Vajuras Thread - Previously known as "Marvel Universe, Gaming's Citizen Kane."

[schild]

And he's a dev, so you should believe him. Anyway, here's the basic sum of it. To put it simply, some permissions were screwed up and he's the one that deleted it. All of that is fixed now. Enjoy.

Here's his awesome MMORPG.com profile.


Here's most of the thread.

That's a thumbnail, clicky clicky.

And here's his awesome Mobygames.com Profile.

Here's an email he sent me:

Subject: Was flammed by a moderator

Hi, I am not sure if the style of your site is a
"hands off" approach or if you have certain forum
rules against personal attacks. In any case, on my
very first post, I was somewhat attacked by a
moderator in this thread,

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?topic=11866

I posted as "vajuras". I have attached a screenshot of
this incident just incase he tries to cover his trail
by removing my quote of his reply.

This moderator, Rasix, seems to have a really bad
temper or something.

He is not the Vajuras on Deviant Art. That one lives in Canada. This guy posts from Austin. He works for Vigil and is either working on the WH40k MMOG or that other action game. Most likely WH40k. I guess, as an MMOG centric site, we can only hope that he has someone telling him what to do, since his tastes in games seems to be... poop.

Why am I posting this? Well, it's probably stupid to do so, but mostly because he deleted it himself. And because I want people to know that there are some devs out there that never should've risen above generic IGN member. Education be damned. So, I suppose I'm making an example of him.

[Azazel]

The thumbnail just leads to a bigger thumbnail.

No, it's the same thumbnail.

[Rasix]

I "flammed"? Ohh k. I think I said he was either young or had bad taste in games. 

Also, apparently I'm driving away advertiser payola.  Call me Gerstmann.   

[Dtrain]

I particularly like how he makes a complete ass of himself then says, "Oh well, I'm bored now. That's why I won't reply anymore, got that? It's not because I got royally flamed and I'm ruthlessly suppressing the cognitive dissonance that tells me I might not be quite the hot turd I think myself to be. Nope, I'm bored. LATA FOOS!"

[schild]

My IP addresses: Let me show you them.

Already fixed. Plz to be deleting lolz. My bad.

[Margalis]

This should give hope to idiots everywhere who want to be game devs.

[schild]

This should give hope to idiots everywhere who want to be game devs.

Either that or apps for jobs start having this:

Good at internet?
[ ] Yes
[ ] No
[ ] lolcat

[Azazel]

I'm actually legitimately upset over that thread.

I thought it was great fun, one of the greatest threads I've seen in months and now it's gone.  



I guess maybe he got scared, even though "you can't do anything to me in RL"...?

Should we repost his mobygames proifile? - And I hope he gets the Geldon-style edit button. Just in case he comes back.

[schild]

There's no reason to repost it.

His name is Richard Osborne.
He is a developer at Vigil.
He is bad at the internet.
He lives in Austin, somewhere around here:


And it would do him wise to stop pretending he's from Cryptic and just making crap up left and right considering Cryptic is in Los Gatos. 100+ Companies in Austin and he picks one we're terribly familiar with.

[Azazel]

Oh, I meant because it has his  game dev CV on it.

http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/developerId,165009

[schild]

It's in the first post, Azazel.

[Azazel]

Ah, I was too distracted trying to get the thread image to work. (it works now). Shame it missed out on UnSub's quality second post though. 

[bhodi]

Are you trying to embarrass him off the internet? Or just ruin his actual career?

Not that I care, really. I prefer to think that his thread got owned by the grammar snake. "Know I do not have blog" indeed.

Oh, those screenshots missed the best part, he created a signature that said something like "What is Vigil? I am 100% Cryptic!"

[Dtrain]

Are you trying to embarrass him off the internet? Or just ruin his actual career?

I think the purpose is to share and enhance the funny. But you knew that, didn't you? 

CLASSIC RPG! Forget Wizardry, Bard's Tale, Fallout or anything else you THOUGHT you knew. This is it. This is a classic RPG. This is where I circle the wagons:



I circle the wagons around clown spanking.

[Azazel]

Are you trying to embarrass him off the internet? Or just ruin his actual career?

Not that I care, really. I prefer to think that his thread got owned by the grammar snake. "Know I do not have blog" indeed.

Oh, those screenshots missed the best part, he created a signature that said something like "What is Vigil? I am 100% Cryptic!"

http://forums.f13.net/index.php?action=profile;u=2333

Signature:
Who is Vigil!? I 100% represent Cryptic Studios!

Also, I like Warhammer 40k. This particular fuckwit makes me worry that it might not be the best new MMOG to come out. 

[NiX]

Vagina. I have to say it. His name makes me want to say the word Vagina. I wish I could be that compelling.

[Azazel]

So, Dick's pseudonym makes you want to say Vagina?

Good stuff!

[NiX]

Well played sir, well played.

