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Red Vs. Blue - A Halo Fan Flick
Universal Nerd writes "Red vs. Blue are the folks with a great sense of humor who gave us the Apple Switch spoof, Mac Gamer, a while ago. They're now releasing a new movie called The Blood Gulch Chronicles, a series of episodes created using in-game footage from Halo. Well worth a look and a laugh." The fifth and latest episode came out yesterday, and this is some of the best and funniest machinima I've seen in a long time. Update: 05/05 19:43 GMT by S : Here's a BitTorrent link, thanks to Gametab.
There goes there servers.
It was Fark one week that killed their bandwidth now it is Slashdot.
That, my friends, is the sound of a server being well and truly arse raped
Subscription's nice but it looks like the server's about to be brutally annihilated (I got the first three eps). I do NOT want to be on the recieving end of these guys' bandwidth bill...
This french site has the movies mirrored.
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http://www.halo-game.com/index.php?de=0&p=downl
Isn't that a gang related thing?
Like The Bloods against the Crips? They made a movie about that; Colors, I think it was....
Gimme back my rabbit, man! I want my rabbit!!!
How much do you have to dislike someone to put a 10 meg download link in the header of a /. article?
ad logicam Claiming a proposition is false because it was presented as the conclusion of a fallacious argument.
Actually, them heap smart. I finally got through and am tearing through a file at 88 KB/sec. Looks like they've got connection caps.
Some kindly folk at Fark have provided mirrors. Scroll down for links.
Saved by the Torrents.
*is a good little netizen and gets it off BitTorrent instead*
The only thing that takes time is apparently contacting the download server. I waited for about a full minute while it searched and searched and then the download popped up and maxed out my line...
/.'ed or not... the # of comments
be patient...
although, i'm sure it'll suck fat rock later when there are like 100 comments, that's how i judge if it was
This site is totally wanged. Anyone got a mirror? I'd love to watch these sometime, but it's always so overloaded...
-Max
Once I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken.
They could have uploaded it into Freenet and then posted a link to it there. You can link to all sorts of content that way - and the /. effect is reversed: The more hits it gets, the more available it becomes.
Soooo....
I just moved to an all Linux machine and have no Divx or Quicktime player... Any suggestions? I'd like to see these...
TANSTAAFL
Oops, I posted this before they put up the BitTorrent link...now I feel silly
Everything sucks except musicandstuff
I don't play games really. I own a console but it is a Sega Genesis. I haven't pulled it out from under the t.v. in a long time.
/. The humor makes it fun for anybody. No need to be in on HALO or any of that.
All that to say I have really been enjoying this series. Thank god I got episode 5 before this got posted on
This is even better than the Matrix (Halo Remix).
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It's hard to believe that's how Micronians are made. Why don't we see it right now by having you both kiss one another?
machinima good.. Microsoft bad.. slashdot links to machinima good.. slashdot say Microsoft bad.. machinima links for Halo movie good.. Halo made by bad Microsoft.. feeling war building up in head.. must.. find.. lithium..
Trolling is a art,
Can you download the free divx codec and ad-aware out the spyware? I'm not interested in the spyware associated with the free version, I just want the raw codec.
I heard there's a Quicktime version available. How can one get that? (exact URL please)
Well there goes any hopes of fast DLs on the future eps. Good thing I got Ep5 yesterday :P
"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson
Having a topic just for games is great, now even silly and cool stories manage to get posted, yeah! :)
Anyway, here's my mirror...
http://orthanc.univap.br/RedvsBlue - zip files of the AVIs - works just fine in Xine and Mplayer.
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I'm going blind! Is this some kind of trap? The purple is blinding!
don't worry. the bittorrent tracker is slashdotted as well
I kind of like it. It's something different. I might be the only one, but I can only take so much green, so it's nice to have something else to look at after a while.
Now I don't know if it's already an option or not, but how possible would it be for people to select their own color schemes? As in, log in and choose what color you want things and it will be like that for your account when you're logged in.
Damn you all to Hell Michigan!
slashdotted...
I remember anxiously waiting for the following week's series of panels on Detonate's Matrix bastardization... I absolutely roared with laughed on a few of them.
Witty witty witty.
here it is:
http://www.detonate.net/modules.php?name=Content
http://www.halo-game.com/index.php?de=0&p=download &filtre1=Video&filtre2=1
Purple vs. Grey - A SlashDot Nightmare!
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The question is, is it uglier than the OS X section color scheme?
We could make a poll out of it:
Ugliest Slashdot Color Scheme
1. Slashdot default.
2. Slashdot OS X section.
3. Slashdot games section.
4. I'm blind you insensitive clod!
5. I'm using lynx you insensitive clod!
6. CowboyNeal is colorful.
It's an interesting concept, and I'm sure some bright spark can actually make a basic TV series outta say, GTA 3 and The Hitman.
I've been following this since Episode 1, and it gets funnier with each iteration, as the series builds up - I only wish them epsiodes were longer.. :)
Fight Crime - Shoot Back!
I keep getting "bad data from tracker" unless I take privoxy out of the loop.
I suspect it is the "demoronizer" filter (which also causes problems with other random things).
Anyone?
Sure, it's a great idea, but it has a lot of implications. For example, commercial sites rely on their banner ads to generate revenue. If I cache one of their pages, this will mess with their statistics, and mess with their banner ads. In other words, this will piss them off.
Of course, most of the time, the commercial sites that actually have income from banner ads easily withstand the Slashdot Effect. So perhaps we could draw the line at sites that don't have ads. They are, after all, much more likely to buckle under the pressure of all those unexpected hits. But what happens if I cache the site, and they update themselves? Once again, I'm transmitting data that I shouldn't be, only this time my cache is out of date!
