Alicia, to make a point. If you've been staying in the same home for a long time and decided to move suddenly but haven't thought about what exactly you want but you make your agents house hunt for you. You're just wasting your and their time since they're just gonna take you to places only they can think of. Cause you're not giving any ideas yourself. Made even worse that you promise them a ton of money if you decide. So it's more than understandable they'd be pissed at you when they're giving their all and you're giving none cause you didn't take the time to figure yourself out first.
Just wanted to say I appreciate you bringing up a counter point respectfully. It’s appreciated. No sarcasm intended, it’s really nice to see in my comment section
@@aliciaxdeath Aside from that, she's also taking some personal frustrations out on the Wizard - she knows *exactly* what she wants in her own "Dream Dungeon", but lacks the funds and means to get it built, while she's seeing him hem and haw with literally *everything* at his fingertips, and after hours (and likely a shitload of traveling) of showing him places that he'd shot down for one reason or another. So it's more her hitting her breaking point, and she also acknowledges that she was in the wrong immediately after the outburst.
To be fair, she has anger issues. (Possibly genetic. I don't know, I haven't seen the Minotaur's stat block in the RPG rulebook this fantasy settingis based on.) Being aware of her anger issues is not the same thing as being able to control her anger issues. She told the Dragon she was struggling. He told her to keep working. I'm not saying she's in the right or she won't hopefully grow from here with a character arc. I'm just not exactly sure what you wanted her to do differently. She's a Barbarian build trying to do white-collar work. It's like her major has nothing to do with her career, or something.
@MidnightLucario1 I agree that there are a lot of good reasons as to why the wizard's methods should have been frustrating and the protagonists could have been justified in their frustrations with The Ace of Wands. However, I don't think the pilot did a good job at conveying those feelings well. @aliciaxdeath I would like to have seen Maulie asking more questions of the Ace of Wands and him communicating that he hasn't really thought about it. I love indie animations. I love the art style and the VA work on display here. I'm a little nervous about the writing and direction. There's something about the tempo that seems a little slow compared to other animations. There are a few too many pauses in the dialogue that feel natural in speech, but don't translate into animation. BUT that isn't something the creators can't overcome. And I'd love to see more!
I mean she did say she was one of the few Manticore who tries not to resort to violence which is to say Manticores are naturally pissed off and extremely aggressive (I mean, her parents destroyed her home because of a family dispute, holy crap). So her having a break dealing with a client giving zero input on what they want because of a personal issue she had no way of knowing about while also being one of the most violently angry races in the realm...makes sense actually imo.
NGL, If I were a real estate agent I'd never want to sell the void. It's basically a perfect house showroom. Just bring the customer here and have them SHOW you what they want, have them build their dream home and then you can have a clear idea on what they want and go from there. And for difficult customers like this one you could do what they did and build for them and get an idea on what they like and you can use that, too. I'd operate my agency FROM this void. Plus being able to warp from the void to other places would make showing houses a breeze since there's no travel time.
@@shadowdragon7347 Now that’s a paradox if I’ve ever heard one! How do you mark off property lines in the Void? Does your “property” stay in one “spot,” or is it mobile? Is the property able to infinitely expand/shrink within its confines, effectively making each property infinitely sized? Would that mean each listing could be outwardly the size of a copper coin, but whatever size you want inside? I guess the possibilities are, heh, infinite
While I don’t agree with Maulie for snapping at the wizard, it is unreasonable to just assume someone wouldn’t get incredibly frustrated when someone is being that annoyingly obstinate for at the time no obvious reason.
Agreed. She was blowing up in the moment when he explained his actions, maulie didn't know his reasons for being frustrating. She thought he knew what he wanted for a new home or at least an idea
I love the nonstandard spelling of the characters' names. The manticore's name is Maulie rather than Molly, derived from the word "maul," meaning "to lacerate." And the dragon is named Cleaveland rather Cleveland, derived from the word "cleave," meaning "to split in half." Very creative.
In all fairness, the Wizard was just shooting stuff down without giving constructive criticism. All the money in the world isn’t going to get him a home that way.
yes it is and it did lmao. If you have literally all the money in the world and you can't find any home you wanna buy, just spend that money om MAKING a home
@@WillGlacier That's what they gave him the opportunity to with The Void - and even then, he literally couldn't think of his ideal home. That's a big part of why Maulie got frustrated - that she has the vision for her own dream dungeon, but lacks the means for it, while he had the ability *and* means, but had no clue what he wanted.
Ngl, the choices were not that good. The Bridge and Witch Kings Fortress were not to his preference but then we go to a small hut in a muddy ass swamp?!?!? Then we go to a clock tower which is something he is into but is covered in hazards and annoying bells. Next comes a tower he loves on sight but there's already a guy in there, squatter or resident, the place ain't homey anymore. And these are the best on the market??? Then you go to a very luxurious void home where it's up to you to think up your own house. That is amazing but he wants to settle, not look for his dream home. He moved out of a lack of villages and after 300 years of living in one place, imagining yourself somewhere else would be incredibly hard. Is there no abandoned Dukes Keep with a spire and a town on the market?
@@TheFrugalVideoGamer still no excuse to basically make the dude off himself by yelling her own insecurities at him just because he has money and no ambition, unlike her who has ambition but no money. Envy is an ugly thing
I love this pilot and hope the show can get made properly, this little reaction/breakdown was great, i did see the flaws in maulies character, though minor, at least to me, but you really focusing on it and how bad it was for the ace of wands. perhaps its more relatable as someone living in a state of burnout and just living day to day trying to figure things out, for a long time i was doing that. depression and being directionless can be very very taxing. you can come back from it though, i did, and now im doing notably better in life, so having sympathy and empathy for those struggling is still there but its more like a memory of like oh yeah i remember i was like that, however its distant enough now i dont really feel the same intense emotions like its really related to me now.. its strange. i really enjoyed your analysis and point of view alicia ^^
Well, yeah, the way she snapped at him wasn't cool, but she immediately felt sorry and even got called out for her behavior, so you can't really complain about that as if it's bad writing when the show itself paints her as being in the wrong for lashing out her own insecurities
About the money they got at the end. The seller will probably get the lion's share of it. They probably get a fraction and have to give most of it to the person that is selling the void.
