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Premiere of The Strangerhood 97

Posted by CmdrTaco from the little-rooster-teeth-in-the-morning dept.
ack154 writes "As previously mentioned here, the guys and girls over at Rooster Teeth Productions (the creators of Red vs Blue) have started a new series based on the Sims 2. As of last night, Episode 1 has officially hit the download servers. Currently available in DivX, WMP, and QuickTime formats, the first episode weighs in at just over 5 minutes. " As a big RvB fan, I'm looking forward to seeing where this one goes.
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Premiere of The Strangerhood

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  • boo! dupe! (Score:2, Insightful)

    by ack154 ( 591432 ) *
    Awww... come on... why does mine have to be the dupe [slashdot.org]?

    Bad editors! Bad!

    /me puts away the rolled up newspaper
  • The story is just a few items down, too. Is there something about THIS announcement of episode one?

    Check the first story for a good mirror link.

  • Bit Torrent?? (Score:5, Insightful)

    by (54)T-Dub ( 642521 ) * <[tpaine] [at] [gmail.com]> on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @12:49PM (#10566632) Journal
    What ever happened to them using Bit Torrent? They get burned by the release of their hi-res vids or something? As a slashdot subscriber I couldn't even download the video's during the "Mysterious Future" period.
  • They are going to get slashdotted to hell and back..

  • Hopefully.. (Score:3, Funny)

    by lukewarmfusion ( 726141 ) on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @12:50PM (#10566657) Homepage Journal
    ...not downhill. Season 1 of RvB was great. I bought the DVD. After that, a lot of the jokes, themes, and storylines got tired and strained. Sometimes I wouldn't even crack a smile, let alone laugh out loud as before. I'll say one thing for Red vs Blue - it sure makes me want to play Halo almost every time I see it.

    (rough, from memory):
    "I'm a pacifist."
    "Isn't that what babies suck on?"
    "No, that's a pedophile."
    "No, that;s a pacifier."
    "Whoa. I was thinking of something totally different."

  • Mirror (Score:5, Informative)

    by mskfisher ( 22425 ) * on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @12:50PM (#10566659) Homepage Journal
    Here's a mirror [thebrokenconsole.com] of the .MOV file, from the previously posted article [slashdot.org].
    • I might sound discouraging, but posting a link to a 33mb file on slashdot is kinda suicidal :-)

      Why not seed the file on bittorrent instead?
      • If I were at home, I would - but I can't seed from work.
        Anyway, it's not my server - it's from the earlier dupe.
        Besides, it was feeding me at 140+kB/sec over a T1, so I figured it should be fine for a little while. At least better than the original mirrors.

  • Taco has Lucasitis (Score:5, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @12:53PM (#10566697)
    He reedits stories posted on slashdot and reposts them with a few changes in the blurb.

    Because...

    Because he can. This is HIS editorial vision, and he didn't have the technology back then to do what he wanted to do.

  • Coralized link (Score:3, Informative)

    by VAXGeek ( 3443 ) on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @01:02PM (#10566803) Homepage
    Link to DivX: Coralized DivX [nyud.net]
  • I've seen dupes before, but the previous story for this one is still on the front page!
    http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/10/19/ 1325241&tid=97&tid=10 [slashdot.org]

  • Nothing Stranger (Score:3, Funny)

    by Prince Vegeta SSJ4 ( 718736 ) on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @01:11PM (#10566897)
    than THIS [pbskids.org] Hood

  • please bittorrent (Score:5, Informative)

    by dalutong ( 260603 ) <djtansey@@@gmail...com> on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @01:31PM (#10567093)
    here is a mirror of the divx file.

    please -- someone get a bit torrent seed up!

    http://www.otakuinaroom.com/videoclips/SH_Ep01_L oR es.avi

  • MirrorDot's copy (Score:5, Informative)

    by antdude ( 79039 ) on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @01:32PM (#10567105) Homepage Journal
    A zip file [mirrordot.org] of the first episode in DivX [divx.com]! Thanks MirrorDot [slashdot.org].
    • This is slightly off topic, but this is the first time I've heard of MirrorDot. There are a lot of places that "try" to do caching, but MirrorDot seemed to actually work. Hell, I just downloaded this movie from there, which is quite impressive.

      Has anyone written an article about them to let the general Slashdot public know about their service?

      -Eric

      (PS-Not affiliated in any way with mirrordot)
      • I think the Slashdot crew could care less about mirrors and Bittorrents. If they did they would incorporate links to them in the stories before posting!
        • Interesting problem... kinda like a paradox... you can't post the story with the links to mirrordot because the story hasn't been posted yet! :-D
      • bl1st3r: Wired mentioned MirrotDot in the beginning of October 2004. See my site AQFL's story [aqfl.net] for the details.

