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**Ouze**

Surtur wrote:Don't stick him in with the rest of America. I've never had a problem with an accent. It's really easy if you pay attention to the conversation.

QFT. I work overnight in the US at a helpdesk supporting, in order as the world spins and my night goes, Australia, the UK, South Africa, and then other employees from all over the place (US based but not US born) - so I spend about 7 of my 10 hours a night listening to various accents. Occaisionally, I'll get an Irish one, and those are far and away my favorite, though I also do love Australia.

So, uh, on an unrelated topic...

DID WE EVER FIND OUT WHY THE VIDEOS WERE TAKEN DOWN?

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

There has been no announcement as yet from BoW

**ProtoClone**

withershadow wrote:
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Hmmm
.
If you had simply said that the accent was annoying to you personally, then fair enough. So why add the comment about the marbles?

The accent will have been the result of their cultural background and intrinsic to the way they speak. They have no need to apologise for not having received pronounciation. There are no marbles to remove.

I'm sorry you don't value proper diction. I added the comment about the marbles, because to me some of them sound like they have marbles in their mouth. Just because I think Hanna Montana sounds like a harpy being castrated, doesn't mean she's actually a winged mythological being or has anything to castrate in the first place. It's called a simile, with perhaps a touch of hyperbole for comedic effect. I'm sorry you don't have a sense of humor either.

I understand them fine, I just don't care to take the time because they annoy me. And it's not even all of them, but just a couple of the commentators are enough to turn me off the show. Likewise there are podcasts I don't listen to because they will have one guy I find grating, or some mouth-breather that sounds like he's about to die of emphysema. All that is my personal choice, I'm not getting paid to listen/watch fan shows. I'm sure they wouldn't really care either that some random donkey-cave thousands of miles away doesn't like how they sound, so you can bring them down from the cross now.

But fine, if it makes you all feel better, omit the portion about marbles. Or you can continue raging about it, getting that blood pressure nice and high. I make my money off of bad tickers, so I thank you for your future business. I agree with Grot 6 that the best thing to do is just bow out of this. For the sake of those that do enjoy Beasts of War, I hope they come back soon.

The hatchet is buried..but we will always know where it is buried.

**Goddard**

Sort of off topic, but does anyone know what happened to John? Did they have a fight or something? They've never offered an explanation as to why he's gone (or at least I have not seen one.)

EDIT: And as far as I know, the Wood Elves have not received any news either about BoW. : P

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

John is at Uni but was good to see him on the chat.
Also has been restoring a WWII tank!

**kronk**

Wuyley wrote:I watched the video where they had to record it live on Justin.tv or something and what annoyed me the most is the guy on the left wouldn't shutup. He would go on and on and then look at the guy to his right, who would basically say "Yep" and then the guy on the left would go on again.

If the show was just that guy then that is ok, but the should try to get a 2nd co-host who can hold his own weight

The guy on the left is like Jay. The guy on the right is like Silent Bob.

The game in the background was distracting at first, then I remembered that it was a webcast about gaming and I started laughing. What else would you have people in the background doing?

**Goddard**

John is at Uni but was good to see him on the chat.
Also has been restoring a WWII tank!

Oh. Well that's good I guess!

**Aduro**

TBD wrote:
I can race a car, but that doesn't make me a legit racecar driver. I can also make myself dinner, but that doesn't make me an official cook. Etc.

If you can drive a race car, then you're anrace car driver. If you can cook, then youre a chef. It just doesnt mean your a successful ormeven nessisarily good one. You bring up big names and seem to equate official journalists as being successful journalists.

**Goddard**

We get an update on this? I need more of Darrel's cheese!

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Still no news posted as yet.
It is taking rather longer than expected.

**Alpharius**

This is curious indeed, isn't it?

I can't imagine why they wouldn't post something by now!

**Bloodwin**

I wonder if YouTube got handed a complaint / takedown notice from a company that didn't like how BoW was making money from their IP or similar.

I'm also very curious about them not saying anything about finecast since the initial announcement. I thought after the O & G week and all the Grey Knight stuff they were well in with GW but they haven't been pulling their punches since the price hike. While I think a strong independent voice is good for the community I wonder if someone had enough and put the boot in on YouTube because it's common knowledge that YouTube will pull down anything that violates copyright if the rights owner gives the word.

Having said all that I dont know how review shows work, wether companies supply their product free to be reviewed (it seemed they got some O & G stuff early) or do they go out and buy the stuff and then talk about it?

(edit: I didn't know that this theory had already done the rounds. I just pulled it out of my head earlier this evening. Like other fans of the BoW site, I hope to find out more this week.)

**Goddard**

I think this 'GW DID IT' business is somewhat unfair, the videos could have been taken down for any number of reasons. But I suppose we shall see.

**thebadabwar**

edit: removed erroneousness speculation

the post below showed me I was wrong. Thanks for the info Lord Solaar.

**Lord Solaar**

From http://www.beastsofwar.com/groups/warhammer-40000/forum/topic/what-happened-to-the-bow-youtube-site/?topic_page=3&num=15

Warren – BOW Team397p said 2 days, 11 hours ago:
@mercedes308 said:
@warren Have you been told why they pulled your videos yet ?.

We have been assured on what didn’t cause it, but getting details on the actual cause (in detail) is proving to be quite a process (much to our surprise and that of our contacts in youtube – as all of this is quite unprecedented apparently).

