THANK YOU FANIME!
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Damn You Internets! rocked Fanime 2007 for two nights of hot, epic lulz. We want to thank everyone who attended our sessions and those that continue to support us in our pursuit of VIP quality entertainment for FanimeCon.
Please enjoy the media below and watch out for our 2008 announcements!
- Mikey, Stu, James and Jared
Video
Saturday Night: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7C36LF9Q
Sunday Night Intro: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCulNp-lL2Y
Sunday Night, Rule /34/ Game: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=83ORL90Q
Sunday Night: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2XWH6USE
Panel Promotion: http://youtube.com/watch?v=2hEmYdpZ6Lc
Official Trailer: http://youtube.com/watch?v=51j4omWCUCY
Thank you OtakuHunter (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Otakuhunter) for filming!
Images
Barnes Photobucket (http://s49.photobucket.com/albums/f293/CapeBarnes/FanimeCon%202007/Damn%20You%20Internets%202007/)
Official Soundtrack
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Damn You Internets!: The Soundtrack! (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QTW2XE75)
Link: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QTW2XE75
1. The Land of Chocolate (Loop), The Simpsons
2. Ai Wo Torimodose! (Movie Ver.), Crystal King
3. SexyBack ft. Timbaland, Justin Timberlake
4. Fanfare for Panel, Space Ghost: Coast to Coast
5. Landslide, Smashing Pumpkins
6. Marisa Stole the Precious Thing (YuGiOh Remix), Nico Nico Douga
7. Marisa Stole the Precious Thing (Haruhi Remix), Nico Nico Douga
8. Chiisa Na Te No Hira, Riya
9. ErAseRmoTor maXimUM, L.E.D.-G VS GUHROOVY
10. Narvas, Juno Reactor
11. Breakfast Machine, Danny Elfman
12. Rockit, Herbie Hancock
13. Top Gun Anthem, Harold Faltermeyer & Steve Stevens
14. The Lonely Man Theme, Joe Harnell
15. Never Gonna Give You Up, Rick Astley
16. Welcome Back, Kotter, Television Themes
17. Move Bitch, Ludacris
18. The Price is Right, Television Themes
19. My Love ft. T.I, Justin Timberlake
20. U Can't Touch This, MC Hammer
21. How Could This Happen to Me?, Simple Plan
22. Party Party Party, Andrew WK
Damn You Internets! is a panel that is unique to the California convention scene and can only be found at Fanime. If there is something you’d like to see, let us know here in the thread. If you attended the panel last year and you’d like to give us to feedback, by all means, please do so.
Update #1 (http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?p=154793#154793)
Update #2 (http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?p=161793#161793)
Update #3 (http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?p=165375#165375)
Update #4 (http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?p=168331#168331)
Update #5 (http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?p=171746#171746)
Update #6 (http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?p=172807#172807)
Update #7 (http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?p=174975#174975)
Update #8 (http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?p=176591#176591)
Update #9 (http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?p=177757#177757)
I must make it to this years panel!
I missed it last year.
So yeah, if any of you guys have suggestions for crap you'd like to see, or for us to do, we'd like to hear it.
Though, chances are I won't give a shit what you have to say(unless it's something good), we'd still like you to throw stuff out.
One thing I'd like to get some feedback on is the past year in image boards. It's something we should cover in the opening rounds and I'd like to hear some opinions on what were the bigger events.
Some of the more obvious ones include..
- /b/-Day and the creation of 7Chan
- The Great Habbo Raid of July 2006
- "desu" "bel-air"
- Longcat
- Danbooru
Anything else to get the ball rolling?
could share some of the stories directly from wikichan.org which is also a good place to get some info on memes and other stuff >.>
We're looking for personal recommendations as to what you would like to see covered, not a blanket statement covering the obvious resources.
Besides, Wikichan is awful.
Mikey,
This if Fanime, not Yaoi Con!
:)
Jason
[Update #1] I updated Mikey's info to reflect his awesome banned status from the forums. I'm the nice one, so hey, I'm not going to complain :D We've received our information request from Fanime management so hopefully we'll hear more official words soon.
The panel is mostly planned out at this point and we're beyond excited. When we say you'll want to be there if you want to change the internet forever, we're not kidding. We don't want to spoil anything before you guys head in there, so expect a lot of vagueness in the following months.
