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All of that should be fixed now, thanks for letting me know.

It seems like there's enough material for a follow-up episode already (the next episode is also a follow-up, pretty good coincidence there).

Good episode, glad to see some more game archaeology!

One coming out soon:

That's odd. I tried reporting a post as spam on my test account and it worked fine with no problems. Can you provide some more info?

There's https://www.accursedfarms.com/donations/ on this very website.

@polymerize-finale & @William: yeah, those questions are supposed to go in the Reddit thread, sorry for the confusion. Should the comment sections for future videochat question posts be locked?

Extended version: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vaNfqOv3rStBQ4_lR-dwGb8DGPhCJpRDF-q7gqtdhGA/edit Ross should probably add it to the video description.

https://invidio.us/watch?v=tUAX0gnZ3Nw Watching it through this client fixed it for me.

Even if he wasn't in the European Union, the videos would definitely be affected, unless Youtube were to block access to/segregate its videos for people in the EU.

https://deadline.com/2019/02/machinima-closing-layoffs-warnermedia-otter-media-1202547949/

AFAIK, Ross does not currently use Half-Life 2: Update (although he might switch to it later), he just uses the stock Orange Box Half-Life 2 with some modifications (e.g. the old vortigaunts). The mod does look spectacular, the gun animations especially, but it would be a little jarring to switch to it outright.

This is a quality comment regarding The Movie and UE4, posting it here before it's lost to the depths of Youtube:

Regarding what I asked in the videochat: Opus is an audio codec mostly meant for telephony and streaming, but it is also great at storing music (it supersedes Vorbis in that regard). From my A/B testing, it's indistinguishable at 128k bitrate. It unfortunately isn't used much (Youtube and some VOIP clients use it) because MP3 and Vorbis are "good enough" for most people. Dragon's Egg is a hard science fiction book about a neutron star that is inhabited by cheela, sapient creatures the size of a sesame seed. They operate on a time scale one million times that of humans, and the novel is about their evolution and communications with humans.

There is a company, KeyMouse, that's currently working on a similar design to The Claw, also with different sizes and grips. Here is their most recent progress update:

Small change in the forum index: the links for recent posts have been changed, such that the thread title link will now just link to the thread, not the unread posts, and the link showing the date will now link to the first unread post instead. @RaTcHeT302: I certainly agree with a reputation system not being good for discussion. I think I'll leave the reactions neutral (not affecting reputation), although I would want something other than just a heart there.

It doesn't. It's tied to the reaction system, which currently works only for administrators' posts. I've been too busy to implement anything yet, but I would actually like to hear other people's feedback on how it (and the reactions) should work.

That was very fast of you, thanks so much for your efforts.

Great episode, the modding in this episode was spectacular. I think that all the bug hunting was well worth it, so was the choice of making this episode longer. Here's to another year of Freeman's Mind! That compression should be fixed by the VP9 encoding, I don't recall it being worse than what was on the previous episode.

The first two games are probably just asset flips, that explains them being almost identical. That third "Sint Nicolaas" game isn't really Christmas-related. It's related to St. Nicholas Day instead, but I guess it was worth it for the tangent about cookies. Also, I am amazed at Neo-Satan being the actual name for the antagonist in Apocalyptica. I would have liked to hear more about the game's music (after all, the "Let's talk about the music!" segment is a long-standing tradition that should be preserved). Having the music be in the background would've helped with the episode's atmosphere, since it felt a little like a Let's Play at parts.

I wouldn't mind having such an option, but there does not seem to be any way of adding that, sorry.

Another thing: the PC game index site will most likely be on this very website, so you should let us know about the search functionality here.

(I've also quickly added a preview option to the editor, along with the table format. I don't think it works that well, but I'm not seeing an alternative for CKEditor 4.)

Actually, Ross does have plans for a PC game index site. He is still looking for volunteers regarding that, IIRC (contact him at [email protected]).

“This place is dead...” (I haven't seen any activity on the forums for a while, I almost thought that members couldn't post anything at all.)