Ross Scott

I doubt that's the case. Ad block just means the view doesn't count towards any ad revenue, if it actually meant views didn't show up, this would have been a massive issue long before now. They never told me, I never got a reply email, but they fixed it, 4-5 days after release.

No, I'm ahead of you on this unfortunately. Blip supports re-uploading media to the same URL created, so I did that, no luck, same problem. As for the settings, these are the exact same settings I've used for the last 50+ episodes uploaded to blip, so that's a dead end there too (and I'm already using 441.khz for the audio). I think something changed on blip's end. I'll look into it some more later.

Unless you're talking on a super-meta level, I have to disagree with this. I mean in the big picture, we're a speck of life the universe probably doesn't care about, so yeah, anything that happens, isn't good or evil in any sense that matters. On the planet Earth however, there's plenty of things that can be defined as good or evil in almost any context. For example, if I go around kidnapping people and chopping their hands off because I want to decorate my fence with them and I don't care about their pain, well, there's not really any defense of an action like that. I tend to get defensive when people say there is NO good or evil because that moral ambiguity is the sort of thing sociopaths purposefully exploit. For their purposes, it only benefits them for people to believe there is no evil as that provides more of a tolerance for actions that are clearly evil. There are grey areas to be sure, but to deny it entirely I think only works in a cosmic sense. A rock doesn't have good or evil, but people do. I like this example. I think besides how intentional something is, responsibility is also an issue. Taken at face value, assuming the politician couldn't have predicted these consequences, the politician is not immediately evil, even if the consequences of his actions ARE. The "test of evil" in this scenario is what the politician does AFTER learning the outcome of his actions. Politicians are in a position of power, which carries responsibility behind it. If the politician later realizes what he has done is harming people and tries to rectify it, then he's not evil, he's just flawed / ignorant. If he realizes what he's done, feels bad about it, does nothing to remedy it, but will never pursue action like that again without more careful research, then I'd say he's still not evil, but not good either. If he ignores the negative consequences and feels no remorse about his actions and / or CONTINUES to do further actions like that, then yeah, I'd say evil. Unintentionally committing an act that causes evil doesn't make the person evil, but not caring about the consequences of those actions does.

Absolutely, I sent it to my family also. It has almost a million views, it needs more like 100 million.

Maybe, although I really hate the idea of holding the episodes hostage for money. Believe it or not, exploiting my fanbase for income is NOT one of my goals (unless they're loaded). They have a de facto monopoly on video streaming, I thought I read before it's about 70% of all free streaming video. Makes it hard for alternatives. Old Google is very different from modern Google. I recommend reading #1 of this article to get a better picture of what's happening. Yeah it makes no damn sense. Like Windows 8, there are quantifiable flaws with their new design. "Inbox" used to take ONE click and ONE page load. Now it takes FOUR of each. To turn off annotations, that used to take 1 click, now it takes 2. Increasing the resolution used to take 2 clicks, now it takes 3. What this says to me is one of the largest companies in the world can freely ignore fundamentals of good UI design. It must be maddening to people who have degrees in that sort of thing. Thanks, glad to see you got Ettore Majorana right. BTW no one can disprove he wasn't killed by ninjas at sea.

This is sort of an offshoot of another thread that got derailed, but in general, I think big money controls most of America nowadays. Not everyone may agree with me, but I recently saw a video that I feel like REALLY illustrates it in the news, check this out: TM8L7bdwVaA The first thing I want to point out is that this is from a variety of stations, NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX, etc., so this transcends "liberal" or "conservative" media and extends to basically any mainstream televised news. For me, it's refreshing to see proof of this. I feel like when big money controls the mainstream news, it influences the entire country. This also means that stories that are critical of big money's influenced are largely repressed, with the only sources of getting them being on more "fringe" sources or some international news. Anyway, I recommend sharing this video with anyone who believes we have "balanced" news in the USA, to me this video says it all.

Here's what I know about that: -I've been told by Machinima.com in the past they don't count towards monetization -Machinima.com has also flat out lied to me before on payouts, saying my old CPM cost them money (I make more money PER VIEW on my own than I did at Machinima, so for them to be telling the truth, my channel would have to be worth more to advertisers than theirs), they also said views on videos older than 3 months don't monetize at all (again, this is a lie, if somebody watches FM #4, that helps me just as much), so it's hard to know the truth from what they've said -I've been told by technical people some of them count on some platforms towards monetization, others don't -I've NEVER heard of mobile views not counting at ALL, like you're a ghost that was never there. So if 10 people watch a video on an iPhone, it should still show 10 views, but those views might not count toward any income.

