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Red Vs. Blue - A Halo Fan Flick 109

Posted by simoniker from the gnop-evolved dept.
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.
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  • There goes there servers.

    It was Fark one week that killed their bandwidth now it is Slashdot.

  • Mirror (Score:5, Informative)

    by jaywhy ( 567133 ) on Monday May 05, 2003 @02:41PM (#5884659)
    This french site has the movies mirrored.

    http://www.halo-game.com/index.php?de=0&p=downlo ad &filtre1=Video&filtre2=1

  • Red vs. Blue? (Score:1, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward
    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!!!

  • Ouch. (Score:5, Funny)

    by SatanicPuppy ( 611928 ) <Satanicpuppy@gmai[ ]om ['l.c' in gap]> on Monday May 05, 2003 @02:43PM (#5884681) Journal
    How much do you have to dislike someone to put a 10 meg download link in the header of a /. article?
    • enough to want to kill (user_base_size*file_size*avg_times_download_per_u ser) bytes of their bandwidth :-)

    • Re:Ouch. (Score:5, Informative)

      by simoniker ( 40 ) * <simoniker&slashdot,org> on Monday May 05, 2003 @03:07PM (#5884908) Homepage Journal
      We @ Slashdot Games are now trying to make sure there's a BitTorrent link available alongside any posts that will generate server-slaying bandwidth, with the help of nice people who mailed us and offered to help out. In this case, we actually mailed the guys at Gametab before the post went live to alert them ask them about putting a BitTorrent link [gametab.com] on their site - thanks again to them. Looks like it helped a bit, at least.

      • The folks at RvB are smart... they limit the number of connections. It may take a while to get a connection, but when you get one, your d/l speed is good.

  • Some working mirrors (Score:5, Informative)

    by br0ck ( 237309 ) on Monday May 05, 2003 @02:44PM (#5884686)
    Some kindly folk at Fark [fark.com] have provided mirrors. Scroll down for links.

  • patience (Score:3, Informative)

    by ack154 ( 591432 ) on Monday May 05, 2003 @02:45PM (#5884697)
    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...

    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 /.'ed or not... the # of comments
  • 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.
    • Bit Torrent is also similar to the reverse to the slashdot effect...assuming that people keep their dl windows open for a while. As more and more people download it, more and more possible hosts become available to help serve up those files.
      • But when happens when the site that is serving the .torrent files gets Slashdotted?

        I propose creating a new system called "Torrent^2" that distribute the load of transferring .torrent files.

        But what about the load of transferring .torrent2 files you ask? Well, "Torrent^3" is in the works.

  • Funny Stuff (Score:4, Informative)

    by stoolpigeon ( 454276 ) <bittercode@gmail> on Monday May 05, 2003 @03:01PM (#5884853) Homepage Journal
    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.

    All that to say I have really been enjoying this series. Thank god I got episode 5 before this got posted on /. The humor makes it fun for anybody. No need to be in on HALO or any of that.

    This is even better than the Matrix (Halo Remix).

    .

  • My head is going go explode! (Score:5, Funny)

    by grub ( 11606 ) <slashdot@grub.net> on Monday May 05, 2003 @03:02PM (#5884870) Homepage Journal

    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..
  • 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)

  • Dammit (Score:2, Redundant)

    by Flamesplash ( 469287 )
    Well there goes any hopes of fast DLs on the future eps. Good thing I got Ep5 yesterday :P

  • Another Mirror (Score:4, Informative)

    by Universal Nerd ( 579391 ) on Monday May 05, 2003 @03:04PM (#5884887)
    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 [univap.br] - zip files of the AVIs - works just fine in Xine and Mplayer.
    • I've always wanted to know what it felt like to be slashdotted - getting farked is cool and all but whacked by the slashdot crowd brings a tear to my eye.

      I'm behind, a theoretical 4Mbps line to american universities so downloads from my server shouldn't suck that much.
  • 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 [detonate.net]

  • Blue vs. Grey (Score:5, Funny)

    by travdaddy ( 527149 ) <<gro.liamxunil> <ta> <ovart>> on Monday May 05, 2003 @03:29PM (#5885086)
    Purple vs. Grey - A SlashDot Nightmare!

  • How did they do it? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by hexdcml ( 553714 ) <[moc.liamtoh] [ta] [lmcdxeh]> on Monday May 05, 2003 @03:33PM (#5885114)
    Aside from all the comments regarding /. effect and bandwidth, does any one know how they managed to do this? Did the guys just capture it off their TV and then added voice overs?

    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.. :)

    • Re:How did they do it? (Score:4, Informative)

      by Bullseye_blam ( 589856 ) <bullseye_1.yahoo@com> on Monday May 05, 2003 @04:03PM (#5885388) Journal
      does any one know how they managed to do this? Did the guys just capture it off their TV and then added voice overs?

      sort of, yeah. I know there are a few effects they added by using a video-editing program, which adds a nice touch. This really isn't an uncommon thing... there are certain people on the web who have a FETISH with making Halo videos (heh). These are very high quality and very entertaining, though. ;)

      Go halo.bungie.org [bungie.org] (a Bungie fan-site) and click on the movies section to check out some of the others.
    • G4TV, the video game channel (on cable/satelite) actually does run a weekly series made almost entirely in games. It's called Portal, and is 'filmed' in a number of the MMORPG's out there like Everquest and Dark Age of Camelot. Pretty funny stuff, but some MMORPG experience may be needed to appreciate.
    • Video capture card, Adobe Premiere, and a lot of patience.
  • Anyone have a fix for user.action that will prevent privoxy from mangling the info from the tracker?

    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?

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

    --
    • I have personally talked to a devloper, Roger Wolfson, for Microsoft that is working on the port of Halo to the PC. He said that even though the XBox and PC are very similar, it is still a big pain, since they have convert some ASSEMBLY for the VIDEO CARD into directx stuff, and make it more generic. There is also the problem that some of the stuff the XBox does in the video card is impossible/proprietary in the current video cards for the PC.

      So, yes halo is definilty coming to PC, but it will probably ta
      • He expected you to believe that they just lost the graphics and physics engines for MAC and PC when they bought bungie or what?

        This thing was ported to X-Box not the other way around. Remember?

        • 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.

          • Given what the parent said, it appears most of their time will be spent removing OpenGL functionality and patching any missing parts with DirectX.
      • This seems like a stalling tactic so that Halo 2 has a chance of being released on Xbox BEFORE Halo 1 is released on PC.

        If they were planning to port to PC all along (which they said they were)... then only a mental midget would have not bothered to use DirectX etc... Especially since the Xbox uses directx anyways.
  • 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 b
  • I say "why didn't I take the blue pill?"

  • And I thought this was (Score:5, Funny)

    by Lawrence_Bird ( 67278 ) on Monday May 05, 2003 @04:44PM (#5885672) Homepage
    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...

  • FUNNY (Score:2, Informative)

    by oaf357 ( 661305 )
    Hands down, bar none, the funniest sh*t I've seen in a while.
  • Is it just me or do these files seem unnecessarily large?

    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?

  • 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.
  • as it says on the front page
    • gfunk and guS are running around the office gleefully wetting their very nerdy highwater pants because we were slashdotted. For those of you who don't know, slashdot is like fark for smart people with big brains. It's been around forever and is the original Angry Demigod of Destroyed Servers. Personally, it confuses me so I stay the hell away.

      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 g

  • 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?

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