Quite right

And acoustic kitten

The Chocolate Wars from "The Flag of Mars and Rods From God"

And Henricus

Seargant Reckless also deserves one

Hey, you can't show the alternative presentation of that detail on this online video service!

no, not WW1, that was almost expected on some parts at the time. WW2!

Fighting WW1 like it wasn't the first modern war is how it got so bad! The French Army was still dressed up in bright blue and red as they marched in file only to be gunned down by machine gun fire.

​@@CamstonIsland Actually I think it's the other way around. making the war a fully industrial enterprise is what made it so awfull. four years of selling and using increasingly vicious weaponry

​@@nanardeurlambdathey already had machine guns before WW1. There was at least one case of a junior officer beating a superior officer at war-games/training simulations because they understood the impact of the machine gun. Those officers who understood the future of warfare were of course then *immediately* ... told to stop commanding their troops like that and to follow restrictive guidelines so that the superior officers won the war-games and wouldn't look bad. So the command gave orders as if war was being fought the old way, with riffles and massed fire being great, and the soldiers killed each other with machine guns and shells and poison gas, in the new and quickly advancing method of warfare. It was a massacre on both sides, because they all had new industrial weapons of war, and still tried to fight the old way

yeah there's surprisingly amount of recurring things that was brought up in both Lateral and Citation Needed, either being the questions themselves or anecdotes that Tom adds like Gary's stag doo, though that was a Bonus Material so people might have missed it. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bJ9_mbyV07bVkX0.htmlsi=5AiLtsy7zXJ9Ab6G

I hope Juan Pujol and Julie D'Aubigny make a come-back

@@nanardeurlambda Julie D'Aubigny just so Tom has to fail at pronouncing French names again.

@@MacPrince That's how you know it is actually mostly randomly selected!

The other day we got Australian Big Things!

From the jungles of Ceylon, hacking tigers and cobras whilst dreaming of knights and Scottish clansmen

It would be weird if it weren't half, would it?

I’m fairly sure they had them in WWI anyway.

It's always fun to add in such things

I'm glad I added in the extra movement between frames so it seems more fluid, it somehow makes the contrast between calmly asking Chris Jeeves and slicing up a Nazi that much more stark

I didn't even see that in the first round of watching! Thanks for pointing that out

I was hoping people would recognise it as that!

That is fantastic. I wonder which frame came from this one! My bet's on Bazooka Chris

@@CamstonIsland I can confirm a previous one was Gary screaming "WHAT?!" and the mustard flying out of his eyes from the tartar sauce rustling episode

That's a good one, I cleaned it up and reused it i this- for if you wish your Garys to be mustardless

Indubitably!

Its been cey-long time

@@Trek001 Well, I didn't quite want to cey long time. I don't want to put extra stress on content creators by yelling and running into the comment section.

Eh, I could have gotten to it faster. I should have borrowed that Tabletop Time Machine at 2:41 @@simba4805

@@CamstonIsland I just feel like there is still sooo much left in just that episode that would work well drawn out like this. 😅 Like, there would probably be two more parts at least. Can we do anything to make your life easier so you have more time to do these? 🙈

An original joke for once on my part, only slightly derivative from the source material!

You said that last time! Addicts, amirite?

Thanks! I'm trained in architectural design, so I'd hope I could do basic freehand perspective! Chocolate Wars are going to be a big challenge, especially since, given the materiality of chocolate and candy wrappers, I would like to use something more like photocollage mixed with this drawn style.

I'll certainly look into that one! TechDif Animated might be a bit Series 6 heavy though :\

Chads aspire to be mini-Jacks Churchill

Frankly I'm grateful they did, because that would have to be at least an extra two minutes of animation right there, and I don't intend on living long enough to finish it!

@@CamstonIsland Fair enough. Animation can be a Royal Pain In the Arse.

I'll try not to!

Most splendid!

Oh dear, do I need to list these as Not-Safe-For-Work? If that's the case then I wouldn't have needed to use a clean census list for that one scene!

Born too late to witness Mad Cap'n Tom... Born too soon to witness Chris Joel star in the sure-to-be-released Jack Churchill film... But born just in time to see this one person doodle all over pre-existing Tom Scott-adjacent content!

It go speen and land on the France part

Yes

much to his disappointment I'm sure

But he was a supermarket

impolitely: uhhh, yeah‽

Nice use of an interrobang, Tom scott would be proud

High praise indeed!

That's my goal! If it weren't then it'd be arguably non-transformative, and I'd go the way of the Tom Scott subreddit!

Unfortunately Tom cannot escape the silliness of the rest of the TechDif Gang, even if he has his white collar on.

Why thank you!

I’m not sure it’s ignored so much as nobody noticed, it took this comment to make me realise and I’ve seen both the animation and the full episode several times

I'm quite surprised too, the videos on themselves don't seem to be able to get funnier, and yet here we are apparently!

Thank you very much! This was a fun one to make!

Thanks!

We all know what happened last time Tom found out about a fan community thing... To be fair that subreddit was effectively close to doxxing him, but we need to keep this on the down-low! Gary thought the Henricus one was funny though...

That was not intentional. No constructive and humourous criticism allowed. You are only allowed to view my work in the way I intended it! It's obviously a Platypus tail.

@@CamstonIsland I suspected it might not have been intentional. 🙈 As thou wishest, I will go ahead and unsee this immediately.

TECH DIF SOAP OPERA FORMAT!

It is his, I just spat out what was in my head and made you look at it for nearly four minutes.

That, and Will Seaward's whole "Panthers?" bit. I think I could make that my text alert sound.

Only if you could randomise it into a kind of 'Panthers?' roulette. *ding* *ding* *ding* *Panthers?*

And either Mystery Biscuit or other TechDiff sound effects. Get a lot of notifications and it’d sound like an episode of citation needed. (Ding, honk, panthers, OUT SCOTT, hit by a train, mystery biscuits. Hopefully in that order)

(: This animation likes you?

@@CamstonIsland that's good lol

Years ago I made that picture, and I thought I'd include it. I don't even remember what the joke was. It's a non-sequitur, just ignore it and carry your bafflement to the next segment.

@@CamstonIsland [insert Monty Python old ladies applauding gag]

All I can think of now is one of Robin Williams' punchlines, "I'm going to glaze you like a Danish!"

Indeed, Mr. Unlimited Penis Music!