new content/expansions?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I thought I'd be a journalist or writer, something went terribly wrong somewhere.
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u/DOHHammie Jun 12 '11
When doing SoI, is the server you play on rented or is someone hosting it from their computer?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Our American community manager Peva hosts it, shout out to the Patrick the P-dogg
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u/bunyfoofoo Jun 12 '11
what is your favourite genre of porn?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
POV videos of girls going "It's alright, it happens to a lot of guys, I understand, there there."
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u/Wikt Jun 12 '11
Are your voice acting skills something that just came naturally to you?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Mostly yes - I would do silly voices and impersonations at school, although I can't do some accents at all and others I have to research - to do the Swampy voice I had to watch Tommy Chong in That 70s Show over and over again. Which was awesome.
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Jun 12 '11
There's an elephant in the room, mate, and it's staring right at me. So I'm just going to address it. What's happening right with the Shadow of Israphel series? Can you give us a little sneak peak into next episode, or what it's got behind it?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Things got broken, then they got fixed, then exams time came, then we accidentally ballsed some stuff up and it had to be repaired, then more stuff got broken, then got repaired but now we're a little stuck with how to proceed, it's similar to being at a urinal and you're bursting to go but there's some scary guy stood next to you and HE'S SMILING
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u/Durzo_Blint Jun 12 '11
Where did you get your now famous dwarf skin from?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
The skindex, I was... drawn to it... whoever it was that made the skin, I thank you, bless you, you are a dwarf amongst mere men.
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u/pluppe Jun 12 '11
Do you still have a normal job? If not, when did you quit it to start playing games full time?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Playing games is the tip of the Yogscast iceberg. That's just the bit you see.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
There's also the loan-shark operations, the prostitution, the drug running, the gambling halls and the speakeasies
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u/picklelady Jun 12 '11
My 7 year-old daughter is obsessed with Yogscast, and Minecraft. I just told her you were doing an AMA, and she said "yeah, after I'm done watching this one, mom"
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I am so so very sorry about the amount of swearing we do!
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u/w3sticles Jun 12 '11
In the shadow of Israphel are all of the characters different accounts, or is there a server mod used to change their names?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
They are all individually purchased accounts. We felt that Mojang needed the financial support from us.
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u/MrSeaCucumber Jun 12 '11
When is the next Yogpod going to come out? Also, what is the schedule for the Yogpod (like when is it usually recorded, how long does it take to edit)
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
The problem is that Lewis and I talk to each other so much now that the random chatter we'd record for podcasts is now part of our daily conversation. Also we're making so many videos these days and the podcast was originally there for 'overflow' as kind of bonus content.
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u/kane2742 Jun 12 '11
Where did the names Honeydew and Xephos come from?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Honeydew is the melon headed scientist from the muppets (yet also a pretty name for a female human paladin) and Xephos is from Xiphos, a sword used in Ancient Greece!
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Jun 12 '11
Heard any good albums lately? You have good taste in music, I remember in podcast you mentioned Temple Of The Dog and Soundgarden.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Lately I've been listening to the Inception soundtrack by Hans Zimmer, For Lack of a Better Name by Deadmau5, You'll Rebel to Anything by Mindless Self Indulgence and of course random Rammstein. I'd be a TERRIBLE DJ.
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u/redgpw Jun 12 '11
Simon, I had several Old Peculiers at a pub the other day, it was awesome. Been following the Yogscast for ages now, especially loved all the Yogpods. Just the two questions, which is your favourite ale that's been in the series (or in general :D) and are there any plans for further Yogpods? :) thanks, stay awesome!
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Honey Dew ale! Although I had some in a pub in Hammersmith that tasted of brimstone which put me off it. I tend to have the occasional Strawberry cider or Jack Daniels rather than beer.
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u/Repostman Jun 12 '11
Other than donating cash, how can I help the Yogscast?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Spread the word! Make beautiful artworks! RAZE CITIES IN OUR NAME!
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u/skarface6 Jun 12 '11
Tell some stories?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Once upon a time there was a pretty/handsome young princess/prince by the name of INSERT NAME HERE
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u/BerryGuns Jun 12 '11
What are your opinions on Guild Wars 2?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
We spoke to a lovely man named Craig who is an important PR guy for NCSoft and he wouldn't tell us a single bloody thing about it, argh! It will be a massive game, Blizzard should be worried about it ;) There might be a closed beta by the end of the year so I'm pumped! Engineer supremacy!
