SirNicholas

Forward-reference humour! :') Congratulations on finishing the series, Ross. The finale was perfect and uncompromising. Like many others I hope you continue the series with Half-Life², but only if your sanity can take it. Whatever you do next, I look forward to it. Have a rest, of which no one is more deserving, and a happy new year! P.S. Thanks for the Gonarch-man nightmares!

Woohoo! Almost there. That last, red, portal before the Nihilanth must definitely be a heavy-metal stage. The other rocks are for the public. Or maybe they worship the sounds coming from the portal. Btw, are those there in game, or edited in? (This calls for another play-through!) Also: if I recall correctly in the temple area (where the 'prophet' was shot) there should be another instance of the Exotic Bird sound (or the Cries of the Damned) that was heard in On a Rail (ep 25). Though maybe that only triggers if you enter it from the other red tunnel. Anyway, looking forward to Freeman wrestling the Nihilanth and of course him and the G-Man.

Orgasmic. I have no idea what to do with them (except for auditory ransom notes, of course). But I just love having this kind of stuff. (On a remotely-related note: Valve left some of their alternative recording in the game-files. Look up /steamapps/common/Half-Life/valve/sound/gman/gman_nogregret.wav for an alternative-alternative ending...). Mind-blowing that you've raised so many funds, the internet can be quite awesome at times. And you've earned and deserved every cent of it. If you still feel guilty (or similar) think of it this way: giving money feels generally better than receiving it (several studies indicate thusly [citation needed]), so you might feel awkward for receiving so much. On the other hand, we, the fans, feel good about ourselves for sending so much. So you get to feel good about making us feel good. And in any case you've made quality stuff that far surpasses what other people get paid a lot more for. Looking forward to Freeman in Xen and those mysterious ambitious projects and T-shirts!

That's funny, I've actually played Half-Life a number of times and remember all of the game shown in Freeman's Mind, EXCEPT just now when he jumps out of the water in the steam room and finds a door with a lock. I don't think I've ever found that in my life, which is an incredible discovery for me. Same here, I was well surprised that I'd never seen that before. Also, as far as I can remember that is the only door with a padlock on it in the whole game. Unless I've missed many other such secret doors. I also love how he goes back to get the other rockets once he blew up the tank. People never do that in films/series but always in games and it makes perfect sense. You never know when you need more RPGs and littering is bad. Awesome episode again. Looking forward to the portal-puzzles and Xen!

Damn, that's what I thought as well. My world view is now once again shattered (and I'd just cleaned up from last time). Ross actually in Poland... How's your Polish coming along? Anyway, we should do a European Freeman's Mind meetup. Perhaps somewhere in Germany as it's somewhat more central, though I'd also love to see Poland some day. Any Europeans in favor?

Even more frustrating that the page they linked (and subpages) doesn't even mention the word "incompatible" (or "compatible" for that matter) at all. Anyway, hope you get well, Ross. And that Valve learn us mere mortals cannot read minds.

I like the GameDev Tycoon anti-pirate measures, if only because it fits the game perfectly. GTA should have you getting your shit stolen everywhere you turn, but maybe that would be indistinguishable from the proper game (never actually played it). The problem I have with DRM is that it often hurts paying customers more than pirates. Perhaps more so with films and music than games, but in the end the pirates can usually remove all the restrictions while legal version still has them. Think of DVDs where you have to sit through 15 minutes of previews that you can't skip because the DVD tells the player you can't. With a pirated verion you just click and play and have enough popcorn left over for during the actual film.

Awesome. That thing with the game maps I sort of have with game sound tracks (Must have them all!). If anyone has any idea about the format of the data files, or where/how such information can be acquired I'd be willing to try if I can generate game maps and make Ross' dreams come true. P.S. don't make the videos shorter! I could watch them for days on end.

Alright! Here it is! Now you too can give Dr. Freeman Schizophrenia! http://pastebin.com/dxJCge25 Notes: - Copy and paste the code into a text document and save it with the extension .html - Open the file using an internt browser - Make sure you allow pop-ups and JavaScript on your internet browser - Make sure you've already signed in to your YouTube account before activating - It works on my Chrome and FireFox browsers, but I couldn't get it to work with Internet Explorer - Start with a low number of simultaneous episodes, like 1 - 3, and work your way up. - Pay attention to how much RAM you have left to ensure you don't go overboard. Yes, I made the video. I just played as many episodes as I could to give Ross more views and thought I should share the idea with his other fans, so I recorded it and made a video of it. I think that might mess up your code's formatting. Stick it up on Pastebin, that should work. Thanks for the suggestion. I could put it up online somewhere, but I'd rather wait until I'm sure either a) Ross will still get revenue for his existing videos or b) they'll be hosted somewhere outside Machinima or Youtube. (I already have some perfect domain-names in mind )

This is what happens when art meets commerce/business. (Think: , except that the 'good business' is blowing the crap out of the good guys.)

Damn. That was.. unnerving. Not necessarily creepy, just unnerving. Awesome video, Ross. Too bad the Source engine made production so much less enjoyable than the result.

