how it could have ended ranted on September the 22nd

Alright luvs! Sorry I’ve been a bit ‘internet quiet’ but I had some troubles which involved “not getting paid” and “getting very cross about it”. But that is almost all over now, so I have to find new things to get angry about for you! Well aren’t you just in luck, because today I discovered that had I entered the Xbox Live Original Pilot Competition, the above comic is the history this world would have recorded if anyone survived my exploding fury!

Right, so basically right, I was going to enter the New York Television Festival Xbox LIVE Originals Contest (warning, page has an annoying looping video demo that you can’t stop, hurrah for irritating web-design decisions!!), because getting Waffle X onto a network and getting paid $100,000 (£50,000) to make a 6 episode series appealed to me. Obviously. So to be honest that was the main driving force behind creating a full pilot version of Waffle X, stitching Episode 1 and 2 together with added linking bits, to submit to this competition. I was psyched, a gaming orientated comedy animation seemed perfectly suited to being shown on Xbox Live. I went through the usual egomania of “I’ve definitely won. Now how to spend that 50k…”. But, as with all things, there was a catch.

I say “a catch”, but rather an entire legal document of catches. Have a read of the PDF Entry Packet here, but I’ll highlight the choice phrases that made me raise a Roger Moore-esque eyebrow to:

- NYTVF and the Designated Entities shall have the perpetual and exclusive right to exhibit, disseminate, or broadcast each entry (and any portion(s) or element(s) thereof) in any manner, media or format now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe.

- Each entrant acknowledges and agrees, that by entering, NYTVF and/or the Designated Entities shall exclusively and perpetually own the copyright in the entry and shall be entitled to exploit any or all entries (or any portions or elements thereof) and that no payment or consideration of any kind or nature shall be due to any such entrant.

So yeah. I didn’t enter. The idea of signing over any and all right to my creation when they’ve underlined legally they want to exploit and not pay me for it, and then bind the whole thing up so tightly in legal bullshit that i can’t even travel lightyears to ANOTHER GALAXY to pitch it to warbling alien execs, is ridiculous. So time passed, and slightly dejected I released Episode 2 anyway still waiting for my big break. Until yesterday when I decided to satisfy my horrible HORRIBLE curiosity and find out who won.

A show called Bouchedags. I’m going to link the whole thing below, but really I have to warn you. Its 17 minutes long, and its essentially a form of torture. See how far you get through, and let me know. Its the most unfunny piece of shit I have ever watched in my entire life.

Even the thumbnail communicates what you’re in for. Unfunny fraternity americans sitting around making awful sketches about “punching retarded girlfriends in the face” and an entire minute of fart jokes. So I became angry about how theoretically angry I would have been, had I entered the contest, signed away all ownership of Waffle X forever throughout the cosmos, and then got beaten by this HORSESHIT anyway. Hence the comic. I would have destroyed this world, and you would have thanked me for it.

Now lets see if I can update this blog more regularly without needing to be monumentally angry!

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stop, burger-time! ranted on July the 14th

Photo from my birthday weekend in Norwich. I dont wine and dine the girlfriend so much as beer and burger her XD Pic was taken by Rachel’s friend, Louise, who makes awesome plushies over yonder.

I am mega-busy at the moment as I started a freelance Flash production job at a games company in London. Which has meant commuting every day and not having much spare time at all! Rarrrgh, trains!

The reception to Waffle X: EPISODE TWO was a bit more muted than I expected, with Deviantart reacting to it a lot more favourably than Newgroundsthis time around! Will have to get the full pilot video version up soon to Myspace and Youtube for COMPLETE ONLINE MEDIA PENETRATION O_____O

Might upload some sketches of random side-projects I’ve had in mind for months but done nothing with, sometime this week. Just so I can point to them online when one day they inevitably get done by someone else and I scream paranoically about microscopic creative spy-drones following everything I output!

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episode 2, bitches ranted on July the 1st

Its out, oh god finally its out. So sorry about all the delays, but back and forth on some final dialogue audio and my new freelance project and other excellent important sounding excuses are to blame :P

Get it from a multitude of places:

Newgrounds Click de 5 Vote to make me happies

WaffleX.com Home sweet rarely updated home!

Yeah so I am currently doing some freelance flash work for a games company in london, and that is CRAZY BUSY DEADLINE at the moment, and commuting is horrendous. Then its my birthday on the 6th, and that will hopefully be happy smiley day off of work and fun times and presents and fings ^_____^

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