WHO KNOWS what is going on inside their heads. Cramming Google+ down everyone's throats was an intentional dick move, but screwing up YT's interface HARD in the process? That doesn't seem like something conducive to good business even if seems deliberate as hell. You're right though, this could just as easily be hurting them and they don't care? I don't frigging know. I guess having it uploaded for 6 hours means "it isn't quite ready yet" It's been so long since I played it, I actually didn't remember that as part of the plot to OF, I mainly remember the monster at the end. I just figured it's sort of a logical next step given the extent of the problem and location.

Blip.tv link (download will be up later I swear) Here's another episode that got delayed more than I wanted, but I'm still making them. This is coming out on Valentine's Day, but it's just a coincidence, I didn't plan it like that. This episode isn't especially related to Valentine's Day unless you find ninjas and shotguns romantic. I think this episode came out pretty well, it actually took longer due to bugs with HL: Source's demo recording, but I was able to eventually work around them. On another note, I wanted to try and introduce some democracy to what I work on next and see how it goes. I've start on episode 55, but after that, I haven't decided what video I should do next, so you can vote on it below: [poll id=10] In reality, it's more of a competition between Freeman's Mind and Ross's Game Dungeon, but I just wanted to see how big the divide is. While I haven't given up on it, I can't realistically do another animated video at this time since that will delay everything else too much and I need to keep my income going. This goes double since it's now a CONFIRMED conspiracy that Youtube isn't counting all views and I guess is just pocketing the money instead. I've suspected something like this ever since I saw some statistically improbable things happen in December, but that link above has actual proof in it. I'm sure Google's stance on this is that it's just a bug they need to fix. An enormous, and insanely profitable bug. So, while I plan to go with the majority rule, if Youtube siphons off enough views from FM so they're both equal, I may just do more RGD instead, since I can produce it faster and it's a little more fun for me to make. More videos coming! LINK TO FORUM COMMENTS

BTGbullseye: I really think our terminology is getting mixed up. When you say "left wing", what do you mean? Because I see it as kind of a spectrum leading from mild to extreme: modern Democrats = very mild left wing, more left on social issues, not really left wing at all in economic issues now, or in words only People with socialist leanings = (Chris Hedges, Bernie Sanders) more "traditional" left wing, but considered radical nowadays People with communist leanings = extreme left wing, not very realistic in my opinion Anarchists = extremist left wing, Noam Chomsky is actually a flavor of this So when you say "extreme left wing" or "radical left" that automatically excludes all democrats in my mind. Something like the Green Party could be considered more radical or extreme left wing. I disagree when you say they're about hoarding power, they're more about trying to level the playing field.