The biggest obstacle we're having to overcome is keeping it PG-13. I felt that swearing aside, we did a great job last year. This year we'll have to be more careful with images and whatnot, but we want to keep it accessible for the kids. Well, the under 18 set, anyways. Let's just say we're trying to make it work to our advantage.
By next update we hope to have at least our days confirmed and some presentation notes to share. See you next match!
You guys sound like you'll be on some kind of high, natural or otherwise, during this panel. Therefore I shall try to attend to see what sort of amusing antics will be done...
I remember going last year with my g/f and we had a lot of fun so count on us being there again!
[Update #2] No day and date so far, but what I can say is that Damn You Internets! has been confirmed for two nights, as advertised. We've been keeping ourselves busy in the meantime with the gathering of resources and planning of the panel. Maybe we'll go into the technology behind the panel before we get there. You'd probably be surprised at what we're putting into place!
So if we can't tell you exactly when and where to be, the least we can do is show you a test slide of what we'll have on display for the two nights of the panel. We don't want to do anything too nuts, so you'll probably look at it and say, "Hey! That's just Keynote!" and you'd be right. The important thing is that you won't see me typing. So without further rambling-
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God! It's, like, so witty! There are other little details to muse over, but that's pretty much it.
In other news, we're really trying to make both sessions worth your time and we're feeling nice and confident about it. We've got our guest for the second night all lined up and while the name won't ring a bell, the stipulations of this guest will make you say "O SNAPS!" We've ran it through a few times and we're positively giddy at seeing the results.
See you next match!
[Update #3] I've got a meaty update for you guys this time around. By that I mean, it's not lacking any meat. If this update were a meat dish, it would be an all meat sausage, stuffed with your choice of meat and smothered in an all meat, meat sauce. Delicious.
One of the problems with coordinating a session like Damn You Internets! is that the majority of the panelists live nowhere near one another. Sure, Mikey and James are tight, but I'm about 500 miles north of Orange County and Stu is somewhere in Idaho. That means that we're having to take any chance we get to meet face-to-face and make arrangements.
Mikey got himself stranded up here in the Bay Area for a few weeks and has been using my place like a hotel for his burrito-fueled antics. This has worked out pretty well as we met with one of our special guests for the first time. We discussed what role they'll be playing and how they just might make you poop your pants a little. Let's just hope that Fanime has changing stations.
One topic of discussion that kept popping up was just how exactly we want to open this thing. Last year, I recall just playing the Sony E3 conference gabba remix and saying hi. Yeah, that's not going to fly. We're a legitimate production this year and we'll need a legitimate production. The technical kinks are still being worked out, but you guys will not want to miss the first five minutes of this panel. If all goes according to plan, we guarantee that you'll see it replayed across the internets over and over again. It will be, in a word, epic.
When we weren't discussing Damn You Internets!, we were playing Mortal Kombat. Lots of Mortal Kombat. So much in fact that we took an obscene amount of Johnny Cage footage and packaged it up into a montage of original content. I'd show you right now, but I have a deal with GameTrailers for the first crack at it Monday morning. So solly! Use this time to prepare yourself though. It features footage from Mortal Kombat 2, Trilogy, Shaolin Monks, The Movie and The Journey Begins, which is so awful that you'll be glad you haven't seen it until now.
See you next match!
MORTAL KOMBAT! :)
Here is that Mortal Kombat video I promised-
http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=55699
It also appeared on Wired (http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/04/a_tribute_to_th.html) this morning. Neat!
[Update #4] This is it folks. This is the big one. We've been checking our inboxes day and night for our scheduled times and at last, they have arrived.
To help celebrate this momentous occasion, we present to you the official trailer for Damn You Internets! Fanime.. Prepare for glory.
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OFFICIAL TRAILER (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51j4omWCUCY)
Saturday, May 26th
10PM, Panel Room #3
Sunday, May 27th
9PM, Panel Room #3
From what we've been told, Panel Room #3 is the Hilton Ballroom which, with theater seatings, can fit up to 310 people! This is the grandest stage of them all, folks.
Fanime is only a month away and we still have some more details to roll out. We've got some interesting ideas that we're still kicking around and while we're not in a spoiling mood, some of them do have to do with extending the life of Damn You Internets! beyond the panel. Enjoy the trailer and spread the word! We gotta fill that ballroom, you know.
o rly? So you want me to show up in meh party van? :3
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This would be more than acceptable. Yes :)
damn, that trailer was funny as hell. im so gonna go to this!
You know what we need to discuss now....
Subeta Vs 4chan....You guys should know whats going on. Discuss?
