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Posted by reaper47 on Sun May 7th at 6:07pm 2006

You might have noticed the new "Media" tab in the browse games section of Steam. Besides a couple of old trailers there is a 15 minute short called "Zombie Movie" made by some guys at Valve. It's a good, black-humor/horror movie about 3 guys sitting in a car surrounded by hordes of zombies while they try out different ways to get the hell out of there. Reminded me of the more realistic/sarcastic Zombie movies like 28 Days Later.

I think it's a cute idea to publish it over Steam. Noone's hurt and it's a fun little movie. Also it's funny to see a (c) Valve at the end. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by ReNo on Sun May 7th at 6:30pm 2006

It's a good way to kill 15 minutes <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">



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Posted by Orpheus on Sun May 7th at 6:32pm 2006

? quoting ReNo
It's a good way to kill 15 minutes

You must be refering to after the hours long download?





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Posted by reaper47 on Sun May 7th at 6:51pm 2006

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? quoting ReNoIt's a good way to kill 15 minutes image
You must be refering to after the hours long download? image


Sorry, Orpheus, forgot to mention it's a 350MB download. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/leper.gif">

I wonder why they use a WMV file for it. DivX/Xvid could get this around 100 MB. It seems like DivX is still seen as the big Satan among the bigger corporations because of all the p2p sharing. One day it will become as popular as MP3 for legal services like iTunes.



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Posted by Crono on Sun May 7th at 7:11pm 2006

Lots of people use Divx (professionally) ... but EVERYONE (Windows compatable => steam) can play wmv (and most all the codecs which that entails) Also, since they use .net they can just call library functions (media player) to get the video to play within steam. Just easier, I guess.

Wmv is also big on streaming video, even if it doesn't usually work (Not for me anyway, it buffers for 2 minutes plays for 3 seconds then buffers for another minute. I never get smooth playback. But then again wmv is a pos.)

If Valve wasn't using Divx, Xvid or any of those nice codecs because of piracy ... why would they hire the people behind bit torrent? image

As for the movie it self, it's still loading.


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Posted by reaper47 on Sun May 7th at 7:15pm 2006

btw. the Steam Media Player crashed to me. It... restarted the PC.
That's why I found out about the WMV format anyways <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif">



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Posted by G.Ballblue on Sun May 7th at 10:38pm 2006

350 megs? Gah, shame on valve.



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Posted by FatStrings on Mon May 8th at 1:17am 2006

wow it's to bad i live ten feet to far out of town to get DSL




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Posted by Pvt.Scythe on Mon May 8th at 6:01am 2006

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wow it's to bad i live ten feet to far out of town to get DSL


I feel your pain. It took 4 years to get a broadband here. Now I'm on WiMAX. As for the codecs: didn't WH 40K: Dawn of War use DivX for it's videos?



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Posted by Andrei on Mon May 8th at 11:23am 2006

Funny, i've seen a s**tload of whining about the file, but not one word about the MOVIE itself.

I thought it was pretty good but it's a shame that the living dead didn't have any headcrabs on them. The cannibalism part was pretty disturbing, especially the roast finger, but overall it was, indeed, a good way to kill 15 minutes.



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Posted by Agent Smith on Mon May 8th at 11:58am 2006

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The cannibalism part was pretty disturbing, especially the roast finger


Yes... finger...



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Posted by Andrei on Mon May 8th at 1:41pm 2006

TBH, it looked more like a penis. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/heee.gif">

And I sense finger is going to want to kill us.




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Posted by Naklajat on Tue May 9th at 7:36am 2006

I liked the part where they were talking about which bands were "evil" and the guy said KISS, then the other guy said "F--k, Sam, KISS ain't evil bro, they're gay." That made me laugh.

Also when Sam was talking about how they could start a fire in the spare tire compartment to cook him. Then they stabbed him repeatedly, and afterwards he said "take me to the hospital, I need a doctor."

And I think it was his penis, since thats where the blood was on his clothes. Kind of an odd choice of parts to eat first IMO.

As it's been said, good way to kill 15 minutes.


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Posted by Dark Tree on Tue May 9th at 7:48pm 2006

I thought it was going to be one of those HL2 movies but I was surprised to find it was live action. It was ok for a short indi film <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> It bothered me how dumb they were that they poured the gas through the hole which was obviously not in the tank.....all they'd have to do is look and see that there was pavement below them :/




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Posted by Gaara on Fri May 12th at 10:56am 2006

? quoting Baron von Snickers
I liked the part where they were talking about which bands were "evil" and the guy said KISS, then the other guy said "F--k, Sam, KISS ain't evil bro, they're gay." That made me laugh.

Also when Sam was talking about how they could start a fire in the spare tire compartment to cook him. Then they stabbed him repeatedly, and afterwards he said "take me to the hospital, I need a doctor."

And I think it was his penis, since thats where the blood was on his clothes. Kind of an odd choice of parts to eat first IMO.

As it's been said, good way to kill 15 minutes.

? quoting Armin The Cannibal Thread
The pair met at Meiwes's home in Rotenburg in March 2001, where they had sex before Meiwes cut off Brandes's penis, which the men then cooked and attempted to eat.

Meiwes later stabbed and killed Brandes.

Sounds like that




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