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Oh yeah, he definitely has the right to create and release his own videos, but if the contract is broken between them, the difference is Freeman's Mind and Civil Protection will no longer be sponsored by the Machinima guys. Machinima has always brought Ross a bigger audience, and more pressingly a regular payment. They also have quite a bit of power due to their channel popularity, which can be really beneficial sometimes, like when they removed that one guys scam YouTube account because he was making money off duplicate FM episodes. I doubt the contract itself has a requirement of "10 years continuous production" or anything like that, so he'll always have enough power to end it himself, "legally", when he wants. That's if it hasn't been terminated already. Not that I've read the contract myself, but it seems apparent that it is Machinima who have broken their agreement with Ross. Given that Ross is still following the rules and producing videos, and they are neither paying him nor hosting his work, there's not really any agreement left to break from. Except if he does now decide to host his own videos publicly, Machinima might avoid sponsoring him again and may not offer him their "new" contract, whatever it may be. Fortunately there are other options around too, as mentioned above, but Machinima is still the fifth most popular YouTube profile ever, (RoosterTeeth ranks at about 22nd) with far more uploaded videos than any other channel in the top 40. I recall them laying off about 10% of their staff last December, partly because of how much they've grown in such a short amount of time. This part of their "reorganization" after the film festival is probably a big reason why they've been so silent to Ross lately. You never cancel a contract before offering a new one, not unless that person has either broken it, done something so extreme as to obviate a warning, or if you're undergoing major overhauls to the format which are too urgent to give notice. Even if Ross wanted to stay with Machinima, but told them he was moving to another website or channel, Machinima might actually start taking him more seriously and either communicate with him properly about their new contract, or else quickly revert back on the old he was happy with. At least, I would presume this because Freeman's Mind is very popular. It's starting to surpass the amount of followers that Arby'n'The Chief has right now, who I only compare it to because they began around the same time... Except ANTC came with a much bigger fanbase, and currently has three times more videos than FM, most of which are all longer in length. So I would think Freeman's Mind to be a fairly big priority. Wow, a bit off track there. In any event, when you get down to specifics, since contract law is overseen by the state in which it was drawn, which I assume was California, I'm sure we could figure out how much control Ross actually has over the situation. If this were taken to extreme lengths, for instance, a right of rescission would let one withdraw from a contract without penalty, should this be a contributing reason to why one might avoid it in the first place. And I see no writing where Machinima has claimed intellectual property over Ross's work, so point is... don't worry about him losing his own series. (long way to put it!) And of course, I don't think anybody's trying to break an agreement anyway. It's just getting something out fast that works for everyone. Dang it, I just figured out what imperial meant by "RT", don't make me guess was TGS is!

The content will always go on! As long as the internet exists, the content of Accursed Farms shall always make an appearance, ad-supported or not.

If it comes down to it, Ross, I will definitely spare a good $500 or so when the need arises. I'd normally be able to do a lot more but I've been a little low the last two months. Anyway, just hang in there and know we support you, yadda yadda. . . . . Was that a BoB reference?

Funny, he seems unable to open a lot of doors. Much to his frustration.

TWO!? ONE... of TWO ORDERS!?

Wow, that's news to me. I've only had the .AVI file this whole time. I don't remember Ross going back and uploading .MKV copies. Actually I never remembered a .WMV version either...

Alan Wake? Walking Dead? Man, I wanna start those and I haven't even downloaded Black Mesa yet. Got new PC now though, it's all a matter of time... Also, I thought this was interesting. Writer of the article made the submission "Incognito" to the same Machinima Festival: Does Valve Respect Innovation?

What?

IRIDESCENCE!? I love it! Where!? I cannot see! "Yesterday I saw a deer." -GLaDOS That looked like one hell of a time. And those are some great photos, guys! Keep sharing them, if you have anymore to upload.

Oo0o, I want one. From what I've read of the Blue Yeti, it's pretty much the best USB micirophone available. Hey Ross, I could help pay for one for you to use, or you could at least use some donation money to pick out a good selection. We could even chip in to get it shipped to your door! [EDIT: Actually, maybe sharing your street address isn't the best idea.]

