Justin Chambers

You will see 10 for the Developers. That was one of the better ideas that Thomas Hennessy had, and I'm still super proud of him for it to this day, where we take people from the different disciplines and combine them together to get a more robust Q&A.

So I think we'll continue with the developers. Eric Davis will be the next one.

Mark Skelton and Eric Davis will be the next one. There's a pair.

And then Omar and Adam.

So we'll get some artists in there, we'll get some designers, we'll get some engineers, we'll get some producers. So we mix them up. I think we get much better results when we mix them up. So 10 for the Developers.

But that won't be for a few weeks.

Yeah, we've got a Chris Roberts one next week, and then the other two that were just described the following two weeks.

It's just an iron-on. You can iron on or sew them. And if you just Google ironing on patches... I'm not sure if you need to put something over when you put the iron on them or what.

I will tell you what I did with mine. I got the original Army, Navy and Marine patches, and I got them put on hats, like the old military hats. I Googled embroidery and took them to an embroidery/seamstress place, and just gave them and said, would you put these on, someone who knows how to do it, and it was like $8.

But you can also iron them, or they come with a little sewing kit.

I think when you do a hat, because it's curved, the iron is going to pop up.

I've seen people turn their shirts inside out and iron on the thin side.

Yeah, iron it from the back then.

We use Adobe Premiere.

We use the entire Adobe Suite.

We use the entire Adobe Suite, yes, but they wanted to know if we used Avid or Adobe Premiere. We use Premiere.

We do not have an Avid machine. Actually, we do. We do have an Avid machine. It's on the other half of the office. They're using the Avid machine for Squadron 42 dailies.

I wonder if it's the same one, because Chris had one back in the Wing Commander movie days.

The hardware's pretty recent, though. I had to work on it when we were doing the CitizenCon timeline retrospective.

It's not actually an Avid machine. It used to be called the Avid. It was actually a machine. Now it's a software program. Some people still call it the Avid. When it first came out, it was a machine called the Avid. Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier used the Avid to cut Chasing Amy and stuff like that. Now it's software. It runs on a PC just like our Premiere does. They're actually not cutting dailies with it. They're rewriting the script, using the dailies to make changes. So if an actor improvs a line, they're going back and looking at that footage and changing the master script.

To answer the question, we use Adobe Premiere.

Not really. I was thinking about this recently. The first time you kind of encounter the experience of trolling, it's like, oh my god, why are you thinking of me so much, what's wrong? Sometimes when I'm stressed at work, I read the Reddit cats forum, and I clicked on new instead of top recently, and I noticed there are people who dedicate their lives to trolling the people who post pictures of their cats. There's like a guy who every day posts a picture of a cat with poop photoshopped onto it with the comment, 'I pooped on this cat.' That's this man's entire life. It's not us. It's not the people who have a problem with us. We're just jerks.

I think it took a lot of getting used to, working here, because you do have a lot of people and you have to find a way to not take it personally, because people can be vicious.

It's a learning lesson. Especially different parts. When I was still doing art, people would just trash your art, and people could do it in a nice way, or they could do it in a mean way, and half the time you're just in the corner crying in a little fetal position. But you're like, I'm not taking it seriously, I'm not doing this. And then other times, design the same way, just poking holes in designs. Some of my favorite times working with some of the lead designers was you give them a design, and then the whole entire paper is just one big red mark. But it's really good feedback, and that's the thing. Some of the forum, even the trolls, they still have points. So you just have to push past the trolliness and just look at the points. Okay, this is the point they're making. And then once you start collating all that feedback, it's no longer about troll this person or troll this, whatever. It's just like, okay, these are the points they're trying to make. It's just looking past that.

In fact, I think the one really negative thing about people who are dedicated trolls is it makes it a little bit harder to say, here's the serious concern. Because there are lots of people with actual concerns, and sometimes they are passionate to the extent that they seem like trolls. They're not. We know they're not. But it's just kind of filtering that is, I think, the most difficult thing about it.

It's so hard.

He's right. Our immediate reaction to anything is, oh my god, I can't wait to show everybody that. That's why we do stuff like work up the nerve to ask Chris Roberts if we can show the Endeavor early at DragonCon. Usually I have to have an argument for it. Even though it is tough, I wish we could show everything as soon as it's done. I think we come closer than pretty much anyone ever in the history of anything. We show tons of stuff. There have been some minor complaints lately. It's been a series of things. But we're doing that for the Sneak Peek, but we've also increased the amount of stuff we show during the episode tremendously. We've got the Caterpillar and Avenger. The Sneak Peek used to be the only place you saw something, and now you can tune in throughout the episode and expect to see all kinds of things from time to time. So it's de-emphasized the importance of the Sneak Peek a little bit, I think.

Well, AtV... in fact, is there a script around here? I can show you guys how it works. See how terrible our printer is, too. We essentially start with an outline. So it will say stuff like very basic lines that we kind of ad-lib over. Like, here's the next segment. Thank you for that segment. And then Sandi and I fill in from there with our sparkling personalities. Usually James puts together the basic outline. I will go in and I will add the news, because, back up a little bit, I attend the weekly leads meeting Monday morning with all the other directors and execs and bigwigs, and so I get an idea of what's actually happening in the week. And I distill that into the news, what we're going to do in the intro and the outro. So I kind of write those segments. James puts together the general outline, although Jared did it last week, and he actually specifically wrote jokes into it and stuff for us, which we ruined because we are ruiners.

I learned why writers drink.

Yeah, so it's just an outline. It's not verbatim. So we work from that outline. Sandi and I just have fun ad-libbing. The puns and the singing are all spur of the moment. I will confess that I drink one or two sugar-free Monster energy drinks before the episode, which genuinely does make me more personable. Sandi is just always like that.

These past two episodes, I feel like, have been full of life, to be honest. It's been a good time.

Yeah, we shot the last two at night instead of in the morning. And it seems to be working. All except the part where we're here at 8 o'clock at night.