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Smorgasbord of links
First off, did you know that "smorgasbord" is Swedish? Me either! Now we're all a little smarter. Moving on...today's comic is nestled below this text, comfy in its usual place. Cute little guy. Snuggles!
I've been asked by Gus to mention that the RvB Fan Event "CanWest" is fast approaching. Here are some points of interest for you to peruse.
Location: Vancity Theater, Vancouver, Canada
Date: Sunday, May 25th
Time: 12:30 PM – 4:30 PM (there will be tickets at the door but seating is extremely limited)
Featuring: Community and Industry Panels, selected machinima, and some music to round it all off
After-Event will begin at 6:30 PM at the Speakeasy Bar at 921 Granville Street
I'd also like to remind you that our summer shirt sale is still going on, but supplies are dangerously low. I cannot guarantee these bargains will continue to...bargain for much longer.
Hey I'm not even done yet, so don't go anywhere. Today's sponsor comic is waiting for you right here. Ok, now I'm done. GO!
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DrunkTank Week #14
The drunks are back for another week of burning bridges. Burn, bridges! Burn!
This week, Epic put out their “Gears of War 2 Gameplay Reveal”. [link]
Burnie -- Cue the "it looks the same" crowd. Personally, I don't care. Gears was way ahead of it's time for graphics anyway. What worries me most is that they highlight Chainsaw Duels and Meat Shields as big new features. That type of gimmicky advancement is usually pretty unimpressive after you do it once. How about being able to use grenades without switching to them? Replays like in Halo? Hopefully we will get some of that.
Geoff -- I have to be honest. I didn't even see it. I was lost in those deep azure pools that are Cliffy B's eyes. Rawr.
Gus -- Less Cliffy B, more gameplay please. Thanks.
Jason -- It looks exactly like the first Gears of War, with new maps. And I can't wait to play it.
Guitar Hero 4 will feature a drum set.
[link]
Geoff -- Silly Activision, always one step behind. My industry insiders tell me Rock Band two will have a Tuba and Suzaphone.
Gus -- I already have a fucking video game drum kit, there is no way I'm buying another one. You hear that Activison? Let me use my Rock Band drums or I'm not buying your game.
Burnie -- Why is the drum kit the big deal for these games? Isn't the singing part actually a lot more fun? And I hear what Gus is saying about already owning Rock Band drums, but those things are gigantic pieces of shit. I would pay to have better ones that didn't make that klack-klack noise every time I hit them.
Matt -- This is how they are staying competitive? Bad move. If you're going for percussion, it's BONGOS all the way. Think of the endorsements they could get: Matthew McConnaughey, Donkey Kong, and anyone that's stoned or has dread locks.
Jason -- Activision is just helping turn nerds back into nerds. Gaming culture was getting too cool for its own good. Now, when you bring Jessica over to your house for the first time, and she sees your two fake drum sets in the living room, you won't have to worry about whether or not you'll be spending the night alone. Better hope the GH4 drum kit comes with a big bottle of lotion. You'll be needing it.
Xbox 360 Spring 08 Update feature list has been leaked. [link]
Burnie -- I love almost every feature, but multi-user voice chat has to top the list. Overall, I am very impressed by this list. Although I wish there was a "Refuse Invites In Games I Am Not Playing" as well.
Gus -- Jesus, that list is long. I don't have the attention span to read that. Do they have a feature to allow me to get rid of the "Failed to sign into Messenger" alert I get every time I sign in? If they did, that's my new favorite feature.
Geoff -- About the only thing I see missing from that list is the blow job blade, and as long as we have Jason in the office, I can live without it.
Jason -- I really like "16. Language improvements.", but only if refers to the vocabulary of the average Xbox Live user.
Speed Racer made twenty million dollars at the box. [link]
Burnie -- I always wonder how that conversation goes when someone informs you that you managed to lose about 100 million of their dollars. I imagine it's pretty tense.
Gus -- I don't know anybody who was excited about this movie. The Wachowski's continue their streak of making movies that earn less than their predecessors. Way to go guys!
Geoff -- I wish someone would pay me $20 million to take a colorful dump on camera.
Jason -- Aside from the trailer making you think you might be sick to your stomach if you saw this movie, there's another reason it has done poorly at the box office. I've created an image to better explain it.
Matt -- Yes, but how much did the theaters make on concessions? Anyone over-stimulated enough to watch that much hyper-stylized imagery has to be on a sugar high of at least 10 bags of Sour Patch Kids and a gallon of Mr. Pibb. If you bought a ticket to that movie, you should automatically get a free box of chocolate-covered crystal meth.
