Yes, yes. I know it’s been forever since we’ve posted anything on here. The outlook of MCT3K is hazy at this point, but I still enjoy me some video editing form time to time. I recently got into DC Universe Online, and I put together a short little video for one of the events we put on when we hit our 500th member. It’s not Halo, but you might enjoy the insanity.

After an amazing Quick Look of some Heavy Rain DLC on GiantBomb.com, I got sad that I don’t own a PS3 to check out this game. Then I remembered that this is the internet, the virtual land of instant gratification and spoilers! I hopped on YouTube to find a full playthrough of the game (you know, so I can enjoy it without the trouble of buying a PS3), and I stumbled on this gem. His name is darksydephil, and he essentially films himself playing games in HD, and comments on them as he does. I started watching his playthrough of Hard Rain, and about 2 minutes in, I was sold. This guy is hilarious! He is essentially riffing on games as he plays through them, and Heavy Rain seems like the perfect candidate for being riffed. I may even see if he wants to cameo on MCt3K one of these days.

Go check him out!

Content Warning: This guy cusses more than your uncle Ted on a Jack binge.

So Pyroman was perusing our web stat tracker the other day (thanks, Mint!), and noticed something quite disturbing. In case you didn’t know, EVERYTHING you do on the internet is tracked by someone. Yes, it’s a frightening thought, but it’s very true. One of the stats websites can track is what keywords people used in a search engine to find your site. What you see above is a 100% real screenshot of our stats page (with red markings added, of course).

Yes, people really did find this site by searching for “beastiality” and “extreme sex”. In retrospect, including those words in this post probably won’t help much.

Oh well!

I know that Pyroman and I are both sexy beasts… but… REALLY!?!? It’s gross enough that people out there are into that sort of thing, but it’s plain bizarre to know they are searching for said content, and finding us!

Hello to all you crazy, animal-humping perverts out there! We may not be what you were searching for… but isn’t that a good thing?

- Smiley

Here’s a bonus pic of the most recent keywords used by people who found this site. We truly are a “world of gays” around here.

We gotta pay the bills, yo!
After season 1 of MCT3K, we started getting kinda boned by Machinima.com. In fact, most all of the directors (except for DigitalPh33r) started having trouble around the same time. This was due to the ridiculous onslaught of paid programming that came down the pipes of Machinima’s YouTube page. YouTube only shows the most recent couple of videos on a subscriber’s home page from certain subscribed channels. So if a new ad or gameplay video is being posted every hour, it means actual shows get shoved to the side. Another thing Machinima stopped doing is featuring shows on the main page. This slot remained basically for paid sponsors only, and as a result, featured content no one really cared about. There are only so many videos you can post about Modern Warfare 2 gameplay, when the game has been released for a week, before things get kind of ridiculous.

Interestingly, DigitalPh33r’s Arby and the Chief series was still featured on the main channel for every episode. Not sure if maybe there’s a stronger contract involved with him, considering how much money he makes from his videos (a lot), but that really isn’t fair to other directors with quality shows that aren’t seeing the light of day. Don’t get me wrong, DP really set the stage with the biggest machinima series since Red vs Blue, and he brings a lot of talent to the table. However, if you continue to whore out one director, new and fresh ideas aren’t going to ever rise to the top. Machinima is badly in need of some new and fresh ideas. Personally, I’ve found the recent Arby and the Chief episodes to seem more directed at pubescent junior highers, who like to feel grown up by cussing up a storm and making gross-out sex jokes. Maybe that’s just me. Probably is.

Now you see it, now you don’t.
Another thing that killed quality programming on Machinima, is the same thing that killed awesome TV shows like Firefly. That is, failing at sticking to a consistent release schedule. This started happening to MCT3K about midway through season 2. Uncoincidentally, this is when our views dropped dramatically. If you plan on something coming out every Friday, but instead it’s released on other days, you’ll end up forgetting about it after not seeing a few episodes – especially if a hundred other videos are being released on top of it.

“Dear Directors, Our bad.”
In a recent conversation with Machinima.com, they mentioned that they plan to rectify the current video clusterfuck on their channel by creating a separate channel for gaming shows specifically. They will start keeping gameplay videos separate from the actual shows. Ironically, this is something that I emailed them about almost a year ago. I sent them an email similar to what you are reading now. I won’t take credit for any changes, as the biggest response I got to the email was, “Hey thanks!”

Even if it’s taken a bit too long, my hat goes off to Machinima.com for finally acknowledging the issue, and responding to it appropriately. From what I’ve been told, they’re also going to go back to a consistent schedule for releasing shows. Hell, I would love to see a “TV guide” type schedule for each week, and what’s being released when.

The future of Pyrosmile
We’ve been receiving more and more YouTube messages and emails asking if we’re going to continue MCT3K, or if we’re going be releasing any new videos in the future. I’ll be honest, we’ve had stuff ready to produce in the pipelines, but have been stalling to wait until Machinima could get their acts together. Don’t get me wrong, getting paid to produce great gaming content is a privilege that I don’t want to take for granted! But when you start a contract with the process working one way, and then half way through it’s flipped upside down, that doesn’t exactly ooze of professionalism. After the recent chat with our hard working Machinima.com pals, we have decided to jump back on the production train to bring you guys some fresh shows!

We are going to start with the launch of Season 4 of Master Chief Theater 3000 in January. As expected (and requested by an insane amount of people) we will be throwing Halo: ODST under the limelight and riffing to our hearts content. It’s almost too easy. I will be posting a teaser for season 4 on our YouTube channel soon, so be sure to subscribe if you haven’t yet!

Once we get the ball rolling with MCT3K, we are going to start work on a pilot for a brand new Halo 3 machinima series. I can’t say much about it, but the current working title is “Camp Balls”. “But there are TONS of stupid Halo 3 machinimas already!” you might be thinking. You are correct. Here are some things to consider about our upcoming series:

- It’s written by people who know how to write, you know, COMEDY. As in, comedy for those who actually have half a brain.

- It’s voiced by people who actually have voice acting/professional audio experience. It won’t be one guy changing the pitch of his voice to be different characters. It won’t be a bunch of teenagers recording online via Xbox live headsets. And for godsakes, if we have a female in the show, WE’RE GONNA GET A CHICK TO PROVIDE THE VOICE.

- It will be filmed 100% in HD. Because we like pretty video, and so does YouTube.

- The series will only be a pilot, meaning we will produce a couple episodes, and if it doesn’t go over well, we will dry our eyes and move on to greener pastures.

So that’s what’s going on. Busy busy busy. 2010 will be a good year for solid Pyrosmile goodness. At least we hope so.

P.S. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter!

Another fun one for you kiddies. I enjoy watching and posting weird videos. I hope you enjoy them too.

I friggin love Egorapter. If you haven’t seen his Metal Gear Awesome series, crawl out from your rock and check it out. It’s good to see him doing other things that are just as awesome, though.

Finally, a funny Halo machinima (not from us). I suppose you’ll either love it or hate it.

I LOLed.