        I was actually surprised that MirroDot had a local copy of a file! 2 MB/sec was impressive.

      • Re:MirrorDot's copy (Score:2, Informative)

        by Kinetic ( 3472 )
        (I am affiliated with MirrorDot)
        Thanks guys - We appreciate the feedback. As you can see, MirrorDot does (try to and usually succeed at) grab the relevant audio/video/image content. So far so good - working like a champ (usually). :)
        • I've seen Updates added to stories, would it be possible or someone to add the mirrordot link to the front page for any relevant content? I noticed you have a 4digit ID so you've been here a while, perhaps you can do it. Just a thought.

  • Torrent of QuickTime Version (Score:4, Informative)

    by gabeman-o ( 325552 ) on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @01:33PM (#10567119)
    http://corelog.unix.int0r.net/strangerhood1.mov.to rrent

    This is my first time starting a torrent, so I don't know if I did it right :)

  • Lip syncing still a problem (Score:5, Interesting)

    by Japong ( 793982 ) on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @01:43PM (#10567217)

    Just watched the first episode, and I have to say Halo was a good choice of game, because everyone was a master chief, with a full helmet on. Facial expressions and lip syncing were blissfully bipassed and we didn't really think much about it.

    This new show doesn't seem to do so well, the Sims 2 probably has some of the most expressive characters for a popular video game, but they still seem to be a little off in matching up faces, expressions and voices... IANAprofessional commedian, but not having them synced makes comedic delivery of dialog far less effective, as those brilliantly funny moments don't hit all at the same time.

    • Part of the appeal of RvB was the absurdity of seeing a soap opera/sitcom set in a battle ground. Instead of seeing people blow each other up, we watched them deal with real-life issues like personal relationships. The Sims is already a soap opera/sitcom, so what is gained by lipsyncing the characters? My daughters both play Sims2 and they are constantly showing me the world they created, explaining the characters, and forcing me to watch scenes play out. That's what watching Strangerhood felt like.

      Now
    • The syncing is a little off, but the production is still quite well done. I agree that the story isnt as good as Red vs Blue, but it is only the first episode, so we wait and see what happens. I have a feeling it will get better

  • god mode (Score:4, Funny)

    by Doc Ruby ( 173196 ) on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @01:54PM (#10567329) Homepage Journal
    I want to watch the movie, grab the controllers and take over for a while, then let the movie go back to "cruise control" until I take over again.

  • mirror (Score:4, Informative)

    by Kallahar ( 227430 ) <kallahar@quickwired.com> on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @02:04PM (#10567428) Homepage
    Here's a mirror of the divx file [quickwired.com]

  • Everquest? (Score:3, Interesting)

    by ajs ( 35943 ) <{ajs} {at} {ajs.com}> on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @02:15PM (#10567526) Homepage Journal
    It seems to me that EverQuest is ripe for this sort of thing. Advantages over Sims or Halo:
    • Hundreds of very unique locations which, in turn, have dozens of nooks and crannies to shoot in. Some areas will be too difficult to get to yourself for "shooting", but if you've ever played EQ, you know that the places with nobody around are in the majority, even in "popular zones"
    • Wide varitety of looks (easily numbering in the thousands of easily distinguished combinations) from race to gender to hair/eyes to armor (including user-selected dye) to weapons.
    • Ability to use a practically unlimited number of "puppeteers" (players) at once
    • Spell and particle effects are very nice for all sorts of "special effects".
    • A rich existing mythology if you wish to draw on it
    • Thousands of available "extras", many of whom would be happy to help stage events for the show
    • Availablity of scripting for actors (though such "macro programs" are technically a bannable offense in-game).

    I would think this would be the place to do such a movie (though any popular MMORPG would have the same advantages).

    The down side is having to pay a monthly fee per simultaneous actor.
    • Character motion is very choppy, you don't have any way for a character to look in one direction while their body faces another direction, and there are very few emotes to compensate. You can't even get the characters' mouths to move. It really isn't designed for this.

      The beauty of Halo is that everyone wears a helmet. :)

      • I don't find the character motion to be choppy, but in the event of bit-droppage over the wire, you can always do another "take". As for mouths... yeah, that would be the biggest problem, but how does the Sims version deal with that?

        You could always edit in the mouth motion or just use characters in gear that covers the mouth (e.g. troll face-guards or full-warrior helms). I don't think it's insurmountable at all, and I've seen a few videos of raids that have come out so nicely that I've really wanted to s
    • Wasn't it called 'Portal' on G4TV?

