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Dang, did you call in from a submarine? I can barely follow any of it. It's really a shame, too, because the questions and answers sounded like they would be really interesting. I know it would take a while, but is there any hope of a transcript? Minus the garbles, of course.

If we can stop the spread of the infection, humanity will still be able to have pockets of resistance to hopefully continue surviving. See, it turns out that mlp is actually a method of alien mind control to subjugate the human race to make way for an easy takeover by an alien race of quadrupeds. Already the show's influence has struck deep into the military, entertainment industry, and government. The mlp movie is just the next step in mind control. Before long, mind controlling caps will be introduced to better control those who are taken in by the show, and also to overpower those resistant to the show's effect. Eventually humanity will spiral into a civil war as the aliens take over in their colossal quadruped mechanical walkers. Humanity's only hope are those that can escape and survive their influence, and hopefully take them down ones and for all. Thus the quarantine here.

I dunno, I don't think he'd be very lucid after waking up from suspension. He'd probably be more confused or terrified than anything.

You have too much willpower. Oh man, totally. I want to help out and all, but dear goodness those ads are just atrocious. It's physically painful. Even worse, they screw up the player and force me to have to leave fullscreen whenever the video switches. There is literally no redeeming quality to them in even the smallest way. I wish they would let us try to reject certain ads like Hulu does. The phone ads aren't nearly as bad.

Could be a glitch. I've been getting these terrible ads for "Real housewives of new jersey". Nice targeted marketing there, guys. I'm sure the people that watch this would LOVE that. At any rate, very excellent episode. Especially "Here's to you, Future Dude". Now to just try and wait patiently for the ultimate limbo challenge coming up.

So, I'm curious to ask, since view numbers are seemingly unavailable to random viewers on blip, has most of your audience still been around? And with that, is this new setup economically viable looking? I noticed the Youtube views are pretty low, relatively speaking (although they could be wrong), and I was wondering if most people just went to blip instead. Also, I know it's a bit early to ask, but I was just kinda curious, given the importance of economic sustainment and all.

So does Gordon no longer have the rocket launcher? I mean, it'd make sense if he weren't carrying it around, and just dropped it after using it, but it wasn't specified, and since he never used it in this video, I was curious.

"Bronyism" is the result of what I have come to find is an alien plot for world domination. Simply put, an advanced alien race is attempting to enslave humanity via mind control by way of a popular children's show. While the effects of the mind control aren't perfect, it has already affected key member's of the military, government, and entertainment industry. Before long the aliens will release mind control caps as part of a merchandising scheme so as to corral the people unaffected by the current broadcast mind control. Once that is done, they will send down their mighty quadrapods to subjugate us. So yeah, you've been warned. (And before anyone has me committed, I'm actually just referencing a book series which is basically the paragraph above, except without friggen ponies. It's mostly a joke about the obsession of some mlp fans of really odd demographics being almost similar to mind control. Also, kudos to anyone who got the reference.)

Argh. The new video is coming out RIGHT when my graduation ceremony starts! How will I survive the never ending 5 or so hours until I can watch it?! (Likely pretty easily, but it's still kinda a funny situation)

Are you shitting me/ They have Nostalgia critic on there, whose whole act seems to be screaming and yelling in such a high pitch that you permanently lose your ability to tell the difference between his audio and the sound of 5 liters of high speed blood screaming out your ears. Their gaming section is so pitiful that you would undoubtedly be their star player, and they have the nerve to turn you down, over an excuse that is so obviously bullshit? I hope they're prepared for my little pony army to start suicide bombing their webmaster's mailing address. Relax. It turned out that there was just a problem with the copy he submitted where there was no audio. It was an actually legitimate technical issue, nothing more.

Maybe the guy will defect and Ross could start his own Machinima company. With blackjack! And overused references! There is strength in numbers, after all.

Lolwut. That is just downright silly. So wait, does that mean someone watches every single video on the site before it can be put up? How is that even feasible?! Also, how the heck do I get that job?! On a side note, this is especially odd since some of the other FM videos are already on the site, so if the sound was fine for those, there's no reason to reject the video on that ground. The whole thing just seems weird.

