BONUS: DOOM review outtakes

As you watch Action Button Reviews, you may find yourself occasionally wondering, "Does anyone have any FUN making these?" "Is his voice always like that?" or even "He probably reads these scripts flawlessly in one sitting lasting the exact length of the video's final running time, right?" Here in this backer-exclusive outtakes reel, you will find the answers to these questions (respectively: yes, no, and lmao) and perhaps even a couple more. One question you will NOT find the answer to, however, is "Who is Mcc Dave?"

Editor Ryan Taylor slammed this reel together based on my repeated insistences that I'd open a Vimeo account if he did so. Over the weekend-long shooting process of the DOOM review, I must have uttered the phrase "For The Vimeo" 300 times. If you watch this and enjoy it, it might please you to know that I might have also said "For The Vimeo" a similar number of times during the shooting of the PAC-MAN review.

Editing on that PAC-MAN review is currently underway, by the way.

The second half of this video, perhaps delightfully, includes a longer, less-cut version of my visit to my high school for the DOOM review's "DIRTBAG NATION" segment.

Speaking of that "DIRTBAG NATION" segment, I might have another, longer, less "funny" DOOM-review-related backer-exclusive video to post here next week. We'll see! I can perhaps post it along with an update about our brand-new fancy website, and our merch!

I know it might feel at this point like our upcoming brand-new website and world-shattering merch are two joke-figments of some ARG, though I promise something real is coming, and soon.

Look at it this way: did you see that DOOM video? If so, you can perhaps imagine that I will not tolerate any less-than-perfect merch. And though I do receive many concerned messages here telling me not to overdo it, not to hurt myself, and not to be too much of a perfectionist: I promise you, I'm doing just fine. I'm well past the point of perfectionism at this stage in my life. I mean, maybe I am a "perfectionist," though I'm saying that at this point it's not a struggle for me anymore. It comes naturally, I barely even feel it anymore.

I can only hope that you enjoy reaping the weird fruits of my perfectionism, because buddy, this merch is gonna be wild. I went straight to the top, and I'm working to guarantee merch of better quality than maybe a year ago I'd have allowed myself to believe my brand deserves.

Furthermore, TRUCK HECK is doing pretty darn well these days! Let me know if you want me to open a $100 backer tier for TRUCK HECK updates, which entitles you to one monthly post wherein I say "TRUCK HECK is doing pretty darn well these days!"

In all sincerity, absolutely none of this would be possible without your money, so thank you for contributing. If you keep on contributing, eventually this thing is going to grow into something particularly wild. I have some big, meticulous plans for the next couple videos, and I have some bigger, more meticulous plans for what to do immediately after this virus settles down. (Aw, man, now I'm thinkin about the virus again . . .)

Speaking of big, meticulous plans, I suppose I had better see about finishing these last four (or five?) playthroughs of Tokimeki Memorial: Forever With You. I'm . . . checking on something, and for once two whole sentences in my otherwise-finished review script depend on these 12 hours of work.

Oh! A footnote for the ethicists in the crowd: I won't make any public posts about this backer-exclusive content. I refuse to use exclusive content like this as leverage to get more backers. If you're here and you're seeing this right now, it's for you. (And it'll also be for the public at the end of the year, as part of my "Fukubukuro" ("Lucky Bag") bonanza. Which I probably shouldn't talk about just yet . . .)

Wait: here's another footnote: Patreon kinda sucks. I scheduled this post to go live at 1pm today, and when I came back, it wasn't scheduled at all. Not only that, the draft was blank. When I pasted my post back in and tried to post it, it gave me errors with the video. Patreon's text editor might be made out of recycled tin cans. If you're seeing this footnote, that means I somehow got the post to post. Oops!

I really dislike the experience of using this site. I sure do love the opportunity to connect to a community of eager viewers! Though the user experience of it--not so much.