Ross Scott

No. Don't know yet, you probably won't need a mic. I don't know yet and you won't need any experience, though it won't hurt you any. The guy asking me was already struggling with money. In USA, between insurance, repair budgeting, and gas, a car can add a couple hundred to your expenses each month. That's just not feasible for a lot of people who have financial difficulty. Well like I said in the video, the side of Gamergate focused on countering feminist claims isn't the part that I'm particularly interested in. I don't have a strong opinion on that either way, I figure both sides probably have some points, but might be wrong about others. I didn't even pay any attention to any of this controversy until the GameJournoPros leak. From the article you linked me: "GameJournoPros was a mailing list set up by Kyle Orland of Ars Technica just to be able to let people at other websites keep in touch, possibly to even bounce ideas off each other and suggest new freelance writers to hire" "Everyone else from the outside looking in saw the list as completely benign in nature." "The only people seeing any issue with GameJournoPros are Gamergaters who were already prejudiced to think there was something resembling collusion and corruption going on" Those last two statements are hyperbolic. What's more is, they use an article written by Kyle Orland as the citation for making them. http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/09/addressing-allegations-of-collusion-among-gaming-journalists/ This already doesn't work well for me as good journalism. First off, I DO think it's kind of alarming that there was a secret mailing list among game journalists, which they admit is used to help select which writers to hire. In my eyes, that already makes it an "in" club as to who stands a chance at becoming a more mainstream journalist. Then they're saying "everyone else" finds this completely benign and the only people seeing any issue with this is Gamergate. I think statements like that are intellectually dishonest, because they're speaking in absolutes, not allowing for the possibility of someone seeing this mailing list as problematic. Furthermore, to state that and then cite Kyle Orland, the founder of GJP as the source for these being factual statement is poor journalism. You can't be a character witness for yourself, but that's how the article you linked is structured. Anyway, this doesn't mean all the information there is necessarily wrong, but it does make the the defense of GJP look very poor, and evidence of corruption / collusion is the part I'm most interested in. Also your article doesn't even mention the leak of Phil Fish's records showing that Brandon Boyer invested money in Fez prior to judging it for the IGF. Don't get me wrong, there's a LOT of noise associated with Gamergate, but when valid points like this are glossed over and dismissed, I think that makes the anti-GG side look very bad. Anyway, the bottom line is I don't want gaming media looking like this anymore than it does already and GJP is certainly a step in the wrong direction: TM8L7bdwVaA

Sorry, my brain's wired for a mouse. I associate trackballs more with certain old school arcade games. Yes, but I didn't like it, since I was always giving up functionality for my pinky finger out. The way to look at it is can you type without using one of your fingers? Probably, but it certainly won't help your performance any.

I've gotten a few emails so far, I'll try to respond to people before too long.

I see weaknesses in almost every video I've made. I think I can get a lot of things right, but sometimes aspects can come across a little flat or awkward (not in a good way) than what I was aiming for. For the parts I want filled in, I'm not having obvious insight about what should be written in there, and I'd appreciate having some fresh ideas. Put it like this: if I'm not satisfied with applicants or suggestions I get, I won't use them and I will write everything myself. But I feel like additional help is at least worth exploring. My ego for this is a non-issue. I'd much rather have a better script than to be able to say "I wrote all this myself." Don't worry about cohesion. I'm still directing this, I'll make sure whatever is added fits the movie well and I'm satisfied with it. Afterall, if the cohesion was poor, I wouldn't be satisfied with it. Besides, a Hollywood production is an entirely different animal than an independent one. I won't have producers insisting on dumb changes or heavy politics related to who is writing what. The bottom line is just to make it the best movie I can.

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Here's the latest videochat with the audience. I was a little late getting this one out since there were sound sync problems in the recording that I wanted to fix before posting this on Youtube. This one was a little more structured than previously as I tried to answer a lot of submitted questions, though it reverted to the old chaos by the end. I cover a lot of topics, including Planetside 2, budgeting advice, more produdction aspects about the movie, Gamergate, the new Star Wars, and career and school advice amongst other things. I ramble a lot, but I think it was slightly more coordinated than the previous times. The next videochat will be on Feb 7, 4pm EST again. I don't know yet if it will be on twitch or another chat service, I have to do more research first. I'll have an announcement on that ahead of time if I do change venues. Also if you have questions / topics you'd like discussed in the next videochat, either email [email protected], or else reply in this thread. - - - AUDITION FOR ASSISTANT WRITERS: This is mentioned in the video also, but I'm cautiously considering any applications for being an assistant writer on the movie script. I have the main plot and many scenes established, but I'm interested in help with smaller scenes and subplots to help tie everything together. This is going to be for an adventure-comedy with a mystery element also. I more or less have the "adventure" part laid out and have lots of good comedy, but I really want to have this script be the best it can be and I think having additional writer could definitely benefit the movie as a whole. If you have background in comedy writing (mysteries are also a bonus) and are interested in having a shot at writing part of the movie script, send me a sample of your comedic writing to my main email address ([email protected]). If I like your style, I can consider you for the movie itself. I do want to emphasize that this will be THE hardest position to get in the movie and I will be absolutely merciless in considering applicants. So odds are, you'll be rejected. Afterall, I'm looking for someone who can write some of the scenes BETTER than I can. I won't be mean to anyone, but I consider the script the single most important aspect of the movie, so it's not an area I'm willing to compromise on. That said, you don't have to worry about typos or minor mistakes, it's your content and style that I'll be most interested in. Finally, something I forgot to mention in the videochat, a lot of the download links to Civil Protection and other videos were down, those have since been fixed, so they should be working again. COMMENTS

