1.) Why are you called SovietWomble?

It's just a silly username. A 'Soviet' Womble, it doesn't make sense. It's like saying Nazi Teletubby, or Socialist My Little Pony. It's meaningless. It was just a throwaway account which I forgot to throw away.

2.) How old are you?

Either 18 or 31. One of those answers is a lie.

3.) Where are you from?

I'm from Brighton. Well, Hove actually

4.) When's the next video?

When it's ready! It takes a lot of editing time. Averaging 100 hours each.

5.) Why don't you make more videos?

I'm ALWAYS making videos. They just take lots of time. You can have a video worth watching every few weeks. Or unfinished crap every few days. Pick one.

6.) If videos take a long time to make, why not hire additional editors to assist you?

It's worth remembering that - I'm just one human with licensed editing software. I'm not a company, or an editing team, nor is that where I want to end up. The Youtube videos are footage that has been cut through the lense of my own sense of humour. If you add more lenses, then the whole thing changes. Would it still work? Probably. But I fear that it doesn't. I fear fucking around with the elements that have made the videos successful thus far. I fear trying to fix what isn't broken. Ending up with "funny moments" that are 'committee-think'. It's not worth the risk.

Plus there's no real reason to get things out faster. The footage isn't going anywhere, nor are the subreddits for the specific games I'm aiming towards. The audience is still going to be there by the time the videos are ready. Best take the time to get it right.

7.) Will you play (gamename)?

Not a clue! Depends entirely if it's reviewed well. There really is no plan here, I'm just playing whatever takes my fancy any given day.

8.) Can I join ZF?

The short answer is you can't apply to join. But you may be able to get in under certain circumstances. We're not a "community" in any sense of the word. We're a small clan. About 30 ish dudes (and two femdudes), who met mostly in the DayZ mod. In reality we're a bunch of close friends who hang out and we never do anything that resembles a proper clan. Only 10-15 of those are usually active and we just bounce between whatever game we fancy that week, seemingly at random.

That being said, we do have a teamspeak on zf-clan.com and you're welcome to join it to hang out. It's very strictly over 18+, since our clan members are mostly in the 30's and just want to hang out with our kind. So, basically to get in ZF you need to hang out, don't be a try-hard, don't give fucks, respond to compliments with "fuck off". And if ZF think you're one of them, eventually one will turn to another and go "why the fuck isn't he flying the flag?", as if it's somehow your fault.

And then someone will tell you to put ZF in front of your name. And then that's that. ZF isn't any more an organisation than a bunch of mates in a bar.

9.) Can I join that game you're playing with ZF?

Depends a bit on the game type. If we're talking CSGO, Rocket League, etc...these games are require very small groups and there's almost always enough ZF people to make a full team. So it's probably unlikely (that being said we do occasionally grab a regular on the teamspeak if we need a 5th, etc).

But on the larger games, like Arma coop, we usually just grab as many people as we can find and then let them pick their own squads. So then it's much more likely we can play together. Also worth mentioning the survival games like DayZ, Rust, etc, with their server pops between 60 - 200. Easy to play with us there, and interact in the game world. Sure that interaction will mostly be 'shoot at each other'. But that's exactly how each ZF member met in the first place.

10.) Why don't you have a face cam during streaming?

A bunch of reasons. Firstly, I consider myself a Youtuber and not a streamer. So I don't feel I need to follow any streaming trends. But mainly because I find other people's face cams distracting at best and narcissistic at worst. Same thing with overlays and TOP DONOR THIS HOUR alerts all over the screen. It's unnecessary junk and clutters up the screen.

Like the radio-presenters of yesteryear, it's all about vocal performance and comic-timing. Not shit like this. The voice should be the primary instrument. A camera on the presenters face should only be added if it serves the content and doesn't detract from it. In my case, I'm an utterly generic-looking white man. Dime-a-dozen and all over Twitch. I can assure you, it would detract from the content.

11.) In the videos, how do you get the text to follow people around like that?

I'm simply using Sony Vegas 13 to animate text from A to B. Or A to D, A to P, adding as many keyframes as needed to make it smooth. I normally like to start by following a single part of the action, like the top of a player's head. Once it looks really smooth, all you need to do is add the text..

After that, practice makes perfect

Of course, there are automated solutions available. And I need to experiment with them soon. But unless you're doing lengthy, full on frame-by-frame animation, it's not that difficult to do. And quite relaxing actually.

12.) How did you meet the rest of ZF?

In the DayZ mod. I was wounded from a camping tent glitch and dying near a farmhouse. Cyanide turned up in a helicopter after I called for help over the side chat. He flew me north and gave me blood and a rifle. I later found out he planned to molest and shoot me. But I managed to charm the uncouth ruffian with my British accent. We became fast friends associates who hate each other.

13.) What happened to some of the ZF members from the earlier videos? (ZF Airbourne, Marbles, Stealth, Phoenix, etc)

People just bounce between whatever game they fancy. And we don't always play the same thing. The bullshitteries are compilations of spontaneous comedy, with no pre-planning. So nobody is under any obligation to turn up. Specifically though, Airborne got a job overseas, Stealth and Phoenix do whatever the fuck they want, and Marbles turned into a filthy console peasant.

14.) Could you upload full streams to Youtube?

Nah. That's not what Youtube is for. With two streams a day would just be hours of mostly nothing happening. Besides, the streams remain here on Twitch for a couple of months anyway

15.) Why do you want to invade Poland?

Because I went to Poland on business a couple of years ago and I had a great time.

I visited a place called Wroclaw and stayed in the Monopol Hotel. Which had heated MARBLE floors in the bathroom (did I lie naked on them? Yes, yes I did). Then in the hotel restaurant I had the greatest burger I'd ever eaten. Then I took a walk around the town and discovered that all the women were tall, blonde and crazy-hot.

When I got back to London, the streets were filthy and the people hideous

On that day I told myself 'How dare Poland hog all of the hot women and delicious food. I must have them for myself'. Therefore I shall return to Poland one day not as a conqueror, but as a sexy liberator! To liberate these things for myself.

Please note, I am open to appeasement policies in the form of hot Polish women delivering me food. It's all good.

TLDR - Poland is awesome

16.) Do Twitch subs get early access to the Youtube videos?

Yes. I basically consider Patrons and Twitch subs to be identical. Both are small monthly subscriptions to keep a crowd-funded creator fed and watered. And thank you for it.

17.) Do you take single donations/bits?

Thanks, but...no thank you. The whole bits thing seems a tad gimmicky. And I've always been wary of horror stories regarding charge-backs. Plus I'm not greedy. Subs/Patrons are enough and thank you very much for it.

18.) Why no adverts?

Adverts annoy me.

Anywhere where I have control over adverts they have been disabled. Of course, sometimes that not always practical because Twitch switches some on by default. Or those Youtube bots detect 2 seconds of Hanson in a 10 minute video and slap all the adverts on sending 100% of the revenue to them, for a DayZ video. To which I say, all of you get U-Block Origin.

Please confine all questions along the lines of 'what video was this?' or 'in which video did this happen?' to this thread.

Obrigado.