I could try asking permission, but do you want to wait 6 hours for a cool breaking story while we wait for permission to link someone?
So the quick answer is: "Sure, caching would be neat." It would make things a lot easier when servers go down, but it's a complicated issue that would need to be thought through in great detail before being implemented.
Better button up your asshole, 'cuz Slashdot is coming to town, and we don't need no steenkin' mirrors!
BOOM!
Short answer: "We're too dumb to figure out how to implement optional caching, and plus, we don't see why we should use our bandwith that we pay for when we can leech off the other guy's bandwith that they pay for. It's the OSS way!"
My files, as obtained via the bittorrent link all freeze about 5-10 seconds in. Anyone know if those files are corrupt, or some patch for Divx I need? Running W2k, and as far as I know Divx3.11 with 5.02 on top of that.
Green-voting, republican-registered, socialist-libertarian.
I discovered this yesterday, so I evaded the /. effect by a good 24 hours, and thus have all the episodes.
It's extremely witty stuff, basically, why are there people sitting in a gulch fighting each other? What if they were just grunts who didn't care about fighting the other team? What if they were simply involved in a long stalemate rather than a no-holds-barred war?
It really makes me think about those long hours I spent playing Halo multiplayer.
Sort of.
Yup...
This vids certainly are a reminder of the great job Bunjie did with the models and texturing etc...
A little off topic, but does anyone have a clue about Halo coming on PC? I'm not sure what to believe anymore.
Oh and I highly recommend people read the lil FAQ on the Red vs Blue site... tis funny.
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the typesetting in Halo sucked as well.
Halo is hugely popular even today, some big tournaments just took place, the AGP ( www.theagp.com ) and Halo50k ( www.halo50k.com ). Both were 4 man events (4v4), I attended and even though my team didn't win (9th place at AGP, 5th at 50k) it was a lot of fun. Another good video is Halo50k framework, you can find a mirror list here: http://halo.bungie.org/misc/frameworkmirrors.html. Another list of mirrors for the Red vs. Blue movies here: http://www.redvsblue.com/bloodgulch.shtml. A whole list of a bunch more movies here: http://halo.bungie.org/movies.html. And for those that play the game you can find gameplay tricks here: http://halo.bungie.org/tipsntricks/tricks.html
Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
I say "why didn't I take the blue pill?"
nice heinlein reference
The World's Worst Webcomic!
a battle of the Red states vs the Blue states.. oh well have to wait 2 more years
Why not make an SHA1 hash and stick that in the slashdot article? All you need is urn:sha1:HASH , and all us p2p-ers would be happy.
It would only take a few seconds to compute it, and you don't have to have a FILE, just a one-line string (possibly hidden in a link).
For anyone that has it downloaded, feel free to pass the hash...
Slashdot gets worse every day... Pipedot: News for nerds, without the corporate slant
*I agree*: maybe even a nicer set of widgets to choose from?!
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--would that be a big performance problem? (i know perl is slooooow)
--maybe a slashdot poll about it...(but I'm scared of a lot of "I use lynx to read
how can we get this done?
yours ever, fz.
I like the developer's section (nice blue), and the "legal stuff" --brownish autumn theme.
But yeh default is ugly...which makes one wonder: why make it ugly when you can make it beautiful?
Another thing to take into consideration: change, for a news site you see every day, would be refreshing (e.g. seasonal, or whatever.)
yours ever, fz.
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Did anyone notice the extension on that parody of the Apple Switch ads? I can't help but notice the irony.
Hands down, bar none, the funniest sh*t I've seen in a while.
This thing was ported to X-Box not the other way around. Remember?
I'm guessing that Bungie added some new visual effects between being bought by Microsoft and finishing the Xbox version, and the changes have to propagate throughout the OpenGL and DirectX branches of the graphics engine.
Will I retire or break 10K?
If its real-time its machinima. If its a prerendered, edited, spliced, etc. its not.
I routinely download excellent looking 43 minute episodes of Enterprise off of Kazaa that are only roughly 82 megs each in DivX format. That's less than 2 megs a minute, while these Red vs Blue files are 5 times larger at 10 megs/min. Also there's not that much movement going on, so that should even further the compression abilities.
What settings were for these DivX files?
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
The rule of thumb for using BitTorrent to server your files is that you only start seeing a benefit to using BitTorrent when the files are at least 50MB in size. The people putting out these files should have zipped all of the episodes into one large Torrent.
Actually Bungie has invited us to join them at their E3 fanfest this year and they have asked us to make a special episode just for the fanfest. You may say it's a shame for us to capitalize on Bungie's idea, but they love it and we are in regular contact with them.
For those of you visiting from Slashdot, here's a little info on how we handle big fat referrers. We do not just let every connection grab and suck as much bandwidth as it can. We limit the max number of FTP connection so that our bandwidth does not reduce to a trickle. So. It may take you a little while to establish a connection, but when you do, it should be nice and fast. Trust us. It's much better to do it this way. This all comes courtesy of the good folks over at o1 Communications.
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
title says it all
How about some English subtitles to go with those goodies, so much is getting lost if English isn't your native language and you don't recognize all the slang and the jokes in the audio.
So how about it? Anyone got some subtitles for these awesome eps?
A Battlefield 1942 group called Northern Brigade did a few cool in-game movies, you can d/l them at their homepage
Subject says it all
If you're on windows, you need divx 5.05. You gotta update. If you're on linux, you probably need a new mplayer or xine.
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