EightInchNails

Huh. I kind of expected a bigger turn-out to this.

Yup. It's cr*p on a cocktail stick. Happy festive season btw

She did her own series in BMS called "Magda Conquers Black Mesa", if that's what you're thinking of. Ah yeah same! That'd be the best thing ever!

I've looked back at some supplementary material I think I was supposed to do it on OS types rather than brands. I also think I've lost access to the supplementary material due to telling my course tutor I'm not planning to come back for next term and thus only have access to material relating to this term.

I appreciate the gesture. I'm just going through the list of things for each OS for now. I'm sure the evaluation part will come easier once that's out of the way. Hopefully.

...and I'm working on two instruction manuals: a technical and a non-technical. Both must use the Harvard Referencing system. I am required to "evaluate the structure and functions of an operating system, with regards to functionality, operation and dependency", and analyze the following in the three chosen operating system examples - Windows, Mac and Linux: Memory Processor Devices File Security Performance Error Management (Yes I am aware Linux is the kernel not the OS, I didn't write the damn brief) I'll be honest, I am really struggling with this. Please send help.

I'm sure I remember hearing that she was thinking of doing her own version of Chell's Mind. Aw man you know what would've been so awesome? If Magda and Cyh had done Half-Life Decay together. That'd just be the best thing ever.

Mirror Matter and Anti-Mirror Matter too?

So I was reading through Hawking's A Brief History of Time (it's a surprisingly engrossing read; I'd definitely recommend it) and in the early sections it deals with the fundamentals of space, time, matter, and the basics of the laws of physics. Whilst reading the section on antimatter and how the universe appeared to have more matter in it than antimatter, it occurred to me that antimatter by definition shouldn't be able to be detected by conventional means. How do we detect ordinary matter? By projecting particles towards them. This approach by definition shouldn't work with antimatter; as is well-established, matter and antimatter annihilate each other on contact. So how do you detect them instead? By their gravitational pull. Gravity is a universal law that applies to all matter - or antimatter - and so therefore any significantly large bodies of antimatter, such as anti-meteors, anti-planets or even anti-suns and anti-nebulae, should in theory be detectable by their gravitational pull but not directly observable. So then I wondered, if they're out there, why haven't they been detected yet? Surely a non-detectable source of gravitational disturbance more or less equal to the current distribution of matter should be pretty noticeable? Fortunately Hawking provided the answer shortly after - we already have detected gravitational anomalies matching the description of the ones that I have described, and they have been attributed to a hypothetical exotic matter called dark matter. Anyway, that's my speculation on the subject. I'm certainly no expert so feel free to iron out any scientific inaccuracies or inconsistencies that I may have overlooked.

Kind of a difficult thing to miss. How'd Macca manage it?

April next year is the 10th anniversary of the first episode of Barney's Mind. As I said to Cyh, I thought a good way to celebrate the event would be to produce and release a documentary about the Master Minds and what they've been up to since. Cyh thought this was a good idea and gave me a few pointers to work with, and from there I've got a working plan of how I'm going to structure it. I had already performed some preliminary research for such a project, and quite fortuitously besides trawling through a trove of Mind Series videos, podcasts and spinoffs, I discovered a number of interviews with the Minds by a YouTuber called Caboos15 that give some really interesting insight into the making of their series. I'm also planning to conduct some interviews of my own with some of the Minds (so far Corky64 is the only one I haven't been able to reach though I hear he's trying to get a job so it's probably best to let him be for now) and assuming there's no unforeseen delays it should be ready for release in time for the anniversary. That said, I think it would be unwise not to try and have some kind of contingency in case of any of the aforementioned potential unforeseen delays interfering with my ability to complete the project. I think the best course of action with that in mind would be to turn it into a community project but I don't know if the community has the time or the interest in getting involved in this. So I thought I'd put the word out, see who gets back to me.

Thanks blue15bomber! I may have something for you to do if you're interested, I'll tell you about it in DM. I have got a bit of an update - I've brought on a co-writer who's interested in voice-acting for Chell but she doesn't have a HQ mic. Despite that stumbling block we've got a lot of preliminaries out of the way and so far I think things are going good.

Painstakingly ripping the audio 70 times? In all seriousness though, there must be some way of getting a clean version of the voice lines because they're used in a BMS version of FM.

What do you think is going to happen first - the natural fuel reserves will be depleted, or the world will die in a mass extinction event caused by the exponential rise in the Earth's temperature caused by the greenhouse gas effect?

