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« Last Edit: March 11, 2010, 01:18:17 PM by schild »
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tmp
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POW! Right in the Kisser!
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As a game developer, I know all too well that if your game is not finished and you release it, thats just asking for trouble. No matter how great the game and technology are, it can and will fail. Especially in this industry climate.  |
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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/boggle
well, good for him tossing out all the WoW assets.
but I will be surprised if he hasn't left by this time next year. If not earlier.
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Khaldun
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Just so so beautiful. The lulz of talking about team effort and best practices management while you shit on former employees in public is of course very special, but I think the very best moment is the "we're throwing out our entire art style and coming up with something different" schtick, roughly at about the plausibility level of saying that you're going to be healing lepers with a magic touch.
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sam, an eggplant
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As a game developer, I know all too well that if your game is not finished and you release it, thats just asking for trouble. No matter how great the game and technology are, it can and will fail. Especially in this industry climate.  |
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Ingmar
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Stormwaltz
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Nothing in this post represents the views of my current or previous employers.
"Isn't that just like an elf? Brings a spell to a gun fight."
"Sci-Fi writers don't invent the future, they market it."
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Khaldun
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Please please please let someone over at that forum poke at him a bit.  |
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sam, an eggplant
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You aren't up on your Dr. Smart PhD history. You won't get his best stuff poking fun in his own forums, he'll just *plonk* you (ban you). The real trick is to get him to respond in a third-party forum like this one*, where he can't just silence his attackers. That's where it gets delicious.
* - but not ACTUALLY this one, as any forum he joins will instantly be overwhelmed by Derek Drama
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taolurker
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I like how in the spoiler quote, the name was modified... Hey folks, Derek 5mart here.
I just wanted to make a few things crystal clear so that we're all on the same page. So, for those of you counting, this thread so far contains a single Beetlejuice. Please please please let someone over at that forum poke at him a bit. r u serious? |
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Well my day is made. Might as well just take a nap now.
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Speaking of marketing, we're out of milk.
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Stephen Zepp
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You aren't up on your Dr. Smart PhD history. You won't get his best stuff poking fun in his own forums, he'll just *plonk* you (ban you). The real trick is to get him to respond in a third-party forum like this one, where he can't just silence his attackers. That's where it gets delicious.
Ahh yes, the sweet deliciousness of getting him to play on your turf--I still remember arguing him to at least an "agree to disagree, with respect" position after about 50 posts over 3 days. He couldn't ban, and I wouldn't--so he had to actually support his positions! |
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Soln
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the opportunity for evil is just delicious
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I wonder who would win a forum war: Derek 5mart or Curt Schi11ing?
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schild
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I wonder who would win a forum war: Derek 5mart or Curt Schi11ing?
Everyone. |
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sam, an eggplant
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You ever see Wargames?
"Strange game. The only way to win is not to play."
Fun to watch, though, from a safe distance.
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Nonentity
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Can't stop giggling.
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But that Captain's salami tray was tight, yo. You plump for the roast pork loin, dogg?
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[20:42:41] The spirit touches you and you feel drained.
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schild
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Can't stop giggling.
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How bad must you be at creating games to make your vulture venture capitalists call in D*r*k FUCKING Sm*rt as some sort of improvement? ETA on Dave Allen popping up and promising the earth on his next, next new mmo that will really revolutionise the world, this time for sure?  |
"You're really a good person, aren't you? So, there's no path for you to take here. Go home. This isn't a place for someone like you."
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fuser
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I wonder who would win a forum war: Derek 5mart or Curt Schi11ing?
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schild
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I wonder who would win a forum war: Derek 5mart or Curt Schi11ing?
You're doin it wrong. |
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tazelbain
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This was a battle of two Wanna-be Game Developer Rockstars.
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"Me am play gods"
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"Should the batman kill Joker because it would save more lives?" is a fundamentally different question from "should the batman have a bunch of machineguns that go BATBATBATBATBAT because its totally cool?". ~Goumindong
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Wow... that was some entry.
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Does any one know where the love of God goes...When the waves turn the minutes to hours? -G. Lightfoot
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Comstar
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If I can play a MMO where I battle Serek Dmart in the art of building a computer game, I would pay money for that.
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Defending the Galaxy, from the Scum of the Universe, with nothing but a flashlight and a tshirt. We need tanks Boo, lots of tanks!
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Nebu
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I wonder who would win a forum war: Derek 5mart or Curt Schi11ing?
Everyone. Damnit, Schild. I can't stop laughing and I blame you! |
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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I particularly enjoyed his jabs at the "average" gamer being finicky like a "hummingbird on acid". Nothing more professional than offhand remarks about illegal drug use, too. But that's because we average gamers have "a very short attention span". What a fucking prick.
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LK
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I thought it was an accurate assessment of a gamer.
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"Then there's the double-barreled shotgun from Doom 2 - no-one within your entire household could be of any doubt that it's been fired because it sounds like God slamming a door on his fingers." - Yahtzee Croshaw
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Hawkbit
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Like a Klansman in the ghetto.
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True, but even if the guy writing your check is a douche, you don't let him know he's a douche or he might stop writing your checks.
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Ingmar
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The people who the post was aimed at (the ones actually playing the game) will take it to mean "those other sheeple WoW playing gamers, obviously not us Algalon true believers" most likely.
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The Transcendent One: AH... THE ROGUE CONSTRUCT.
Nordom: Sense of closure: imminent.
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Ixxit
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Hmmmmmm..........I betcha Dr. Smart's interest in Alganon and QOL is based on his desire to develop his oft-mentioned yet vapourous Battlecruiset MMO. He kind of hints at it at the end of his post.
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I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate.
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Stabs
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I looked through the posts over at the Alganon forums after Serek Dmart's. Looks like the fans are very pleased with his approach.
Good post, Derek!
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Jobu
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... but I think the very best moment is the "we're throwing out our entire art style and coming up with something different" schtick, roughly at about the plausibility level of saying that you're going to be healing lepers with a magic touch.
And poking around their website for the first time, they've actually done a pretty decent job at aping the WOW art style. So... great job artists, but you know what, nevermind, not really? |
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Slyfeind
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Heh! I wasn't about to try this game. Now I must.
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"Role playing in an MMO is more like an open orchestra with no conductor, anyone of any skill level can walk in at any time, and everyone brings their own instrument and plays whatever song they want. Then toss PvP into the mix and things REALLY get ugly!" -Count Nerfedalot
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Sheepherder
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Huh, this announcement was three weeks early.
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