First, thanks for the video, I'm glad to see more people watching this show! As an artist, the Ace of Wands is like a commissioner applying for an art piece, giving a general but workable description like "A dragon, that's big and scary, and cool.", but then every rough sketch I show them to give me a proper direction to go in, they just respond with "Nah, a different one." or "I'm not feeling this one.", etc, and little if any other feedback. Even if I ask specific questions or make suggestions. There is a breakdown in communication and one side doesn't realize it, or isn't doing their share to fix it, for one reason or another. You are right in that Maulie still shouldn't have snapped at him, especially when it became apparent that even he didn't know what he actually wanted but was too embarrassed to admit it. Rather, she should have tried to help him get that spark of imagination back, or at least explain the breakdown in communication from her perspective to maybe get some actual feedback. But their emotions got the better of them both. I'm glad they're reasonably fallible characters though, and that they learned and grew from it. Also maybe they should ask some mental health questions before taking anybody into that space huh?
YES THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THIS. It’s super good and hasn’t gotten the traction some of the other indies have. Also, I just want to say that the Ace didn’t exactly give them anything to work with. He never had any notes on what he did or didn’t like. He just… dismissed everything.
It's understandable why she got upset he was giving very little to work with, damaged other property, she's got her own issues going on and yeah she made a mistake blowing up at him like that doesn't mean shes terrible at her job. Also, they were paid after she got mad at him, not before. She didn't get upset even though they were paid that much. Also, taking time off work when you're having a bad day, places I worked didn't get that privilege and they're a monster company not human company so situations are different. She definitely messed up not saying she didn't, but more to consider then just her screw ups and what's shown in just this episode.
Clearly you've never had to deal with a customer that's never satisfied with anything you do or offer and I still expect you to wait on them on hand and foot while you sit there with a s*** eating smile because they think they own you! Should she have exploded on him? No. But the wizard should have known what he wanted from the very beginning!!!
To be fair I understand where Molly is coming and the ace of wizards like he wants to find his perfect new home but it makes it difficult if you don't know even something uh to work on, and hey Molly did realized I'm sorry I shouldn't of lost to my emotions from mini blowing up at him
Alicia while I do somewhat agree with you're assessment on how Maulie acted on the job, I do feel there is some needed context. because this is a pilot episode we only have a very basic understanding of the backstory anyway, so if any of the context that wasn't in the video changes you're opinion on anything I would love to know. So from what I and others who looked deeper into the project know; that Maulie isn't just building her own home she is re-building her family dungeon that was destroyed in a very messy family divorce when Mauile was young. so hey we have some the fun family trauma to unpack with its symbol being a literal broken home along with other issues that Maulie thinks can be fixed to any extent buy re-building her old home(no matter how naive it sounds). on another note I can't remember if it was asked or shown but Maulie I do believe(don't quote me on this) is an apprentice realtor as of the pilot and more then likely a fair portion of the series. Now I have no way to back this up unlike her family divorce, but as far as I can tell and remember cleaveland is supposed to be Maulie's mentor for learning the job as he is a senior member of the Dungeon Flippers with his mother who is the owner of the company. Now I understand Maulie did mess up with the Ace of wands at first, but she probably is still just a newbie in the business I know that is a bad excuse but if you never had a difficult customer before it can be uniquely frustrating(speaking from experience from retail). all that being said you did have some valid points about those critiques, never try to work a job that makes you angry it will only end badly....
Hm. I'm chalking this up to a bad day. If Maulie is as good as she's treated to be, she probably sells dungeons pretty easily. Then along comes a customer she doesn't read right who himself doesn't quite know what he wants, and that brick wall enflames her frustration. The personal struggle with rebuilding her own dungeon likely also contributed. Her partner was surprised by her outburst, so I'm guessing this is out of the ordinary, and I consider it a testament to her character that she immediately realized her mistake and conceived of a way to correct it. Still, she didn't drunkenly cut into a coworker's thigh with a rusty alien sword, so it's not the worst first impression. (Lower Decks! 'Ritos strong! Choo choo!)
There's a fan animatic episode for Murder Drones called Intermission that you should totally check out during the hiatus before MD ep 8. The episode is literally so freaking good, the writing makes me realize that fans, myself included, do have the power to not only understand good writing, but create it too!
Probably been recommended before (at least once by me in all honesty), but if you're looking for more indie stuff, I really gotta recommend Monkey Wrench. Super fun space adventure show, has three episodes currently.
16:24 ok, so you don't side with her. But imagine showing your client potentially hundreds of options only for them to turn down every single one simply because they dont know what they want. Then you show them the "be all end all" option where they can have ANYTHING and they dont vibe with it because they arent creative enough to do anything with it. The ace of wands simply turned down every other option only to come face to face with infinity and not even glance into the void because he was in truth a coward and not a free thinker.
I used these Dungeon Flippers service for my new tower and home. 7/7 stars! By Merlin's grace they brought me to a nice home on Wizard Island in the howling woods. Nice and secluded for a recluse like myself and wife, nice place to stay with my wife the Lesbian Wizard
I do appreciate that while they set up Maulie's frustration to be understandable, they very much address that her response was kinda not ok. Cuz there really shouldve been a sit-down between yhe three of them to hammer things out. So im glad they kinda paint both Maulie and the Ace as being contributing factors to the issue, and not just one of them. Means the characters are flawed, and not necessarily the writing
I have to disagree. He has shown how many houses? Imagine going to a dealership, and after the six car you test drive, you still haven't chosen a vehicle. The salesperson is probably going to give up at that point, if not sooner.
