Jack Noir

I don't like this guy. He tries too hard to be funny and it's just really forced and annoying.

How about not wasting any time on an April fools joke, since there's no reason to do it other than the fact everyone does it? Which, by the way, isn't a reason. Spending that extra time on normal episodes is the better idea, since they are always funny anyway.

I would prefer to hear the pained screams of my mortally wounded enemies.

That's why those who believe in it are called "deranged". Actually, most of the people who "believe in science" are also part of a faith-based religion. The vast majority of people who believe supposedly proven scientific facts are simply taking someone else's word for it. Scientists themselves work with logic/reason, but followers of science deal only in faith, to exactly the same extent as the religious. Different shepherds, same old flock.

All meaning is entirely subjective so it's true that "life is what you make it". Also, the argument about free will is moot. Your desires and decisions are all pre-determined, yes, but they're still your own. Having the magical ability to intervene and alter your own will would completely strip it of any and all significance. "Can't get what you want? Just stop wanting it!" There'd be no point wanting anything, everyone would just stop expending the effort required to survive. Your will is not free but freedom was never what made your will important in the first place. You want what you want for a reason. Your will, the inbuilt organic programming inside you which governs how you behave toward the outside world, is a multi-billion year old inheritance, dating back to when the first creature ever managed to figure out what it needed to do to pull itself together from out of the ether. Your will, now, is the sum of the innumerable revisions made to that original creature's will as it has evolved over time, constantly reacting and adapting to the universe around it, building upward toward its timeless ultimate goal. The will is both the source and purpose of all life, the only reason any of you are even alive right now because you will it to be so. I would go on an even bigger rant about this, and even explain how this concrete pre-determined will was actually freely chosen in the first place, at the dawn of time or whatever, but it'd go way over the heads of most posters on this forum, with their ponies and shit, and I am so totally arrogant enough to let that stop me typing right now. There's also the typical problem of those who believe in the traditional concept free will, with their trademark irrationality and tendency to cling to beliefs out of self aggrandizement and fear, rather than as the result of any kind of logical reasoning, which destines the debate to be a lost cause from the off. I thought I just told you I wasn't typing any more. Why are you still reading this?

I don't think you can use that Tunnel example as a reliable guage. Obviously any updated version of any show, released after the original, is going to receive less views than the original did, because people have already seen the show and have little reason to even consider seeking out alternative versions to watch it again. The fact that your fixed version STILL received 42k views even in spite of this shows that you do have your own following separate from that which Machinima seemingly provides. If the first version which Machinima uploaded didn't exist, the other one's views would have undoubtedly been even higher. I also think it's quite likely that you are the sole reason that a lot of people subscribe to Machinima in the first place. If you weren't there, THEY are unlikely to receive as many views. I mean, let's be realistic, just about everything else they show is utter garbage. You probably have more insight than just that Tunnel example, and know other stuff that we don't, but yeah. I still think you give yourself too little credit. I didn't realise you had copyright trouble either, aside from audio related stuff, which I thought you had already sorted. At least I think that was you.

Being with them only delays his releases by a few days. The wait is irritating but doesn't make a whole lot of difference.

A bright light and the universe feels a little emptier. We shouldn't make those kind of buttons. I laughed pretty loudly at that. I like those jokes/anecdotes about the unethical and sometimes even trippy shit that goes on at Black Mesa. I also cracked up at the squid thing ehxaling. Edit: I just got the craziest deja vu, triggered while scrolling past that Freeman picture at the top of this page, down to my post, and then remembering the previous discussion about spoilers, and then remembering editing a post that I had already made in reply to a previous new episode thread, to say that the picture and spoiler discussion was giving me deja vu. I feel like I already edited this deja vu commentary into a post once before, in a previous thread. Man... Writing about having deja vu about having deja vu and writing about it. I don't even...

For some reason, I feel like I've heard some of the lines in this thread before.

Only if they kill a house full of people which turns out to have been the wrong house.

Yeah, quantum locking is apparently real.

Stalker 2 is still coming after all? That's pretty awesome, if true. The Stalker series is better than the HL series, as far as gameplay and replayability goes. SOC is probably my most played game, of all time. It's just a shame that GSC leaves so many damn bugs. Clear Sky gets bashed a lot for killing the atmosphere of the first game, and I kind of agree with that. It wasn't creepy or desolate at all. It did have some nice new features though. Artifact hunting was greatly improved, for one. I haven't got around to Call of Pripyat yet, my ancient computer would probably start shitting blood if I tried.

The idea of him sitting there in a pile of calculators with a math formula or two, trying to figure out the exact amount of green or red to put in each 1-pixel-wide bar to accurately represent which words have been recorded, and even to represent the number of times that he estimates he'll need to re-record them, blows my mind. I bet that most of the time between episodes is actually spent running the numbers for the progress bar, not creating the episode. With it being so labour-intensive and time-consuming, the progress bar calculations probably even include the progress that's been made on the completion of the progress bar calculations themselves.

I heard that having bubbles in your blood will kill you. And well, solid oxygen would be even colder than the liquid.

Wouldn't liquid oxygen freeze his veins?

Unless constants c and G are different in Xen (and at least c isn't, or else there's a high chance either Gordon or his crowbar would desintegrate (in the literal meaning, not volatilize)), I can estimate that an universe of that kind would collapse into itselfe were its radius bigger than 11,7811 Terameters (using air density in SC). And there you go, trying to judge a completely alien dimension using only theoretical knowledge about our own dimension.

When we're talking about a completely alien dimension, there's no reason to think that any of the rules of our dimension need to apply. There's no reason why there wouldn't be weird floating islands scattered around in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by breathable air. Maybe our dimension is the only one which actually has anything resembling "space", this strange emptyness that envelopes everything, with no breathable atmosphere. Maybe other dimensions are completely full of gases, and we're the exception to the rule. Maybe gravity works in different ways too, and prevents the formation of planets and stuff, with their floating islands being formed by some completely different process. Logic native to this world says no, but that's the point, it's not part of this world, and is obviously governed by rules that we know nothing about yet.

The snowman scene was hilarious, perfectly executed, with expert timing. The haters are merely goofballs.

There's a giant mutant version of one of those in a recent Bill Murray movie. I can't remember the name. He plays the mayor of an underground city.

I would really hate this and I hope that it never comes to pass. Worst meme ever.

That's no reason to prevent anyone from making on-topic posts in the future.

viewtopic.php?f=18&t=2365 "Thread locked due to lack of interest." What kind of reason is that to lock this person's thread? It's gathered more interest than many of the other threads in that section. Someone's on a romantic little power trip with this kind of whimsical and pointless arbitrary mod action. I'm not necessarily complaining, it just struck me unexpectedly when I reached the bottom of the page. Partly a needless inconvenience, but also partly an interesting example of human behaviour, which made me ponder, and put a little amused smile on my mind's face.

I was unaware that watching it on a small screen was the norm.

You guys are missing the point. The debate is irrelevant. He is still going to kill you.

So pointless. You should have been playing as the other guy.