The Archive: Where old news goes to die, in a happy kind of way.
| 03-10-10 Countdown to Awesome |
John, assistant Out of Service editor, and his brother Tucker's fourth Fanatic Gumbo comic is out on the site! This one's gotta be there best one yet so major props to them! I'm gonna weigh in on the subject they covered this week over in the forums, as to not ruin the joke here in the this news pos...
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| 03-08-10 No Sketch For You! |
After a weekend of way too much junk food and Modern Warfare 2, I have to sadly report that there will be no Synaptic Kamikaze this week. The sketch I had planned to release is nowhere to be found on my computer so I'll have to re-edit it for next week and I just don't have the time right now to do ...
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| 03-05-10 Best Laid Plans |
Well now I know how Peter Molyneux feels every time he promises something and it fails to deliver. Episode 8 was supposed to be out last Friday. But here it is at eight minutes long, 450megs, with a load of laughs and a some random violence. Not to mention some kick ass music by winKoneR as usual....
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| 03-01-10 Bring the Rain! |
Today is the first day of March! Holy hell did February fly by! I guess all that snow sped up time...anyway, it's Monday and I've got an all new Synaptic Kamikaze sketch for you! We've got another news update from 42 News and our favorite anchor Bill Langley isn't too thrilled about this one. You ca...
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| 02-26-10 Aw Yeah.... |
Right now I am up to my eyeballs in work. Out of Service Episode 8 is in it's final stretch and will be online "sometime" today. As I mentioned yesterday, we're all really swamped in work right now, and there's so much left to be done.
Episode 8 is the start of a new arc and probably the ...
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| 02-25-10 Busy. Will make time. |
Things are busy as hell here at Dot Swoof, with Episode 8 nearing completion and more Out of Service extras in production, I personally have a lot of work on my hands. And let's not even talk about the scripts for Episode 9 or the Machinima Panel being hosted at the Carolina Film and Video fes...
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| 02-24-10 PAXEast and More |
New Fanatic Gumbo out today! Check it out! And also I got some news, first, a few of us here at Swoof will be going to PAXEast this year, which is in a month or so from now. So if there are any fans of ours out there who will be attending, shoot us an email and we'll be sure to meet up! We'll probab...
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| 02-22-10 Flip-flop |
Sean here to let you all know that there's a brand spanking new Synaptic Kamikaze sketch up on the website! This week we bring you a sketch that not only features Bijan getting stabbed but also him shooting some guy named Jeff off-screen. You can check that out over at the Synaptic Kamikaze portion ...
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| 02-21-10 Cool Sunday News |
Hey everyone! Making a brief update today, I know we normally don't post news on Sunday, and I really should be editing Episode 8, but I just wanted to stop by and let everyone know that Episode 7 of Out of Service is live on youtube! So be sure to check it out and tell everyone you know about it. Y...
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| 02-19-10 Eyeballs Have Feelings Too |
Welp, here we are again at another Friday, much like all previous weeks of the year. Although I'm still waiting on the Funday that Quail Man instituted on that episode of Doug all those years ago. Anyway, new Synaptic Kamikaze sketch is up and on the site for your eyeballs' viewing pleasure! Your ey...
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| 02-17-10 Fanatic Gumbo |
As we toil away on Episode 8 of Out of Service, John Pannell brings a new comic he's developing with his brother. It's pretty funny, so check it out and let us know what you think!
In between working on Episode 8, writing Episode 9, and organizing 2TB of footage left over from Out of Serv...
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| 02-12-10 Humans Are Crazy |
We got a new comic online, this one is my favorite yet; and a new Synaptic Kamikaze to boot! For this sketch we tried something a little different, and went the reality TV route. We walk around a mall talking to real people, and listening to their stories and thoughts on life. It's touching really,...
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| 02-10-10 Longest. Episode. Ever. |
After repeated delays and set backs, I'm happy to present Out of Service Episode 7, "Do or Cry". This episode was intended to be done and on the website last week, but those intentions were made before we realized it was a nine minute episode!
Bijan considers this his favorite episode yet...
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| 02-05-10 Chaos Control |
It's Friday again, you would think I would be used to that by now, and that means a brand new Dot Swoof Comic! We've also got that episode of Out of Service that George keeps talking about will finally be hitting the website later today. Because of the delay, mostly because the episode is literally ...
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| 02-01-10 Archangel |
Hey everyone! New comic coming at you right now on the home page. This one was inspired by a true story, and will soon be made into a made for TV movie...
Now, I have some good news and I have some bad news. The bad news is Episode 7 of Out of Service will not be hitting the website...
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| 01-29-10 Biotic Amp |
It's Friday and that means two things for you, the budding audience, an all new Swoof comic and a brand new Synaptic Kamikaze sketch! The sketch this week is brought to you by world renowned news corporation 42 News, you check that out over in the Synaptic section of the site or by clicking the gia...
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| 01-27-10 What the Frell? |
We're having some technical issues with our website right now. It looks like the server is acting all crazy! So please be patient while our host resolves some issues.
