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For those that are waiting for the subtitles for this, they may be delayed for a couple days--I'm swamped with work at the moment. Have patience (I might not even get to watch this today, that's how under the gun I am).

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So, I'm writing up the subtitles for the Game Dungeon videos I haven't released yet and I'm working on CarnEvil right now. An idea is percolating in my mind that I wanted to toss out there. The idea is still very doughy and I'm not sure it'd all work out, but I have to say it. Ross mentions that CarnEvil combines two of his favorite things: carnivals and Halloween. One of the things that is floating about what remains of my family is the idea of possibly going to Cedar Point for Halloween next year. Things are still very much up in the air for that and we have 11 months to work it out, but I think this might be a neat idea: An Accursed Farms meetup (like the one that was done at Kings Dominion a while back) at Cedar Point for Halloween 2014. I know this is putting something on Ross and that's why I say the idea is very doughy at this point--I don't even know if I could attend, but I was thinking about it and wanted to throw out feelers. What do you guys think? We could call it "CarnEvil 2014" or something. I dunno.

I am ambivalent about this one but there is a strong part of me that wishes this change could happen, as possibly an alternative cut of the movie: In the movie "Happy Feet", a penguin named Mumble is born with an inability to properly sing (but can tap dance like nobody's business). This leads to eventual ostracization after being blamed for the reduction in the fish population. Mumble is told that aliens are taking huge quantities of fish so sets out on a quest to find these aliens and get them to stop taking such large quantities of fish. After a long ordeal, Mumble finds a large ship pulling up a net full of thousands upon thousands of fish. Mumble initially tries to free the fish but is knocked back into the water with a long stick. The ship moves away and Mumble steadfastly follows it back to its destination. Exhausted, Mumble washes up on the shore of the United States where he is found by some humans. He wakes up inside an aquarium on display with other penguins. He sees the aliens--human beings--and begins to speak to them about taking such large quantities of fish. They don't seem to hear him so he speaks louder, until he's begging and pleading at the top of his lungs for them to stop taking such large quantities of fish. The camera shifts to the human-side of the glass and Mumble is no longer heard speaking English but instead squawking unintelligibly. Then he hears the voice of his family in a dream state. They congratulate Mumble for finding the fish (the penguins are fed by dead fish being thrown at them from out of sight) and he panics, throwing the fish to them, but they hit...the aquarium wall. Mumble frantically throws fish at the wall and the camera suddenly pans up above the aquarium, then pans up to the United States view, then pans up to the view of the Earth, tiny, hanging in space. It is a really wrenching scene. The camera cuts to black and for a moment, you think the movie is over. Then they fade back in with a heartbroken Mumble staring at his reflection in the water until a little human girl begins tapping on the glass. Mumble begins tapping to the same beat with his feet. The little girl brings her mother to show the tapdancing penguin. This draws more people to the penguin and sparks a worldwide debate over man's place in the world and how their actions are affecting the penguin population. Mumble is released back to his place of birth and scientists witness the entire flock of penguins tap dancing in unison. At the end, the humans decide to stop taking such massive quantities of fish, allowing the penguins to have a happy life. Myself, I was sitting in the theater watching the movie and kind of wish they had ended the movie right after the pan-up-to-the-Earth sequence. It would've made the movie far more wrenching and compelling. But, if they had to make it a happier ending, they could've done the entire thing, but leave out Lovelace's little soliloquy at the end. I did not like that AT ALL.

I just finished the first installment of the FEAR series where the main antagonist (or at least catalyst for the antagonism) was a little girl and it felt weird that she'd be the final boss fight. I do see Ross's point in a way. There's a scene in a movie that really sticks out for me on this subject. In "Me, Myself and Irene", Renee Zellweger's character kicks Jim Carrey's character in the face with such force that he falls over a fence and down a hill. This is played for comedy. Now imagine if the roles were reversed only for gender and Jim Carrey's character kicks Renee Zellweger's character in the face and she falls over the fence and down the hill. Would that be seen as comedic?

I'm probably a very terrible person, but in HL2, whenever I had a team, I barely paid any attention to them. If they died, they died.

