1) I swear on one of the videos, the guy begins by saying his youtube name, then informs you about his contest ending? Made me cry.
I hadn't heard that part. I was too busy hating the music choices. But now that I know that was said, talk about putting the cart before the horse.
2) The effects released are unoriginal. The 'Darts' effect is probably the most over-used elastic band effect ever. Search 'Houdini's rubber band' totally beginner trick. As for the others, 1 they have no trailer, and 2 I've seen of better material for free on theory11. nevermind paying £4 for it.
I would also point out that the Revelation PDF is a laugh because any beginner could come up with their own method in about 30 seconds. And the effect is a 50/50 shot anyway. If your effect can be recreated just by guessing, it's not a very good effect.
Similar remarks for the Altered PDF. I can think of no less than half-a-dozen methods for accomplishing the same thing, and it's still not that impressive an effect. When I was a busker, I used it as a one-off gag every now and again to segue into an actual card routine.
And as long as I'm on the topic, the Delerium [sic] deck... Please tell me you guys didn't pay to have those printed already. If you did, that's money you're not going to see again. Actually, if you did that might explain the vehemence in refusing to take criticism. Anyone else notice that one of the site's... I hesitate to say "creators"... is named Katie and the threadstarter is MagicKT? Yeah, the story that you're not directly connected to this little project is looking pretty flimsy. At this point it would be better just to 'fess up and save face. You can at least maintain your dignity.
By the way, T11 should make "I <3 Steerpike" shirts. They would be sold out immediately!
My ego is bad enough as it is.
Quite a funny exchange I have to admit. Brazilian spiders had me in stiches.
Not to make assumptions, but if you don't know what Brazilian wandering spiders look like or do... looking it up on Google may or may not make it funnier. Depends on how much you hate spiders.
Heck, I posted a video of mine on these forums not long ago and got a reasonably cold response, even though I put so much effort into it. You know why? Because although it showed good technical skill, it didn't show magic, or what magic is supposed to be which is performing for an audience. I rewatch it today and think, how did I not realise how mediocre this is? All this to say, if you are really dedicated to magic, you will keep learning, and practicing, and one day realise how terrible the site is.
I want to highlight this because it's important to restate. Every creative person with even a hint of self-awareness goes through this. I've looked back on screenplays I wrote and shouted, "What the hell was I smoking?" Ray Bradbury himself said he would occasionally look at old short stories he wrote (and published!) and think, 'I can't believe I wrote that.'