"And now, for something completely different..."
... I bring gamer-geek humor for folks who enjoy such treats. There's an outfit that goes by the handle Smooth Few Films, and is best known for a Counterstrike-based machinima series titled The Leet World. It's a reality-show parody set within a Counterstrike game, and is quite cute.
But it's not what I bring you today.
They also made a video set in the PoRTal game called "A Day In The Life Of A Turret" which is brilliantly, screamingly funny. If you're familiar with PoRTal. If not, it's still cute - but you'll miss some of the jokes, so play PoRTaL, dammit!
You'll need the DiVX Player plugin to watch this in your browser - if you don't have it, it will prompt you to download and install it. Yes, I could have just linked to YouTube, this this is much higher quality video; it's worth it. This is Not Safe For Work due to language.
Ummm... never mind. It seems that embedded DiVX causes LiveJournal to crash and take the browser down with it, so here's the embedded YouTube video -
You can also watch a higher-res version streaming at the Leet World site. There are also download links at the Leet World site; get it in standard Windows Media format here, or in Quicktime HD format here if you have a fast enough computer.
But it's not what I bring you today.
They also made a video set in the PoRTal game called "A Day In The Life Of A Turret" which is brilliantly, screamingly funny. If you're familiar with PoRTal. If not, it's still cute - but you'll miss some of the jokes, so play PoRTaL, dammit!
You'll need the DiVX Player plugin to watch this in your browser - if you don't have it, it will prompt you to download and install it. Yes, I could have just linked to YouTube, this this is much higher quality video; it's worth it. This is Not Safe For Work due to language.
Ummm... never mind. It seems that embedded DiVX causes LiveJournal to crash and take the browser down with it, so here's the embedded YouTube video -
Click to viewYou can also watch a higher-res version streaming at the Leet World site. There are also download links at the Leet World site; get it in standard Windows Media format here, or in Quicktime HD format here if you have a fast enough computer.