Not to mention he's kind of lucky they were still willing to sell to him after he set one of their properties alight and attacked what may have been one of their sellers.
it is important to see the potential of not just a house but the lot an area its on, you can rebuild and alter the house in any way you want once the lands yours... personaly id fortify everything and make a bunch of traps and motion sensers, a camera system, and lots of guns, and steel throughout all the exterior and interior walls, and any windows would be bullet proof glass, none of that crappy breakable glass, then i could finaly feel secure in my own little fort... but ill never have the money to own my own land so its not really worth thinking about to much.
just make sure you hire an actual architect and such if you renovate and not jsut do it yourself. Otherwise you get shit like the idiots who cover a wooden wall in cement or ruin a rustic fireplace to 'modernise' it, and people who jsut destory the house cause they don't udnerstand what a support beam is.
"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed." I relate to the wizard sadly, no idea what I want and more often than is healthy, gazing into the void.
I bet the reason the wizard didn't know what he wanted (and was being difficult about each place) is a combination of: He's been in one place focusing on a project for 300 years (plus how ever long he was there before the wand project), he liked his old place to begin with (and only left because no one was around anymore), and his old place may of not been his choice in the first place, he may of been given it by a family member (so his parents would chew him out for turning his nose up at it).
Its funny, Maulie thinks she's a good real-estate agent, but considering her reaction to the wizard not jumping for the first property, and her reaction to his undeceive/non-visionary attitude, I bet she's used to getting a sale the first try, and to customers who do a lot of work on their new property like knocking out a wall, adding a different one, repainting the whole place, and overall going for a creative/highly-motivated/artistic change to the place... not selling to a person who just wants to move to a new place.
Hi Alicia, good luck with the house hunting! I recently moved myself, and when Dungeon Flippers came out at pretty much the exact time I moved in, it was VERY relevant. Seriously, actually kind of spooky.
okay but if you skip out on checking the interior, you half assed your judgement. real talk, first impressions are supposed to be thorough, not a glance
I think she meant that if the first impression (as in the first glance) flunks hard enough, that feeling will be hovering over her for the rest of the showcase and dampen further impressions. Even if it turns out lovely, she’d already been soured on it and wouldn’t be convinced no matter what ergo it would be pointless to go inside. I haven’t ever been house hunting, not as the prime/head buyer at least, but I’ve had moments like this for certain anime or webnovels.
Right? If you only judge it from the outside that's kinda just.... Eh- If it looked horrible or sumthing maybe, but the whole reason being that it's just cuz it's under a bridge. Idk, kinda rude
yeah when my mum was house hunting we, like, went IN the hosue to see how it wa,s cause you cna't jsut judge a house form the outside. How many bedrooms does it have? how many bathrooms? what can you use the rooms for? what's the backyard like? Hell, you gotta make sure the hosuie doesn't have any issues either.
I once had a real estate agent who started to choke up over the phone about how she loved her job and wanted to keep doing it. I hope she’s doing okay.
I agree. Yelling at someone to get their shit together isn’t the way to go about it. Thats some advice my family should listen to. Sure, I’m indecisive and I may fuck up, but just yelling at me won’t fix the issue. I need time to think things through and to just float as I go. I’ll get there.
I loved the Easter-Egg with the Akashic Records in the Beginning it's very specific and I only know about it because I work in a bookstore and there are a ton of esoteric Weirdos as our Customers who are into Stuff like that.
They could've just used the void as a sort of vr space to let the client see what she was trying to display in the earlier tower so they could sell that place and keep using the void to convince future clients of the potential of their other properties. They just lost a valuable tool to someone who doesn't have the imagination to use it effectively.
You know, I just realized the wizard in the void property is like me with videogames that let you build a house/base piece-by-piece like Minecraft, Terraria, Trove, etc. There's so much potential and freedom... but I never know where to start (resulting in it largely getting unused, besides the crafting table stuff, or I end up copying someone else's work from a video).
The Void is the perfect home for the Ace Of Wands, who has no imagination or creativity, just ambition and industriousness. Both Maul-ie and Cleave-land accidentally willed many things into existence just being there for a minute or two, but the Ace Of Wands kept stable, even when trying to invoke the Void's power. I imagine (heh) the prior owner of The Void couldn't use it because passing thoughts kept causing that owner harm or hardship: You're considering villainous battle plans, suddenly a squad of semi-real knights are trampling your petunias.
She is forgetting this is a setting where killing a magician and turning a passerby into a frog without batting an eye and the agent is a MANTICORE. In pretty sure her antics are understandable.
it depends how one views it for maulie and the wizard. note that the wizard chose to contact them meaning he needed help finding a new home. maulie and cleaveland as agents agree to accept the client request to seek a new home. from here it gets tricky. i get what you say on if the home doesnt jive with the person then thats perfectly fine and move onto next place to see if its the one or not. its their job to be patient and try to find the ideal home. but if the wizard still doesnt like the home then in the end he could have gone back to his old home and wait, imho he is burning their time since they took in this client to get him a home. but yeah maulie became unprofessional there on snapping at him. depending on how one views this next part for her she lost her family dungeon and is trying to rebuild it and do to that she got that strong passion on dungeons and to her she gets frustrated with the client got alot of money, can easily buy a home. she doesnt have a dedicated/proper home and working her butt off to rebuild what was lost. the client could get a new home if they wanted in just minutes while for her it will take years depending on time/money she got, hence the whole miracle money thing to speed up that process. overall it is a pilot so certain hooks will be loose or dont connect well at all since it is a indie passion project first then a studio with bunch of animators/storyboard artists. but the idea is interesting and paints the main character on who they are, why they have this job, whats their goal in life. if down the road the animator gets more ppl onboard to help make it and/or later someone pick them up to air/stream somewhere then there will be more polish and better planning on show with for sure a proper story laid out.