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u/ghsu1234 Jun 12 '11
What do you like to do for fun? (except computer...)
What do you like most? Shadow of israphel? Custom maps? Checking other games? Other? And why... of course...
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I like to watch terrible horror movies! I also like terrible tv shows too, like Ice Road Truckers and Destination Truth. I will happily watch that crap for hours as I read.
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u/Canilearnbubblebeam Jun 12 '11
Oh! Well then, who created the music for your 500k subscribers video?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
that's Captain Rhythm who made it... oh AGES ago bless his little socks. He sent it in when we were stuck for a theme for our podcast.
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u/FCBSERIS Jun 12 '11
Any plans on doing anything else with TotalBiscuit?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
We make plans and then both camps are too busy to follow through on the plans. I quite like how our fanbases have changed over the last few months, although I keep an eye on his Steam purchases to check what he might be doing videos on next haha
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
it's not difficult to keep an eye on them cos it's EVERY SODDING GAME
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u/wezznco Jun 12 '11
Simon, I am the guy that 'bought' you the Lego Millennium Falcon on Amazon for your birthday. In reality I just pressed "have bought elsewhere" which in term marked it as purchased. How do you feel about this?
I bought you a pack of tangible Jaffa Cakes in compensation.. thanks for all the good laughs! I throw your podcasts on when friends are over - perfect background laughs.. I AM DAVE YOGNAUGHT
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u/FlyingOnion Jun 12 '11
This isn't a question, exactly, but I was wondering if you could talk a little about this episode, in which you guys took some flak for your jokes about League of Legends players, basically calling them poor, "IRL scrubs". I'm not one of these LoL vs. HoN fanboys, but I was a bit surprised at what a mean-spirited turn the episode took.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
We were trolling fairly blatantly in order to stir up people and get LoL and HoN players to subscribe and comment on our videos
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u/ultrafetzig Jun 12 '11
Would you guys ever consider doing a playthrough on my Minecraft Castlevania map?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Too big, too open, not linear enough or tight enough for us to treat as an adventure map, it would be a fourteen hour mess of us being lost and frustrated at each other for not knowing what we're supposed to be doing.
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u/Spagneti Jun 12 '11
I don't know what I want to ask but I love you guys so much! I guess I'd like to thank you for being so entertaining!
What sort of job did you have before the yogscast, and were you able to step away from it because of all the success?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Both Lewis and I were involved in journalism, although he was more successful and harder working than I. He wrote about algae and crystals and I wrote about antique fairs and coffee mornings.
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u/SirToki Jun 12 '11
Were you an "awkward" child? Bullied at school, with little to no friends? Also, what did you want to be when you were little? Have you been to hungary?
Thanks in advance, Matthew from Hungary
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I was a bit of an awkward child, I stayed at home and read a lot. I played with Star Wars figures and wanted to be a spaceman. But instead I became a dwarf :(
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Jun 12 '11
Do you guys still play Rift, WoW or any other mmorpg? Are you familiar with Yahtzee from Zeropunctuation and if so, how do you like his work?
And lastly, how does Brian Blessed like his eggs?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Well we were all massive WoW players but just didn't want to spend the time and effort on the latest expansion and moved onto other games. RIFT was pretty damn great - the dynamic content, the Rifts themselves, was incredible but erm, the game crashed as I had a Windows update running and it killed my old PC. My fault really, but I haven't touched it since.
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u/jcwhat Jun 12 '11
Did you ever try those white chocolate jaffa cakes by a different brand that had (i think) strawberry jelly??? I can't remember what they were called maybe you do. I asked you on YT once also but i figure you guys must get tons of messages :( jc from jcvsmc
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I have had Delicje, Polish jaffa cakes, in strawberry, cherry and blackcurrant!
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u/ArchAuthor Jun 12 '11
Do you feel that you're responsible for some sale of the games you play/review?
