Hello! We have a new bonus feature for you. This is the most substantial bonus feature we've ever made. It consists of a four-hour moderated discussion about the production of 'Action Button Pictures Presents "LOS ANGELES NOIRE"'. I'm really pleased with how it turned out. I don't want to hype it up too much, nor do I want to tip my hand about the upcoming videos, though at some point in the fu...
2025-07-11 19:20:41 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone. I premiered the new Action Button Video on YouTube. It's running now. It just sort of happened--sorry for no advance notice. It's just, if I didn't get this thing out I didn't know when it was going to happen. I had been sitting on it for a little too long waiting for The Right Time, which as man...
2025-04-20 20:48:45 +0000 UTC
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Hello! Remember when I said, towards the end of my last Patreon update, that I'd "recorded a lot of podcast episodes the past two years"? Well, here's one of them. Action Button One-On-One Episode Zero, featuring Final Fantasy XVI's own Ben Starr, the (canonical!) voice of...
2024-09-27 17:08:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello! I thought I'd provide everyone an update on the status of Action Button video productions.
For those unwilling to read the fullness of this post, consider this paragraph the short version: work continues, full-time. I have not spent a weekday NOT working on these videos since my last post. Yes, I know that was almost two years ago. I am Getting Old so Almost Two Years goes by like ...
2024-08-30 22:54:26 +0000 UTC
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I have posted the bonus content pertaining to "action button reviews boku no natsuyasumi" on Action Button Channel Two. You can find many (many) hours of content of mysterious provenance over in the "Fukubukuro" playlist, and kind of a full triple-A-video-game's-worth of more focused...
2022-10-28 17:50:24 +0000 UTC
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Immediately after publishing this post, I will set Action Button Season Two Episode One: Action Button Reviews Boku no Natsuyasumi to "public" on YouTube.com/ActionButton.
It took a long time to get this one to you! I'm sorry it took so long. Hopefully if you watch the video you will understand exactly why I had to sit o...
2022-09-25 19:30:32 +0000 UTC
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Hello my friends! It's been a while! Work continues on the next six videos in this series (collectively, "Action Button Season Two"). And it excites me to announce that the next video--Action Button Season Two Episode One--nears the final stages of editing.
THE SHORT VERSION
All Day Every Day, I work on the videos. You will see the next one soon. Also, I uploaded ...
2022-04-25 15:42:42 +0000 UTC
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Hello! A little over a month has passed since Action Button Season One ended. I now feel comfortable talking about Action Button Season Two.
THE CHANGING MISSION
Action Button Season Two will feature a remarkably different style than Action Button Season One. In summary, the videos will each aspire more to the categorization of "film" than the previous season's.
Yes, inflate...
2021-12-09 01:23:54 +0000 UTC
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I was about to announce this on Twitter when I realized I needed to announce it here first--out of dedication to my earlier proclamation that this blog page here serves The Real Stuff, and also for consistency's sake: ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Cyberpunk 2077 is finished. It is exported. It is uploaded. It is processed. It will premiere (in a tricky capacity I cannot at this moment divulge because I...
2021-10-25 21:46:21 +0000 UTC
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EDIT: NOOOOOOOOO I accidentally published this with the title I wrote yesterday, which is that it is "now uploading". It had finished uploading and began processing WHILE I was writing this post. I completely rewrote the post and then neglected to change the title. Ah, man. If in your email inbox it says the video is "uploading", that is wildly wrong. It is processing. Ah, man, what...
2021-10-19 02:12:23 +0000 UTC
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The video is exporting. The audio is another matter, though like I always say about Other Matters, we worry about that later. If I proceeded from here to bore you with details about the exact shape of the othermatterly audio issues I might for a blinking moment appear to beg help. I am not begging help. Not here, anyway. For the moment, let's declare that everything happening falls heavily into...
2021-09-28 21:34:31 +0000 UTC
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Short version: no more roadblocks (creativity requirements, etc) on the video editing work. Hoping to launch the video early August. Reason for delay: this one's huge (by multiple standards), and also I've been coordinating Season Two. Big Stuff in the works. New Hire coming on for next project. A few vague words on the important tonal and mission-statemental shift coming in Season Two. An unde...
2021-07-06 18:05:09 +0000 UTC
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Hello! And welcome back to my Patreon page. It's me, Tim Rogers. I'm posting to let you know that I have, as of a few minutes ago, finished writing the three most substantial, difficult segments of my upcoming review of CYBERPUNK 2077.
As you perhaps know from my mentioning it too many times in the past, writing the script signifies the Home Stretch of the Action Button Reviews process. T...
2021-03-04 21:26:32 +0000 UTC
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Hello! If you are reading this within twelve hours of my posting it (Eastern Time), it's Friday! Why not watch a little video on Friday? Well, here's a little video for you to watch. (You can watch it embedded in this post, here, or you can access it with this direct link, from which you should be able to also downlo...
2021-01-15 17:27:32 +0000 UTC
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Well, ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS Tokimeki Memorial will be live at 1:08pm Eastern on YouTube Dot Com Slash Action Button. I figure this timestamp is fitting for the New Year's Day launch of a video about a video game that takes place in Japan, in which New Year's Day figures as a pivotal moment in each of the story's three in-ga...