In the meantime, there's a new comic on the site. And in case you missed it, Out of Service Mail Call 2 has been on the si...
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| 01-25-10 Keep The Five Bucks |
New comic right on time, this one is a little bit true to my childhood so check it out.
Meanwhile, Out of Service Mail Call 2 is almost finished, and should be on the site later today as promised. But again, you'll only be able to see it if you are registered for our forums! So check bac...
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| 01-24-10 Work In Progress |
This is going to be an exciting week. First of all, we are premiering the second Mail Call tomorrow, so make sure you look for that. Also on Monday we'll be releasing a new comic which you can find on the front page.
Finally, we've been working hard on Out of Service: Episode 7 "Do or Cry...
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| 01-22-10 Bombshell Tonight |
It's Friday, so we've got an all new Synaptic Kamikaze and comic out on the site! You can check out the comic on the front homepage of the site or in the "Comics" area of the site, you can find that in the top navigation bar. This week's Synaptic sketch is about a man drowning in a pool and his frie...
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| 01-20-10 A Bird! A Plane! |
Just as promised, there's something special on the site today. Instead our usual comic we have Heroics! A different kind of web comic, which uses the complete interactivity of the internet to tell a story. It's something we've been experimenting on, tell us what you think and maybe we'll make more i...
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| 01-19-10 School Sucks |
While I consider Dot Swoof my full time job, sadly I am still a college student, and must occasionally go to classes and take part in assignments. Today is now the first day of classes at my college, UNCG. And I'm pretty sure my biology class is being taught by Martin Scorsese.
But I'm su...
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| 01-18-10 Marathon Man |
After burning the candle at both ends, Episode 6 of Out of Service is here! If you are a registered user for our forums you can check it out right away! If not, you are out of luck until Machinima.com uploads the episodes on Youtube!
This episode of Out of Service is by far my favorite...
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| 01-17-10 Running out of time!!! |
If you are reading this between the hours of 11:55 PM and 4:00AM on Sunday night, or Monday morning, Eastern Time. Then you are currently in the middle of a site update. Me and Sean are going around the site and adding some new comments code and new functions to several pages.
The update...
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| 01-17-10 Talking Points |
Episode 6 of Out of Service is finished editing, and should be on the website, bright and early tomorrow morning. I'd like to invite all if you in on a discussion about the coming Out of Service Episode in our forums! Tell us what you exp...
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| 01-16-10 No Rest for the Wicked |
It just occurred to me, that it's been a little more than two years since we put this site online. Looking back, it's been one hell of an adventure; the site has improved since then however, and the same goes for our content.
Speaking of which, Out of Service: Mail Call just went live on ...
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| 01-15-10 Status Report |
New comic today, as part of our new schedule to have new comics every Monday-Wednesday-Friday. And Expect Out of Service Episode 6 to be released on Sunday! Also, part of our new schedule.
Today's comic was inspired by true events, and the stand-up routine of our very own Patrick Bean. Le...
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| 01-14-10 Shameless Plug |
After our big return yesterday, we're getting a lot of responses about the site, and the newly released Episode 5 on Machinima.com. Episode six is in editing right as we speak, and right now is one of my favorite episodes!
Spoiler alert for anyone interested in Episode 6. Here's a brief s...
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| 01-13-09 Twenty Ten |
DotSwoof.com is back after an exciting holiday break and a small site update. The home page as you may have noticed is brand new, now featuring links ahoy and an awesome new Swoof comic. Yes, I said a comic. We're looking to put it out every other day, so think a Monday-Wednesday-Friday schedule wit...
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| 12-30-09 Because We Love You |
I know that in the past we've told you that we've "finished updating the website", and that you'd all be able to enjoy our wonderful videos without any more interruptions or downtime. Well, we lied. But its only because we love you guys sooo much. Over the next few days, the website is going to go t...
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| 12-23-09 Back to Basics |
Episode 5 of Out of Service is finally here, and is currently processing with Machinima.com. We have a Christmas Special in production, and Episode 6 of Out of Service is already finished filming and is now in editing. So expect a quick release on that one.
This new episode of Out of...
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| 12-20-09 Articuno Used Blizzard! |
It's super effective! While I personally wouldn't call the most recent snowstorm a blizzard, I liked the name. Anyway, we've got about 2 feet of snow on the ground here in Jersey which really isn't much if you live any further up north or in Canada but typically anything over five or six inches is a...
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| 12-18-09 Christmas Extravaganza! |
Big stuff happening in the next few weeks here at Dot Swoof! First off we're just putting the finishing touches on Episode 5 of Out of Service, it should be online tonight or tomorrow morning, and you'll only find it here at our website until it hits Machinima.com sometime next week!
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| 12-14-09 A Series of Tubes |
There are going to be some technical difficulties and maybe some downtime on the site for the next few days, as we at Dot Swoof are updating several things around the site including a brand new forum we're working on. It's almost complete, but if you want you can register for it right now.
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| 12-13-09 Heart of the Dice |
Believe it or not folks, especially the longtime faithful fans like pinchy and cycloneproductions, episode 9 of Noobesauce is finally here. It's been a rough year for Noobesauce, a series that us here at Swoof had planned on finishing and moving on from over a year ago and yet here we are today in t...
