Blue_Dust

I've watched this while I was still in Middle School. Then it was over. Now this started while I'm in university. On April 1st. I don't know how to feel about this.

I recommend to you the Eufloria soundtrack. It's a really bizarre style of music but it's really relaxing. Here's a sample: Sorry for sending a youtube video. I didn't find a soundcloud of the Eufloria soundtrack. I do own it on steam because I got the game before the HD version though (as well as a free copy of the HD edition, really nice from the devs). But anyway, it's a really interesting soundtrack.

Ah, happy birthday Ross. Thanks for all the awesome videos you've done. Edit: Oops, I saw the music thread. Sorry about that.

Ah, sorry

Hey, I've sent an e-mail and all that. I use lbluedust as my current e-mail so sorry for the confusion.

Oh, I actually won. Yay for free stuff. I was dying of laughter when I took the Sven Co-op screenshot. It was an odd time where I was playing with a friend/person I'm dating/humanoid creature.

Oh, I'm like a screenshot maniac (1700+ screenshots on steam). This should be fun. Fun bugs ahoy from Morrowind Left 4 Dead 2 is always a fun game to banter about. Sven Coop is fun times.

I'm glad that Ross is getting this financial boost. Hopefully the new HD stuff is going to make everyone happy. I'll watch all the new FM episodes in HD to show my appreciation. And everyone that donated is a scholar and a gentleman.

It has to happen! Robot has to attack dog!! Oh and somehow finishing FM this year would be great too. I'm glad Ross decided to took the initiative. With the extra money from the donations Ross could also go with other hardware upgrades if needed and buy an entire bean factory (why bother buying the cans, produce the stuff yourself).

Well, after a minute or so of looking at the machinima website I've come to the conclusion that this is a catastrophic downfall to yet another media entertainment. Nowadays entertainment is blatantly focused towards very easy to make and immature content without much thought put into it. It's as easy as saying that it's "good" or "realistic" that people can end up sucking up like it's some crazy 99 percent discount of something and it's quite sad. And below are some pictures of what I saw in machinima's website after looking around for a minute. A lot of false advertising on it and typical corporate slang put into it. Also a lot of treating you as a child (also a theme in a lot of modern media nowadays, I suppose to appeal to the younger audience and such). (Spoiler is here because pictures are big and I don't want to upset anyone with that)

Well, it seems like Machinima's business practices are getting worse and worse each year. The fact that they "lost" your signed contract is enough to make anyone cough in suspicion. I hope that whatever the future of actual machinima is, it will be lead by the creators of the machinima itself and not a fussy company that claims rights over your own work.

Glad to see machinima being back up (not from mabadnima.com). Though not all LP's are bad. There are lots of LPers out there that put fort effort. From the SomethingAwful lets players to some rarer ones on youtube such as ManlyBadAssHero and Helloween4545. They put editing effort and also do practice the games first. And if it's a blind LP they try to edit it out (though Slowbeef does upload livestreams that are unedited, though I don't count those as LP's).

Nice episode as always. A quick question though. Ross, have you played the MOTHER games and if you had, what's your opinion about them?

Ross, in the future will you pick requests people give out to you (obviously old games, there's rarely anything that interesting from modern games, well, at least the majority of AAA games).

*NOTE FROM ROSS* Either the website or else I somehow accidentally deleted your post and it was replaced with a copy of the announcement. I don't know how this happened. Go ahead and edit this and change it back to whatever you wanted to say. Sorry blue_dust!

My picture is in there! Yeeeeah!

Well, here I go as well. This is something that happened in TF2.... I think... If that doesn't work, maybe Ross would like some ladies: Ah, forget it. I've got nothing.

The amount of work it takes to make a Freeman's mind video is up to 1-3 weeks. Now imagine the work when trying to do the voice acting with someone else as well as the scenes. Also note that if you're using a mod like Sven, you'll have to restart the map every time you do a mistake and that takes much more time than just purely loading a level. The possibilities of this working are scarce. Also note that FM is in Half-Life source, not Half-Life itself. Half-Life source uses a different engine and if switching to just regular Half-Life, a lot of the core visuals will be missing (despite not adding much it did improve texture quality and add more effects). All in all, this just seems like a bad idea and even if executed, it will take 3-4 times the amount of time to make. Oh and to finish this off, if the creator of Shepard's mind is sick and Ross isn't it would only slow down production time, the other way around as well. This might sound easy but it's actually really hard to do.

I might sound a bit mean here but I don't like the Black Mesa mod that much. I just like Half-Life better. The idea that Half-Life is based off of old sci-fi movies just makes it overall better. The level design is nonsensical but it makes sense if it's just based off of crazy sci-fi stories. To simply put it, Black Mesa tried to fix that and removed one of Half-Life's biggest charms. What makes Half-Life so great is the fact that it doesn't make sense. With Black Mesa into FM, wouldn't a lot of the jokes go away? What about the cardboard cat walks? What about the crazy box smashing room? It just makes more sense to have the crazy sci-fi Half-Life world that doesn't make sense.

I've had a strange addiction with that progress bar. Whenever something changed in it, I would start refreshing it like crazy until I see progress done. I need my addiction to be back!

Maybe he was talking about that one kid from Ed, Edd, n' Eddy? Well it does work either way, doesn't it? Rolling On the Floor Laughing OR Rolling On the Laughing Floor.... No it doesn't. But any who, instead of bothering with this lets just get back to the discussion. So most of the people seem to want dog pictures in the new FM videos.

I don't really mind a change if it's adjusted better. The problem here is that Ross has actually done this before and added new sounds in later episodes (I think it started from around episode 15-20 or so). With the proper adjustment it should sound nice and it's still half-life really. (Although when I say that, I still prefer it over the Black Mesa mod)

A thread like this shows just how silly the internet is sometimes. If something hasn't been released for a while it does not mean that it's gone forever, understand that. Ross has issues with machinima and is busy himself (as stated in his blog-like posts). The machinima is far from dead and you should be expecting more in the future. Now quit panicking.

He's good at self defense (about 100-500 counts of self defense).

Why would you even want more ram from such an old game? HL is a game from 1998, it runs fine on anything. Maybe HL:S but it has issues because it's on source. Maybe if you want the game to look pretty you could use half life redux (mod) to make the game look better but it's not necessary.