this week’s video update brings you another entry in our “The Whole Story” series, and ells the tale of a little everyday item that lies near and dear to my heart: the pop can.

LoadingReadyRun: The Whole Story: The Pop Can
Unskippable: The Darkness 2
Checkpoint: Zyng and Zag
Feed Dump: Tyrannic Saurus
Loading Time: On The Road
GPLP: Cursed Crusade (PT1, PT2)

We filmed our video this week on the University of Victoria Campus during the fabled Magic Hour (we hammered this shoot out in 45 minutes). It wasn’t by any particular intent that this timing ocurred, but rather that we shot this video after our first Desert Bus planning meeting, and that took up most of the day.

We had originally planned to shoot the video on Friday afternoon, and in fact some shooting was done. Thanks to a dead battery in our lapel mic, however, none of that footage was usable, and it had to be scrapped and reshot.

I was informed this afternoon that the LRR crew will be at RvB Canwest this weekend, as well – so, if you’re in the Vancouver area, I invite you to come on out and see what’s up. Hopefully we’ll see you there!

Cheers!

As we return you to our site’s regularly scheduled blog updates (sorry, this month has been a little hectic) we also return TO you a series that has been dormant for a very long time. It’s Fun With Microwaves!

LoadingReadyRun: Fun With Microwaves 3
Unskippable: Sacred 2: Fallen Angel
Checkpoint: God of Gore
Feed Dump: Van Dump
Loading Time: BEES!

I was off having some grand adventure in the land of Vancouver during filming this week, so I leave it to Graham to say a few words about the video shoot:

The intro to this video is almost totally accurate. While I had been thinking recently of doing another Fun with Microwaves video, finding the package that Russell sent us (which I received probably two years ago, while I was still living with Matt) was the impetuous to actually do it. We had a couple new ideas, and wanted to revisit some old favourites with the benefit of better video quality, so it seemed like a fun way to spend a sunny afternoon.

As it happened, there were actually some hilariously frustrating setbacks, all of which will be detailed in a future episode of Loading Time, but it worked out in the end. The original progenitor of the idea, Ray, had even been hanging on to that “smile” lightbulb for just such an emergency as this. As you can tell from my child-like squealing, it was one of my favourite reactions. Also, really seriously, don’t microwave eggs. Yeesh.

Cheers til next week!

Never a crew to break with our prescribed routine (if we can help it), please find below our updates for the last 7 days!

LoadingReadyRun: En Garde
Unskippable: Assassin’s Creed: Revelations – Part One
Checkpoint: Power Sink
Feed Dump: Night Flight to Venus
Loading Time: LRR <3 PAX East
GPLP: X-Men Destiny (PT10, PT11)

This video was shot outside the ECS building at the University of Victoria on the weekend before last. Andy had come to town for a couple days between gigs, and we figured his ability to do physical acting would come in extremely handy for this particular video. We weren’t wrong.

This was also the first video of 2012 to force us into an annual predicament that we always forget is coming until it happens. Warm, sunny days, make for AWFUL lighting situations if you’re shooting in partial shadow. Contrast between light and dark becomes a real problem once the sun starts coming out, and since we shoot in overcast or rainy weather 6 months out of the year, we always forget about it. It took us 45 minutes just to scout out a location where the light was ok for shooting.

Additional problems stuck when it became apparent that there was something (presumably and exam) going on inside the building. The location we shot at was actually just to the side of the building’s main entryway, and there was a pretty constant stream of people in and out for much of our shoot. The shots in this particular video were virtually all snuck in between interruptions, but apparently we managed to get everything we needed.

We’ll be headed to the Calgaray Comic and Entertainment Expo on Thursday, so we hope to see you there. As a result we won’t be streaming a live Magic draft on our twitch account this week, so we hope you’ll take a rain check on that. For updates about the next draft, please follow @LRRMtG on twitter.

Have a great week, everyone! Cheers!

Jonny’s back, and he’s got another story to tell you:

LoadingReadyRun: Jonny Three
Unskippable: Yakuza 4 – Part 2
Checkpoint: There Is No Bubble
Feed Dump: Bacon Coffin
Loading Time: Xbox Evolution

Sorry for the late update, everyone. It’s been a super busy week, and I simply haven’t had a chance to write a post up.

Not a lot to say about this video, really. It’s the third installment (of five!) from our “Jonny” series. We do hope you’ll enjoy it.

As a reminder, the LRR crew will be at the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo next weekend (Apr 27th-29th). I’ll be throwing a post up here with more details when we’re a little closer to the actual event, too, so remember to check back!

Cheers!

Just saying this now: If Microsoft uses our idea, we expect some royalties.

LoadingReadyRun: The 720th Degree
Unskippable: Yakuza 4 – Part 1
Checkpoint: EA is Just the Worst
Feed Dump: No Foot for You
Loading Time: Geeks and Six Foot Ceilings
Bonus: Mailbag!
GPLP: X-Men Destiny (PT9)

Big thanks to GameHouse for letting us shoot in their office. We needed somewhere that looked like a stylish game development studio and, being a stylish game development studio themselves, they were perfect. As for behind the scenes info, what do you think the XBox Free60 was made out of? I can tell you right now that it wasn’t Zunes. In fact, I am pretty sure that I have never actually seen a Zune in the wild in Victoria.

Something else we did this week is the bonus Mailbag! video we did answering some questions sent in by Escapist viewers. Think of it like AskLRR, but shorter and with less talk about Magic.

Have a great week, everyone!

See you there!