This isn't a real update but~
Good news! There is nothing overtly huge competing with Damn You Internets! Saturday at 10PM!
Bad news! It competes with Masq on Sunday at 9PM!
So if you don't play on attending masq, come visit us. I mean, really. Sunday at 9PM? What are you going to be doing other than drinking? And if you are? Bring us something, plz.
Real update to come. It's down to the wire and seriously, I haven't been able to focus on anything other than work. And by work, I mean playing Halo 3. LULZ.
I still don't understand what this is, even after watching the trailer, but it looks funny, so i'll probably go on Saturday after the Karaoke contest finals are over. ^^
Update #5 - With 2 weeks to go until Fanime, I've gotten early press access to the Halo 3 Beta and suddenly, I can't get any work done!
There are still a few things left to do until the panel and so I caught our favorite host, Mikey, on AIM and had a little Q&A session to see how he's doing. He's a man of few words which naturally makes him the perfect candidate to host!
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Jared: As host of Damn You Internets, what are you doing to prepare for the panel?
Mikey: Living on the internet... and making you do a bunch of shit for me.
Jared: I'm editing Halo 3 footage in the background. Does this make you nervous?
Mikey: Hell no, because we did all of (well, all that I thought of) the shit we need to do already. (Editors note: lulz)
Jared: Why are you such a freaking jerk? Why can't you just stfu and let people have their own damned opinions, you jerk!
Mikey: People can have opinions, but if someone presents a stupid opinion, I'll tell them how fucking stupid their opinion is.
Jared: Jerk. So what is it that you're most excited to talk about this year?
Mikey: How I was banned from the Fanime forums simply because the Fanime staff "didn't like me" and believes that is grounds to ban a contributing attendee (Hey, look. I run panels.), under the claim of "we don't like him." (ed note: I'm just the messenger!)
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Every picture of Mikey we have is more frightening than the last.
Jared: Christ that's controversial! Anything else?
Mikey: Nothing else in specific, though, the intro for the first night is something I'm looking forward to.
Jared: Yeah, without spoiling anything, what can you say about the more planned events?
Mikey: There's REAL ACTUAL PLANNED EVENTS THIS TIME! We'll be having special guests, slide shows, and audience participation filled games.
Jared: What can you say to persuade folks who don't have plans to be at the panel?
Mikey: Hmmm... Seeing that these are pretty late at night, seriously what else are you going to be doing? Nothing is going on at these times. You better be getting drunk, or laid or something.
Your other options are, staring at that Goku cosplayer that brings his desktop PC and sleeps in the convention center area, or talking about what you could be doing. Why not go to something that's actually entertaining, fun, and allows for participation. Hell, it'll probably be better than the masquerade.
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See you next match!
Update #6 - What better time for a panel update than 3AM on a Sunday morning?
But I wouldn't be updating if I weren't working on the panel, right? I finally got a chance to sit down and chat with our expert of all things Japanese, James, and figure out what he'll be bringing to the panel. I always forget how seriously hardcore he is about Japanese web culture that, after tossing ideas back and forth, we decided to get him his own portion of the panel.
It's one thing to browse 2ch and think you're hardcore, but James? Good lord. I have no idea what it is that I've been watching all night, but I do know this: hilarity shall ensue.
I'll be working with him throughout the week to get him setup, but what about right now? Aside from presentation quirks, I've starting getting together what should amount to a game show being held during the panel. I can't say what the subject is, but that's because it would be no fun if any of you could research it before hand. And yes! There will be prizes!
From the way things are looking, if the game show will be on the second night (Sunday, 9PM), as the first night is looking packed. Actually, they both are. But of course I would say that, right?
Still, if anyone has any ideas or suggestions, throw them our way. Or you could always stop by our Brainstorm Rodeo thread (http://forums.fanime.com/viewtopic.php?t=7437) here on the Fanime forums.
See you next match!
HEY!
Are you a girl?
Do you cosplay?
Are you planning on going to Damn You Internets?
Would you like to help us put together a quick video on Saturday night?
Shoot me a message here on the Fanime forum or on AIM. We may be in need of someone to play role! All things will be explained and don't worry, we're not in it to be like "llulz cosplay" because, duh, some of us are cosplayers too!
Update #7 - Yawn. Getting over the Monday morning Fanime hump is hard.. Gotta leave the hotel in an hour and I'm still in my pajammas. That and the second night of Damn You Internets was so awesome that it ended up running for almost 2 hours!