This was such a cute first episode, and the Ace of Wands song sounds super familiar but I can't place why. My one little nitpick is that Maulie's tone is kinda... flat? Or her delivery, I guess? She kinda just has one vocal tone going on, even at the scene when she's snapping at the wizard. I've no doubt everything will improve with more episodes, just kinda stuck out to me.
Hey Alicia, nice to meet another Vtuber in the Indie Space. I was a former Vtuber myself. Love the reactions by the way. We have our own fantasy show called The Obsidian Archives if you are interested in reacting.
you are a great reactor and so funny to watch. If you have any videos like the reaction to helluva boss episode 7 when you were drunk calling your fiance, i beg make a playlist of those vids cause it's so hilarious
Hard disagree. Maulie's frustration is perfectly understandable. They went through all those different places and the Ace's lack of imagination and creativity meant he couldn't see the potential in any of them. Basically, giving them nothing to work with. So, they take him to the place where he could literally have whatever he wants (since the agents weren't finding it) and he can't come up with ANYTHING? I would have been pissed as well. Shouldn't even be in the market if you don't have a better idea of what you are after.
I believe you don't get what doing jobs nowadays is like. Belittleling things like that is so much overseen and burning the workes for the money= No good I've done that, I still do. But my employer pays my dentist and doctor if needed. And I got the pay on the day, witch is nice. I'm doing nice, for the first time of my life
please cheak out tales from atherion when you got time elf gal, youtubes sleepin on it, all the reaction channels are sleepin on it, and its an indie series that deserves more attention than its getting being buried rn.
and how can she know what the client wants when he doesn't tell them what he wants? when he lacks such imagiantion that he can't think of ANYTHING in a place that can create ANYTHING YOU THINK OF? THat's why she got mad! He can have anything he wants while she barely has much of a building anymore and he just cannot be satisfied with anything!
Lets goo another series alicia, please watch "backrooms level 94 eternal suburbia" it is made by lost in hyperverse with great graphics, but on subtitles please
I mean... if you yourself can't give any pointers to the agents even after "reviewing" so many potential places to stay... you're kind of the asshole here for wasting time and doing literally nothing.
Unpopular opinion. This shouldn't be picked up. It doesn't have enough potential for a full series or possibly even a season. I love it and hope it gets more episodes but I don't think a studio would look at this and think there's enough material.
nice to see you don't want people to get big, why would you say it "shouldn't" be picked up? you literally don't have to watch it if you don't want to but thousands of others might want that.
Because it’s a rule in my community. There are a lot of online predators so in order to lead by example I made it so no one says their age. Caring about the safety of my viewers means something to me.
@@kalashydra9016 nope. Because applying the rules to everyone and keeping it equal also provides safety. Other communities are welcome to do that. I just choose not to within my own
Day 2: I will be the one of the silent masses requesting for 100 Girlfriends who really really really love you. I will have the utmost gratitude for the recognition of this.
Good show, too bad the main character is unlikable (at least in my opinion), like episode one she "accidentally" convinced a dude to end himself by yelling her own insecurities at him.
@@marquisepixley684 Hey see that part when I said "in my opinion"? It's almost like I am speaking on behalf of myself and not every fucking person on the planet, dickhead
@@D_YellowMadness ofc, she didn't tell him to go off himself, she just yelled her own insecurities at the dude and he got depressed and then got swallowed by the void, hence accidentally. I don't see the point of your comment
@@WillGlacier the point is that putting something in quotations has an implication of sarcasm or untruthfulness. Its basically poor grammar and they're jsut correcting your incorrect usage of the quotations c: and if you think that's enough for a character to be unlikable, there are FAR worse out there than maulie.
Alicia, to make a point. If you've been staying in the same home for a long time and decided to move suddenly but haven't thought about what exactly you want but you make your agents house hunt for you. You're just wasting your and their time since they're just gonna take you to places only they can think of. Cause you're not giving any ideas yourself. Made even worse that you promise them a ton of money if you decide. So it's more than understandable they'd be pissed at you when they're giving their all and you're giving none cause you didn't take the time to figure yourself out first.
Just wanted to say I appreciate you bringing up a counter point respectfully. It’s appreciated. No sarcasm intended, it’s really nice to see in my comment section
@@aliciaxdeath
Aside from that, she's also taking some personal frustrations out on the Wizard - she knows *exactly* what she wants in her own "Dream Dungeon", but lacks the funds and means to get it built, while she's seeing him hem and haw with literally *everything* at his fingertips, and after hours (and likely a shitload of traveling) of showing him places that he'd shot down for one reason or another. So it's more her hitting her breaking point, and she also acknowledges that she was in the wrong immediately after the outburst.
To be fair, she has anger issues. (Possibly genetic. I don't know, I haven't seen the Minotaur's stat block in the RPG rulebook this fantasy settingis based on.) Being aware of her anger issues is not the same thing as being able to control her anger issues. She told the Dragon she was struggling. He told her to keep working.
I'm not saying she's in the right or she won't hopefully grow from here with a character arc. I'm just not exactly sure what you wanted her to do differently.
She's a Barbarian build trying to do white-collar work. It's like her major has nothing to do with her career, or something.
@@aliciaxdeath No problem
@MidnightLucario1 I agree that there are a lot of good reasons as to why the wizard's methods should have been frustrating and the protagonists could have been justified in their frustrations with The Ace of Wands. However, I don't think the pilot did a good job at conveying those feelings well.