I'm fully aware of this, the thing is, I'm thinking down the road. Say you have a 4k monitor where the source image doesn't divide evenly. The off-integers are going to look closer and closer to the original the higher your resolution is. With bilinear filtering more resolution makes it WORSE. Regardless, if I'm just playing the game for myself, I would rather have the slightly less accurate image, but sharper look, then the bilinear blur everywhere. I would still keep it accurate for official videos. And yes, I did have the distortion in the video to show the difference more clearly. For game dungeon I upscale past the display resolution with nearest neighbor, then use bicubic or lanczos to bring it to 1080. So if the source is 320x200, I scale it to 1920x1200, then back to 1728x1080. I'm not expecting miracles, but we have NOTHING right now. Here are some thoughts: -I was actually thinking more of dumb supersampling rather than MSAA. MSAA doesn't do anything for alpha textures anyway. It may not make any difference at all (I don't know), but I would think SSAA would be easier to implement since it wouldn't have to seek for edges, but rather render the whole scene at a higher resolution, then scales it back down. -You mentioned how virtualbox will translate DirectX protocols into OpenGL anyway and that hardware acceleration isn't emulated, but is instead passed on to the host system. Fine! I haven't used Virtualbox in a long time, so maybe this does work, but in VMware, if I force AA through the hardware control panel on the host system, it STILL doesn't do anything. Is this not the case with Virtualbox? If the virtual machine would just accept the overrides from the host system, this wouldn't be an issue for me at all. -While it's my last choice, being able to apply FXAA or SMAA to the virtual machine would also be at least another option than we have now. Again, I've tried forcing this to no avail. If it's just being applied broadly, the content being pre-shaders shouldn't matter, since these methods don't use any geometry to apply the "AA" anyway. It's just looking at colors and brightness.

I plan to upgrade to one of the Pascal cards when they come out, which I'm guessing won't be too far behind the Oculus release, but who knows, it seems like everyone keeps pushing dates back. I'm still on my 660 Ti, I almost got the 970 last year, but reports of coil whine scared me off from it. I would consider AMD, but I've seen better antialiasing compatibility from Nvidia, plus they've announced the "auto stereo" feature which could bring VR support to a ton of older games, which I would love. I can't say I'm fond of some of the business practices Nvidia is doing, but I care too much about some of the features they have over AMD.

A few people asked for that, I'll try and get them when I can. My hands aren't especially freakish, just a little on the large side. I feel like with the right design, my measurements wouldn't matter so much as long as the shell was kind of large. I'm not an expert, but if I were to pick one, I might go for the Steelseries Raw. I haven't used that one specifically, but I've used the Xai and Kana and in both cases the software and sensors worked well for me. There might be better choices in terms of durability out there though. The scroll wheel snapped on the Xai and the left mouse button went "mushy" on the Kana. Alternately, I tried the Madcatz RAT 7, which gave me some sensor issues, but I love the thumb scroll wheel that thing had. Since we're getting a few offers, it sounds like someone should maybe put some designs out there. I can't always tell what's comfortable from looking at them, but I can spot some things that aren't. In general, I like a mouse that basically fits your hand in a relaxed or slightly spread position, mostly low hump, gradual slope in the back, I'll try and get some more details later. No, although I'm not sure that would fit my style super well, it seems like to have a button for every finger, you would have to have the middle finger resting on the scroll wheel with the remaining two spread out. I think that still has the same problem where there are no buttons for the pinky and ring finger are there? I'm open to anything people want to try. It does sound like the next step is to get dimensions of my hand and show an ideal usage position. In the meantime, you probably won't go wrong mimicking The Claw.

I'll try out sizer later. It feels like Mike Matei is advising me on this. And for the record, I absolutely prefer to run stuff in fullscreen.

Also I wanted to add, try to use the forum threads related to the different topics if you can.