Damn it, I want ALL the quotes! I can't think of any single t-shirt quote I'd want more than the others. Maybe I should order them all and never have a shortage of t-shirts. xD

Yes I am. (:

Glad to hear you're feeling better. As for the recoding; I'm willing to convert the MKV videos to another format, provided whoever wants them has a place for me to put them. I can convert the videos to practically any format you wish for at no cost to you. Please don't say mediafire or something similar (because of the max file size), and I definitely won't be emailing them. FTP preferred.

I specifically signed up to say: NOOOOOO!!! What about mac users? We can't watch these sweet episodes on our iPhones/iPods/iPads/apple tvs/macs(itunes) mp4 is good as mkv, and easily play at both platforms, but not vice versa!!!(((( WHY??? Here you go: http://www.ffmpegx.com/, it even has a GUI!

For everyone who doesn't like MKV and isn't afraid of command-line interfaces (those be few, I fear), FFmpeg can convert practically everything and is fairly fast as well. I know I've said it before, but really, once you get to know FFmpeg you don't have to worry about compatibility anymore. (: Looking forward to FM and CP! And when it concerns sound quality you can't be picky enough. Good luck to all the contestants!

I would suggest building it yourself. Far less expensive, and far more customizable. A friend of mine has his own computer shop, so I'll give him a pile of dosh and let him build one for me, according to my preferences. I haven't built a computer in ages so I don't trust myself with the task of making sure everything fits and won't blow up in my face. Good to hear everything's ok now, hope this will last a bit longer. Looking forward to the next FM and, hopefully soon, a new CP as well. (:

Sounds a lot like my old computers... Have you tried flashing the BIOS? I haven't, but I actually like the beeping, combined with the wake up at time, it makes a useful alarm clock plus; the computer is booted up when I get out of bed. (: And I'm intending to buy a new one anyway.

Oh well, while on the subject of weird computers, the peculiarities of mine: - One (and only one) BIOS-submenu is broken; the BIOS crashes when I try to access it. Even weirder: the rest works fine. - Within that submenu, however, is a switch to disable CPU-fan-checking which needs to be disabled or the computer will make an alarm beeping sound because it believes the CPU-fan not to be running (it does, don't worry). - One RAM slot is broken. - The other 2 slots have to be filled in a specific order: 256Mb first, then the 1Gb bank, or it will give RAM errors beyond the 1Gb range. - I stuck a GeForce FX 5500 in an AGP 4x slot. - The PS/2 mouse port failed simultanously with my dad's PC, which is a lot newer. All in all not bad for a computer that I've been using for almost ten years. It also boots up faster than any other computer in our household (about 1~2 minutes). Theriddlen is not entirely wrong, computers do behave better when you treat them better (http://james.hamsterrepublic.com/technomancy/), but it might also have something to do with upgrading from Windows 98 to XP. But as Ross described himself I doubt he treats his computer worse than I do. Anyway; good luck with your bridge, as you can read, I'm very content with my MSI motherboard.

I'm not an encoding guru, but if you want to encode/decode anything; use the free and open-source program FFmpeg. Almost all the 'free' something-to-something-else programs use it, and most of the time in violation with the FFmpeg license. The downloads available wont let you encode everything as some codecs are not free enough, if you want I can compile it to fit your wishes. I don't really care what format you use, but if you want to switch I recommend a free format/codecs, if you choose OGG-Theora or WebM* you can even have them played on the website with the new HTML5 * I've tried encoding some FM episodes to WebM and saw the color problems described by e-t172, but perhaps the encoding guru would be able to fix that...

I believe he switches to an invisible weapon, a custom weapon with a fully transparent texture.

Lol, I never jumped over the pistons... I always just turned the generator on because, well, the same reason as Freeman I just want to push every button in sight (that's how I once blew up a PC and crashed half a computer room in high-school). Then I'd use the metal crate, slide it over to the other side of the room and use it to climb onto the catwalk. Loved the 482 as well, will soon be implementing that in my own server, now to find a 12-gauge...

I vote for the idea of a 'Wall of Fame', a page with the names (and optionally the amount they donated) of donors. T-shirts would be cool, but then it'd become a webshop/business, which isn't necessarily wrong but would be beyond the idea of donating. I don't think Ross should alter the videos to favor donors, the credits should feature the people who worked directly on the video.

I have an idea about why Machinima uploads all this crap before the good stuff. They know everything except FM & CP is crap, but they upload it anyway because they know we might watch it because we've got nothing better to do between refresing pages. They wait with uploading The Tunnel so that we'll watch video's we'd never watch unless there's nothing better. I bet that as soon as they release The Tunnel their view-count will sky-rocket and then crash into the ground. Addendum: for storming Machinima HQ: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WqwFhX6Cqg bring on the V3's!

Brilliant! Half-way I wanted to do something similar, but of course I was too stupid to do it, glad someone did though. (: Also: WOOT! Now comes the unbearable waiting and watching all previous episodes for the 65335th time.