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Red vs Blue Meets The Sims
blackbearnh writes "The folks over at Rooster Teeth Productions, best known for their Red vs Blue comedy movies based on the Halo rendering engine, are branching out with a second series, with more of a sitcom flair, called The Strangerhood.
This time, they're using the Electronic Arts Sims 2 game as their rendering engine."
I find this interesting, but do they just take videos of the existing content where they simply do weird things, or do they add additional content to the games? I assume the latter due to the post saying "rendering engine".
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...40KB/s.. c'mon guys, I'm still getting data.... 33KB/s.. yeah, that's more like it, let's slashdot this sucker...29KB/s...
The intro was interesting, butI don't know that I'll subject myself to many (or any) future releases. Perhaps I just don't get enough of a kick out of things like this?
Oh dear god, this is going to be funny. Can't wait to see how they take this.
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When someone pointed out Red VS Blue to me, I rolled my eyes and thought yeah here we go some more people on the internet who think they are really funny and think everyone should know it. Red VS Blue turned out to be pretty damn funny actually I enjoyed it. I'd be willing to check something from them out.
And don't forget to by The Sims 2: TV Families, including the characters and apartment layouts from your favorite sitcoms such as: - The Simpsons - Family Guy - Frasier - That 70's show - Law and Order - Law and Order SVU and my favorite - Law and Order: Criminal Intent
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There it goes...
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Any one else not able to DL the intro? I'm a bir RvB fan... can't wait!
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In all the hilarity, a group of sponsors, decided to make a video explaining why people should sponsor red vs blue. And it is open to all sponsors of Red vs Blue.
anyway, they are now famous in the red vs blue forums, and burnie, the head guy of RvB, loves it.
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I think there's some kind of anti-slashdot mechanism at work on that page. I right clicked ->save as, and nothing happened. closed the page, and suddenly the dialog popped up in firefox, and now I'm saving at 60k/s.
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Yep - http://www.mskf.org/SH_Episode00.wmv.torrent
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If you look around, You can find Red VS Blue playing on a ton of shoutcast NSV streams. Its a shame bandwidth costs make streaming video so hard to do freely, as chances are you'll have to wait in line to join a stream, but they're worth it.
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1.5 KB/s...Damn! Oh wait, I'm on crappy dial-up :-( Nevermind.
Red vs Blue is made with Halo on the Xbox, not the PC. It also uses some relatively extensive post-production effects.
the intro music for this series is really cool. i hope they release a downloadable version soon.
the intro seemed cool but it seemed that there was maybe a bit too many characters in the house. or maybe some were neighbors. oh well, time will tell.
But whats the big fuss about this, the download is just an intro, with nothing worth the download... lets wait for episode 1..
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.torrent link for the .WMV file - I've got like 84 seeds as of 8:26PM CDT.
Here's a
http://www.mskf.org/SH_Episode00.wmv.torrent
Have fun...
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I can't wait for the episode where the Doom 3 Marine takes a rocket launcher (with unlimited ammo) and going postal in the Strangerhood.
Thanks for the torrent.
It's quite the invaluable tool for things like this! (too bad that maybe we can't get a torrent mirror system sort'a thing so that when someone links a bunch of videos (or pictures) from a website that it's automatically torrented by slashdot (or someone else))
A while ago, I was remarking how there was no software to easily build 3D "RvB"-style animations on personal computers, the way Apple's iMovie or GarageBand software lets you build your own movies and music. Then I saw the box for "The Sims 2" and noticed the bit where you could script your Sims and record their actions as a standalone movie.
I knew the moment I saw that, that it was only a matter of time before people started posting their own "Simcoms" online. It never occurred to me that the RvB folks would be the first ones out of the gate. Bravo, fellas.
All it would really take would be Maxis to team up with some experience machinima teams to guide them and they could create the ultimate home computer tv studio suite.
I realize there's a game coming out called Hollywood or something like that, but I have no idea how open ended it is. Maxis has built an EXTREMELY powerful tool with the Sims, and it really is a shame that they're still selling it as just a game. They could easily take parts of it, add some new things, and reposition it as an entirely new product, even a serious, nongame product.
Anybody know of any open source engines that are similar to the Sims?
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I'm surprised truck loads of lawers from the writers of Halo and Sims havn't already begun predatory action with (TM)(R) and god knows what other worthless intellectual property violations yet.
After all, isn't this the good ol US of A? (TM)(R)(Pat pend)(C)
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Whats wrong with xvid then? And, what fuckign audio codec ARE they using? My Media Player tries to find it, fails, and plays with no sound.
I think there's much more potential in a dark comedy based on HL2's development and publishing process. Or would that be a tragedy?
There is a painting you can buy in the Sims2 whose description is something along the lines of "shows the conflict of Red vs Blue".. Not a bad painting, but not as usefull as the pink flamingo's from the original.
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I actually prefer Red Green.
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Actually, they're using a codec that is only available on non-pirated versions of Windows. Oh dear...you mean, you don't have it? Uh oh...
It started with the Sims, I would spend hours watching them go through their lives.
The a friend would come over. I would now spend hours watching them watch their sims go through their lives.
Now I'm putting yet another layer of abstraction between myself and any semblence of a real social life. I watched the entry movie three times before I realized what I was doing.
I'm now doomed to eagerly wait to watch someone I don't even know playing the Sims.
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Ah screw it. strangerhood.com here I come.
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