    • And you can always auction off the characters when the series is done...
    • I think that Dark Age of Camelot would be way better than EverQuest. Just in the number of animated emotes alone :o)

      I love a previous poster's idea of auctioning off the characters to defray the monthly subscription costs.. plus, if you used your real name in it, you'd be a celebrity!

      Of course, I'm sure it breaks the EULA in some way, so you'd prolly get banned if you were to reveal your "true" identity.
    • when it comes out (nov. 16!), it will have lip syncing and all sorts of interesting physics and graphics to use. And seeing how much ppl modded the original game and how much valve is supporting modders, u could make a movie of anything u want.

  • Eh. (Score:3, Informative)

    by marktaw.com ( 816752 ) on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @02:59PM (#10567961) Homepage
    Way too much exposition.

    OKAY WE GET IT nobody knows who they are. Must you tell us 90,000 times? You can do that while in the process of doing something else, like entertaining us. *

    To kill time before NaNoWriMo [slashdot.org], let's all make our own Sims powered sitcoms. Ready. Set. Go.

    * Yes, I am being overly critical, this is what slashdot for isn't it?

  • Why did I watch this? (Score:3, Funny)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @03:09PM (#10568084)
    Where am I? Why did I watch this? I've seen better scripts on the inside of my underwear.

  • Same plot as RvB... (Score:3, Insightful)

    by anactofgod ( 68756 ) on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @03:27PM (#10568319)
    "Where am I?" "What am I doing here?" "Who are you?"

    Where did I see this plot device before? Oh, yeah! It was in Season 1 of RvB. Seems like the folks at Rooster Teeth need some new blood on their writing staff. Seems they could do a better job of just jumping right into the action with fully developed characters, instead of leading us down familiar territory.

    • To be fair it's not an underused plot device in mass media in general. The "newcomer arrives in the department/organization/conspiracy" appears in many movies, because while the old hand shows the new guy around, he is simultaneously showing the audience how everything works as well.

  • another torrent (Score:2, Informative)

    by SycoCowz ( 823572 )
    www.sycocowz.8m.com/SH_Ep01_LoRes.avi.torrent
  • not impressed with the pilot. we get the fucking clue. it's an amnesia-filled world where everybody gets just thrown into a house together. they could have done something creative, but instead they use the same fucking tired-ass sitcom formula.

    Gee, I bet the upcoming episodes won't be about them alternately trying to cope in the world they're thrown into while trying to find a bit of their true identities, ending with a pseudo-sad goodbye episode where everybody returns to the real world and has to /wave a
    • Your language doesn't help. If you don't have something constructive to add to their project, please keep quiet.

      Oh yeah... awesome job on the movie Rooster Teeth!
  • Okay, granted, the writing and Friends-style music sucked, but the production quality was pretty good.

    I've got some questions, though, for anybody who's played this game and/or dabbled with machinima. I really want to buy this game just for the machinima capabilities...

    1) How much of the content do you think was script first, production second? Hopefully all of it, but some of it gives the impression that they found some neat in-game animations and threw some voiceovers onto them to (try to) make them fun

  • ...that's it huh? (Score:2, Insightful)

    by slorge ( 722786 )
    well....not much there. There has to be something else to it. The writing must get better. I don't think I like all of the animation.

    RvB was sort of like Mr. Bill, in that the animation (or lack of) WAS the point. The directorial skills, premise and creative cinematography is what made the RvB series. A spontaneous spark that was quirky enough to drive them to make more.

    This just looks like they trying to make a computer animated sitcom/series without having to hire animators. Not going to last un

  • Hit and miss - mostly miss (Score:3, Insightful)

    by Brian Kendig ( 1959 ) on Tuesday October 19, 2004 @09:56PM (#10571567)
    The theme music's good, IMHO; I like its use throughout the episode. And the opening (zoom in on keyhole) is cute, and the premise is interesting.

    The voices, however, are terrible. Wade comes off sounding like he's trying to be Shaggy from Scooby-Doo, the black guy sounds like he's trying to be Mr. T, the pointing-guy looks like he's gay but sounds like a used car salesman, and the Sonny Bono guy with the burning stove has a very terrible fake accent.

    The voice actors for Sam and Wade/Durnt sound like they're talking too close to their microphones. The voice recordings need to be softened a bit. And the quality of the black guy's voice is very different from the quality of everyone else's voice; he's much fainter.

    The pacing is all weird, too... it needs to be tightened up. RvB had terrific pacing - it's odd to see it so off in this.

  • I think the difference here is the fact that they're trying to be funny, where the older Red vs. Blue episodes just were funny. It's kind of the same thing as Strong Bad's email, where it was originally funny, but is only sometimes funny now.

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