[LK]

 

How the hell did he get a "red name" in the first place? Just sign up and say "Hey, I'm a Dev!"

Maybe someone should post a couple times and show that they aren't a complete moron or have a skin that's thicker than cum-soaked tissue paper.

Could you fucking imagine a developer of ANYTHING having that attitude to negativity about what they are doing or saying when it's clear that they are fucked?  He has his head so far up his own ass that whole thread.

Anyone who has the slightest bit of integrity and professionalism would maintain a low profile as a developer.

[schild]

Anyone who has the slightest bit of integrity and professionalism would maintain a low profile as a developer.

Bingo.

[stray]

Fuck, being a developer sucks, in my opinion. Sucks! Socially speaking, that is. Work, work, work, all cooped up and shit for 80 hours a week, making tons of cash and not having the time to do anything fun with it... Hell, not even realizing what fun there is out there, as well as all of the ass you could tap with just a flick of the money hat -- simply because you've been a dork your whole life, cracked the books in school, and went straight to a (what seemed like) dreamjob, and know little of everything else.

I say more power to anyone in that industry that wants to pop their head out of the rabbit hole every once in awhile. Internet, real world, whatever. To hell with keeping a low profile.

Just don't be a douche is all. That is the real lesson here.

[Azazel]

I tend to agree with Stray here. We've got plenty of Devs here who aren't complete fucking idiots.

The difference is that Scott, Lum, Martin, Iain, Raph, et al interact with us like the rest of us do, pretty much as peers who happen to work in the industry. Now, okay, due to their positions in the industry they're probably less likely to be outright rude cunts (or use the word cunts) than say, Stray, or Haemish, or myself - even to something they feel is justfied, but they also don't put on airs and graces about how great they think they are because of their dev jobs while we are just lowly internet users.

Also, Stray, not sure if you saw the original (edited) posts in the original thread, but this guy was going on and on about metacritic scores. If this assclown is an example of holding metacritic up as a shining beacon...

[Dtrain]

I tend to agree with Stray here. We've got plenty of Devs here who aren't complete fucking idiots.

The difference is that Scott, Lum, Martin, Iain, Raph, et al interact with us like the rest of us do, pretty much as peers who happen to work in the industry. Now, okay, due to their positions in the industry they're probably less likely to be outright rude cunts (or use the word cunts) than say, Stray, or Haemish, or myself - even to something they feel is justfied, but they also don't put on airs and graces about how great they think they are because of their dev jobs while we are just lowly internet users.

Also, Stray, not sure if you saw the original (edited) posts in the original thread, but this guy was going on and on about metacritic scores. If this assclown is an example of holding metacritic up as a shining beacon...

And one more thing: I've lurked for a while and the heat that gets thrown at those guys is waaay worse than "No, I think your opinion on this game is wrong." Some of them in particular have the patience of saints. Honestly, I'm surprised Raph hasn't cussed some of you. This is Raph -> 

[schild]

Raph is not pedobear.

That's just weird.

[Azazel]

Maybe he was saying that Raph is a big ole' teddy bear. Or maybe that Raph "looks legit"?

[stray]

I wouldn't hold it against Raph if he ever had the urge to throw down. That is definitely his right

[Simond]

Are you trying to embarrass him off the internet? Or just ruin his actual career?

Can't we do both? 

[Nija]

Damn, I missed all this. Thanks for saving it.

This sounds like another one of the hundreds of "make video games, but don't actually play them" developers that are so popular these days.

[Mrbloodworth]

 

[Sairon]

Damn, I missed all this. Thanks for saving it.

This sounds like another one of the hundreds of "make video games, but don't actually play them" developers that are so popular these days.

Hehe, that's pretty funny in fact. One of my best friends and co worker mostly played just a few JRPGs until a few months back, when he got seriously addicted to DoTA. Worked with him on a few smaller projects in the past and it's pretty sweet since he's one of the few who doesn't care about the game design process.

[d4rkj3di]

Currently, V for Vaginass is now claiming NCsoft as employer of the moment. I really wish that were true, since I would pay in blood to watch Lum calmly walk down the hall and crush his soul.

[MrHat]

We need a OMGAWESOME button right next to Reply, Notify, Mark Unread that automagically emails peeps to let them know that simply awesome stuff is happening in a thread @ F13.net

[WindupAtheist]

We need a OMGAWESOME button right next to Reply, Notify, Mark Unread that automagically emails peeps to let them know that simply awesome stuff is happening in a thread @ F13.net

We so do.  I can't believe I missed this.

[cmlancas]

I think this just might make the sticky right next to you in the Den. 

[lamaros]

We need a OMGAWESOME button right next to Reply, Notify, Mark Unread that automagically emails peeps to let them know that simply awesome stuff is happening in a thread @ F13.net

We so do.  I can't believe I missed this.

Please.