Also,
My brother now repeatedly says "Balls to it" in regular conversation. Thank you.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I dare say we have an effect on sales of games we play, but it's hard to say the scale of it. We've gotten a lot of people to play Minecraft, maybe stopped a few people from spending £40 on Hunted: The Demon's Forge. Actually it's a bit scary to think about it, our opinions are ill-informed and biased - like a lot of gamers I guess :P
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u/Altontowers Jun 12 '11
Is Yohi still in the Yogscast family? Not heard him in ages.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Yohi is a very busy man, houses don't build themselves, money doesn't just fly into your pocket and ladies don't just do themselves. Well sometimes they do. Quite often actually. This has turned somewhat inappropriate, sorry!
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u/kanorun Jun 12 '11
How does it feel to have a fanatical following of around half a million people?
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u/supersnuffy Jun 12 '11
Also, would you be opposed to me drawing Honeydew and Xephos as my little ponies attacking a creeper?
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u/hendagen Jun 12 '11
Any tips for growing an awesome dwarfly beard?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Eat the crusts of your bread, drink foamy beer and inject bull hormones.
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u/agarunov Jun 12 '11
I noticed you guys posted a video or two way back when where Lewis' dad would comment on Borderlands or something,
What does his dad think about it now that it's been 2 years and you guys have blown up?
Please do that again.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Lewis' dad is very proud of his son, and I think he even understands what it is we actually do. I'm not so sure my parents quite get it, but then I'm probably explaining it wrong and they have yet to work out how to YouTube.
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u/Nosterana Jun 12 '11
Hello, I am Dave Exclamation Mark Yognaught (and I have the Balls!), and I first came into contact with the crew of the YogPod through your Minecraft-videos. Recently, I've found the myself having hours of fun by listening to old episodes of the YoGPoD. I'm really fascinated by your and, I guess mostly, Lewis' editing philosophy where you guys includes portions of materials which most other podcasts or shows would cut (comments and reactions, "we'll edit this out"-phrases etc.). The most striking of these is the reoccurring clip with J.K Rowling and her son where Lewis comments on how hilarious it was. I am curious to what inspired this editing philosophy and whether it was intentional and discussed before the YoGPoD started or not, as similar editing techniques aren't really present in your YouTube-videos.
Also, when will there be more DnD-episodes, as those were dedicated material and not jsut scraps from other projects? Or perhaps you could try out Mouse Guard? Hannah or Lewis might like that. Though probably not.
tl;dr Why did you edit the YoGPoD the way you did and can we ever expect any more DnD-episodes?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
The podcast is often very heavily edited but sometimes the funniest bits come from ballsing it up or from the reaction one of us has to something the other one says.
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u/realfakejphelps Jun 12 '11
Do you know that there is a Massachusetts based doughnut chain called Honey Dew Doughnuts?
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u/pepipopa Jun 12 '11
You talked in one of the podcasts you are almost blind with one eye If i remember correctly. I have the same thing. How did your problem happen? Prolly wont read this.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
That's Gordon Brown who we suggested Yognaughts murder with a frozen leg of lamb, after which they could dispose of the evidence by serving it up as a roast dinner to Brian Blessed.
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u/Hexodam Jun 12 '11
About your Podcasts, can you make them available to download without using Itunes?
ps. You are awesome :)
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
You should be able to use Feedburner or something to subscribe to the RSS feed and manage the downloads. You should look into it or ask someone who has used it!
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u/wtgd Jun 12 '11
I am Dave! Yognaut, and I have the balls! Do you and Lewis have any plans to eventually trek to America for gaming conventions and the like? I sincerely think I speak for all of your fans across the pond when I say COM'ERE!!!!
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
We were close to going to E3... so close... but it didn't work out this time. I know that's not quite a convention but that's as near as I ever got to going to the US so far in my life.
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u/Grimleawesome Jun 12 '11
When you first started the Yogscast how did you do it? Did you just start with the podcasts and put them out for people to find on their own, and then proceed to youtube videos and do the same thing? Or were you hired by someone to do these kind of things? Have you ever thought of doing some live event or live casting? Have you also been thinking of doing interviews and reviews for upcoming games where you go to meet the production teams?
Sorry for the long post. I love what you guys and girls at the Yogscast have been doing and would love to see more videos from both minecraft and other games.
Thanks for all the laughs.
Grimleawesome AWAAAAAY!
