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good morning, good evening, goodnight

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Alpha and his fragments

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Ive been enjoying your series of mini-essays on various media you’ve been doing! Since I saw you mention it in the Fargo retrospective, any takes on Red Vs. Blue? Or the life and death of roosterteeth in general?

Red vs. Blue is conceptually mindboggling, it's essentially a story like Catch-22 made in a video game by a bunch of dudes who had definitely never been in the military before, there is an incredible originality to what it is doing but it is also being made by people with essentially no narrative or comedic talent or creative vision whatsoever beyond the (sometimes actually impressive) technical ways they pulled off certain shots, especially in the early seasons before Bungie put sophisticated theater mode tech into Halo 3. But then when Halo 3 does roll around and Rooster Teeth is unleashed, so to speak, there does start to be some real cinematic flair. Then Monty Aum emerges out of a Master Chief vs. Samus video on YouTube and somehow gets attached... then he dies... it's kind of a bizarre series of events. There is, despite the wave of imitators it spawned, nothing really like Red vs Blue, and all of this without it even being particularly good.

I love the way Blood Gulch looks. This I guess is more credit to Bungie than RT but the original Blood Gulch is so washed out, so big, so empty, it adds a surreal edge to everything happening on screen no matter how stupid it is. (Bro... what if Church died... and came back as a ghost?!) There are so many shots of that Warthog cutting across the far distance (done to conceal the fact that in Halo 1 only players on the same team, and thus same armor color, could be in the same vehicle) over a massive grassy hill and it's like an even more nostalgic Windows XP background. So much of the first season especially takes place in the big empty dead zone between the bases with no geographical markers at all. It evokes something, at least.

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He pronounced machinimated so wrong when reading it

im in a community college 101 class and my teacher was reading examples of our weekly discussion post which was tell a story about what covid-19 pandemic meant to you. he decided to use mine as an example, despite it being completely devoted to how much i loved the covid-19 pandemic because it gave all my friends the free time to watch red vs blue with me

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im in a community college 101 class and my teacher was reading examples of our weekly discussion post which was tell a story about what covid-19 pandemic meant to you. he decided to use mine as an example, despite it being completely devoted to how much i loved the covid-19 pandemic because it gave all my friends the free time to watch red vs blue with me

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Go my Chex angst, I feed on the tears of RvB fans

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One of the best moments of Burnie on the RT Podcast (#206), in which he dies of laughter. (I wanted to shorten the video down, but the whole context of this is beautiful.)

Burnie: “I typed in how many fing-” *wheezes*

Gus: “What does it say!”

Burnie: “i typed in how many fingers, and it auto-completed, this is the number one search for ’How many fingers’…” *dies*

Burnie: “How many fingers does a person have!”

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i think about wash's fuck-ass laugh all the time

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grimmons animatic to the song small car with big wheels. to recover from rvb restoration

[originally posted december 2022]

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Felt a bit nostalgic 😭 you probably shouldn’t get into RvB in the year 2025 but these guys are in it so actually maybe you should

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Church omg hi Church lalalala

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My take on this stupid trend

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link

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throwback thursday to my rvb hater friend and me trying to figure out what to watch together and he sighed and asked me if i wanted to put on red vs blue and i got so excited i jumped up and down and slipped and ate shit and completely fell over on my back

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saw this and couldnt stop thinking of red team

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au where the aliens from rvb have a blogging platform called tumblargh

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i think about wash's fuck-ass laugh all the time