Your last sentence comes across like hyperbole man. I largely see voices like Limbaugh and Hannity as PART of the big money, they're some of the channels for it on the right wing side. Are they calling for prosecution and penalties of illegal by the banks? Do they speak out against unfair tax avoidance of large corporations (like Google, General Electric, Exxon, Apple, etc. all paying single digit or less in taxes?). What is their solution for people in poverty? Do they speak out against CORPORATE welfare (for instance? How would they solve the current problems we have? From what I know of Hannity and Limbaugh, their stances are a lot of the noise that gets in the way of more serious debate. I mean I even found a link of him defending Super PACS, which I see as a signficant step towards moving power away from the average voter towards big money. To give them credit though, I did some research and noticed he DOES speak out against quantitative easing, so kudos for that, although I think that's incorrect framing QE as a liberal issue, many liberals hate QE also, just apparently not the Obama administration. This is kind of what I mean about the "noise" however. The way QE is being used I think is highly irresponsible, but the thing is both Obama AND Romney were in favor of maintaining the status quo with the federal reserve. So calling it "liberal" or "conservative" I think is intellectually dishonest and is just playing people against each other. An issue like that is essentially independent of both sides, since again, I think both republicans and democrats are more or less at the call of big money. Plus, the second part of your sentence says to me either you were just speaking off the cuff, or else you may be ignorant of the actual extremist left. I think this could be terminology however. I want to be clear, if we're not talking social issues, I don't consider any of the Obama administration or even most of modern day democrats to be the radical left. I see them as highly centrist, in some categories more right wing than Republican candidates of the past. When I hear "radical left" I'm thinking of Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Bernie Sanders, Robert Reich, etc. I can guarantee all of those people very much wish to remedy our current situation and have been trying their best for years. Bernie Sanders (an independent) where he's essentially mocking them by saying sarcastically (and loudly to them) how our Congress is acting like our most important priority above all else, is tax cuts for billionaires. Anyway, you may not agree with all of their stances or routes to a solution, but I think saying the extremist left doesn't want to do anything about our situation is totally false. I think the MAJORITY of people want to change the situation, but there is so much misinformation and obfuscation that it's unlikely to happen without drastic actions. I may as well piss everybody off equally, but I think Obama has given lip service towards more fairer economic opportunities and little else. Looking at JUST his economic history, I don't see a world of difference between him and Bush. I can't know what goes on his head, but personally I think he's largely a puppet and doesn't have anything approaching realistic solutions for our most serious problems. He can give a good speech and say he'll do something, but in terms of what he's actually done or his current plans are, I think they're piecemeal at best, regressive at worst. Some may blame an obstructionist congress for holding him up, but I think that's a cop out. If a president TRULY gave a damn, he would implore more of the American people directly, explain what he wants to do, how he plans to do it, and get legislation so simple made that anyone trying to spin it off towards the interest of big money would look corrupt as hell. You CAN shine a light on corruption if you really want to, and the president has one of the most powerful offices in America. Then again, if he actually DID do that, he might get assassinated, so again, it's hard for me to know what's going on in his head, but I think holding up Obama as a model of what the left-wing wants in terms of economic policy is a farce.

Well besides it being easier to just manufacture more USB ports rather than USB ports AND PS/2 connectors, part of the reason those were phased out is because there's more power going through a PS/2 connector and in rare cases could actually damage the motherboard if ever unplugged while active (though I haven't really heard of those situations since the 90s). Actually the PS/2 does offer a minor advantage for keyboards as it means more keys can be pressed at once (look up "n key rollover") if you want to know more about that.

I agree, for me personally, a lot of social issues in politics I think of more as noise than anything else. I think the most important issues are ones that affect BILLIONS of people, not small factions. Since the USA has the world reserve currency, our economic issues really do have that kind of impact. I would disagree, I think America is dominated by big money. In 2013, over 3 billion dollars were spent on lobbying. We have more millionaires in congress than any point in history. I've read that since the recession, 95% of our economic gains have gone towards the upper 1%. Our system is essentially rigged to snuff out third parties. In my opinion, that's not democracy. I've read before that nowadays we essentially have the one-party system, the party of business, with two different factions. I mean our answer to the 2008 financial crisis was to essentially bail people out, slap on the wrist penalties for most companies, nobody went to jail, and no serious legislation was passed to prevent the same thing from happening all over again. HSBC was found guilty of laundering money (and CONTINUING to do so) for Al-Qaeda, the Mexican cartel, and many other criminal organizations, yet the only penalty was a fine of 5 weeks of profit for them. No one went to jail over that and the justice department even came out and said it was afraid to press harsher penalties for fear of damaging the economy. It's essentially an admission that large banks are above the law. I think neither the left nor right establishments are seriously going to challenge this order, because they're also being funded by it. The only people who are serious about wanting to stop corruption in our system are essentially radicals now, as the mainstream just accepts it and debates things like social issues instead.

Ah, the Xbox One solution huh?

Ha ha, well that would definitely be fast enough, but I only have 8GB, but even if I had 16, it would burn through that very fast. Part of the issue is I may be aiming higher than I should for the visual quality as I've been recording in RGB lossless compression. Now while Youtube is of course YUV lossy compression, I have noticed a difference in color quality making the RGB conversion the final step in the process v. recording from the source in YUV. Keeping everything in RGB (like the source) until the very end definitely helps with the color. That unfortunately means more data has to be recorded in order to preserve it. 1920x1080 at 30fps with CD quality audio comes to about 188MB/s uncompressed. Now with Fraps it would probably only be about 60% of that with no quality loss (dxtory allows better lagarith compression, but dxtory doesn't always work properly on games that use AA), but that's still a lot of data to be grabbing in realtime.