Well, after spending much of last week down and out with one of the worst colds I’ve had in ages, I do now hereby return the LRR Blog to its regularly-scheduled weekly updates!

LoadingReadyRun: Current: Some Kind of Geek – Previous: PTA Meeting
Unskippable: Current: Knight’s Contract – Previous: Cabela’s Survival: Shadows of Katmai
Checkpoint: Current: Ubi Goes Soft – Previous: Gaming the System
Feed Dump: Current: Commentary All-Stars – Previous: Fruit Fly Rejection
Loading Time: Current: Extra Extras – Previous: Assassin in the Snow
GPLP: (PT6, PT7, PT8)

This week’s video was written by our forums’ own Andrew Metcalfe (Metcarfre), sports fan, geek, fashionable man about town, and connoisseur of fine comedy that he is. Fun fact: when this script originally arrived in our inbox, it was missing it’s entire third page due to some unfortunate confluence of technology. Graham read it and proceeded to think, “Hm. well, it’s not bad. Bit short. Ends kind of abruptly.” It wasn’t until somewhat later that he realized that the script wasn’t actually complete, and asked Andrew about the rest of it. To Andrew’s credit, the script almost worked without. To his further credit, it worked even better with.

Next weekend is PAX East so it’s time for a reminder that Graham, Kathleen, James and I will be in attendance for the entire duration of the con. We’ll have a table in band-land, and we’ll work to arrange a meetup at one point or another (though we’re not sure when or where yet), and we’ll also have panels! Here’s the details!

FRIDAY:
6:00PM – MANTICORE THEATRE – THE BLANKITY BLANK PANEL
10:30PM – WYVERN THEATRE – ESCAPIST MOVIE NIGHT

SATURDAY:
10:00PM – NAGA THEATRE – AN EVENING WITH LOADINGREADYRUN

We hope to see you there!

Victoria, BC — (Business Wire) LoadingReadyRun MegaCorp Inc, a proudly owned subsidiary of Yummies Übercorp, which itself is a wholly owned division of MegaDodo Publishing (All Rights Reserved) is pleased to announce today that it is undertaking a joint venture with CATS Inc, an ancillary branch of MauBau Shanghai Ltd. (DBA CATS China) to launch a new division of its well known humorous website to be entitled CattingCattyCats.

CattingCattyCats is the internet’s new premiere destination for cat related content, designed to appeal to, and created by cats. CattingCattyCats will include cat-favourite entertainment in both audio and visual form. CattingCattyCats’ first new series “Litter Box Dump” will premiere on Apr. 2, 2012. Litter Box Dump will be followed by Unpettable, SealPoint, Kitten Time (a behind the scenes look at the making of CattingCattyCats content), GPLP (Graham and Paul Lets Pet [a cat]) and a series of live cat petting videos, sponsored by Cat Kingdom, using Wizards of the Coast’s Cat Online virtual trading card game. Cats.

Under the terms of the agreement, LoadingReadyRun MegaCorp Inc and MauBau Shanghai Ltd. will also continue to develop other cat related content in areas beyond internet entertainment, such as TV programming, pornography and smartphone apps.

“They offered us just a shitton of cash,” said Graham Stark, President and co-founder of LoadingReadyRun Megacorp Inc. “Like, you think you can imagine a shitton of cash, but you really, really can’t. We’re very excited to work with MauBau, the market leader of cat-focused entertainment content, to create great new amusement properties. Also to get their money. Of which there is a shitton.”

“Meow,” said Sir. Fluffykins, CEO of MauBau Shanghai Ltd.

About LoadingReadyRun MegaCorp Inc

LoadingReadyRun MegaCorp Inc is one of the top 10,000 sketch comedy websites on the internet. Drawing on its mildly involved community base and rapidly growing collection of Magic: The Gathering trading cards, LoadingReadyRun currently serves more than 16 satisfied fans. The company generated sales of about $3.50 in the fiscal year ended March 2011. For more information please visit www.loadingreadyrun.com

About MauBau Shanghai Ltd.

MauBau Shanghai established its North American commercial presence, CATS Inc, after a hostile and bloody takeover of New York headquartered DOGS Inc in 1972. Today MauBau Shanghai Ltd. is involved in a diverse range of business in China, the United States and Switzerland, operating in five core segments — Petting, Scratching, Eating, Pooping and Puking. The company is listed under the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol CATS.

Contacts 

LoadingReadyRun MegaCorp Inc.

Kathleen De Vere
Ph. 555-555-5555
email: pr@yummiescorp.inc
OR

MauBau Shanghai Ltd.

Corporal HungryWhiskers
Ph. +86-3-5304-1987
CHW@maubau.com

Inspired by the commodoreHUSTLE episode Pony Time, and featuring fan-favourite bear Rainbow Slash (which we just completely made up), this is a very limited time pre-order, so grab it quickly!

As always, these will be in very limited supply after the pre-order period closes, and pre-ordering is the only way to guarantee your selection of size and shirt colour!

Well, we could mostly use your body.

We’re shooting a video tomorrow at UVic, involving a group meeting, and we could use a couple more folks to fill out the wide group shots.

If you’re available, meet us at 3:00PM, Saturday, 24th, in the lobby of the Clearihue building, by the computer lab (Clearihue has the clock tower, inside the ring, the lobby is filled with vending machines and an elevator). We’ll come collect you and take you to the location, so please be timely.

Ideally no logo t-shirts and such, but we’re more interested in having you around. We can always put you in the back

Hope to see you there!

UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who showed up! The rest of you can see the results in this week’s video.