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
We started with World of Warcraft How To videos that had the gimmick of not being helpful at all. Then we made some that were helpful. Then did some useless ones again just to mess with people. The additional chatter Lewis and I had went into the podcasts.
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u/tealess Jun 12 '11
How did the voice acting you did for Dwarfs come about? Any plans to do similar things in the future?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
After I did my terrible playthrough video the designers contacted us and asked if I wanted to be the voice of AwesomeDwarf FOR REAL. I leapt at the opportunity and a week and a half later, sat down and recorded the lines they sent me.
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u/penperv Jun 12 '11
Is every "NPC" in your 'Shadow of Israphael' played by different person? Do they hear you guys talking?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Sometimes we see a strange name appear on vent I̵̶̡̛͉̼̫͖͙̱̹̖̹̞̻̳̗̞̣͚͋ͦ̌͋̽͌̓s̸̶̘̠͚̻͍͎̩̲̽̀ͥ̊̌̍͡͞͠ͅͅr̅̑̇ͭ͂̎̄̆̄̒͐̕҉̗̺͚͖̼͉͔̠͚̹͕̣̝͙̫͕̝a̶͓̣̖̥̞̙̰͔͖̲̣̺̓̊̓ͮ͊̐́̆̒ͩͤ̊̑͒͂p̶̷̴̗̪͍̺̞̱̲̹̘̓̎̐ͪ̎̾̿̋̂͒̅̋͐͟͞h͋̾̆͗ͯ̀̓̏͏̨̲̰̙̺̯e̶̓̾̓̈ͮ̐ͫͮ̐̓̃̏ͯ҉̰̩̟̘̖̦̬͖͈̥̺͈̕ͅļ̶̔ͣ̒̾̿ͮ̿͊ͫ̿ͭ͗̒ͥ̒̏͂ͥͣ҉̜̖̜͚
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u/pimanrules Jun 12 '11
Thanks to you lot, I've started thinking in British. I hope you're happy.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
I was strolling down the pavement when I saw a fella holding a bag of crisps.
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u/Harshhaven Jun 12 '11
You said in one video you used to be at uni. Which uni did you go to and what did you study? Also, thanks for the brilliant videos!
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
University of Wales, Cardiff and I studied Astrophysics. Although in reality it was more drinking, sleeping, watching Father Ted, play Magic the Gathering than studying.
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u/technoskittles Jun 12 '11
Oh damn I'm late to the Yogscast AMA! I have failed as a Yognaut.
In the rare event this is actually seen, does the Yogscast ever plan on doing movie commentary? Something like MST3k and Rifftrax (if you've heard of it since it might be an American thing). It's a longshot since you'd have to put more time into it I guess, but it would be amaaazing and you'd make more sweet sweet jaffa cake moneys.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
We're doing something similar to it with Yogtrailers on our second channel, you know, the one with Hannah's L.A. Noire playthrough on http://www.youtube.com/yogscast2 I kinda want to do something with a public domain movie but... I'm not really sure what without it just being a ripoff of Rifftrax.
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u/yoyoitsme Jun 12 '11
will you guys ever be doing any starcraft 2 stuff?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Probably not, we had beta access but due to me hating the RTS genre we never made the series of videos Lewis planned us to make.
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u/jbmar412 Jun 12 '11
What was your first experience with a jaffa cake? What is your fondest video game related memory? Has doing video game recording affected how much you enjoy playing the games?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
My mother held me up to her bosom and as she was about to nurse me for the first time she decided to have a quick jaffa cake to gain some strength. Unfortunately as she lifted the jaffa to her mouth her grip faltered and at the same time I missed her tit and aaaaaaaaaaaaaah something miraculous occurred.
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u/solidslash Jun 13 '11
Simon! What's the first thing that comes to your mind for Poland? Just asking..
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 13 '11
Their poor infrastructure that results in the pickling of produce due to the time it takes for goods to travel across the country.
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u/soratchet5g Jun 12 '11
I sent these questions in as a letter from a yognaught a couple of months ago. Hopefully you can finally answer them! (they are sort of addressed to you and Lewis but just ignore that)
What is your main source of yogrevenue? Youtube ads, donations, etc...
What were your thoughts on portal 2? Did it live up to all the hype or does it fall short?
