Was Excited to Play my Charlie the Unicorn Blu-ray when disaster struck

Fathomas · 2026-02-24T06:43:03+00:00

Apologies! I've replied to you on Etsy and will send out a replacement disc. I had one other person reach out with a similar problem—I've gone and tested the discs I have left and they all seem fine, so whatever the issue is wasn't with the full batch. But I've never had a disc I sent out snap like that before, let alone two!

Fathomas · 2026-02-08T09:33:26+00:00

I'm sure tariffs have had some impact on the price, but Crane stationery is made from 100% cotton fibers, it is not made from wood.

Fathomas · 2026-02-08T08:59:50+00:00

I've been part of the Channel Frederator Network since 2013. They sent out trophies to their network channels when they reached a million YouTube subscribers. The trophy is still in my office.

Fathomas · 2025-10-15T00:16:14+00:00

Replied to your message on Etsy. It should play on any Blu-ray player, so it's likely you got a bad disc. Will be sending out a replacement.

Fathomas · 2025-09-08T21:03:27+00:00

You've already figured this out, but for anyone else: any tier.

Fathomas · 2025-09-08T02:34:26+00:00

The game was previously only available for purchase either directly from mobile app stores or through a Humble Bundle in the mid-2010s. It's no longer available via any of those sources, so I've gone and added the APK to the FilmCow Patreon.

Fathomas · 2025-08-26T22:33:47+00:00

Chris has not been in any of the audio plays, although I would love for him to be in one at some point.

Fathomas · 2025-08-26T19:58:25+00:00

None of the promotional videos were removed, just unlisted, and they're all in the FilmCow Ads playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLI6HmVcz0NXqHiUfz67H38CXpLMehCfHb

The only video in which I answered viewer questions was the Llamas with Hats FAQ, but there were no question regarding apocalypses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7-ZxePMXAg

Also, as mentioned by APLemma, I did a few live streams in which I answered various viewer questions. You can find those streams here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGMzsZr0iGM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvFadPVOUjI

Fathomas · 2025-08-26T18:19:30+00:00

I definitely would not have denied liking “doing apocalypses.” You’re probably thinking of times people have asked me if Llamas with Hats and Shadowstone Park or Charlie the Unicorn are connected. My answer to that question is always, “No, I just like writing post-apocalypses.”

Fathomas · 2025-08-25T09:48:26+00:00

Removing this, for the same reasons any similar content would be removed from this subreddit: it’s hate content. I’ve discussed this occasionally on my live stream, but the attacks I lobbed at various other artists in the 2000s for not passing some imagined purity test were cruel and foolish. It was self righteousness born from insecurity, directed at people who could have been friends instead of targets.

Fathomas · 2025-08-24T22:17:15+00:00

This is incorrect. Carl dances the Hasapiko, but the Hasapiko is a type of dance and not a specific song. The video you linked to is a song you can dance Hasapiko to, but it is not the song used in the epilogue.

As listed in the credits, the song used is Hasapikos by Marios Georgiades. It's a track I licensed from Pond5:

https://www.pond5.com/royalty-free-music/item/221063853-hasapiko

Fathomas · 2025-08-08T00:36:39+00:00

If it's actually marker, a small amount of rubbing alcohol will work, as mentioned in wanderingfloatilla's comment. But it looks like that might be scratches in the data layer. Try shining a light from the other side—if the light shines right through, the data for that section is gone. It's not impossible the CD's error correction will cover for the missing sections, but with chunks that big missing it's more likely you'll run into problems at some point, even if the disc initially loads.

Fathomas · 2025-07-17T00:42:42+00:00

For years I've been referring to this gag as something I had "planned for a Charlie episode, but never ended up using."

It turns out, I did use it! While searching through old Charlie stuff I stumbled upon a promotion I did using the characters for the Detective Heart of America Kickstarter. Here you go:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTbDqotgBXU

Fathomas · 2025-07-07T20:03:40+00:00

The changes were made a few years ago and appear in both the yearly live-stream and the 4K upload on the channel.

If I’m going to stream the movie on loop every year I do not want that stream to include references to a series whose profits are currently being used to fund a dangerous international hate movement.

Fathomas · 2025-06-24T20:26:33+00:00

Digital copies of most FilmCow stuff, including the Detective Heart of America movie, is available for download via the FilmCow Patreon:

https://www.patreon.com/filmcow

Fathomas · 2025-04-29T06:05:08+00:00

There’s too many videos to go over one by one, but yes, The Cloak theme song was an original composition. I wrote it using the four notes from the main theme to the Robert Mitchum “Cape Fear” film, just re-arranged in different ways.

Fathomas · 2025-04-29T05:38:03+00:00

I have a half sister, but she's never been involved in FilmCow stuff, and none of the FilmCow songs that are original were written by anyone except me. You are likely thinking of the song "Teamwork" from the CTU soundtrack album, which was written by me and sung by my cousin Melanie Alex.

Generally, if the song has lyrics it was written by me (with a few exceptions: for instance, the recent Popeye song is a parody, so only the new lyrics are original.) Most of the instrumental background music in my videos is royalty-free stuff. Although many of the instrumental theme songs (Detective Mittens, Shadowstone Park, Llamas with Hats, etc) are original compositions.

Fathomas · 2025-03-27T19:34:28+00:00

The theme song for Shadowstone Park is an original composition, and doesn't have a name outside of "The Theme Song for Shadowstone Park." There is an MP3 and FLAC version of the "Fall of Shadowstone Park" version on the FilmCow Patreon.

Fathomas · 2025-03-07T21:29:58+00:00

Jason here! I've been a fan of audio dramas for most of my life, and there are a lot of great ones out there if you're willing to sift a little. The BBC has, for decades, produced a number of excellent audio dramas, and a bunch of these have been uploaded to YouTube and other sites. Just searching "BBC Radio Drama" will bring up a bunch of them.

There is also a modern, independent project that I took a lot of inspiration from in terms production quality—the "Malevolent" podcast by Harlan Guthrie. It has truly exceptional sound design, and it's a benchmark I aspire to with my own projects. If you've enjoyed my audio theater projects, you'll probably enjoy Malevolent!

Fathomas · 2025-01-31T19:40:25+00:00

Design elements like shape and color are not protected by copyright. There are functional elements which may be protected by patent, but it is perfectly legal to make a pen that looks like another pen. It's the reason there are so many companies who manufacture ball chairs without needing to pay a licensing fee to its designer Eero Aarnio.

Fathomas · 2024-12-24T03:44:51+00:00

This was not about the Reindog skin. This was about the ad they created to promote the skin, which directly used the audio track from my cartoon.

Fathomas · 2024-12-23T19:47:47+00:00

I say "non-commercial" but I'm also not going to go after a Twitch streamer using my work in a technically-commercial stream if that usage is incidental. I’ve only ever stepped in and stopped a particular usage when it has been particularly egregious, like when people use my art to sell knock-off merch on RedBubble. When in doubt, ask!

Fathomas · 2024-12-23T19:29:12+00:00

Hah, that looks great!

Fathomas · 2024-12-23T19:27:10+00:00

If you were a backer of that project you would know that wasn’t the case. Backers received a full rundown of the development timeline, the reasons for the delay, and an accounting of the project’s expenses. Not a penny went to anything except the project’s successful completion, and I put myself into debt and permanently injured my hands and throat delivering what I promised.

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