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| 12-09-09 You Got Mail |
New exclusive Out of Service content coming at you, with this brand new thing we're doing called "Mail Call" where we respond to some of the comments we've received on Out of Service at Machinima.com's Youtube. Many of the comments have been very positive, people saying things like "Best Gears Machi...
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| 12-04-09 His Name Was Spot |
I had a dog once, he was a cross between a golden retriever and a dalmatian, and he was the best dog in the world. Or at least he was, until I stopped feeding him and he ran away. Anyway here's a new Synaptic Kamikaze sketch. Watch it now before it self destructs.
In other news, winter b...
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| 11-29-09 Technical Difficulties |
Computers, as opposed to every other form of technology, have the amazing ability to break down and stop working for no apparent reason. And because of this, Dot Swoof is having some technical difficulties. But fear not, here is a brand new update, starting with Episode 4 of Out of Service!
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| 11-15-09 Sponsorship |
So after making three episodes of Out of Service, Dot Swoof was offered a sponsorship program by Machinima.com and after very little thought, we decided to accept the offer. All of our videos are now being hosted by Machinima.com, either on their website, or on their YouTube.
Episodes...
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| 11-08-09 Genie in a Bottle |
After last weekend's Halloween festivities, Dot Swoof is back with some more awesome content! To start the month of November off, we bring you an all new Synaptic Kamikaze sketch "Opinionated Genie"! It's about a genie in a bottle that has a better idea about what to wish for than the man that relea...
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| 10-31-09 Fright Night |
After two weeks of anticipation and nail biting, we bring you episode 3 of Out of Service! This week's episode features the return of my beautiful voice to the series along with the introduction of Pvt. Peter Mathis, voiced by Patrick Bean, who may or may not even make it through this battle. We als...
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| 10-22-09 Selling Out |
I'd like to welcome any new viewers to the site, you may have found our website through Machinima.com, or various forums relating to "Out of Service". To give a brief explanation, we here at Dot Swoof are the creators and makers of Out of Service, and will be posting weekly on the progress of episod...
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| 10-17-09 Epic Fail |
Sorry it's taken so long, but without further wait, here is episode 2 of Out of Service. The locust attack our characters heavily this episode, as if being pinned down by a sniper wasn't bad enough. Filming and production is moving along so we should have a new Synaptic Kamikaze and a new Out of Ser...
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| 10-07-09 Nut Up or Shut Up |
Sean here, just giving a short update to all the zombie hunters in the world out there. I know we said that Out of Service episode 2 would be out this week but it doesn't look like that is going to happen. Some last minute issues popped up during the final editing stages so we had to go in and do a ...
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| 09-30-09 Let's Be Realistic |
After a computer malfunction that put me out of commission for a weekend, everything is back up and running in the Dot Swoof office. Surprisingly I got help from the people at BestBuy, who I usually assume to be incompetent idiots, but apparently that's only true most of the time. So thank's to some...
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| 09-27-09 Pew Pew |
The expression "that's all I know" gets thrown around a lot these days. There's absolutely nothing wrong with that, or at least I don't think so, but apparently there is in the latest Synaptic Kamikaze sketch. You can't please everyone. The sketch is called "That's All I Know" and you can find it to...
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| 09-21-09 Buffalo Tuxedo |
Welcome back to DotSwoof.com. I'm your host, Sean O'Rourke. After a long weekend of tinkering with little sleep and a lot of coffee, we bring you a much smoother Dot Swoof experience. Pages load quicker, they look better, and they smell better...scratch and sniff. Don't scratch your monitor, they re...
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| 09-16-09 Addictive Personality |
Nothing quite makes me smile more than compliments, I'm simply addicted to them. They're great, they're awesome, and I'll step on my own children just to get to one. Thankfully I don't have children, but I have been getting a lot of compliments on the very first episode of Out of Service. People see...
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| 09-11-09 Out of Service |
I've always liked machinima, ever since the Warthog Jump video way back when Halo was a new game on a struggling console. Not much later, RedvsBlue came on the scene with a fresh taste of internet comedy and since then people have endlessly tried to follow in their wake.
And so, a wave o...
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| 09-03-09 Newz P0st |
Real short update today. New Synaptic Kamikaze out today, "Protest Against Abortion!" Pretty self explanatory name, it's a sketch about a protest...against abortion. Check it out to the left of this news post and make sure to leave your comments on this and all the videos you watch on our website, b...
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| 08-29-09 Order Up |
Sean here with a short update. Weekly update is awesome...brand new Synaptic Kamikaze sketch up! This one features our good friend Billy Mays living his life as if he was still doing one of his commercials, never lowering his voice or selling anything short. As you may or may be aware, Billy Mays...
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| 08-21-09 Don't Panic |
Hello, to anybody out there reading this...I am here to let you know Dot Swoof is alive and kicking, with this brand new video we have called "Paulie's Cell Phone," which is part of a new series we have called Synaptic Kamikaze.
For the past few months we've been working on content and f...
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