rattran
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Pink is the important color. And anyone with a green name is being sarcastic. The brighter green, the more sarcastic.
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schild
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Except Schild. When he's around. Sometimes.
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Merusk
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Lantyssa and Sjofn might hug.
We'll hug so you manly men can feel secure in not doing so. Totally not why we want to see you hug. But you knew that. |
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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Azazel
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I came here looking for people to talk to about flight simulators.
Still looking. One of these days, one of you is going to come out to me. They still make those ? And there are people playing them ? Last time I fired up a flight simulatior might have been Eurofighter Typhoon or something like that. I think flight sims are what brought me to pc gaming in the first place. And I think I google search brought me to waterthread. A few weeks later my link brought me to f13.net . edit: Wow. EF Typhoon was released in 2001 ? Now I feel old.  XPlane 10 just came out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Plane_(simulator) |
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Chimpy
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Pink is the important color.
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'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Engels
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I sincerely appreciate the continued inclusion of flight simulator references in a thread devoted to the downfall of a forum!
I had not seen that interminably hilarious A-10 warthog video. I regret that I had to stop watching it after the 20 minute mark after too much continuous wincing.
I'm stoked about XPlane 10!
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Yegolev
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Pink is the important color.
How much did Cheddar pay you to say that ? Unless memory fails me, Cheddar once purchased a license plate reading "F13". He's special. |
Why am I homeless? Why do all you motherfuckers need homes is the real question.
They called it The Prayer, its answer was law
Mommy come back 'cause the water's all gone
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Sjofn
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Sjofn is a hugger, it's true.
Lies and slander! I'll totally hug Lantyssa, though. C'MERE LANTY. |
God Save the Horn Players
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Merusk
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Pink is the important color.
How much did Cheddar pay you to say that ? Unless memory fails me, Cheddar once purchased a license plate reading "F13". He's special. Nope, that was him. |
The past cannot be changed. The future is yet within your power.
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UnSub
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Did a bunch of people flee from Lum, or to Rum? I'm still not entirely sure. Both?
"From Lum to Rum" would be a great name for Lum's autobiography chronicling his time in the game industry. |
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Rishathra
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I thought about fixing that, but with the way you guys talk about the Diaspora, I figure it's unintentionally accurate.
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"...you'll still be here trying to act cool while actually being a bored and frustrated office worker with a vibrating anger-valve puffing out internet hostility." - Falconeer
"That looks like English but I have no idea what you just said." - Trippy
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taolurker
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I used to write for extinct gaming sites
details available here (unused blog about page)
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Xanthippe
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Somehow, mostly through an innocently favorable comment by Signe, I wasn't totally jeered into silence.
Now there's a missed poster that F13 is worse without. |
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Miasma
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I liked the way she tried to trick new people into making introduction threads.
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01101010
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You call it an accident. I call it justice.
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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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Ironwood
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I miss the way she used to send me graphic sexual PMs.
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"Mr Soft Owl has Seen Some Shit." - Sun Tzu
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HaemishM
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the Confederate flag underneath the stone in my class ring
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Sjofn
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Somehow, mostly through an innocently favorable comment by Signe, I wasn't totally jeered into silence.
Now there's a missed poster that F13 is worse without. I totally agree, I enjoyed her stories about her cats. Because I am one of Those People. |
God Save the Horn Players
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Chimpy
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I am saddened at the loss of any good uses for the  smiley. |
'Reality' is the only word in the language that should always be used in quotes.
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Lum
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Hellfire Games
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Did a bunch of people flee from Lum, or to Rum? I'm still not entirely sure. Both?
"From Lum to Rum" would be a great name for Lum's autobiography chronicling his time in the game industry. And it would be 100% accurate! |
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Engels
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
I LIKE being bounced around by Tonkors. - Lantyssa
Babies shooting themselves in the head is the state bird of West Virginia. - schild
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Did a bunch of people flee from Lum, or to Rum? I'm still not entirely sure. Both?
"From Lum to Rum" would be a great name for Lum's autobiography chronicling his time in the game industry. And it would be 100% accurate! And would "Rum to Lum" be the story of your conception? |
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schild
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I can not stress enough how boring the story of a developer in the gaming industry would be from day 1 to day X unless it was 99% fictional.
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Der Helm
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I miss the way she used to send me graphic sexual PMs.
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"I've been done enough around here..."- Signe
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Lantyssa
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Now I'm jealous. And sad.  |
Hahahaha! I'm really good at this!
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UnSub
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I can not stress enough how boring the story of a developer in the gaming industry would be from day 1 to day X unless it was 99% fictional.
Most of it would be dull, but you can compress the interesting parts some have experienced into something more entertaining. |
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bhodi
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No lie.
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You could totally do a "Shit my designer says" type thing. The fantastic one-liners coming out of people's mouths on a day-to-day basis must be amazing.
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schild
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Not 1/1000th as interesting as you might think that is, I promise.
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TheWalrus
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It'd be worth the read just for the bits about hiring hookers so they could have an idea on how to do romantic dialogue.  |
vanilla folders - MediumHigh
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schild
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If only it were that interesting.
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UnSub
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The only book that comes to mind (and I haven't read) is Rick Dakan's "Geek Mafia". Dakan was the original lead dev on City of Heroes, but replaced by Jack Emmert before the game launched when it looked like CoH was going to be vapourware under his watch. However, apparently even there he's felt the need to add organised crime and 'geeks getting the girl' to keep things interesting. You could do an interesting book out of the idea of being in the game design industry, but you'd need to compress the last 20 years of anecdotes into one individual story. It couldn't be "I spent today debugging 8 000 lines of code that no-one had properly documented. It turns out it wasn't working because someone used a ; instead of an : on line 3452. Wow, what a crazy day!"; it would be "The lead designers on drugs and has been found stealing aspirin out of my desk, the investor wants more pink unicorns added to a game titled 'Death Knights of Gore', I've just spent the last 3 weeks in crunch mode and my last paycheque bounced because the producer's ex-wife skipped out with the payroll". You'd make it completely true anecdotes all happening in a completely fictional company. I'm at least interested in it enough to consider writing the introduction, maybe the first chapter, if anyone else is interested in the idea. |
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schild
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I actually have an amazing idea for a story about the gaming industry, but it pokes way too much fun at stuff I'm way too close to - as such I'd be sued before it hit the first store. As such, it sits in a folder right now, partially written, never to be let into the public until certain things happen.
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Azazel
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Use a pen name. I suggest Serek Sdmart.
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IainC
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I know of one studio that actually did spend all the investment money on hookers and blow then, when the IP holders were scheduled to come in and look at the progress being made, they would literally pull people in off the streets to sit in front of workstations to make it look as though they were fully staffed.
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ghost
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I know of one studio that actually did spend all the investment money on hookers and blow then, when the IP holders were scheduled to come in and look at the progress being made, they would literally pull people in off the streets to sit in front of workstations to make it look as though they were fully staffed.
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