I just realized I was born in Louisiana, which is a time zone earlier than east coast. I still made it!

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Happy birthday! This is a giant birthday video I've been wanting to make for a while now. I had no chance at all time-wise last year, and I almost didn't make it this year! While I definitely have my own ends with this video, I tried to keep it entertaining also. Hope you find something in it you like! Here are the threads related to the birthday topics: Ross tries to get you to join in on his birthday. Related threads here: MMO Stories Soundtracks Art Mouse Printing Custom Software Also believe it or not, the suggested Youtube thumbnail images didn't have one with me in it, so I left it on the default one. COMMENTS

This relates to the video https://youtu.be/oITBRgSQBd8. This thread is for posting all the best MMO stories you have. See the video for what kinds are preferred.

This relates to the video https://youtu.be/oITBRgSQBd8. This thread is for posting the kind of art Ross likes (as mentioned in the video).

This relates to the video https://youtu.be/oITBRgSQBd8. This thread is for discussing custom mouse creation.

This relates to the video https://youtu.be/oITBRgSQBd8. This thread is for specific software Ross is looking for (as mentioned in the video).

This relates to the video https://youtu.be/oITBRgSQBd8. This thread is for posting every good lesser-known soundtrack you know of, especially game ones.

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Merry almost-not-Christmas! I managed to get this Christmas episode out pretty late, but it should still be Christmas in the timezones I'm aiming for! I almost covered this game last winter, but it got to be too late and there wasn't any snow left on the ground, so I saved it for this one, since we of course have snow everywhere. Everyone has snow. Everywhere. Enjoy the episode. COMMENTS

Those shots are awesome, would be neat to see the great northern forest, dunes, and swamp area from the multiplayer map since they're so huge. As for the optimization, my guess is it's optimized for different hardware. Again, I don't remember realtime shadows being a huge issue when I was on XP.

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » After much deliberating, we now have the winners of the screenshot contest for the free games giveaway! I want to give big thanks to everyone who contributed a game, and to danielsangeo, who organized most of this and we wouldn't have been able to do this contest without him. I unfortunately have to announce that I decided to change the rules. The simple reason: there were too many good entries. It would have been hell to try and figure out who is #34,35,37, etc. We had 481 entries and 124 winners. A lot of people had multiple great entries, but we picked only one per person just to keep things sane. So instead of a big numbered list of winners, they were broken up into tiers. You can view the winning entries below: GOLD TIER: These were ones I thought were either amazing, genius, or extremely funny. SILVER TIER: These were generally really good, they just didn't ignite quite the same spark to me that the gold tier did. BRONZE TIER: These were ones I thought were cool in some way, just not mind-blowing. This whole thing was super-subjective, so don't get too disappointed if you didn't win. You may yet still have a chance to win something later on. HOW TO CLAIM YOUR GAME: 1. First confirm you were one of the winners (a master list is located here) 2. Check the Games List for games you're interested in. This will be frequently updated as people claim them. 3. Make a small list of games you want, in the order you want them. Email [email protected] with this list. If your game is still available, it will be sent to you. If not, we'll go to the next game on your list. 4. If you submitted your entry on the forum instead of email, let us know which one your entry was (we can find out, but this will make it go faster). 5. Games will be sent first by tier, then FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE. So everyone in the gold tier will get a chance to pick before silver tier, then bronze tier. 6. Have patience. Silver entries won't get served until everyone in gold picks a winner or a week passes, whichever comes first. So it could be a couple weeks before you get your game, depending on how things go. Once you email us letting us know what games you want, your place in line is secured. 7. In the event there are no games left that you want, please just tell us "pass" in an email. Sorry about changing the rules and make it a semi-free-for-all, but it was the only way to retain our sanity. We had so many fantastic entries, thanks a bunch to everyone who participated. I highly recommend people check out the winners. Also since we had more games than winners, once every winner has gotten a chance to pick something, I'll make a new post about the remaining games later. Afterall, I don't think Daikatana is going to fly off the shelf. COMMENTS

This is a blog post. To read the original post, please click here » Merry Christmas triple-Eve! Here is the first Christmas episode coming out this month for Game Dungeon. This is an episode I knew I wanted to do, but had some concerns about it, so I decided on a halfway solution. This episode is split into 2 parts. The first half everyone can watch and should help your holiday mood. The second half is for adults only and I made it age-restricted on Youtube because I think this is the most intense game I've had on the show so far. This is one case where I feel like censoring it would have really misrepresented the game. You'll hear this in part 1, but definitely do not watch part 2 if you're easily disturbed. The next video I'll get done ASAP, though it's going to be close whether or not it gets made in time for Christmas or not. It can be kind of amazing how long simple details end up taking to do. So while I can't promise dates, expect 2 more videos this month! COMMENTS