@aliciaxdeath I would like to have seen Maulie asking more questions of the Ace of Wands and him communicating that he hasn't really thought about it.
I love indie animations. I love the art style and the VA work on display here. I'm a little nervous about the writing and direction. There's something about the tempo that seems a little slow compared to other animations. There are a few too many pauses in the dialogue that feel natural in speech, but don't translate into animation. BUT that isn't something the creators can't overcome. And I'd love to see more!
I mean she did say she was one of the few Manticore who tries not to resort to violence which is to say Manticores are naturally pissed off and extremely aggressive (I mean, her parents destroyed her home because of a family dispute, holy crap). So her having a break dealing with a client giving zero input on what they want because of a personal issue she had no way of knowing about while also being one of the most violently angry races in the realm...makes sense actually imo.
NGL, If I were a real estate agent I'd never want to sell the void. It's basically a perfect house showroom. Just bring the customer here and have them SHOW you what they want, have them build their dream home and then you can have a clear idea on what they want and go from there. And for difficult customers like this one you could do what they did and build for them and get an idea on what they like and you can use that, too. I'd operate my agency FROM this void. Plus being able to warp from the void to other places would make showing houses a breeze since there's no travel time.
Well, the void is infinite. So technically they are selling a finite area of infinite space
@@shadowdragon7347 Now that’s a paradox if I’ve ever heard one! How do you mark off property lines in the Void? Does your “property” stay in one “spot,” or is it mobile? Is the property able to infinitely expand/shrink within its confines, effectively making each property infinitely sized? Would that mean each listing could be outwardly the size of a copper coin, but whatever size you want inside?
I guess the possibilities are, heh, infinite
Operate with clients in the void, but do everything else outside of it. Too creepy
While I don’t agree with Maulie for snapping at the wizard, it is unreasonable to just assume someone wouldn’t get incredibly frustrated when someone is being that annoyingly obstinate for at the time no obvious reason.
Agreed.
She was blowing up in the moment when he explained his actions, maulie didn't know his reasons for being frustrating.
She thought he knew what he wanted for a new home or at least an idea
I love the nonstandard spelling of the characters' names. The manticore's name is Maulie rather than Molly, derived from the word "maul," meaning "to lacerate." And the dragon is named Cleaveland rather Cleveland, derived from the word "cleave," meaning "to split in half." Very creative.
They weren't getting paid until AFTER they found the right home for him. Reward after the deed.
In all fairness, the Wizard was just shooting stuff down without giving constructive criticism. All the money in the world isn’t going to get him a home that way.
yes it is and it did lmao. If you have literally all the money in the world and you can't find any home you wanna buy, just spend that money om MAKING a home
@@WillGlacier
That's what they gave him the opportunity to with The Void - and even then, he literally couldn't think of his ideal home. That's a big part of why Maulie got frustrated - that she has the vision for her own dream dungeon, but lacks the means for it, while he had the ability *and* means, but had no clue what he wanted.
Ngl, the choices were not that good. The Bridge and Witch Kings Fortress were not to his preference but then we go to a small hut in a muddy ass swamp?!?!? Then we go to a clock tower which is something he is into but is covered in hazards and annoying bells. Next comes a tower he loves on sight but there's already a guy in there, squatter or resident, the place ain't homey anymore. And these are the best on the market??? Then you go to a very luxurious void home where it's up to you to think up your own house. That is amazing but he wants to settle, not look for his dream home. He moved out of a lack of villages and after 300 years of living in one place, imagining yourself somewhere else would be incredibly hard. Is there no abandoned Dukes Keep with a spire and a town on the market?
@@TheFrugalVideoGamer still no excuse to basically make the dude off himself by yelling her own insecurities at him just because he has money and no ambition, unlike her who has ambition but no money.
Envy is an ugly thing
I love this pilot and hope the show can get made properly, this little reaction/breakdown was great, i did see the flaws in maulies character, though minor, at least to me, but you really focusing on it and how bad it was for the ace of wands. perhaps its more relatable as someone living in a state of burnout and just living day to day trying to figure things out, for a long time i was doing that. depression and being directionless can be very very taxing. you can come back from it though, i did, and now im doing notably better in life, so having sympathy and empathy for those struggling is still there but its more like a memory of like oh yeah i remember i was like that, however its distant enough now i dont really feel the same intense emotions like its really related to me now.. its strange. i really enjoyed your analysis and point of view alicia ^^
Well, yeah, the way she snapped at him wasn't cool, but she immediately felt sorry and even got called out for her behavior, so you can't really complain about that as if it's bad writing when the show itself paints her as being in the wrong for lashing out her own insecurities
@@LucasF25 Plus, she actually _did_ stop herself when she used “I”. It seems really odd that Alicia missed that.
About the money they got at the end. The seller will probably get the lion's share of it. They probably get a fraction and have to give most of it to the person that is selling the void.
First, thanks for the video, I'm glad to see more people watching this show!
As an artist, the Ace of Wands is like a commissioner applying for an art piece, giving a general but workable description like "A dragon, that's big and scary, and cool.", but then every rough sketch I show them to give me a proper direction to go in, they just respond with "Nah, a different one." or "I'm not feeling this one.", etc, and little if any other feedback. Even if I ask specific questions or make suggestions. There is a breakdown in communication and one side doesn't realize it, or isn't doing their share to fix it, for one reason or another.
You are right in that Maulie still shouldn't have snapped at him, especially when it became apparent that even he didn't know what he actually wanted but was too embarrassed to admit it. Rather, she should have tried to help him get that spark of imagination back, or at least explain the breakdown in communication from her perspective to maybe get some actual feedback. But their emotions got the better of them both. I'm glad they're reasonably fallible characters though, and that they learned and grew from it.