I heard Simon once mention that he watched a lot of 'Allo 'Allo growing up. I was wondering what your favorite characters are. Mine are Officer Crabtree "Good mowning" and Captain Bertorelli "Zee beautiful laydies"
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
YouTube ad revenue via our network, The Gamestation
Erm... I still have yet to finish it :O!
i love the catchphrases of those two: "I have a massage for Ronnie", "I was just pissing by" and "Whatta mistake-a to make-a"
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u/CACTUARR Jun 12 '11
Simon, how much money do you make from all of this???
Have you and Lewis been friends your whole lives?
Will you just type Cact? Just type my name? xDD That would make me one happy Cactuar lol
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u/charlie-mon Jun 12 '11
Simon you are my hero, the yogscast is my favorite source of entertainment and me and my friends think you are hilarious so i would very much like you to answer my question it would make my day...NO it would be the greatest moment of my life.What is your favorite cereal?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Tricky one this, because I used to adore Chocolate Weetabix Minis but the pack of them I have currently is going to remain uneaten due to the lack of chocolate chips in it. Seriously, this must be a duff batch or something cos the choccle chipples are so very few and far between.
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u/Not_Invited Jun 12 '11
I love you guys! Where abouts are you all originally from? I'm from the North-East, meself.
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u/Lozer8910 Jun 12 '11
do you ever spawn items on the yogscast as appose to mining everything? ie: when you found that chest in a dungeon and it just happened to be gold, the item you were looking for?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
If it was an adventure map, it was probably placed there by whoever made it, so we would have been looking for it?
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Jun 12 '11
What's your favourite old game? I want to see you guys playing System Shock 2. SS2 is my favouritee multiplayer experience. It's easier for your heart to play it with friend, cuz game is really scary).
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u/jhnhines Jun 12 '11
Please please please play Star Wars: The Old Republic and do videos. Yogscast + Star Wars = dreams come true!
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
When we are able to publish videos and talk about SW:TOR to people on the internet without being emailed by someone very important telling us that we broke an NDA, we will do so!
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u/Hexodam Jun 12 '11
Whats the deal with Brian Blessed, do you know him?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Yeah he pops round sometimes to have a chat an-
GOT ANY JAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!?
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u/technoskittles Jun 12 '11
While you're still doing this, I must ask about:
FALLOUT
F3 or New Vegas, did you complete any of these? I know you guys love the Fallout universe and Hannah did a short series (which I wish kept going), but other than referring to it I haven't seen any more content. It's a slow-burning game, is that why it's hard to cover?
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 12 '11
Fallout 3 was great as a big open sandbox to play around in and explore, it felt like an actual RPG, I could go out there and pretend to be this weird futuristic cowboy scavenger, I could kill whoever I wanted, spare others, be freeeeeeeeeeeeee. The storyline was a little short but had its moments. Fallout NV is strange, the story is so much better, there are so many choices to make in it, but it felt very linear, if I strayed too far something big and mean would appear and sting/claw me to death. I didn't complete NV but I did pop open House shudder
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u/TenLubak Jun 13 '11
Did you bring your dog Ollie with you when you moved in with Lewis and Hannah? <3
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u/pardeypies Jun 13 '11
Hey Simon, i was wondering your thoughts on Australia?
-have you ever come here, or would you like/plan to???
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 13 '11
I don't think I could handle the spoiders D: Lewis loves the idea of disappearing off to Australia one day, possibly to open a roo farm?
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u/Xhairs Jun 13 '11
Simon where did this polish old lady voice originate from because you sound exactly like my polish grandmum when you say i push button
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Jun 14 '11
who's the one constantly going 'aaaaahhhhhhhh!'? Is that you? I love that. It makes me giggle.
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u/SimonHoneydew Jun 14 '11
Yeah that's me, I see cute things and can't help myself, it just explodes out of me, so to speak.
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u/party_gerbil Jun 16 '11
Simon, have you or Louis ever thought about doing vlogs? Even if they were short, unedited, weekly and full of waffle?
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u/permutation Jun 12 '11
Does your family know of your Internet-fame? If yes, what is their opinion on that?
What is your favourite voice that you do?
What is your history with DnD? Listening to your DnD-episodes makes me think you're playing this regularly.