I just wanted to let people know I was originally planning on releasing the next Freeman’s Mind today, the dialogue is done, but I’m still waiting on getting an audio track back, so I’ll just keep working on the next video instead, which will be another Game Dungeon episode. If I finish it before I get the next FM audio track, I may release it out of order than I originally planned. Either way, I can safely say to expect at least 3 videos this month, maybe an additional one if I’m lucky. As a warning though, I don’t have any Christmas videos planned, I wasn’t really ready for one, but hopefully I can have something like that next year. Anyway, more stuff coming!

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Hey everyone, here’s an update you probably weren’t expecting. I normally try not to have endorsements for other videos on this site unless it’s something I’m involved in as requests for that can get out hand fast. Well I’m making an exception to this rule because my girlfriend has made some videos of her own and wanted me to promote them, so that mean it’s pretty much federal law that I have to endorse them. So behold, Magda Conquers Black Mesa:

Episode 1

Episode 2

Episode 3

This is essentially “Freeman’s Mind”, except in the Black Mesa mod with her expressing her own thoughts. I’ve received several questions from people asking before if I plan to redo Freeman’s Mind in the Black Mesa mod. I do not plan to, so this is as about as close as you’re going to get from me, except it’s not me. I had no involvement in the creation of this, this was entirely my girlfriend’s initiative. All I did was show her how to do basic recording and editing.

I enjoyed the first episode, although my biggest criticism about her videos is her mouse movements are quite twitchy, so it may make you a bit motion sick watching it in full screen. Also I’d like to emphasize that while I am happy to give her free publicity on her videos and enjoy parts of them, I am playing Pontius Pilot and washing my hands of the matter regarding feedback on them. If you have compliments, criticisms, or requests for them, go ahead and post them here, or better yet, on her Youtube channel, but I’m not getting involved beyond this (admins will still ban anything that’s not civil however). This is so I don’t have to defend her videos against every potential criticism made on the internet. I would set my modem on fire before doing that.

Also it’s worth mentioning that you may notice Magda has a non-American accent. This is because she is Polish. By extension, I have also been in Poland for a while now, although I was back in the USA during the summer last year when I had the meet-up. I originally made an announcement about this on April Fool’s Day a while back to create some ambiguity however. Some people are still confused about that, so this is a good a time as any to set the record straight, I am actually in Poland. I fell for the attractive-intelligent-woman-throwing-herself-at-you trick. Even James Bond falls for that one. And really, I think the best April Fool’s Day jokes are the ones that cause doubt not just on April Fool’s Date, but even years afterwards.

Anyway, more work is being done on my videos as well, expect more this month!

P.S. Magda says subscribe to her channel!

 

ADHD version: Ross’s girlfriend made some Freeman’s Mind-esque videos! Ross is in Poland!

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Youtube link

(download will be up later)

Well this took longer than I expected, mostly due to paperwork not related to the video, then me getting sick. I still am sick, so all videos are unfortunately on hold until I get better. Once I am better, I plan to keep coming out with more all through December. I don’t have a lot else to say because I’m sick. It fills my thoughts mostly with “blaaaaaaaah” and want to roll on the floor like a dog.

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Hey everyone, I’m still very sick, but at least now my head no longer feels like it’s caught in a vice. The next Freeman’s Mind episode is coming soon, but in the meantime, I wanted to make a news update on the status of the Freeman’s Mind Announcer Pack for DOTA 2 as it just hit 10k votes on Steam. As promised, I’ve release a downloadable copy of the trailer for those of you interested in it (I’ll have an episode page on the site made for it later). More importantly I wanted to give you an update on the status of the pack itself. Right now the pack is currently in limbo. A few weeks ago I received the following email from Valve:

“
Thank you for your Steam Workshop Contribution Freeman’s Mind Announcer Pack.

Unfortunately, for various reasons, the developers of “Dota 2” had to flag it as “incompatible”, so it cannot be used within “Dota 2”.

You can learn more about what kinds of items are accepted and why certain items are marked as “incompatible” here: http://www.dota2.com/workshop/

The Steam Support Team
http://www.steampowered.com
“

Unfortunately they have not told me WHY it’s incompatible. I can only assume it has partially due to the title containing the word “Freeman” as they may feel that hits too close to home with their intellectual property. If that’s the case, I’ll just rename the pack to something else, like “Ross Scott announcer pack.” Really that should be the only issue as far as IP goes. A bit of a spoiler, but the pack does NOT contain lines like “this one time at Black Mesa I saw this” or “that looks like a vortigaunt”, none of the lines themselves contain any direct references to Valve’s IP. Instead, I wrote all the lines with the same sort of personality established in Freeman’s Mind, so it’s more like Freeman “After Hours” rather than being full of HL2 references.

It’s also possible Valve has changed the rules for announcer pack submissions again in the time I submitted it to the time I received that email. It’s also possible they don’t like one line and it needs to be changed, or they just don’t like the sound of my voice, the point is I have NO IDEA why it’s being marked as incompatible. So while I could just try renaming the pack and resubmitting it, but my intuition tells me if I do that, I’ll just receive an email identical to the one above a few months from now with no other explanation. I do think this is kind of lame of them to send an email like that, but then give no other explanation and no means to contact them.

Despite being told it’s “incompatible” via email, the actual entry on Steam has NOT yet been marked as “incompatible” or “rejected”, so that makes me think there is hope for this still seeing the light of day.

I do not know who I should contact about this. The email sent to me was from [email protected]. I’ve tried contacting their front desk email, but have received no reply. If anyone has information how to actually communicate with someone at Valve about what needs to be fixed, please let me know. Until then, I’m completely in the dark on this.

ADHD version: Ross is still sick. Valve is playing “guess what number I’m thinking of” with the DOTA 2 voice pack.

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Hey this is just some quick news:

I am sick as a DOG right now. I feel like Pinhead from Hellraiser. I guess it’s some kind of flu or something. I forced myself to finish the dialogue to the next Freeman’s Mind on Thursday however, right now I’m just waiting on getting the sound effects back, then I’ll finish the video and put it up right afterwards. All other video production is halted until I get well again, I’ve been in agony the past couple days. Once I am better, I’ll do another FM episode (after the next one) and RGD as planned, but I don’t see it happening for November anymore though.

Also the forums are currently under siege by spam attacks. We’re working to resolve it ASAP, but it may be a few days before it’s sorted out.

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