Also maybe they should ask some mental health questions before taking anybody into that space huh?
YES THANK YOU FOR WATCHING THIS. It’s super good and hasn’t gotten the traction some of the other indies have.
Also, I just want to say that the Ace didn’t exactly give them anything to work with. He never had any notes on what he did or didn’t like. He just… dismissed everything.
It's understandable why she got upset he was giving very little to work with, damaged other property, she's got her own issues going on and yeah she made a mistake blowing up at him like that doesn't mean shes terrible at her job.
Also, they were paid after she got mad at him, not before. She didn't get upset even though they were paid that much.
Also, taking time off work when you're having a bad day, places I worked didn't get that privilege and they're a monster company not human company so situations are different.
She definitely messed up not saying she didn't, but more to consider then just her screw ups and what's shown in just this episode.
Maulie takes the quality of her work very seriously. It's not about the commission. It's about overcoming her limitations to share her vision. 👍
Another common Indie animation W
Clearly you've never had to deal with a customer that's never satisfied with anything you do or offer and I still expect you to wait on them on hand and foot while you sit there with a s*** eating smile because they think they own you! Should she have exploded on him? No. But the wizard should have known what he wanted from the very beginning!!!
To be fair I understand where Molly is coming and the ace of wizards like he wants to find his perfect new home but it makes it difficult if you don't know even something uh to work on, and hey Molly did realized I'm sorry I shouldn't of lost to my emotions from mini blowing up at him
I love Mauli's design she is cute and not many uses of Manticores
YESSS! I did not expect this! Nor did I expect so many people to react to this pilot. Can't wait for more from this show.
Alicia while I do somewhat agree with you're assessment on how Maulie acted on the job, I do feel there is some needed context.
because this is a pilot episode we only have a very basic understanding of the backstory anyway, so if any of the context that wasn't
in the video changes you're opinion on anything I would love to know.
So from what I and others who looked deeper into the project know; that Maulie isn't just building her own home
she is re-building her family dungeon that was destroyed in a very messy family divorce when Mauile was young.
so hey we have some the fun family trauma to unpack with its symbol being a literal broken home along with
other issues that Maulie thinks can be fixed to any extent buy re-building her old home(no matter how naive it sounds).
on another note I can't remember if it was asked or shown but Maulie I do believe(don't quote me on this)
is an apprentice realtor as of the pilot and more then likely a fair portion of the series. Now I have no way to back this up
unlike her family divorce, but as far as I can tell and remember cleaveland is supposed to be Maulie's mentor for learning
the job as he is a senior member of the Dungeon Flippers with his mother who is the owner of the company.
Now I understand Maulie did mess up with the Ace of wands at first, but she probably is still just a newbie in the business
I know that is a bad excuse but if you never had a difficult customer before it can be uniquely frustrating(speaking from experience from retail).
all that being said you did have some valid points about those critiques, never try to work a job that makes you angry it will only end badly....
Hm. I'm chalking this up to a bad day. If Maulie is as good as she's treated to be, she probably sells dungeons pretty easily. Then along comes a customer she doesn't read right who himself doesn't quite know what he wants, and that brick wall enflames her frustration. The personal struggle with rebuilding her own dungeon likely also contributed. Her partner was surprised by her outburst, so I'm guessing this is out of the ordinary, and I consider it a testament to her character that she immediately realized her mistake and conceived of a way to correct it.
Still, she didn't drunkenly cut into a coworker's thigh with a rusty alien sword, so it's not the worst first impression. (Lower Decks! 'Ritos strong! Choo choo!)
There's a fan animatic episode for Murder Drones called Intermission that you should totally check out during the hiatus before MD ep 8. The episode is literally so freaking good, the writing makes me realize that fans, myself included, do have the power to not only understand good writing, but create it too!
Probably been recommended before (at least once by me in all honesty), but if you're looking for more indie stuff, I really gotta recommend Monkey Wrench. Super fun space adventure show, has three episodes currently.
seocnd that recommendation. Quality show that's being slept on.
16:24 ok, so you don't side with her. But imagine showing your client potentially hundreds of options only for them to turn down every single one simply because they dont know what they want.
Then you show them the "be all end all" option where they can have ANYTHING and they dont vibe with it because they arent creative enough to do anything with it.
The ace of wands simply turned down every other option only to come face to face with infinity and not even glance into the void because he was in truth a coward and not a free thinker.
I used these Dungeon Flippers service for my new tower and home. 7/7 stars! By Merlin's grace they brought me to a nice home on Wizard Island in the howling woods.
Nice and secluded for a recluse like myself and wife, nice place to stay with my wife the Lesbian Wizard
I do appreciate that while they set up Maulie's frustration to be understandable, they very much address that her response was kinda not ok. Cuz there really shouldve been a sit-down between yhe three of them to hammer things out. So im glad they kinda paint both Maulie and the Ace as being contributing factors to the issue, and not just one of them. Means the characters are flawed, and not necessarily the writing
I have to disagree. He has shown how many houses? Imagine going to a dealership, and after the six car you test drive, you still haven't chosen a vehicle. The salesperson is probably going to give up at that point, if not sooner.
Not to mention he's kind of lucky they were still willing to sell to him after he set one of their properties alight and attacked what may have been one of their sellers.
I agree. If her clients could see what she could do with her retail magic, I wonder how much sells would increase?
it is important to see the potential of not just a house but the lot an area its on, you can rebuild and alter the house in any way you want once the lands yours... personaly id fortify everything and make a bunch of traps and motion sensers, a camera system, and lots of guns, and steel throughout all the exterior and interior walls, and any windows would be bullet proof glass, none of that crappy breakable glass, then i could finaly feel secure in my own little fort... but ill never have the money to own my own land so its not really worth thinking about to much.
just make sure you hire an actual architect and such if you renovate and not jsut do it yourself. Otherwise you get shit like the idiots who cover a wooden wall in cement or ruin a rustic fireplace to 'modernise' it, and people who jsut destory the house cause they don't udnerstand what a support beam is.