We’ll probably dedicate a portion of Turn 8 to This Next Week

Also:

@raciid To once and for all put this nonsense about ads to bed have a read over this…

http://www.google.com/support/youtube/bin/answer.py?answer=154235

This in conjunction with the approvals we had should hopefully be enough to put this advertising thing to rest.

**Goddard**

Is Turn 8 on Tuesday or Thursday? I forget.

**samrtk**

Goddard wrote:Is Turn 8 on Tuesday or Thursday? I forget.

Thursdays.

**DAWARBOSS**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:I am sorry for you that you feel the need to defend yourself on this, when an apology would be far better than continually digging a hole.
Maybe you don't understand the expression of talking with something in one's mouth. It is usally applied in a mocking and derisory manner.

I value the diverse range of accents and cultures we are fortunate to have in the British Isles.

As for not having a sense of humour, I will let fellow Dakkanauts be a judge of that.

btw Harpies are female, so it would be difficult to castrate them.

withershadow wrote:
Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Hmmm
.
If you had simply said that the accent was annoying to you personally, then fair enough. So why add the comment about the marbles?

The accent will have been the result of their cultural background and intrinsic to the way they speak. They have no need to apologise for not having received pronounciation. There are no marbles to remove.

I'm sorry you don't value proper diction. I added the comment about the marbles, because to me some of them sound like they have marbles in their mouth. Just because I think Hanna Montana sounds like a harpy being castrated, doesn't mean she's actually a winged mythological being or has anything to castrate in the first place. It's called a simile, with perhaps a touch of hyperbole for comedic effect. I'm sorry you don't have a sense of humor either.

I understand them fine, I just don't care to take the time because they annoy me. And it's not even all of them, but just a couple of the commentators are enough to turn me off the show. Likewise there are podcasts I don't listen to because they will have one guy I find grating, or some mouth-breather that sounds like he's about to die of emphysema. All that is my personal choice, I'm not getting paid to listen/watch fan shows. I'm sure they wouldn't really care either that some random donkey-cave thousands of miles away doesn't like how they sound, so you can bring them down from the cross now.

But fine, if it makes you all feel better, omit the portion about marbles. Or you can continue raging about it, getting that blood pressure nice and high. I make my money off of bad tickers, so I thank you for your future business. I agree with Grot 6 that the best thing to do is just bow out of this. For the sake of those that do enjoy Beasts of War, I hope they come back soon.

You guys arguing sounds ridiculous! You were both apologizing for there ways, (I.E, Im sorry you dont have a sense of humor, or Im sorry you feel the need to defend yourself), anyway this place is a place for sharing news, not insulting others. This post was not suposed to offend you, and my regrets if it did.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Calling someone ridiculous is hardly any better now is it?

And why drag this back up after it had settled
and go back off topic?

Sounds like you are stirring the ashes with your poker to reignite the flames.

**Alpharius**

It does sound a bit like that...

Please keep on topic here - news of what happened to BoW and, hopefully, their return to YouTube.

**TBD**

There is a rumour that the CIA took them to Guantanamo Bay.

I could post my source, but he would probably get assassinated, so I won't

**DAWARBOSS**

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:Calling someone ridiculous is hardly any better now is it?
And why drag this back up after it had settled
and go back off topic?

Sounds like you are stirring the ashes with your poker to reignite the flames.

Im saying what your doing is ridiculous, the arguing bit. And I didnt realise that it was so far back, sorry my bad

.

**Oppl**

Very sorry if it's been mentioned sometime back in the thread or if the discussion has moved on, but maybe it's because BoW read out many point values down to the minute details including upgrades etc. That would no doubt piss off GW and bring on this kind of thing.

**Chibi Bodge-Battle**

Must admit that I have wondered when they mention the points value.
Don't see as it does a lot of harm as I would rather fork out for a codex than trawl through every video hoping for a tid bit of info.

**Goddard**

Well I guess you Brits can find out tomorrow, as the time difference prevents me from watching Turn 8

**Kilkrazy**

Oppl wrote:Very sorry if it's been mentioned sometime back in the thread or if the discussion has moved on, but maybe it's because BoW read out many point values down to the minute details including upgrades etc. That would no doubt piss off GW and bring on this kind of thing.

I don't think anyone had mentioned that.

It would be all right to mention a certain amount of detail if necessary to describe a unit for purposes of criticism and review. You couldn't get away with reading out the entire codex.

Everyone knows of course that codexes can be found on torrent sites in PDF format, so it would be ridiculous to read one out as a video.

I am still waiting for the truth of the whole story to emerge, if it ever will.

**KingOfTheSwords**

if you think about how popular BoW was, they maybe got hacked by a less popular war-gaming channel?

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Goddard wrote:Sort of off topic, but does anyone know what happened to John? Did they have a fight or something? They've never offered an explanation as to why he's gone (or at least I have not seen one.)

EDIT: And as far as I know, the Wood Elves have not received any news either about BoW. : P

john went off to university, somthing like that

**NAVARRO**

Kilkrazy wrote:
I am still waiting for the truth of the whole story to emerge, if it ever will.

Yeah at this point things dont look that transparent. To bad, I was hoping for a fast recovery but its just not going to happen I guess.

**Alpharius**

This is sad!

I'd hate for BoW to wither away, or fade into the shadows...

**grak**

http://www.beastsofwar.com/turn-8/turn-8-tonight/

We’ll also have news about YouTube, so you can speculate if you like… you’ll get your answers tonight…

They also say that Ronnie Renton (Mantic) and Alessio Calvatore will be making guest appearances.

I think I'll watch this one.