I'm back. Yes, it's me, I'm back. The Jungle's been pining for me, and I've answered the call.
Now, I've got several things to say after so long, so first things first:
I'm sorry. I'm very very sorry. I'm really really really really sorry. For everything.
Anyone who followed this site back in the heyday (and I realise that's probably almost none of you so I imagine I'm preaching to an empty crowd) will know that I was a big-headed, egotistical, self-righteous, self-important, rude, arrogant, petulant, stubborn arsehole. And I know that now. There were a few other arseholes in the QMovie community, but there were a lot of nice guys too. And I pissed them all off. So I unreservedly apologise to any and all that are reading whom I have pissed off in the past. Yes, Ajay, that means you too.
Now that I've got that off my chest, back to business. My last update was back in January 2002, almost a year after anything meaningful happened on the site, and I haven't been involved with machinima at all since then. My last post said that after all my plans "I'll be 23 by then, and I ain't getting any younger". Well, I'm nearly 24 now, and I feel it. But I searched for 'psyk' and 'ppj' and all that on Google, and encountered the Machinima Project on Wikipedia (oh, how I love that site). It was being pondered that the PPJ was only available on the Internet Archive, which doesn't exactly work too well. So, inspired by this, I've joined the project, and further inspired by the will to get all the old movies recognition again, I've started up the PPJ all over again. Oh glorious day.
I feel like a man who fell into a coma and woke up four years later. This machinima business has changed. I'm gonna have to get used to saying 'machinima' because it seems to have stuck. There's four years of catching up to do, and a few people might need to give me a hand with that. My first stop will probably be the thing everybody's talking about, Red vs Blue. The fact that guys like Rooster Teeth have produced so much machinima and got it out on DVD is quite a feat. Things have changed a lot, though: there's no big movies anymore, just lots of episodic series like RvB, Strangerhood, the Strange Company things... so I'm debating whether it's really worth reviewing individual episodes, since people don't do that with TV shows. I don't even know if I want to start reviewing stuff again, or whether I'll just stick a blog on the main page, leaving the bulk of the site for machinima historians. I just don't know right now.
For the moment, this is it. I'll be in the USA between 8th and 23rd August so updates won't be forthcoming any time soon. We'll see how it all pans out. All I'll say now is, in the words of Gary Glitter:
"Hello, hello, it's good to be back, it's good to be back.
I knew all the time what I was missin', now I'm back with the boys.
Do you wanna touch me there? Yeah!"
I think there's a message there for all of us.
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This is a great resource to have back online. It's really amazing to see what the machinima scene looked like years ago.
As for reviewing episodic machinima, a lot of it (but not all) is geared towards seasons or one lengthy work, so I guess that, if you wanted to, you could review the larger work as a whole. Red vs Blue works this way, and the DVDs have been edited so that the episodes run continuously as one big film (except that each season ends on major cliffhangers, so the film isn't entirely self-contained...).
Another production worth checking out is This Spartan Life. It's a talk show done in Halo 2, and they;ve gotten some fairly big names -- Marty O'Donnell (Bungie's audio producer), the ILL Clan, and Malcolm McLaren -- to come on the show.
I'm still in my coma, mostly. But the kind visitors do read things about machinima to me, and I'm glad to have some jungle back in the mix. Good to hear from you.
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