The return of the slingshot

When I published the first game with newbies Hannah, Lakota, Michelle, and Siren, I mentioned that they played a game where two losers had to put on the slingshot swimsuits and go down to the bar. A fan named K asked if that one could be moved up in the publishing queue, and I agreed. I'm seriously having second thoughts about that -- it'll raise expectations and make it harder for me to refuse such requests in the future -- but it's too late to do anything about it now, so please enjoy episode 298, as the four of them compete to see which two of them will be the first to do a double walk of shame. Enjoy.

And now for this week's megaparty guest. With a beard that would make Seneca Crane sit up and take notes, say hello to Chester.

That brings us to fourteen players: five guys, nine girls. And believe it or not, I'm still not done. See what I meant when I said that this was a record-setting event, and that record is unlikely to be broken anytime soon?

Let's try that again.

Okay, guys. Several people who have seen 296 have told me it's a good one despite the glitches. And it does indeed appear that FCPX ate the project and we'd have to start over. And Jelly is so cute I feel worse about withholding her than I do about publishing a glitchy clip. I have therefore decided to publish it as-is, at a discount and with a warning so you know what you're getting. Have at it.

Edit: By the way, I just wanted to congratulate our fans in the UK on having a crown prince that plays strip billiards. Kudos!

True story

UPDATE: Due to unacceptably poor video quality, I've yanked 296. If you purchased it, please forward a copy of your receipt to clipreplacement@lostbets.com with the numbers of any three episodes you'd like in its place. We're switching to Final Cut Pro X, and still learning, and to my astonishment, it turns out that it just might be possible for software to be worse than Adobe Premiere Pro, although the jury's still out on that one. We'd like to fix the glitches, but FCPX appears to have eaten our project file, or whatever morass of nested folders pass for project files in FCPX. It may be gone for good, in which case I'll republish it at as steep a discount as C4S will allow. I'm angry with myself for allowing this to happen. This isn't the standard to which I hold myself, this isn't the level of quality I've tried to uphold for 300 episodes.

Here's the original post, so you can see what you're missing:


One of the best things about 18-year-old girls is that they have 18-year-old girlfriends. Facebook noticed that I was friends with Salem, Lumen, and Fern, and suggested that perhaps I knew this girl Jelly:

I didn't, but I clicked through to her Facebook page anyway, and to my surprise it turned out that her birthday was that very day. Her birthday was that very day, in fact, in 1994, and it's easy to do the math. Yes, Facebook was kind enough to point me to this girl on the day she turned 18. Thanks, Facebook.

So I immediately contacted Fern and asked her to try to recruit Jelly. It took a couple of months, but she finally agreed. Today she makes her debut, along with her girlfriend Serengeli and Fern's friend Jerome:

Tight limits for these folks so don't expect much hardcore, but do expect a lot of blushing and giggling and tight young bodies.

Now, for this week's party update, I'm going to cheat a little. All of the previous updates have featured players who'd never appeared before at LostBets.com. Not today. We've seen her before, but it's been quite awhile. Please say hello again to Mika, who isn't 19 anymore.

Out of order

The quality of my videos is very important to me. Actually, it's not so much the quality per se, it's that people who buy them are satisfied. I want people to feel they've gotten good value for their money. Which leads me to two things:

First. if you purchased Episode 294 prior to August 11, 2012, and were not happy with its quality, please forward a copy of your Clips4Sale receipt to clipreplacement@lostbets.com, along with the number of an episode you'd rather have in its place. I apologize to everyone who was disappointed.

Second, similar quality issues have delayed Episode 296. They're fixable, but despite heroic efforts we weren't able to fix them in time for publication today. (We missed the deadline by minutes.) So Episode 297 gets to jump the queue, and Fern, Jelly, Serengeli, and Jerome will have to wait until next week. This means that two episodes in a row will have similar forfeits, but what can you do? Enjoy the return of Jacqueline and Dahlia. 297 is also the finale of that particular series, but I'm hoping to have Jacqueline back to play some more games by the end of the month.

For those of you who are wondering why I haven't teased what's coming up, it's that I don't like to do so until an episode is fully complete and ready to publish, and the reserve of those is awfully dry. July Jubilee used most of 'em up, and the mega-trip last week didn't leave a lot of time for postproduction. When we've built up the ready-to-publish queue, I'll give more details on what it contains 

And then there's this week's party update. Meet Daria, freaky altera-chick:

That brings us to thirteen. Are we done? We are not.

We be trippin'

First things first: 295. Four cute newbies plus one veteran. Screw-Your-Neighbor. Multi-vibe. Enjoy.

The LostBets.com crew (me, Johnny, Hippo, and our new production coordinator Eva) just got back from an East Coast trip, to visit some old friends and meet some new ones. The old friends included some we haven't seen in quite awhile, some of our most popular players, and some that we've gotten many pleas to bring back. Here's the roster. Any of your favorites on the list?

Alice, Angel, Ashley, Candle, Catherine, Cory, Cyndi, Dre, Isobel, Kimberly, Lakota (who's making her debut today), Lance, Leda, Nyssa, Tiana (now going by Tiera), Tori, and Whitney

The names of the new players probably won't mean much to you, but they were Billy, Caroline, Cheyenne, Dominique, Eve, Grace, Kandii (not to be confused with Kandie), Missy, and Xavier. It's a pretty incredible crop of newbies.

Speaking of newbies, this week's player from the latest party is Buck.

Freakin' cowboys. This brings us to twelve. And still not done.

Going to eleven

Back to just a single update this weekend. Phew. Thank you all for making July Jubilee a success!

This week, Episode 294 is our second game filmed outdoors, the last one being 281. Erica, Fern, and Anastasia playing and stripping in the breeze under the sky (and the occasional small plane.)

The roster for the megaparty continues to grow, currently consisting of:

Adrian

Aubrey

Belle

Damiana

Johannes

Mika

Priscilla

Skittles

Starli

Willow

This week, meet Scarlett with the jet-black hair.

That brings us up to eleven players, a LostBets.com record, surpassing the ten players at the last party. And we're not quite done introducing players just yet.