That was wonderful! I'm amazed by the time it must have taken to find all that footage that matched the song so perfectly! Great stuff, thank you!!

Here's a post regarding all of this: https://www.patreon.com/posts/14827083

Hey, everyone! Ian here to offer my thoughts on all this. First of all, I want to thank everyone for the constructive criticism, we really do depend on it and we want to make great stuff that works for many different people. It is interesting, and I suppose a good sign, that oftentimes many fears/criticisms from you all are things that we've been thinking ourselves too.

We've been talking about a need for shorter content, more digestible content, and Don't Skip is partly a response to that. It's true that Easy Allies content is more discussion based and freeform than a lot of our stuff at GT, a lot of that does, as many have surmised, have to do with the logistics of all of us living apart and time and space etc. It also does reflect a shift in the way we wanted to talk about things.

All of this aside, and please don't take anything I say in this post as a formal announcement or anything like that, this is just me talking to you here person to people, but there is a desire to make shorter form stuff, scripted stuff, sketch stuff, fun stuff, narrative stuff. Many of us love making scripted, funny, narrative content. Thoughtful scripted editorial content. I love it. And I do hope to provide that. It isn't feasible to do it at the same pace and frequency as before at this time, whether or not we curtailed our current output. But know that the desire is there, and we hope to provide (if only here at there at first) this kind of content.

Speaking just for myself, I have loads of ideas and plans for Easy Update, lots of fun narrative episodes and crazy ideas. I've even hinted at some of them in various episodes in the past. They take time though, more time than I sometimes have, more time than any of us have currently with E3 looming its glorious head 30 days away. I guess what I'm saying is, thank you for these thoughts, many of them are very similar to thoughts we've been having for a while.

We hear you, we love you, we appreciate you, and I know that me saying "we wanna" is very different from me saying "it's going to happen in this way, on these dates, without losing anything, and it'll blow your mind" I hope you don't lose faith in us. But yes, we want the same things, we'd love to do everything we do now plus some great, solid, shorter, scripted content. And doing what we like is the bread and butter of Easy Allies, so hey, it'll likely happen in some way, some day.

We've also been thinking about how to grow without alienating anyone, and it's a tricky thing. We do mostly look to Patreon over our YouTube numbers but growing our YouTube is also important to us, and we do see that content like this could be a great way to do that. Easy Allies is a passion for all of us, it is our lives even if we don't have a studio, and can't always do 40 consecutive hours a week. But pretty much we're all working Easy Allies always, it's always in our minds, and most of us are working at it every day. So it's a funny sort of thing, where it's not as "job-like" as GT was, but it is more of an all-encompassing "LIFE THING." And balancing that with actually having time for that thing called life is something all of us are constantly finding ways to do.

We want Easy Allies to succeed, we feel it already has been an amazing success and we want to hang on to that and grow that while remaining true to ourselves and true to all of you! It's a process, one that all of you are part of, and we're all learning and growing together. Year Two of Easy Allies is going to bring lots of exciting changes, some of which we're already planning, and some that we probably haven't thought of yet. We hope that you like them and stick with us for this and all the years to come!

Thanks for reading this, I know it's long and perhaps a bit meandering, and don't read into anything in here as having secret meanings or anything like that, haha, but I just thought you all deserved a response, and to know that we hear you, and share many of your thoughts already.

Love and Respect,
Ian.

Clarification on the minimum purchase thing, this is not in effect for us. So no worries.

Patreon - Concert Ticket Fine Print

Some Allies have brought to my attention this line in the fine print when they've purchased tickets for Easy Allies In Concert:
"There is a two item minimum for every guest. As a courtesy, a charge of $15 will be added to your check for each missing item up to a total of $30"
I've confirmed wit the venue that this will not be true for the concert, so you don't have to worry about getting food/drinks or any additional fees. I will continue to bug them about this leading up to the event and alert you immediately if anything changes.

• Brandon

I will add though, this is Ian again, we will be selling a special item of merch that will likely only be available at the event, for cash only, and it'll be $20. I also ordered 10 of each of my Easy Update CDs and I'll be selling those there too for five bucks each. We wanted to try to set up Square cash but it might not have been active in time so we're going cash only on the merch table for now. Unless I figure out like a Venmo sort of thing, not sure. But yeah, cash, so if you're interested in this please plan ahead. I'm really excited about this item, they should be pretty awesome! We'll find out next week when I pick them up. <3

Hmm, I'm not sure what that means. I was just able to buy one by itself and it was 12 bucks, because of a 2 dollar fee or whatever.

Hello Allies!

The time has come! We are turning ONE YEAR OLD! We're throwing a big event to celebrate and it's called Easy Allies in Concert!

You can buy tickets here:
https://tickets.vendini.com/ticket-software.html?t=tix&e=3bdca337232e90d59ad0b1d35df54f5f

The event will be a surprising mix of old favorites and unexpected treats so please do join us if you are able!

Prospect Theatre in Hollywood, CA. March 21st. Doors at 7PM PST
6356 Hollywood Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Tickets are $10

Due to technical concerns, we won't be live streaming the event, but worry not! If you are unable to join us live we will be posting a nice video of the event a few days later.

Mics: AGK P220

Mixer: Yamaha MG12XU

Podcast camera: Super old Sony EX1

Cameras for Huber Syndrome, Frame Trap, Easy Update are all Canon or Sony little point and shoots that were like $149 to $300 each.

Easy Update uses a Zoom H4N for audio, frame trap and Huber Syndrome use the Zoom H6

Stream Mic is a Yeti

We've got Sony headphones but I'm not sure the make or model.

The PC has an i7, Nvidia 980, Elgato HD Pro capture card, an SSD and a spinning HD, and 32 gigs of RAM. (I think that's right)

We've got a bunch of XLR cables, HDMI cables, etc.

Every game console imaginable pretty much.

Scan converter thingies and Aver Media capture boxes to capture gameplay footage.

I think that's mostly it.

<3 Ian

Sorry, couldn't resist.

@RetroPS4 I will hopefully find a way some time!

Get it? Because there's nothing here. This joke will be ruined when someone posts an actual thing here. Please respect these forums, don't follow my example.

<3
Ian