This Machine Pwns n00bs!

2009-11-03 · review / recommendation · John · 3:45 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Projects (also: Nerdfighteria) · mode: Advice & reviews · tags: self promotion, punishment or challenge, song or performance, community lore

John praises Hank's second album This Machine Pwns n00bs as his best, funny songs that are also meditations on how to be hopeful, launches the first Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge event to its anglerfish song, and urges Nerdfighters to pre-order.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Frazzled from NaNoWriMo; Hank's second album This Machine Pwns n00bs out November 16, pre-order open; a game teased; John has a 'leaked' copy

• ★ John says he is a little frazzled from NaNoWriMo-ing. — 00:00:00
• ★★★ John announces Hank's second album, This Machine Pwns n00bs ('best album title ever'), out November 16 and available for pre-order. — 00:00:00
• ★ John jokes that he used his connections to obtain a leaked copy of the album. (playful) — 00:00:00

00:00:25 — Review: Hank's best album; songs funny and catchy but also meditations on how and why to be hopeful; made of awesome; John is proud

• ★★ John says the album is so good, he loves it, and it is by far Hank's best album to date. — 00:00:25
• ★★★ John says Hank's songs are not just funny and insanely catchy but also meditations on how and why to be hopeful in a broken world, even the one called I'm Not Edward Cullen. — 00:00:25 · hope
• ★★ Speaking as a fellow Nerdfighter rather than a brother, John calls it one of the most made-of-awesome albums he has heard and says he is proud of Hank. — 00:00:47 · made of awesome, Nerdfighteria

00:00:47 — First event of the 2009 Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge: John does circuits of Jumping Jack Push-Up Dance Move during the anglerfish song

• ★★★ John uses the album's first single to start the first event of the 2009 Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge: how many circuits of Jumping Jack Push-Up Dance Move during the anglerfish song. — 00:00:47
• ★★ John rules that, to count, a dance move must feature at least two distinct movements. — 00:01:08
• ★ John calls Hank's anglerfish song incontestably the greatest song ever written about an anglerfish. (playful) — 00:01:08

00:02:56 — John's dance vocabulary; challenge to Hank; John pre-ordered six; pre-order ask and bundle with pinup poster; pinup vs puffy brother; sign-off

• ★★ After his circuits, John says that was the best he can do and challenges Hank to beat him. — 00:02:56
• ★★ John says he pre-ordered six copies of the album to give as Christmas presents. — 00:02:56
• ★★★ John tells Nerdfighters they can and should pre-order the album at DFTBA.com, with a bundle of CD, t-shirt and Hank pinup poster while supplies last. — 00:03:19 · DFTBA Records, Nerdfighteria
• ★★ John says the pinup poster proves Hank is the pinup brother and John the puffy brother. (playful) — 00:03:19 · the Puff

Humor (significant)

• John, Hank's brother, claims special access to the unreleased album. — 00:00:00

  “I've used my connections to obtain a leaked copy of your new album”

• John rules that a dance move needs two distinct movements, then demonstrates an invalid one. — 00:01:08

  “This is not a dance move!”

• After flailing through the whole anglerfish song, John reviews his own dancing. — 00:02:56

  “Clearly I need to, uh, expand my dance moves vocabulary.”

• The pre-order bundle includes a Hank pinup poster, which John says settles which brother is which. — 00:03:19

  “you are the pinup brother, and I am the puffy brother”

Threads in this video

• progress update · John: write 50,000 words of a story for NaNoWriMo (November 2009) — John says he is a little frazzled from NaNoWriMo-ing. (00:00:00)
• progress update · Hank: put out another album, This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009) — John announces Hank's second album, This Machine Pwns n00bs, out November 16 and available for pre-order. (00:00:00)
• milestone · Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge 2009 edition — John starts the first event of the 2009 Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge: circuits of Jumping Jack Push-Up Dance Move during Hank's anglerfish song; a dance move needs two distinct movements. (00:00:47)
• asked · John challenges Hank to beat his Jumping Jack Push-Up Dance Move circuits (2009) — John challenges Hank to beat his number of Jumping Jack Push-Up Dance Move circuits. (00:02:56)
• asked · John asks Nerdfighters to pre-order Hank's album This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009) — John asks Nerdfighters to pre-order This Machine Pwns n00bs at DFTBA.com, pointing to a CD, t-shirt and poster bundle. (00:03:19)
• callback · John's 'the puff' stress habit (2007) — John calls himself 'the puffy brother' against Hank the pinup brother. (00:03:19)

Where the stories that moved here went next

• John asks Nerdfighters to pre-order Hank's album This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009) — promotion (not a request); last: reminder, 2009-11-07
• Hank: put out another album, This Machine Pwns n00bs (2009) — kept
• John: write 50,000 words of a story for NaNoWriMo (November 2009) — open (updates through 2009, not reported done); last: progress update, 2009-11-17

Mentioned

Central: A Song About an Anglerfish · Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge · This Machine Pwns n00bs (album)

Also: DFTBA Records · hope · I'm Not Edward Cullen · made of awesome · National Novel Writing Month · the Puff

Also centred on A Song About an Anglerfish: A Song About an Anglerfish · Winners and Winners and Ningmasters · An Evening of Awesome at Carnegie Hall

Also centred on Nerdfighter Fitness Challenge: Half a Beard · HipPOTATOmus

Also centred on This Machine Pwns n00bs (album): Balloon Boy: A Short Song · Please Buy My Album (A Song / Medley) · The TOUR DE HANK!!! · Question Tuesday: The Free Money Edition · Crazy Man is Crazy (with SEATTLE INFO!!) · This Machine Pwns n00bs Video LP

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