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So, in this game, you take a movie, television show, video game, book, or other form of story-driven entertainment and you change one thing about it to make it a much better story, change its tone, outcome or message, or anything to make the story stronger. This is, of course, completely subjective, but I was thinking about this today so I wanted to see how it fares. This is also open to discussion, but let's keep it mature and respectful. Also, major spoilers in this thread since we're talking about plot. I think the spoiler tag would be useless here so be forewarned! I'll begin: If I could change one thing about the movie "The 'burbs", I would change the ending. The movie is about a family who move into a house in a cul-de-sac and, due to their strange behavior, arouse the suspicions of the nosy neighbors. After a neighbor vanishes, the family is immediately suspect. As the remaining neighbors try (and fail) to surreptitiously investigate the disappearance, the family leaves on a day trip, prompting the nosy neighbors to break into the family's house to find evidence that the family has killed this person. They find no evidence and, while they're digging in the basement, the neighbor who had vanished returns home, alive--he had a heart attack and was in the hospital, the family is blameless. This news comes too late and the neighbors hit a gas line buried beneath the house, causing the house to burst into flames and explode. The family, having witnessed what was going on, brings the police to have the nosy neighbors arrested. One of the neighbors (Tom Hanks) is injured in the explosion and, after exploding in anger himself at the other neighbor, ranting in typical Tom Hanks fashion about how "we're the lunatics" and not the family, throws himself into a waiting ambulance. One of the family members, who is a doctor, joins Hanks in the ambulance and accidentally reveals that they had murdered the previous owners of the house (the family member believes he found evidence of the murder before the explosion, though he had not). After a struggle in the ambulance spills back out onto the street, Hanks's character says that he was right all along and one of the nosy neighbors notices that the trunk of the family's car is filled with human skulls. The family is arrested and Hanks walks off camera with his family saying that he needs a vacation (from the vacation he was on in the movie). The way I'd change this ending is that I'd keep the strange family innocent, which would've created a lot stronger message about getting into other people's business just because they don't fit the per-established mold.

The line is "No quarter shall be shown hither, fiend!"

Banned for improper use of capital letters.

Well you'll probably be pleased with what I have in mind for the Halloween episode then. I feel like the scene from my avatar, Bruce finally finishes replying to all the emails he gets, and then more emails come in magnitudes more. Ross Scott, why hast thou forsaken me?!

No! Another 15+ minute episode! My poor fingers!

"I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY GAVE ME KETCHUP WITH MY CHICKEN TENDERS INSTEAD OF BARBECUE SAUCE!"

"Maybe if I keep blubbing, they will keep thinking that my eyes are yolks and not oranges." (And that's probably the strangest sentence I've ever typed.)

Banned for being in denial.

Congrats on the win, dferch952!

If you watch the Last Starfighter backwards, it's the story of a human intergalactic gunner who allows a madman to rise to power so he returns to Earth and moves into a trailer park.

Since I do the subtitling, I have all the videos on my computer. I stepped through the scene in question and ramped up the gamma. The model of this thing is flat black, but I think I can make it out. It looks like (screenshot in the spoilers) As for what it's supposed to be and what those slug-creatures are, or the relevance of the stalker, I really have no clue. If a new Civil Protection episode is released, Ross may not mention the Tunnel again and we'll be left to think, "What the fuck?!" Maybe Dave will mention it in passing and Mike will remind Dave that they agreed to never mention it again.

If you watch "Megamind" backwards, it is about an arch-villain who is the hero of a city who is taken down by another villain who eventually becomes mortal, so a superhero comes out of hiding to protect the city from this lunacy. Eventually, the dueling supers fly into space and bring two planets into existence from rubble and join with their respective families on the planets.

Phew. That took longer than I hoped. No matter. Subtitles are up.

Well, this is something new. Ross isn't playing a character here. But that's okay, too! Sorry for the delay in releasing this; real world distractions (such as college) are intruding. Also, this was a lot longer than other videos. Anyway, enjoy! ross_s_game_dungeon_tyrian_en.srt

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It might be just me but I have fallen in love with the soundtrack for . Here is my favorite track (major spoiler alert): I wish the song was longer but it's probably the best thing I've heard in a video game soundtrack.

I played a mod of Wolfenstein 3D a long time ago called "Barneystein". All the Nazis were replaced by Beavis and Butthead and Hitler was replaced with Barney the Purple Dinosaur. It came with a text file with a horror story about Barney the Purple Dinosaur running a torture chamber in a castle. It was probably the oddest thing I've ever experienced.

You don't always get what you want