Keenan

Keenan

Hey y’all!  This year the cast and crew of ShortPants.tv is teaming up with a few of our friends to participate in the 48 Film Festival.  Because our team is not completely made up of SP.tv members, we chose to enter under a name that had no affiliation to any one party.

we are - TEAM THUNDER CLAW

This will mark our very first pay-to-enter contest and is sure to be a rompin’ stompin’ good time.  There’s a whole host of talented filmmakers who have entered the contest thus far and we wish each and every one of them good luck and good filmmaking.  The contest will begin July 31st and end on August 2nd.  If you’d like to be a part of the team, or would just like to wish us luck, leave a comment below and we’ll get back to you.  Team Thunder Claw… HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Also, for anyone interested in seeing the final submissions:

World, what would you be like without the invention of plastic?

Sincere Regards,

Stephany

*Kegen: Sorry to hijack your question Keenan, but it is such a great question that it prompts another, and that is-what are everyone’s wild guesses about next season? guesses based more on a feeling of the story than any specific evidence.

10. Guardian (Halo 3 - xBox 360): This is still, despite my placing it 10th, my favorite H3 map. The reason I don’t rate it higher is only because it has a tendency to snowball, which can be REALLY frustrating if you’re on the wrong end of the spree, but can be super satisfying if you’re the one on the killing frenzy. Also, the sniper tower tends to encourage camping (guilty as charged, and it isn’t necessarily a bad thing, but…), which tends to force a majority of the action to that corner of the map.
9. G5 Building (Perfect Dark - N64): I only wish they would have used a different texture on the walls so that everything didn’t look the same. Very close quarters for PD, and it was possible to be super cheap against the Sims by holding up in the dead-end hall at the top with the window, get your magnum doubled up, train your sites to head level and wait for them to pop out from the end of the hallway. Incidentally, that ended up being one of the big problems with many of the PD maps, too many dead end hallways that you could get yourself set up in.
8. Sandbox (Halo 3 - xBox 360): I know, this is a very new map (well, really 3 maps in one), but I have extremely high hopes for it, and love customization. This forgeable canvas promises to have all the flexibility and functionality that Foundry lacked.
7. Prisoner (Halo CE - xBox): I always liked this level, even though I was never all that successful at it. I liked the balance of two clear strategies, snipe and cover the over-shield or roam the bottom with rockets, AR and invisibility. The plasma rifle was also great in this level, catch a guy on one of those gangways, stick him with the gun until you ran over and punched him. I always wanted an official remake of this level for H2 & 3, but without fall damage, it probably wouldn’t play nearly as well.
6. High Ground (Halo 3 - xBox 360): It took me awhile to warm up to this map, but it plays with a great balance of long, mid, and short range combat, plus vehicles work, but it isn’t so big that 4 player games slow down. You can play a post up game, or roam, good lines of sight, but plenty of cover to allow safe travel across the map.
5. Stack (GoldenEye - N64): This map usually ranks behind the Facility and Temple, but I always thought it was a better map than either of them, there weren’t any bottle necks, the bi-level courtyards made for interesting shoot-outs. I chose the Stack above the Library mainly because the Basement wasn’t all that fun, and really made the level too big for even 4 player matches.
4. The Pit (Halo 3 - xBox 360): This map plays so balanced. Again, there is a nice mix of long, mid, and short range combat, definitely multiple strategies and playing styles can be successful which makes for more interesting and exciting games.
3. Villa (Perfect Dark - N64): The quality of multiplayer maps in this game was one of the big strikes against it, but this was a great map. Unfortunately, it was one of the very very few maps in which the Sims didn’t get too bogged down in a loop somewhere and turn into a shooting gallery. Great lighting, hill games here were super fun.
2. Chill Out (Halo CE - xBox): Small maps are my favorite, so its no surprise that this was my favorite map from CE. The remake for H3 really shows how different the game has become.
1. Complex (GoldenEye - N64): Simply the best. There aren’t any natural bottle necks in this level, it flows so well with multiple routes to anywhere on the map, all parts of the map are played. I have fond memories of shoot-outs in all of the sections. Its sad that this was also the best map on PD, for some reason, Rare wasn’t ever able to replicate the magic they created with this map. Making a forged Sandbox version of this map for H3 is priority #1 for me.

WinBack: Covert Operations (N64) - Still the best 3rd person stealth 4-player split screen multiplayer game ever.
Conker’s Bad Fur Day (N64) - Rare = awesome
NBA 2K3 (xBox) - The best basket ball game ever made, the controls are simple and intuitive and the character generator is robust enough to make reasonable facsimiles of all your friends. 2 v 2 street ball is about the funnest 4 player sports game ever. I still can’t believe they haven’t made this game backwards compatible with the 360 yet (actually, I just checked, and it has finally been added to the list, hooray!).
WWF No Mercy (N64) - Super fun, amazing character personalization possible, you could customize all 100+ moves your player performed in the ring, and again, great 4 player action.
Perfect Dark (N64) - actually, probably a better game than its predecessor, but the multiplayer levels weren’t quite as good and the campaign was just terrible, I hate when an FPS turns into an alien shooting gallery.
Micro Machines (NES) - great game, spent tons of time playing this game at a friends house growing up.
Clayfighter (Sega Genesis) - back when I still cared about graphics (and fighting games), this game blew my mind.
Tecmo Superbowl (NES) - still maybe the best football game ever made, and the savable season progress was revolutionary.
Base Wars (NES) - best baseball game ever made, on a close play you get to fight it out for the call.
Halo 3 (xBox 360) - Yeah, I did it, I know, I know, when a game is the highest selling game of all time, it can hardly be considered underrated, but it really is a great game, better than CE, and consistently rates below other titles on other lists published on the web, so say what you will.

-Keenan

Keenan

Seinfeld (the most perfect comedy ever, if you disagree, then you’re wrong.)
Simpson’s
The Daily Show (w/ Jon Stewart)
News Radio
Get Smart
The Cosby Show
30 Rock
The Office (American)
Scrubs
The Red Green Show

Notable snubs:
M*A*S*H
Cheers

Anchorman
So I Married an Axe Murderer
Office Space
Napolean Dynomite
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Kung Fu Hustle (replacing: Dumb and Dumber)
Zoolander
Best in Show
Down with Love
Billy Madison

Notable snub: Animal House - the most over rated movie of all time, lets face it, it just isn’t funny.