Red vs. Blue Season 3 Begins

Thanks to HavokDevNull for the news that Red vs. Blue Season 3 has begun! From the site: "Episode 39 'Best Laid Plans' weighs in at 8 minutes and 45 seconds and is available in Divx, Quicktime, and WMV. You can download it from our Video Page. Thanks for being so patient waiting around for it. "

Comments

Red vs. Blue is great

[Chris_Jefferson]

OK, I sound like a fanboy, but Red vs. Blue is actually quite good :)

I feel it's one of the best examples of "some people with some ideas, some time and an internet connection can make something funnier than 90% of the stuff on TV". If you haven't seen the first and second series, you really should.

This should

[Milo of Kroton]

This should how long last? Big video? Seed the torrent before site server death is someone!

Re:This should

[Signal_Noise]

Somebody set us up the Slashdot.

Re:This should

[mollymoo]

This should how long last? Big video? Seed the torrent before site server death is someone!

Yoda! You're back!

Ob. Slashdotting comment

[mollymoo]

Woo! Let's link to a 50MB video from the Slashdot homepage.

Would you all mind awfully not downloading it for the next 11 minutes till my download finishes?

Thanks

this sucks

[Anonymous Coward]

i've never watched this before, and now i'm realizing why. someone should have voiced over a hamster or a wombat or something, at least animals can move around more than video game characters who raise and lower their gun for minutes on end to simulate talking. ... maybe i'm just old fashioned.

Re:this sucks

[falzbro]

i've never watched this before, and now i'm realizing why. someone should have voiced over a hamster or a wombat or something, at least animals can move around more than video game characters who raise and lower their gun for minutes on end to simulate talking. ... maybe i'm just old fashioned.

Here you go.

Re:this sucks

[hai.uchida]

So a home-brewed "underground" cartoon isn't to your taste. So what? If you don't get the joke, move along.

Shark Tale is in theaters now... Of course the story is horrible and the jokes were flat and tired when I first read them in Cracked magazine twenty years ago-- but that doesn't matter, right? After all they put tons of work into the 3-D animation making those sea creatures move around and talk!

What Is It?

[booch]

Why the fsck doesn't anyone bother to tell people what things are? I have no clue what Blue and Red is from this post. Clicking on the link to RTFM, I'm still not told WTF it is. Clue to people writing articles -- you need to tell me why I should care. Assuming I already know everything about what you're talking about is stupid -- if I already knew everything, I wouldn't need to read what you wrote.

Re:What Is It?

[ravenspear]

I have no clue what Blue and Red is

That's because your UID is too low to understand it.

Re:What Is It?

[mollymoo]

Q: What the hell?
A: Yeah, we know.

Q: No seriously. What the hell?
A: Oh. We just write scripts and then use videogames to act them out. It's a new style of animation that some people call machinima. It allows to make weekly pieces of animation with a small group of people.

Q: That was a long response.
A: Yes it was.

From the RvB FAQ.

What's your favorite quote from the RVB series?

[HavokDevNull]

The classic and my favorite has got to be..

"You killed Church you team killing fucktard!"

or

"It's not pink, it's lightish red"

Re:What's your favorite quote from the RVB series?

[dupper]

"I'm a pacifist" - Medic
"You're a thing that babies suck on?" - Caboose
"No dude, that's a pedophile." - Tucker
"Tucker, I think he means a PACIFIER." - Church
"Oh yeah, right. Man, I was TOTALLY thinking of something else." - Tucker

Easily one of the hardest I've ever laughed to anything online.

Re:What's your favorite quote from the RVB series?

[scoser]

"Women are like Voltron, the more you hook up the better it gets."

Info

[Liotius]

Red vs. Blue is an online web show, using Halo characters. They use the Divx codec and they are are fairly large in they're amount of work completed as you can see it being they're third season. The ones I've been able to get a hold of revolve around the Master Chief who gives orders to fully vocalized named different colored Halo characters

Read the FAQ

[Fr05t]

http://www.redvsblue.com/faq/?id=3

From the FAQ:
"Q: What is Red vs Blue?
A: If you don't know, why are you here?"

Slashtorrent.

[merdaccia]

50MB downloads linked by /. ? No wonder they can't do the math.

Maybe /. should start running it's own BitTorrent tracker, and ask permission from the content owners to host it. When/if they say yes, the story can be updated with a link to the torrent, ending their misery and ours.

bad compression ratio

[Karma Sucks]

Why do the redvsblue videos have such a bad compression ratio for such bad quality video? I mean the file size is just comparatively huge. Not to mention that the movies are framed up and down by large black strips.

I've seen recompressed DivX videos of these same movies in much smaller size elsewhere on the net.

Something I've always wondered...

[EvilCabbage]

Who owns this stuff?

I mean, these lads create this animated piece by using somebody elses protected art / characters, which (to my understanding) means they cannot ever sell this stuff in order to make a living, anyone confirm?

Don't take this as me assuming these guys are trying to make a living off it, I'm just genuinely interested in who "owns" the end product.

Re:Something I've always wondered...

[CoffeeJedi]

they have Microsoft's and Bungie's total permission and endorsement. The Halo team loved RvB so much that they actually commissioned original cartoons to promote the game. Go to any store that sells XBoxen and watch the little promo video long enough, and the RvB gang will appear and start doing their schtick about why you need to buy an XBox.

Red vs Blue Upgrade!

[Mulletproof]

I hear RvB will be updating their animation software 11/09/2004. I've even hear they'll be adding new cast members, like Covenant actors with the upgrade. They've even got new vehical designs in the works, secret reliable sources tell me. Weapons too.