Okay, let's do some simple maths here. The Earth's oil supplies were formed by natural geological processes which occurred over millions of years. Oil consumption presently exceeds 25 billion barrels a year - and it's still rising. Law of diminishing returns, people. Power demand is already exceeding actual supplies. We've known this for a long time. That's why we've been spending the last 60 years trying to find alternate power sources. To say that there isn't an oil crisis is like saying that the world is not heating up, or that poverty and discrimination aren't still problems that we have to face.

As I stated in my previous thread (you should totally check it out, it's got some really exciting news about Chell's Mind creator CyhAnide, who incidentally is also the subject of the following post). So, I was already had a planned Chell's Mind reboot planned when CyhAnide contacted me, she saw something I posted about it and got in touch which I really appreciated. There's a little backstory to this actually, because I'd planned it with my ex as doing two concurrent series. It was based around a mention in Felix's Mind that Felix Freeman had gone out with Chell (and I think in the last episode he hallucinates seeing her as he's dying - kinda wish I could still re-watch the episodes to fact-check that) and we were both into Portal so I'd had this idea to expand on both their stories by showing each of their stories concurrently, so it'd start off with a one-off episode where they're talking over the phone, and then from there it'd split off so on one hand you'd have Chell in the test chamber, and then on the other hand you'd also have Felix in BMS (not actual BMS - a bunch of BMS maps and mods), and sort of in the middle of both these stories you had the story of the girl in the picture in Gordon's locker and that was where it got really quite emotionally charged and kinda tragic at points. We'd also planned, should we get round to Portal 2, that we redo some of the dialogue (I can do a pretty good Wheatley and her GLaDOS is scary close) to make it closer to one of the original ideas for the game, which was give Chell and GLaDOS a sort of grudging buddy cop dynamic (which was also partly inspired by Cyh's pitch for a Decay mind series, which incidentally I had also worked with Rassmoosen on as part of plans for one of the many unfinished Source remakes of Half-Life: Decay, and I believe the only one to briefly have original voice actors Kathy Levin and Lani Minella involved), which we both agreed would be fun to try as Morgan (my ex) does a lot of voice acting and this would have been her first dual role. A lot of things we'd been planning hadn't really been done in a Mind series before (except the dubbing thing, which Ian did for Barney in Felix's Mind) so there was a lot of experimentation going on to see what we could and couldn't do both in terms of storyline and within the games. I'd had quite a comprehensive treatise written on both, though I'd hoped that she was planning to help me expand further on them and we'd get our ideas bouncing. Unfortunately this was around the time when her depression started to get worse and I was struggling to cope with it. I think the person she's with now is someone she's more relaxed with and better understands her but she's made it very clear that she's not getting involved. So it looks like I'm on the hunt for a new Chell.

Hey, bit of an update on the Chell's Mind front - I've been talking to her about a remount I've had in the pipeline for a few months (originally I was working on it with my ex but that's not happening anymore for obvious reasons so now I'm looking for a new Chell) and after a bit of discussion she's agreed to come on board as an associate producer and offer her thoughts and council. Might add this into a separate thread.

She says she's still drawing, she dropped a line to a couple of people to see who's still in touch (she replied to a question I posted several months ago saying that she was unlikely to ever finish Chell's Mind herself but would be supportive of anyone else who intended to), and some very exciting personal news - You can view the post yourself here - https://www.deviantart.com/cyh-anide/journal/o-I-m-not-dead-yet-759743253

What about Boreal Alyph, another Epistle 3-based mod, in Source, that sticks more closely to how the game might've been done back in 2007?

"Backrubs!" "WHAT!?" - Shephard and Gordon, Episode 61

...Okay then.

Maybe just an abridged version, cut down into an hour or two hours. I think it could be possible to streamline it a lot without disrupting the flow of the narrative. It would make for quite an interesting editing challenge. Actually... Maybe someone could make use of different bits of the original audio and animate it in SFM or something and turn it into a full-length animated movie! Even better, they might be able to add in Ian Riley's Barney and Krimsin's Shephard! (And maybe whoever might eventually do Gina and Colette in Half-Life: Decay, if a Mind Series of that ever gets made...)

Maybe I'm a bit too much of a purist but I don't like the idea of a Half-Life continuation in a game engine that's not derived from Source, and even less so when it's UE4 because I have beef with Epic over a number of things. But even so I can't deny that what I've seen of the progress so far looks pretty damn epic. Ross said he'd consider playing though a fan-made continuation if it was "Black Mesa quality"; I think that this is, or rather will be, it. Thoughts?

Whatever happened to this mind series? It seemed to be going pretty well and then just stopped dead in its tracks.

Why not "WolfenMind"? XD