Steve the Pocket

As long as this thread is here, something I wondered when I went back and rewatched the series: How did he get the scientist hiding from the turret in episode 8 to say "Shut up!" and "Eurrrghhh..." on cue?

I love that this is basically just that Doom comic book except funny on purpose. Oddly enough, this, and not Freeman's Mind, is what convinced me that there needs to be an FPS where the main character constantly monologues. Not just the occasional one-liner like Duke Nukem or having a chatterbox support character like Claptrap, the actual main character reacting to damn near everything and telling stories during lulls in the action. With so many shooters being both linear and almost entirely scripted-event-driven, it shouldn't be too hard to design. Just a ton of writing and voice acting involved.

If that article really is indicative of what Machinima is like, then he should definitely leave them. If not because his own future as a creator is at risk, then because they are evil and must be stopped. I don't know of anyone, even in the mainstream entertainment industry, that demands the rights to everything their partners create for the rest of their lives.

From the sound of it, there's no appreciable difference in features between MP4 and MKV unless you're planning to use special features like captions or alternate audio tracks, which I assume you aren't. It's mostly used by people who want to make rips of DVDs and Blu-Ray discs and keep all the features intact. Meanwhile, MP4 is supported by default on every player in existence nowadays, whereas MKV only works in VLC, Media Player Classic, and some other, even more obscure stuff that only works on computers and Android. I can't help but think the descriptions in the poll may have skewed the vote a bit, since there was no mention of MP4's much wider support and everyone on the Internet hates Apple. Plus, that bit about MKV being "open source" is a moot point since H.265 itself is neither open source nor patentless. If this were a debate between MPEG and, say, OGG or WebM, that would be another matter. Those who need MP4 are the ones least likely to have the slightest clue what "remuxing" even is, much less how to do it. The goal here is accessibility; that's why he's planning on discontinuing the WMV copies in the first place.