2021-01-01 18:08:59 +0000 UTC
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Well, ACTION BUTTON REVIEWS TOKIMEKI MEMORIAL (1994) is exporting.
I have waited too long a time to type that sentence. I originally finished my final-final editing pass over two weeks ago. (Of course, there was a third "final" editing pass, par for the course being what it is in the editing trade, though we needn't count that one for this specific argument's sake.) No matter how much of ...
2020-12-27 19:10:52 +0000 UTC
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I did it! I reviewed PAC-MAN. It will premiere here at 4pm Eastern Time today.
The review, as per usual, consists of an introduction, six stories, and an epilogue.
Like the DOOM review before it, this PAC-MAN review firmly occupies the category I expect we'll all later look back on as "The Weird Ones." I researched...
2020-11-22 19:36:03 +0000 UTC
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Hello! I have finished editing Action Button Reviews PAC-MAN. The runtime is . . . well, it's in six separate sequences that need to be stitched together before exporting, so I don't know the exact length. I think it's a tiny bit under three hours, this time--sorry!--though purists can rest assured that the epilogue will push it over the line.
As you can...
2020-11-03 21:02:10 +0000 UTC
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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: y...
2020-09-22 17:47:52 +0000 UTC
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Well, the review is finished, exported, uploaded, processed, and scheduled! Please go to our YouTube channel at 11am Eastern on Sunday to watch the premiere live.
The video will of course be available to watch in full after the premiere.
We had a grueling situation wherein YouTube kept flagging and blocking the video for including a royalty-free recording of a particular Beethoven s...
2020-09-13 07:08:43 +0000 UTC
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I just finished editing the DOOM review video. Wow--three hours and several minutes of blood-packed HUGE guts. I am not sure if I've ever made anything as complicated as this video. You will soon see its labyrinthine ridiculousness. I tried to accomplish some sort of a trick with it, and I think I might have done it. You will of course be the judge.
It may please you to know that...
2020-09-08 10:32:38 +0000 UTC
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HELLO.
The (four(?)-hour, six-part) Action Button Review of DOOM (1993) is currently being edited!
Those who know me know, first of all, that "editing" by far accounts for the *least* amount of time I spend on any given video. Those who know me know that the vast majority of a video's production time happens in the preproduction, research, game-capturing, footage-wrangling, and scri...
2020-08-08 19:26:55 +0000 UTC
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Hello. My review of THE LAST OF US (Part One) is complete and will premiere at 230pm Eastern today on YouTube Dot Com Slash Action Button! It will be available on demand on YouTube shortly afterward. It will also be available as a VOD on twitch.tv/actionbutton AND (partially) as an audiobook at soundcloud.com/actionbutton at t...
2020-06-19 18:08:04 +0000 UTC
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Hello!! Well, I banked real hard on having this video exported and uploaded and processed and set to "live" at 11:59pm Pacific Time today as a wonderful (and hilarious) joke about the definition of "Monday," though I've absolutely hit a wall of sleep-needfulness :-(
I'm sorry. I'm going to have to post the video tomorrow instead. All that remains is a final pass on the audio (whi...
2020-06-16 03:47:48 +0000 UTC
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Editing is currently underway for the Action Button Review of THE LAST OF US, with a running time of Two Hours, Two Minutes, and 37 Seconds. I had a lot of "fun" with this one--applying The Action Button Method produced some excellently fruitful data. THE LAST OF US and THE FINAL FANTASY VII REMAKE are two excellent games to ultra-granularly compare, it turns out.
As with the Action Butto...
2020-06-09 18:21:03 +0000 UTC
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I'm sorry, everyone . . . I finished the video.
It's three hours, eighteen minutes, and 43 seconds long--though admittedly the last ten minutes of that is the on-camera special thanks and epilogue segment. So let's say it's three hours and eight minutes long.
As a large video, it's taking its time getting onto YouTube. It's been uploading on my slow internet for about an hour, and i...
2020-05-25 19:34:11 +0000 UTC
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Wow! I have finished editing my video review of The Final Fantasy Seven Remake. It is about three hours and five minutes long. I won't know the exact running time until I slap all the sequences together in Premiere. Though wow: it's done and it is wild.
I will spend tomorrow and Saturday finalizing the audio and making sure I didn't put any typos in the on-screen text. I will exp...
2020-05-22 06:48:10 +0000 UTC
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Well, in my desperation to make sure the first video on my Patreon is of the absolute highest quality, I ended up making something three hours long. It is *definitely* being edited *RIGHT NOW*--well, not RIGHT now, because I'm typing this--though it's hilariously impossible for me to release it in its current form.
When I said earlier that I "know my process," I wasn't joking around...
2020-05-12 19:01:30 +0000 UTC
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Hello, and Welcome Back to Video Games. I'm Tim Rogers. You are reading a post on the Action Button Patreon page.
First of all, thank you for backing my Patreon.
I have to admit: I have been scared to look at this page. I didn't expect the number after the dollar sign to climb at all, much less to the extent it has reached. I expected my first month's patrons to fall into the catego...
2020-05-04 18:33:52 +0000 UTC
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