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Disney Buys Star Wars and DFTVA!

2012-11-02 · Hank · watch on YouTube · US politics & society · advocacy activism

Hank rounds up the week (Nerdfighter pumpkins, Disney buying Lucasfilm and the Pixar backstory, Darcy Day, Hurricane Sandy) and launches DFTVA with the Harry Potter Alliance, asking Americans to spread a vote graphic and post polling-place photos for a free sticker.

What is said

00:00:00 — Greeting; Nerdfighter Halloween pumpkins; Disney buys Star Wars; how ILM's computer graphics department went to Steve Jobs

  • ★ Hank says they just had a Halloween with all the Nerdfighter pumpkins, which he loves. — 00:00:00 · Halloween, Nerdfighteria
  • ★★ Hank is excited that Disney just bought Star Wars: it could go badly, but Disney has done very well with Marvel. — 00:00:00 · Star Wars
  • ★★ Hank says Lucasfilm's effects studio, Industrial Light and Magic, hired John Lasseter in the early 80s, and he and others created its computer graphics department. — 00:00:00
    • number check: early 80s — doubtful
  • ★★★ Hank says ILM sold that computer graphics department to Steve Jobs for $5 million, and it became a company whose name is lost in the audio (from context, Pixar). — 00:00:00

00:00:43 — Disney's purchases of Pixar and Lucasfilm compared; Darcy Day on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries; Assassin's Creed 3

  • ★★★ Hank says Disney bought Pixar for $7.4 billion in 2006 and all of Lucasfilm, including ILM, for $4 billion, so Lucasfilm's afterthought became worth more. — 00:00:43
  • ★★ Hank notes that yesterday was Darcy Day, the big reveal of William Darcy on The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. — 00:00:43 · The Lizzie Bennet Diaries
  • ★ Hank is playing Assassin's Creed 3 and is super excited about video game season. — 00:00:43

00:01:12 — Video game season; Hurricane Sandy outages; Hank's cold; the US presidential election and a separate video for non-Americans

  • ★★ Hank tells people who still cannot watch because Hurricane Sandy knocked out their power that he is sorry and hopes their lives get back to normal soon. — 00:01:12
  • ★★ Hank says America is about to pick its president; for non-Americans he made a separate video, joking that Americans who watch it are bad people. (playful) — 00:01:12 · United States presidential election, United States

00:01:41 — DFTVA launch with the Harry Potter Alliance: share the graphic; Equality FTW; polling-place Nerdfighter-sign photo for a free sticker

  • ★★★ Hank announces that the Harry Potter Alliance and the Vlogbrothers are teaming up on DFTVA, 'Don't Forget to Vote, America', for anyone who cares about the election. — 00:01:41 · The Harry Potter Alliance, Vlogbrothers, United States presidential election > «Don't Forget to Vote, America»
  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to spread the DFTVA graphic far and wide so everyone who can will vote, to do their civic duty, and to post it everywhere, especially on election Tuesday. — 00:01:41
  • ★ Hank adds that there are really important things viewers can do with the Equality FTW campaign this year. — 00:02:19
  • ★★★ Hank asks viewers to go to their polling place, pose doing the Nerdfighter sign, and post the picture to get a free DFTVA sticker. — 00:02:19 · Nerdfighter gang sign

00:02:48 — Sticker for under-18s and early voters; submitting the photo; the half-hour playlist in the description

  • ★★ Under-18s who can't legally vote get a sticker too, for being excited about elections, and people who already voted can photograph themselves at their polling place. — 00:02:48
  • ★★ Hank made his first playlist, linked in the description, of about half an hour of videos on the news, including him and Katherine on Darcy Day; it works only on computers. (hedged) — 00:02:48 · Katherine Green, The Lizzie Bennet Diaries

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