S5 E165 What is it about those HL NPCs? Ridiculous Ties (Jan 2025)

This week's #machinima short is ridiculous, yep Ridiculous Ties - a meme response to Eltorro64Rus' review of favorite and least favorite words used by the Scientist in Half Life, created by Finzlow.  And did we say its ridiculous?!  We love the well-crafted humor in this, in-jokes with some of the best timing and inspired editing we've seen for quite some time. Although its strictly not machinima, it is definitely from a machinima stable, so it counts for us at least.  Our review -

1:01 Intro to the film, models and the stylistic choices Finzlow has made, Marx Bros comedy 

5:27 Old Man Murray

8:06 What’s the process for creating this?

9:57 HL2 vs HL1

11:40 Subversion, remix and moxie

14:34 Timing is everything

17:17 What’s the best line? “I never thought I would see a highly training professional, let alone create one”

18:34 Italian slapstick: lazzi

26:09 Ricky’s complaint

28:37 @ILLRobinson – what do you think about this film?!

Credits -
Speakers: Ricky Grove, Phil Rice, Damien Valentine, Tracy Harwood
Producer: Damien Valentine
Editor: Phil Rice
Music: Animo Domini Beats