We'll have a more official post mortem over the next day or so, but for now you can view the panels in all their unedited glory. I'm going to assume that these were done by the folks over at Otaku Hunter (http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Otakuhunter), but if I'm wrong, let me know-
Saturday Night: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=7C36LF9Q
Sunday Night: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=2XWH6USE
So thanks to them for filming, Jason Ebner for not only sticking up for us but actually coming on stage as well. Jason Green for putting up with my terrible jokes and everyone who showed up. Even "the Heckler." Oh! And Fanime Tech for being there on time (even well before it!) and being extremely helpful. It definitely helped squash some of my lingering doubts.
See you next match!
I cried cause I didnt go to the 2nd one Dx I was the one dressed up as anonymous and I was in the front row. I wasnt the one with the bag on my head btw ^^;;
/r/ sauce of that pic that was like 93 memes in one picture. Or rather , just the picture period.
Awesome panel
Wait...Oh shi~ you guys went for 2 hours...I could have went Dx cause I came down at like 10:09 and was like screw it the panel is already over...Oh how wrong I was T_T
I was one of the 5 or less girls that were there on the second day. I just wanted to say that I thought you guys were hilarious. Keep it up :)
Glad you had fun.
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As you can tell from that, me and Stu definitely did.
That picture seemed normal till I saw his head under that dress =D Interesting @_@ :shock:
I got a gallery. If there any complaints, please specify:
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This was the bst panel ever. I was the gy who asked about the diamonds and then asked for the Mc Hammer Dance which was WIN btw.
Update #8 - Ahoy, from Bakersfield! I'm out on a road trip and still kicking the post mortem around. We're still waiting to see if the rest of the second night's missing video pops online, but in the mean time we'd like to give you all a treat for attending the panel. And so, I put together something that was very requested throughtout the weekend. Presenting -
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Damn You Internets!: The Soundtrack! (http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QTW2XE75)
Link:http://www.megaupload.com/?d=QTW2XE75 <- New Link!
I'll let most of it be a surprise, but rest assured that if you heard a song during the panel, you'll find it here. Everything from the "Land of Chocolate" intermission music, to the trailer track "Narvas" and even that great YuGiOh remix. It's all here (21 tracks in all) and ready to be consumed!
See You Next Match!
Edit: We forgot a song and have updated the download. Sorry for the trouble!
I'll try and fix the pics in my gallery and make them less blurry. Ouch.
Hey all! The Rule 34 Game is now online!
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=83ORL90Q
Thanks, Peter!
I should have an update this Monday when I get back from this trip.
Due to popular demand-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCulNp-lL2Y
The intro to Sunday night. Enjoy!
Update #9 - A week and a road trip later and we're ready to start looking back on Damn You Internets. Our two night show at Fanime was a huge success, setting the panel attendance record for the year. We'd like to thank all of you for showing up and Fanime staff for their support.
The first year of Damn You Internets, back in 2006, was more of an experiment in boredom than anything else. Mikey had like, what? Five panels? It was ridiculous, but "Damn You Internets: So You Want To Be a VIP Star?" was a hit. This was our second year and I'd like to consider it the learning experience. We tried out a lot of technical tricks and luckily for us, we walked away unscathed.
Really, it all boiled down to two programs: Keynote and Punakea. The former handled all the presentation aspects, while the latter was responsible for us being able to snag the right files at exactly the right time. In practice, they both presented their strengths and weaknesses, but overall it worked as planned.
The biggest lesson learned this year was in pacing. We had a lot of great ideas and segments planned out, but then we blew through them in a matter of minutes when they should have been stretched out. Example? We blew through the Rule /34/ game in about 20 minutes.. when it really should have took twice that amount of time. Like I said, this year was the learning experience.
So what about next year? I can say with absolute certainty that we will be back for Fanime 2008, but that's all for now. We're already kicking around some crazy, huge ideas, but honestly? That's a year from now. We have a lot of thumb twiddling time in between. Believe me when I say that when we "announce" it, you'll know.
Until then, I've updated the first post to contain all the videos, images and other media from the panel. The lot of us will be a slew of conventions this year, but of course, Damn You Internets will only be found at Fanime.
See you next match!
Holy hell, first five minutes in this part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5e8PBaS8mkc&mode=related&search=
:P
What about it? I said I'd talk about it... so I did.
All I remember was hiding behind my laptop, thinking we wouldn't make it to Sunday night :P