"When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed."
I relate to the wizard sadly, no idea what I want and more often than is healthy, gazing into the void.
I bet the reason the wizard didn't know what he wanted (and was being difficult about each place) is a combination of: He's been in one place focusing on a project for 300 years (plus how ever long he was there before the wand project), he liked his old place to begin with (and only left because no one was around anymore), and his old place may of not been his choice in the first place, he may of been given it by a family member (so his parents would chew him out for turning his nose up at it).
Its funny, Maulie thinks she's a good real-estate agent, but considering her reaction to the wizard not jumping for the first property, and her reaction to his undeceive/non-visionary attitude, I bet she's used to getting a sale the first try, and to customers who do a lot of work on their new property like knocking out a wall, adding a different one, repainting the whole place, and overall going for a creative/highly-motivated/artistic change to the place... not selling to a person who just wants to move to a new place.
Hi Alicia, good luck with the house hunting! I recently moved myself, and when Dungeon Flippers came out at pretty much the exact time I moved in, it was VERY relevant. Seriously, actually kind of spooky.
okay but if you skip out on checking the interior, you half assed your judgement. real talk, first impressions are supposed to be thorough, not a glance
Especially if you're a wizard in a world of magic. The inside of that bridge could've been a whole mansion.
I think she meant that if the first impression (as in the first glance) flunks hard enough, that feeling will be hovering over her for the rest of the showcase and dampen further impressions. Even if it turns out lovely, she’d already been soured on it and wouldn’t be convinced no matter what ergo it would be pointless to go inside. I haven’t ever been house hunting, not as the prime/head buyer at least, but I’ve had moments like this for certain anime or webnovels.
Why is going _into_ the house considered a hard sell? That sounds like basic courtesy to me.
Right? If you only judge it from the outside that's kinda just.... Eh- If it looked horrible or sumthing maybe, but the whole reason being that it's just cuz it's under a bridge. Idk, kinda rude
yeah when my mum was house hunting we, like, went IN the hosue to see how it wa,s cause you cna't jsut judge a house form the outside. How many bedrooms does it have? how many bathrooms? what can you use the rooms for? what's the backyard like? Hell, you gotta make sure the hosuie doesn't have any issues either.
I love Maulie's scampering run animation. lol
23:17 In their defense, Inflation has been HORRENDOUS recently. That just might be enough for a sandwich in their world you don't know....
Plus the frustration was coming from the possibility of getting no money at all so the huge amount at stake would only make it even more frustrating.
I once had a real estate agent who started to choke up over the phone about how she loved her job and wanted to keep doing it. I hope she’s doing okay.
On the channel they did make an opening its a little old but it shows off the whole team.
So the Ace of Wands and his journey is reflected in the Tarot. The suit of wands, specifically.
Thank you so much for watching, so happy you enjoyed it! (I am Cleaveland btw lol)
I agree. Yelling at someone to get their shit together isn’t the way to go about it.
Thats some advice my family should listen to. Sure, I’m indecisive and I may fuck up, but just yelling at me won’t fix the issue.
I need time to think things through and to just float as I go. I’ll get there.
I loved the Easter-Egg with the Akashic Records in the Beginning it's very specific and I only know about it because I work in a bookstore and there are a ton of esoteric Weirdos as our Customers who are into Stuff like that.
They could've just used the void as a sort of vr space to let the client see what she was trying to display in the earlier tower so they could sell that place and keep using the void to convince future clients of the potential of their other properties. They just lost a valuable tool to someone who doesn't have the imagination to use it effectively.
It's a good pilot so far.
You know, I just realized the wizard in the void property is like me with videogames that let you build a house/base piece-by-piece like Minecraft, Terraria, Trove, etc. There's so much potential and freedom... but I never know where to start (resulting in it largely getting unused, besides the crafting table stuff, or I end up copying someone else's work from a video).
The Void is the perfect home for the Ace Of Wands, who has no imagination or creativity, just ambition and industriousness. Both Maul-ie and Cleave-land accidentally willed many things into existence just being there for a minute or two, but the Ace Of Wands kept stable, even when trying to invoke the Void's power.
I imagine (heh) the prior owner of The Void couldn't use it because passing thoughts kept causing that owner harm or hardship: You're considering villainous battle plans, suddenly a squad of semi-real knights are trampling your petunias.
She is forgetting this is a setting where killing a magician and turning a passerby into a frog without batting an eye and the agent is a MANTICORE. In pretty sure her antics are understandable.
:) Thanks for this.
It's a fun pilot.
5:50 not the “Nice Dissolve” in chat lmfao
Wondering when you would get to this one and now wanting to see you react to more indie animation
I see a certain Smiling Friends influence. When non-human characters act and talk about human things.
it depends how one views it for maulie and the wizard. note that the wizard chose to contact them meaning he needed help finding a new home. maulie and cleaveland as agents agree to accept the client request to seek a new home. from here it gets tricky. i get what you say on if the home doesnt jive with the person then thats perfectly fine and move onto next place to see if its the one or not. its their job to be patient and try to find the ideal home. but if the wizard still doesnt like the home then in the end he could have gone back to his old home and wait, imho he is burning their time since they took in this client to get him a home. but yeah maulie became unprofessional there on snapping at him. depending on how one views this next part for her she lost her family dungeon and is trying to rebuild it and do to that she got that strong passion on dungeons and to her she gets frustrated with the client got alot of money, can easily buy a home. she doesnt have a dedicated/proper home and working her butt off to rebuild what was lost. the client could get a new home if they wanted in just minutes while for her it will take years depending on time/money she got, hence the whole miracle money thing to speed up that process.
overall it is a pilot so certain hooks will be loose or dont connect well at all since it is a indie passion project first then a studio with bunch of animators/storyboard artists. but the idea is interesting and paints the main character on who they are, why they have this job, whats their goal in life. if down the road the animator gets more ppl onboard to help make it and/or later someone pick them up to air/stream somewhere then there will be more polish and better planning on show with for sure a proper story laid out.
