Dark_Respite

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This video was pretty good with all the people on screen, it's not a bad video at all. It's just that Samuraiko upstaged ya weeks ago.

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Strictly speaking it was ten days.

And to be fair, since they were including the stuff from the day of the anniversary, the Paragon Studios videographer and his team would have to have been up all night to get it done even by the next day. Not to mention God knows how much footage they must have shot over the course of the day that they'd have to sift through to get good segments...

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

One trick to try is change your map, then change it back. For some reason, this then brings up the orange error in the upper righthand corner, which you can then click to be taken straight to the relevant mission.

Otherwise, click on the first 'page' of each of your missions and it will tell you the details of the map (how many of whatever you're allowed) - then click the second 'page' of each mission to see if you have too many.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Why would they hire on someone for a position that doesn't exist, that they would need exactly 3 or 4 times a year? o.O

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Because if they'd actually hire me, I wouldn't do only trailers - I'd also do stuff like "Meet the [fill-in-the-archetype]", promote in-game events (Valentine's Day, Halloween, Winter event, and so on), features on in-game stuff like the Task/Strike Forces, and so on.

Hell, I could do a commercial that would make the Positron Task Force look good.

*****

And before I completely forget my manners, thank you to everyone in this thread who enjoys my videos. I love making them. If anything were going to bring me out of retirement, it's you guys and knowing that you like my work.

BTW, for those who are wondering what video of mine the others are talking about, the link's in my signature.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Sorry, I've got a +Perception bonus against Lurkers.

BTW, some of you may be getting what you wanted this weekend - I am probably going to pull down the "Hell Hath No Fury" story arc and post "The Hearts of Heroes" - the arc that is based on this story.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

I hope you're proud of yourself, you have reduced me and Bloodspeaker to helpless laughter. That is now getting forwarded to everyone in the Star Patrol.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Thanks!

BTW, the 100MB limit is really more about containing bandwidth than it is about storage. Not everyone has hellfast internet connections... strange, but true.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Another good one is wegame.com, I believe - do a quick skim of some of the other threads in here and you'll find more info.

Mind you, you can now specify higher quality when you upload to YouTube. Still not quite as good as downloading the original files, but not nearly as lousy.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Patrons, you're in charge. I'm off to Warburg for nukes. Why? Coz I'm gonna sink Statesman's destroyer. Sure it won't kill him, but watching him do the magic dive before he remembers he's immortal will be worth it.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

After Teldon had interviewed me two weeks ago about the MA, I pointed him in the direction of @Doc Hornet and @Fearghas for their contributions to the MA. I also know he's been screamingly busy so he might not have been able to hook up with them yet. And I do hope he continues to interview the MA writers!

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

*laughs*

Not quite, although this does lend itself well to doing the trailer for an arc idea of mine.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Oooh! Not seen those before, will have to mess with those.

Learn something new every day...

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Well, at least the publicity is good. Hooray for our side. Should be interesting to see how well this all plays out (no pun intended) for PS and CoH/CoV.

You should have some of these folks come and cover HeroCon 2009.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

The nearest equivalent I know of is Statesman hanging above Tyrant's throne, trapped there by lightning. It is:

MOV STATESSHACKLE_A
and
MOV STATESSHACKLE_B

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Mine are a combination of screencaptures, timecodes, and cast/camera notes. For example, here's some of my storyboarding for "History in the Making":

SEGMENT:
Caption: Rularuu Trapped in the Shadow Shard (1:54-2:07)
MAP: Storm Palace
Midnighters in the Shard, using staves and/or the Lost Curing Wands
Rularuu resisting, but then fades away to nothing
Add aura?
HA! MOV/FX to use - PENELOPE_YIN_CAPTURE is that neat "Lost captured by Rikti" thing!

And it goes from there.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

*hugs Battle* THANK YOU!

