Gorilla Gong!

[ISGC]

I, uh

I think he's roleplaying

[HLPrincess]

I, uh

I think he's roleplaying

 

He doesn't have anything better to do than causing a mess and taking Ross's precious time for bullsh*t!

[ISGC]

He doesn't have anything better to do than causing a mess and taking Ross's precious time for bullsh*t!

I mean, he did clearly state that his post was "in character", which I assume is the character of Gordon Freeman

and I suppose he's referencing Freeman's Mind as some sort of snuff film that he doesn't think the world should see?

I'm not entirely sure, honestly, but I don't think any harm was meant by it

[HLPrincess]

He doesn't have anything better to do than causing a mess and taking Ross's precious time for bullsh*t!

I mean, he did clearly state that his post was "in character", which I assume is the character of Gordon Freeman

and I suppose he's referencing Freeman's Mind as some sort of snuff film that he doesn't think the world should see?

I'm not entirely sure, honestly, but I don't think any harm was meant by it

 

That's not the first time he caused some mess on the forum... No excuse for this one either!

[Ross Scott]

Ha, well I'm declaring a new rule of no more roleplaying on news post threads. He's unfortunately a little too good at it or else we're not quite as sharp as we should be. Either way, we'll hopefully have better communication from now on.

[GordonFreeman]

i just want to say i'm sorry i got everyone all confused. I only meant to make a joke that even I now see made no sense. Sorry...

 

And no the original point was not to waste time.

[CTN]

A welcomed initiative! I listed my machinimas in the suggestion thread. Is that all I have to do?

[Atvis]

Well thanks Ross! I watched two videos that were approved by you(yeah I know that I shouldn't be filtering videos like that) and I really liked them so now I have another mini YouTube in which to waste valuable hours of my life.

P.S.

I don't mean that as a bad thing.And also I apologize about poorly describing the videos I'm at a low creativity period .

[Ross Scott]

A welcomed initiative! I listed my machinimas in the suggestion thread. Is that all I have to do?

Yeah, we appreciate it, it will make things easier on us.

 

Well thanks Ross! I watched two videos that were approved by you(yeah I know that I shouldn't be filtering videos like that) and I really liked them so now I have another mini YouTube in which to waste valuable hours of my life.

Well there are some good other picks too. I highly recommend "Grandma is Coming", "Spider Friend", and "Up In Smoke" on the site. I would have picked them if I had known about them, I think they're brilliant.

 

As for my picks, they'll vary. Right now I'll confess, because it's launch, I'm going to load it with the best machinima I know of, then once I run out of that, I'll move on to the "good" or "okay" (unless we get new picks that are good). In the future we hope to have a user "favorites" section. Once that happens, I'll have a list of all my absolute favorites if you really want to discriminate. No matter how you slice it, we will NOT be loading anything we consider "bad." I think in time it will get easier as we'll have more people submitting videos, so it we'll have more good picks to choose from.

[realAniram]

Awesome, been looking at some of the videos for games I recognize for the past couple of days. Saw a really good one and wanted to sign up to rate, but I couldn't because somehow I'm too young. xD Already sent a message using the contact form though, since this isn't exactly the most appropriate place for feedback of that sort.

[RocketDude]

This is neat, I like the idea of filling the void left when Machinima basically moved to YouTube entirely and lost its way.

[Radiatus]

I'm very happy because of ads. They are really marginal.

[PapaFrita]

THANK YOU, Ross, and all the people at GG. The Internet was in need of a site like that!

[BTGBullseye]

It ain't bad, that's for sure.

[Savant]

I have a question to all. Does gorillagong.com load slowly for you? I am seeing 5+ second load times per web page. I think I would like the site better if I didn't have to spend half a day loading pages. I tried without ad-block on and it still did not help. =(

[BTGBullseye]

I get 4 seconds from send request (click on page link) to full page loaded. Not long at all for something with embedded video.

[Ross Scott]

I have a question to all. Does gorillagong.com load slowly for you? I am seeing 5+ second load times per web page. I think I would like the site better if I didn't have to spend half a day loading pages. I tried without ad-block on and it still did not help. =(

It's been slow for me too unfortunately. I checked in with the guy running it, he says half the time it's the host, the other half it's been spam attempts (I know he does have aggressive anti-spam software though). It is unfortunate, but my guess is we won't have the resources to upgrade the hosting for a while. Stuff like this is why we're still in beta.

[ThePest179]

It's barely taking 3 seconds for it to load with me.

[RandomGuy]

Hmmmm. Have you ever seen Spoony's Phantasmagoria 2 Let's Play? It's pretty old, and I'm not sure if it could even go up here (maybe it could, but I don't know the legal details of Spoony's videos after leaving TGWTG), but it's worth looking at either way.

[Ross Scott]

Hey, just a quick update. With the exception of scary machinima (we'll post as many as we can find this month), we may be scaling down to 2 videos a day for the near future until we get more traffic + suggestions coming in. We plan to bump it up again later, but we want to make sure there are new videos every day and we might burn through our reserves a little too fast at 3 a day.