YOOOOOOO DUNGEON FLIPERS!!!
Indie Animation 4 the win!
This was such a cute first episode, and the Ace of Wands song sounds super familiar but I can't place why.
My one little nitpick is that Maulie's tone is kinda... flat? Or her delivery, I guess? She kinda just has one vocal tone going on, even at the scene when she's snapping at the wizard. I've no doubt everything will improve with more episodes, just kinda stuck out to me.
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Heh, it’s a table top dungeon map
FINALLY! you reacted to it!❤️❤️❤️
Hey Alicia, nice to meet another Vtuber in the Indie Space. I was a former Vtuber myself. Love the reactions by the way.
We have our own fantasy show called The Obsidian Archives if you are interested in reacting.
Happy to see you enjoyed this.
3:25 same
you are a great reactor and so funny to watch. If you have any videos like the reaction to helluva boss episode 7 when you were drunk calling your fiance, i beg make a playlist of those vids cause it's so hilarious
Indie animation, usually worth a watch as at minimum usually has heart.
Hard disagree. Maulie's frustration is perfectly understandable. They went through all those different places and the Ace's lack of imagination and creativity meant he couldn't see the potential in any of them. Basically, giving them nothing to work with. So, they take him to the place where he could literally have whatever he wants (since the agents weren't finding it) and he can't come up with ANYTHING? I would have been pissed as well. Shouldn't even be in the market if you don't have a better idea of what you are after.
I believe you don't get what doing jobs nowadays is like. Belittleling things like that is so much overseen and burning the workes for the money= No good
I've done that, I still do. But my employer pays my dentist and doctor if needed. And I got the pay on the day, witch is nice. I'm doing nice, for the first time of my life
Is Maulie just straight up homeless?
Yes, a chatter at the end of the video pulled up her backstory.
Her parents wrecked the dungeon, got divorced and essentially left HER with the mess.
She probably rents a small place until her house is build back.
Alicia, please watch Port by the Sea
Anyone else notice her model's colors are off? Did she change it on Twitch?
please cheak out tales from atherion when you got time elf gal, youtubes sleepin on it, all the reaction channels are sleepin on it, and its an indie series that deserves more attention than its getting being buried rn.
I literally just posted elsewhere to have you watch this. Am I a wizard...?
SCP-426 I am a Toaster you need to watch that if you haven't its only eleven minutes long and i think you will find it highly amusing
You can be good but not professional. She was too focused on what she wanted to not take into account what the client wanted.
Not even the client knew what he wanted tho-
@@EarlyOnset Literally, he gave ZERO input and just left them to guess what he wanted.
and how can she know what the client wants when he doesn't tell them what he wants? when he lacks such imagiantion that he can't think of ANYTHING in a place that can create ANYTHING YOU THINK OF? THat's why she got mad! He can have anything he wants while she barely has much of a building anymore and he just cannot be satisfied with anything!
@@sarafontanini7051 For her it must feel like dying of thirst while watching someone else drown
Can you check out The Rhino and The Redbill next?
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Reply so Alicia sees it if you want her to watch Monkey Wrench.
Lets goo another series
alicia, please watch "backrooms level 94 eternal suburbia" it is made by lost in hyperverse with great graphics, but on subtitles please
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I mean... if you yourself can't give any pointers to the agents even after "reviewing" so many potential places to stay... you're kind of the asshole here for wasting time and doing literally nothing.
Hope you one day react to Meta Runners.^^
Unpopular opinion.
This shouldn't be picked up. It doesn't have enough potential for a full series or possibly even a season.
I love it and hope it gets more episodes but I don't think a studio would look at this and think there's enough material.
nice to see you don't want people to get big, why would you say it "shouldn't" be picked up? you literally don't have to watch it if you don't want to but thousands of others might want that.
10:11 since when is it ilegal to say your age on the internet lmao
real name ye thats dumb , but age ? really ?
Because it’s a rule in my community. There are a lot of online predators so in order to lead by example I made it so no one says their age. Caring about the safety of my viewers means something to me.
@@aliciaxdeath why not do it only for those 18- ? restricting adults too seems unecesary but i understand now . thanks
@@kalashydra9016 nope. Because applying the rules to everyone and keeping it equal also provides safety. Other communities are welcome to do that. I just choose not to within my own
Day 2: I will be the one of the silent masses requesting for 100 Girlfriends who really really really love you.
I will have the utmost gratitude for the recognition of this.
Good show, too bad the main character is unlikable (at least in my opinion), like episode one she "accidentally" convinced a dude to end himself by yelling her own insecurities at him.
Putting "accidentally" in quotation marks doesn't make it intentional.
You are wrong she is likeable
@@marquisepixley684 Hey see that part when I said "in my opinion"? It's almost like I am speaking on behalf of myself and not every fucking person on the planet, dickhead
@@D_YellowMadness ofc, she didn't tell him to go off himself, she just yelled her own insecurities at the dude and he got depressed and then got swallowed by the void, hence accidentally. I don't see the point of your comment
@@WillGlacier the point is that putting something in quotations has an implication of sarcasm or untruthfulness. Its basically poor grammar and they're jsut correcting your incorrect usage of the quotations c:
and if you think that's enough for a character to be unlikable, there are FAR worse out there than maulie.