This is probably a very good idea. When Ross gets set up with a new publisher, he would likely be well served in putting out a fairly steady output of videos, at least for a little while, to build up confidence in a new audience. It actually makes me wonder how a site like TGWTG or whoever will handle the new slew of videos, given there is already a library of 46 videos to be transferred. Will they just kinda dump them on the site unceremoniously, saying, whelp, there they are. Or will they do like a gradual re-release of a few episodes everyday until they've caught up? That would probably also help encourage viewership to a new audience... Also, it's probably obvious, but will the CP collection also make the move? I mean, it would seem odd for it not to, but I haven't heard anything about it yet...

I'm pretty sure like 90%+ of the viewership would just stop watching if that happened. In terms of lucrativity, it seems the best shot is advertising and merch. I have to wonder how the t-shirts are helping bring in cash or not.

I had a thought. I know for a fact that Zero Punctuation's Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw is a fan of FM, maybe he could help you get something with The Escapist? At the very least, as a celebrated internet comedian, he could probably help spread the word of your new arrangements. Plus, there's always Minecraft's Notch and friggen Macgyver, so they could help too. Although I would understand if you don't want to bug them about all of this.

In Xen: "Where the hell am I? HELL?! I feel like I'm trapped in a Yes album cover!" Also, as soon as he has to start jumping around: "Ha, white men in armored hazmat suits CAN jump!"

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I already did :/ Ah, well, then you pretty much know everything we know. It's a pretty awful situation all around, really, and there hasn't been much sign of a resolution any time soon. So, sadly, it looks like we will be waiting a while longer.

Yell at Machinima, not us. He's had episodes 45 and 46 done for months, but they are screwing Ross around with ridiculous contract chicanery, meaning he can't release anything. See the general news forum for more info.

Ooh, even better, Ross could do let's plays featuring Mike and Dave. It'd be nice to see them again, plus, I think they would work together well. It might be more annoying getting the other voice actor, though...

I would watch all these things. At the same time, if possible. And tnt90, do you mean it would basically be a let's play where Freeman is the person playing the game (which is to say, not actually living it, but just commenting on it as a game)? Because that would be pretty humorous, I think.

I think the best place for this to happen would be in the sewer section near the beginning of the game, where you see two CP officers through a grate above you who dump those explosive barrels into the sewer a moment later. It could set them up as having one of their trademark conversations, with Freeman looking up, trying to shoot one of them and missing, and then hearing them talk about throwing the barrels down (possibly with that being a total accident, given the accident prone nature of those two). This way, since you don't have to kill them to proceed, they wouldn't directly affect each other, making it a very reasonable cameo.

Oh, cool, so moving the series to a new site is still an option? If so, I think I would also recommend Blistered Thumbs, as they don't rely on YouTube either, but on another service called Blip TV which might be better, although I hear their ads are a bit more intrusive... And heck, you've got at least like half a million, I'm sure the word would spread pretty quickly by itself. If not, you could always resort to the age old tactic of putting pictures of attractive women in the thumbnails to bring in more views. Are there any other video publishers you've been looking at, and if so, how has that been going?

Maybe you could do a Booker's Mind for Bioshock then to raise some capital! It'd be easy, since the character already talks anyway, meaning you won't have to do any voice work! Either that, or you could just have Freeman shill more products. I mean, we already know the guy likes Doritos. Maybe some Taco Bell tie-ins as well? (But no seriously, this is all the dumbest thing I ever heard. What the heck, Youtube. You used to be cool.) At any rate, frig, good luck. Maybe it will help if you try to get us to spread the word about FM and CP? Also, if people use AdBlock, does that screw you out of money?

I think it'd be really funny if after realizing the vortigaunt is just standing there sweeping, we will go on to think that humanity actually did win the alien invasion, and enslaved the aliens. And of course he would take credit immediately. Also, it might be funny for him to take a while to realize the whole Combine situation, and just assume that everything is different just because its the future. (Also, Chrome seems to think vortigaunt should be spelled "unsporting". Uhhhhhh.......)