What about ass-kissing NPC faces? There's lots of ass-kissing NPC faces. Since I ever began the saga, 'Hard' has been my first and only choice, which has made me thankfully see it as the standard in pretty much all past and future Valve games and other third-party shooters. Yes, "third-party" is anything non-valve-related.

Yeah, this is news to me. How long has that progress status been posted? On an unrelated note, is there any way to go back on previously submitted images or are they just gone for good once a new one's replaced the link?

By me not being so Goddayum late. Really though, as inexcusable and ridiculous as it is, I'd say it was still pretty much the longest time I've ever spent on Freeman's Mind. Most of that due to work, and some rest being from a crappy computer that likes to crash and force me to redo stuff. HAH! Good one, PC! (I'm in the processing of killing it and getting a new one). Serious though, I'd like to apologize to everyone, because that was preposterously foolheaded. His words... So convincing... So serious... So fatherly and authoritative.

I thought California was supposed to be coolest? Or is that too obvious? Doesn't Hawaii rank in there somewhere? Not that I disagree, whatever state Ross is in definitely hits the mark. u no hear of bus tube!?

Wish I was 100. You should have a special selection for 100....

I've normally assumed it was almost entirely robotic. It's quite possible she's more like the adjutant in StarCraft II: Nowadays you might picture her as some personality sphere or a type of GLaDOS. I've written so many posts about the radio chatter in Half-Life 2, since it always fascinated me. As a young lad, I was listening to all the sound bites I could find and looking up police codes to decipher their meaning. You can mostly understand what they're saying, 90% of the time. Other codes they use seem very rare or simply made up. 647E was one I couldn't find. Combine Soldiers otherwise use a lot more terminology for the critters that the Resistance call Antlions, Headcrabs and Zombies. Like "Necrotics" and "Viroms". Ah, the memories. I still have the paper I wrote down all the awesome short code names I might've used for online military pseudonyms, like Apex, Block, Blade, Dash, Dagger, Ghost, Helix, Ice, Ion, Jet, Nova, Line, Lock, Nomad, Phantom, Razor, Savage, Scar, Shadow, Striker, Spear, Tap, Tracker, Union, Vice, Victor, Viscon, Winder and Xray.

That's... actually an interesting fix to the problem. I'd definitely go with that over the original idea. It's almost as if the people who had donated would then be accused of showing off if anything. I hope nobody accuses anyone in either case, but this would probably be the best option if you were going to go with a contribution tag.

I didn't even know there was a snow particle effect in Episode Two. I only recall a calm, falling ash in Episode One. Oh well, cool. Never seeing this in real-time makes it more unique in the episode then.

What he said. Is all this perplexity mainly coming from when you moved to Los Angeles? I hear your "if EVERYONE did that" idea is quite popular in California, giving it more tax revolts than any other state. I'm told the former Governator leaving things in shambles is partly to blame. Plus the multiple rejections to budget measures, though I'm utterly ignorant when it comes to these things. Also, how did YouTube changes affect your ratings?

Nope, not me, but I'd love if you could list all of those games anyway! I do know some of them, but the second to last one really has me guessing.

I wasn't very selfish at 16. At least, not that I was aware of. Too busy working, studying and taking care of babies. (not my babies, just for the record) Same, man. . . . Same. Sincerely, I would love to die in a great giant explosion looming in the earth's skies with millions watching. I mean, not in a "Let my heroic Death be known to all!" kind of way, but it'd be just such a fantastic way to be gone. I guess I often think of awesome ways to be killed off, all of them generally for something, rather than of something.

Don't be preposterous. Of course it would be difficult.

Dang, man, that does look nice. Those scenes in the tunnels with the contrast between black and white show a huge difference. Nice job encoding that; it looks fantastic.

Ah, do you mean This one? Yeah, if Zdenek didn't have the "original", it doesn't look like anybody has them without the clipping, sadly. Nice job narrowing down all the tracks yourself though, Darth.

http://www.accursedfarms.com/2007/08/ Ah, I remember it well. I thought I would have a screen snapshot of the old place, since we all knew for a long time that it was gonna be taken down at some point, but I can't find any. Oh well, I better snapshot this thread right now in case these forums change in the future. Smile! *click* Also, the spam at those forums grew increasingly large, and incongruous. It was an abandoned dumb long before it was taken down.