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Jack The Bodiless
10:39 / 14.11.04
Have searched, but can't find a thread on this yet. Me and spooky are utterly addicted to it. It's the best thing ever. Essentially, the boys write comedy scripts and animate them using video games - in this case, Halo (some people call it machinima, but some people will neulogise anything for a cheap pop).

What you need to know, you team-killing fucktards, is that it's fucking hilarious, available to download from their website, and I'm off to see if I can get a Church t-shirt now. Church... sigh. Poor bastard...
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
11:06 / 18.11.04
No one?!

Sarge: ...Lopez, bring up the vehicle. May I introduce our new light reconnaissance vehicle...it has four inch armor blading, mag buffer suspension, a mounted machine gunner position and total seating for three. Gentleman! This is the M12LRV! I like to call it the Warthog.

Simmons: Why warthog, sir?

Sarge: Because M12LRv is too hard to say in conversation, son.

Grif: No, but why warthog? I mean, it doesn't really look like a pig.

Sarge: Say that again?

Grif: I think it looks more like a puma.

Sarge: What in Sam hell is a puma?

Simmons: You mean like the shoe company?

Grif: No, like a puma. It's a big cat, like a lion.

Sarge: You're making that up.

Grif: I'm telling you, it's a real animal!

Sarge: Simmons, I want you to poison Grif's next meal.

Simmons: Yes sir!

Sarge: Look. See these two tow hooks? They look like tusks. And what kind of animal has tusks?

Grif: A walrus.

Sarge: Didn't I just tell you to stop making up animals?

And...

Church: All right, that's it. I've had it. Rookie, you stay here. Me and Tucker will head through the teleporter, we'll cut him off at the pass.

Caboose: Right.

Church: Tucker, you ready? Let's go.

Tucker: There is no way I'm going through that thing.

Church: Tucker, we don't have time for this. Why would they give us a teleporter if it doesn't work?

Tucker: I don't know. Why would they give us a tank that no one can drive?

Church: We already tested the teleporter, remember?

Tucker: We threw rocks through it!

Church: Yeah and? So what? The rocks came out the other side, didn't they?

Tucker: Yeah, but they were all hot and covered with black stuff.

Church: So I guess this is what this is all about then...you're afraid of a little black stuff.

Tucker: Yes, I am. I am afraid of black stuff.

Church: *points gun at Tucker* Tucker, I almost hate to do this to you.

Tucker: You wouldn't.

Church: You know, I look at it this way: Either A) we go through there and get the flag back, or B) We stay here and I get to kill you. Either way I win.

Tucker: For the record, I want you to know, rocks aren't people.

Church: Duly noted. Now get in there!

Tucker: Crap! All right, one, two...*runs through teleporter*

Caboose: He didn't come out the other side.

Church: Yeah...I've uh...I've decided I'm not going to use the teleporter. Okay rookie, you stay here...I'll be back with the flag.

Hee!
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
06:27 / 19.11.04
There was actually an article in the Sunday New York Times, ostensibly about the release of HALO 2, but also about RvB. If I felt like registering at the NYT site I'd post a link, but, uh, nah.

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ONLY NICE THINGS
08:41 / 19.11.04
Login: member101
password: bugmenot

Article - will ask you to login first.

I really liked the "Guide to the difference between reality and the Internet", which I think was RvB - it was certainly done using the same technology. I think it's kind of admiration at the use of the technology that interests me, rather than the intermittently funny scripts - does anyone remember Friends Quake?
 
 
XXII:X:II = XXX
06:31 / 20.11.04
In the same vein, the folks behind RvB are making a new show using The Sims. Looks promising, though I don't know if anything can touch the Bush/Kerry cohabitation experiment.

There was for a while a machinimia exhibit at the Museum of the Moving Picture near me in Queens, but that was back in May or so. Are there festivals just of machinimia? I'd watch more of it online, but I haven't the speed afforded to me on a regular basis.

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Phex: Dorset Doom
21:25 / 20.11.04
I've checked out all the episodes up until episode nineteen (which wasn't archived but I skillfully found the URLs for them). Where can I find episode 20 onwards?
 
 
Phex: Dorset Doom
21:32 / 20.11.04
Never mind, just found them: http://public.www.planetmirror.com/pub/redvsblue/index2.html
 
 
Jack The Bodiless
03:43 / 21.11.04
Church: Hey, Tucker look at this, man! It's the rookie and he brought the tank out to scare off the Reds!

Tucker: What? No way!

Church: Hey rookie, good job, man! Why didn't you tell us you knew how to drive the tank?

Sheila: New target acquired.

Caboose: That's not a target, that's Church!

Church: Yeah, that's right, it's me Church! What's going on, man!

Sheila: Target locked.

Caboose: What?! No, target unlock, unlock! Please help me nice lady!

Sheila: Firing main cannon.

Caboose: Uh-oh.

Tucker: Uh-oh.

Church: What? Oh, Son of a bi-- *BOOM*

Tucker: Holy fuck! Church are you ok? Talk to me, Church! You shot Church, you team killing fucktard!

Sheila: Auto-fire sequence deactivated.

Church: Tucker, Tucker.

Tucker: Church! It's going to be ok man!

Church: No, I'm... I'm not gonna make it. Tucker, there's something I need to tell you.

Tucker: What is it?

Church: I just want you to know, I always hated you. I always hated you the most.

Tucker: Yeah, I know you did. Now hurry up and die, you prick.

Heh heh heh.
 
 
wicker woman
04:04 / 07.08.05
Always one to jump on shit like this way late (may have something to do with a lack of access to high-speed at my house), I recently bought Season 1 on dvd, and then quickly ran out and bought the next two seasons. What a great show.

Sarge: "Donut, you wait here for the guy tailing us, and when he passes, shoot him square in the back and watch him die! Just like John Wayne woulda done..."

and from a Thanksgiving special on the same disc:

Church: "We don't really keep up with current events, but from what we've been able to figure out, the red states did something that caused disaster in the blue states, and now the people are being forced to evacuate to Canada and France. And for some reason the evacuation is being led by a fat guy from Michigan. We don't really understand a lot of it."

Grif: "And the people in the red states are mad because the people in the blue states are mean to them, and want them to pay money for roads and schools instead of cool things like Nascar and shotguns. Also, there's something about ketchup in there. Like we said, a lot of this stuff doesn't make much sense."
 
  
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