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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."
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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?
I go with some friends tonight to see the new movie Sky Captain in our local cinemaplex. Halfway
through the movie I'm about to cork off and decide to liven things up a little in the theater.
Unknown to my friends, I had eaten several bowls of cereal and milk earlier and I'm basically lactose intolerant.
What this boils down to is that the cereal and milk ferment
in my gut and give me really raunchy gas about 2 hours
after I down them.
Well, the gas attack happens on schedule and I proceed to
start stinking up the theater with SBDs! Beside me is an
oriental couple and their little girl is sitting in the
seat right next to me. She was getting the brunt of the
noxious fumes, and after 30 minutes of getting gassed she
was in tears and sobbing out loud to her mother that "I
WANNA GO HOOOOOME MOMMY".
It was all I could do to keep from busting out laughing.
Of course, you could hear other people sitting in front of
and behind me complain about the stench too. Isn't life
grand?
Oh dear god, this is going to be funny. Can't wait to see how they take this.
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"...best known for their Red vs Blue comedy movies based on the Halo rendering engine"
What's next? A sitcom based off of HL2's physics engine?
Sheesh.
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.
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I just got 1200Kb/s gonna have to try a bit harder to /. this page.
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There it goes...
Does anyone have a mirror?
A blog like any other.
Anyone got a torrent of it? /. killed the server :(
Any one else not able to DL the intro? I'm a bir RvB fan... can't wait!
~ Mooga
props, m8
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.
Sponsors vs Freeloaders: Sponsor or Die
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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.
I got 220K/sec.
Enjoy
That's brilliant... Thumbs-up guys...
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1.5 KB/s...Damn! Oh wait, I'm on crappy dial-up :-( Nevermind.
Way to /. the site.... I'm having a bitch of a time trying to download the intro movie!
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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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I keep forgetting to reply to the story instead of the ACs, so my links usually get buried at the bottom of the page.
.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.
But I'm very grateful, because I have learned a lot thanks to your post. You see, I don't really have a lot of free time, but at least I try to use it constructively. Today, I'm learning about HTML formatting of Slashdot posts, following yours as an example.
In particular, today I:
- Learned how to write text in italics with bullets.
- I already knew how to do similar things, but this gives a much cleaner output.
But that's not all! And a final lesson: This lines are all indented. I'm using DD instead of BLOCKQUOTE (that's what I normally use, and that's what's used in the monospaced lines). Apparently DD doesn't automatically insert the vertically space that I hated in BLOCKQUOTE.Now, laugh all you want at my ignorance of HTML, but we all have to learn each thing some day. Kudos to you if you mastered it years ago.
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.
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.
Keep your stick on the ice.
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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.
Must... Interact... With... Real... People...
Ah screw it. strangerhood.com here I come.
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