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Enjoy your weekend
Hey folks, wanted to let you all know in advance of a little down time the site will be experiencing. Starting Saturday morning at 5AM Central Time (GMT -5) the site will be offline for extended maintenance. You may be wondering, "What does this mean?" Well basically it means the site will probably be unavailable all day Saturday. I will be working on migrating the site from the colocation facility in California where it is currently to a facility here in Austin. At the bare minimum the site will be offline for eight hours. If all goes well the site should be back online for you by Saturday evening. We will be updating DNS so that roosterteeth.com points to a new IP address so it may take a little while for your DNS provider to update. I will set up a redirect page that will take you from the old site to the new site just to be safe. These changes are to get us ready for some new stuff and should also make the site more stable. Sorry for the down time, but it will make things better in the end.
Anyway, the tl;dr version is this:
Site will be offline most of the day Saturday.
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The world deserves to know...
about all the important things running through my head. Burnie is obviously jealous.
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Dorks of Hazzard
Hey everyone, Jack here with a new contest and a bunch of stuff to give away to you kids.
I'll get to the new scavenger hunt in just a couple of paragraphs, but first, let me talk about my newest and most violent obsession. Grand Theft Auto has seriously taken over my life. I put 28 hours into that game within the week it was released and I'm currently sitting at 82% completed. Allow me to explain visually what my life boils down to now-a-days.
As you can imagine, if I didn't have a steady job, the red would pretty much swallow the entire pie. GTA pie...mmmm...
Anyway, with my obsession comes an opportunity for you, the first Rooster Teeth community member (whose account was created at least two weeks prior to this posting) to get 1000/1000 achievement points in GTA4 will get a prize from me. I'm not sure exactly what yet...but you'll get something kind of cool, go ahead...see if you can beat me there. Send me a message if you manage to get the 1000/1000.
Okay, enough GTA4 talk for you, on to what you kids really want, a new HALO 3 SCAVENGER HUNT FOR STOLEN GOODS!
I'm going to try something a bit different this time. A while back Burnie mentioned a forum in Russia where members go out and create a scene based on criteria given to them by a host. For example, if the moderator says "I want a photo of a man hanging from a balcony with nothing on but red underwear while someone points a gun at him." then the group would go out and take that photo.
I want to do something similar...only Halo based. We'll start out with a relatively easy one first and get harder if you guys get in to it. The first "Halo 3 Screenshot Creation":
DUKES OF HAZZARD!
Your screenshot must contain the following to be eligible for the prizes listed below:
1.) A warthog must be AIRBORNE with a driver who is wearing PINK armor.
2.) Someone wearing BLUE armor is being ASSISSINATED (gun-butt to the back of the head) by someone wearing RED armor.
3.) A BUBBLE SHIELD must be activated.
4.) A ROCKET must be IN THE AIR fired by someone OFF-SCREEN (we do not see the person launching the rocket)
Sounds like some chaos to me. Feel free to use any map to make this creation a success. Of course, the winners will be decided by me based on ability to follow the directions above as well as overall badassness of the screenshot.
You have until midnight CST on Sunday (between Sunday/Monday), May 18th to submit your image the following way:
Send an email to Scavengerhunt@Roosterteeth.com with the subject "DUKES OF HAZZARD!" with your Rooster Teeth profile link and a link to your fileshare on Bungie.net where your image is located. I'll go through them all and pick my favorites to win the following beautiful prizes I stole from Geoff's closet.
Get to it community, you have produced nothing but amazing work so far, I expect nothing less from you now! Make haste!
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Summa cum jobless
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Pound Hound
So I don't know if any of you have seen this journal by Burnie, but the subject of the "ground pound" gets brought up at least twice a day in our office now. It's wearing a bit thin. Hopefully something equally annoying will catch Burnie's attention soon, so we can get a rest.
Also, today's sponsor comic is up, and it's a little different this time. It's not a comic at all, rather a fancy wallpaper, available in a variety of flavors.
And last but not least, our summer sale is going strong. This could be your last chance to snag the ever-popular Grif shirt.
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Summer Sale Extravaganza
Hey there everyone. I just wanted to draw your attention to the store today, as we're holding a "beginning of Summer" sale. We are discontinuing a bunch of our shirts, to clear out space for some new stuff eventually. There's a good chance that shirt you always wanted (even if you didn't even know you wanted it), is in there, and cheaper than you could have ever imagined. Once these shirts are gone, they will never be back. This could be your last chance at true happiness.
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