You are so sweet... unfortunately, I doubt the Powers That Be are gonna hire me. Not for lack of trying on my part.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

A) Lots and lots and LOTS of practice and patience.
B) I don't mind putting it up in high-rez on YouTube (in fact, that's my default setting when it doesn't forget). But I prefer to keep a copy on my website to drive traffic to the site, and in case YouTube yanks it down for some stupid reason.
C) Repasting that index over and over and over again is a major hassle. DarkEther and Ex Libris (now presumably Niviene) are usually pretty good about updating the primary post.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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Wow...

(Picks jaw up off of floor)

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Was that reaction to my video or someone else's?

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

And Samuraiko Productions rings in another one, with a commemorative video to celebrate the Fifth Anniversary of COH/COV!

History In The Making (high rez version - 150MB)

History In the Making (YouTube version, might not be live yet, so you're welcome to keep trying)

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

If I might add a new layer to this, here is a partial list of the genres available for stories used on the FanFiction.net site (when you post a story, you're allowed to select two). These might be good for giving more of the flavour of your arc:

Adventure
Angst
Crime
Drama
Fantasy
Horror
Humor
Mystery
Parody
Romance
Sci-Fi
Supernatural
Suspense
Tragedy

So, to use my own arcs as an example, "Dyne of the Times" would be Crime/Suspense, "Hell Hath No Fury" would be Supernatural/Drama, and "Positron Gets Some" would be Humor/Romance.

To give examples of other people's arcs, "Opera of the Abyss" might be Supernatural/Suspense, "Intellectual Property Theft" would be Humor/Parody, and so on.

Admittedly, this is more text in our descriptions, but if anyone knows a good way to shorten these, I'm all for it.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

*hugs Leandro*

You are an ANGEL!

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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All the devs are going to line up in AP and all at one time turn around and moon us.

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Did anyone else just imagine Posi, BABs, Castle, Manti, and Synapse re-enacting the scene from the end of The Full Monty?

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I don't know how I'm going to manage, but THAT is going to have to go into the CoVideoHell Project. Thank you for that!

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Nice to know I'm beating the deadline for making a video celebrating the 5th anniversary because MINE will go live on the actual anniversary. However, this then automatically disqualifies me from competing.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

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I feel the need to echo all the other positive post here by saying what a great read this story is really well done and fun to boot, can't wait for more.

(original post right?)

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I got your original post via my email, so if you'd like to join the SP, hit the Star Patrol's site and send a message to Agent Bowman.

And welcome to the madness that is my story, and don't feel bad about posting stuff like this in the Discussions thread. This is where folks ask me about the SG, our companion villain group the Nova Dominion, how I write, whether Troy Hickman always appears if you say his name, etc etc etc.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

To answer your items:

1. Thanks!
2. All of the Star Patrol members are characters in-game, played by a number of people. The ones who appear here are characters whose players agreed to let me write them in.
3. Thanks! Again!
4. Sorina Tavarisch is one of my primary in-game characters, as is Andrea Blake. (Sorina's my infamous grav/kin/primal lvl 50 troller [infamous because she does NOT have Speed Boost, Density Increase, or Inertial Reduction], and Andrea's my dark/psi/dark lvl 44 def.)
5. Yes, but feel free to repeat it as often as you like.

Of the Phalanx, my favorites are Positron and Synapse, due (in no small part) to how Troy Hickman characterized them in his Top Cow comics arc "Smoke and Mirrors." They're also the reason I liked the FREEDOM PHALANX novel. They seem the most 'human' of the Phalanx lineup.

Chapter 43 is about a third of the way written - I've been re-reading two of my other books to get a feel for the battle between Hro'Dtohz and Av'Adn.

And also yesterday afternoon, I had the absolutely insane idea of scripting out an entire machinima movie (like feature-length film, 90+ minutes) based on the Star Patrol. I must be mad.

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite

Very spiffy!

Michelle
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Samuraiko/Dark_Respite