Yeah wow, this thread is such a resources, I'm tempted to turn this all into a permanent page somehow with links to EVERYTHING. Go to gorilla gong. We're putting up new content every day, plus we have plans for new stuff soon I think a lot of people are going to like.

I have a giant list of games I plan to check out, a lot of those are abandonware though, so the only barrier is me just finding time to get to it. Here are some I can think of off the top of my head: Fortnite - I was sold on the trailer and the concept, it's rare this happens Project Zomboid - I actually own a copy of this one, bought it a while back, I'm waiting until they think it's ready for release Trackmania 2 Valley - unlimited driving on scenic country roads sounds like something I'd like Diablo 3 - I heard many people say it's not good, but I was a huge fan of Diablo 1, so I'm still curious Darkspore - Also heard it's not the best, but it sounded interesting, plus as an online only, this one is at risk of going 100% dead later Gone Home - plot premise sounds like something I'd like Miasmata - deep forest survival game I'm Not Alone - some mansion horror game The Last Door - Lovecraft themed horror game Nether - maybe, I've played the original Day Z and while I like the survival aspect, getting sniped by other players gets old fast, depends if I can get around that or not

Yeah this is pretty much my viewpoint as well.

The thing is in less than lethal doses, the effects of radiation aren't clear cut how much it's affected you. You may feel fine, for years even, but a sufficient dosage might have taken 10 years off the end of your life and you won't realize it until much later. It's a combination of genes and luck. The more radiation you get, the less luck you have.

Well if it's any solace, the coolest game character ever in my opinion is Kain, and he has a British accent, so it works out. Alright I found it. It's overall pretty depressing, but watch the chunk that I've linked here: I remembered it wrong however, it wasn't "looks on their faces" so much as what they were saying, but you still get the idea they were NOT ready for the amount of radiation they exposed themselves to. The moral to this story is don't go to Chernobyl, ever.

Blip.tv link (download will be up later) This episode got delayed more than I intended, but if you've been watching the series a while, it's nothing compared to some of the other ones. This episode is also one of the shorter ones in a while, although really, this is ideally where I wanted to aim, but the past few episodes have just been one thing after another, there was less of a good jumping off spot. I know plenty of people would just as soon have me make the next episode 30 minutes long, but it's definitely easier for me to break it up some more. Part of the reason this episode got delayed is because I've been spending a little more time learning possible software for the long-term movie project I still want to do. That's not anywhere close to being done, but I would go crazy if I wasn't doing SOMETHING on it, I mostly put that completely on hold for 2013. Finally, the documentary Freeman refers to in this episode is totally real, though I forgot the name of it. LINK TO FORUM COMMENTS

I had to make a post on this since I'm following this like a sporting event: http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2014/01/stealth-marketing-microsoft-paying-youtubers-for-xbox-one-mentions/ The short version: Microsoft paid Machinima to promote the Xbox One. Machinima offered a minor promotion to people in their network to promote the xbox one and made them sign a new contract saying they could not say anything negative about it, nor could they reveal any terms in it. This may or may not be illegal according to the FTC, who knows. Since then, Machinima gave a statement on the matter that sounds EXACTLY like the sort of conversations I had with their legal department when I was trying to get them to honor my contract. If you want to see how Machinima talks to people trying to get them to act honestly, this is a perfect example: I bet I even know who wrote this. Anyway, Microsoft has since given a statement saying they had no knowledge of Machinima's activities, saying it's all on them. Yeah right. Here's my hypothesis: Microsoft of course knew the details of what Machinima was doing, it would be unrealistic to suggest otherwise in the contract. Machinima told the truth, what they're doing it TYPICAL for them. The difference is this time the public got wind of it AND actually cared, so it turned into a scandal. Machinima bunkers down into legal protection mode so they don't sued by the FTC, and Microsoft points the finger at them to look good, because MS is much, much bigger than Machinima, so they can dictate terms. In any event, this is STANDARD behavior for Machinima, it's nice to see more people aware of it.

He may not be aware of GG yet unfortunately, but we're working on that. As for actual machinima disappearing, no worries man. Not only is GG growing, but we're working on some changes I think almost everyone is going to like a lot.