Bananas and Nuts

[JoshV]

Like Charles - he was endlessly harrassed by people when he commented on other games about things in AC (IE “how can you complain about that when your game doesn’t have it? HUH HUH!?!?!?”), he won’t tell where he works now or what he works on.

Charles isn’t exactly a wilting violet either. How much of that is standard early dev cycle secrecy? When his game gets announced\released, I wonder if he will remain quiet.

[Pogo]

Charles isn’t exactly a wilting violet either.

Not really relevant. What he didn’t do was throw what developers have worked on in the past back into their faces as if being a single employee meant supporting every single bad design decision of the development and management team.

[AndrewMyers]

When his game gets announced\released, I wonder if he will remain quiet.

Given the sheer volume of angry stupid that started showing up nearly every time he posted, I’ll wager he he keeps mum.

Is he even posting much anymore? Don’t seem to see his name around as much. (But that could just be because I’m less active m’self)

[Matt_Bowyer]

Charles is still around. He might be posting less, that I’m not sure, but he’s still active.

[Lum]

Is this the official yenta thread? It is?

Can we nuke P&R from orbit now? Just to be sure?

[Jason_McCullough]

Oh he’s cut back on the ganja quite a bit since another TJ adventure. He smoked a couple of bowls in his masseuse friend’s VW van (Seriously, a VW van. This was like 1999 or 2000, too.) on the ride down to the border one chilly fall night, got himself silly drunk, and wandered off down back alleys trying to find the zona norte with his last $300 in the world in his pocket. We couldn’t reach him, so we ditched him and went home at 5AM or so. Obviously he got mugged. They took his wallet, cell phone, jacket, and shoes. Late the next day he made his way back to the border, convinced the guards he was American by calling his brother (who refused to come get him), and took a cab ride all the way back up to orange county. An extremely expensive cab ride, since he had no money.

…but that’s another story.

Surely you can get a tv deal based on this guy.

[Charles]

For the record I have no intention on letting people know what I’m working on. Ya’ll can find out in the credits. And even then I won’t talk about it.

For what it’s worth, it has nothing to do with people being combative about things I’ve worked on – I have no problem at all with discussing criticism, and talking about various things and what happened. If I make shit games, then I have no problem with people calling them shit games.

The reason I won’t be talking about anything I do anymore is simply that it has become impossible for me to have any discussions about games on this forum without someone jumping out of the woodwork and saying “BUT THIS THING YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT WAS IN ASSASSIN’S CREED” or something similar, as if it invalidated all my opinions and views. Well, fine, you don’t get my opinions or views anymore, which is why you are seeing significantly less of me on the forums.

It’s not that I can’t take it, it’s just that I don’t feel like dealing with it. I have some 30 people on ignore to try and curb dealing with it, and every time I get in a game conversation, someone else gets tossed on the pile. Well, that’s no way to enjoy a forum, so I basically just stopped.

Maybe once I have my own personal side projects in the limelight, I might wade back in to it, but ultimately I don’t want to have every thread I participate in become about me. There’s a topic, that’s what I’m in a thread for, and then suddenly that’s not the topic anymore.

It’s just not worth my time, and that makes me sad because I have very few venues to talk deeply about games anymore, this was one of the last ones.

[Robert_Sharp]

Charles is still around. He might be posting less, that I’m not sure, but he’s still active.

Nobody said otherwise. But he no longer works in the same place, and he doesn’t talk about his new projects. That’s likely because of all the crap he took from doing so in the past.

[JM1]

Nobody said otherwise. But he no longer works in the same place, and he doesn’t talk about his new projects. That’s likely because of all the crap he took from doing so in the past.

Clearly you have Charles on ignore!

[WarrenM]

I get that too Charles but I’m finding the attitude around here IS changing. When people do that, they are generally shouted down by other people if I ignore it. It’s really not that big of a deal and certainly not worth a 30 person ignore list. Mine is only 6 or so, and not for reasons related to “You worked on Gears so blah blah”

[Charles]

I get that too Charles but I’m finding the attitude around here IS changing. When people do that, they are generally shouted down by other people if I ignore it. It’s really not that big of a deal and certainly not worth a 30 person ignore list. Mine is only 6 or so, and not for reasons related to “You worked on Gears so blah blah”

The hilarity of your post is that you are one of the offenders.

[Lum]

Some of the worst game dev harassers are other game devs. I remember reading a post on an MMO board from one DAOC player who said that some change that was patched in was proof that Mythic personally hated the realm that he played in and wanted it to fail. The irony of this is that he was a developer on another MMO with highly contentious PVP players and knew, more than anyone else in the world how much of a stupid statement that was.

[Robert_Sharp]

Clearly you have Charles on ignore!

I just forgot to refresh the thread before posting, actually. That’s what I get!

[kerzain]

I’m pretty sure Robert Sharp probably just forgot to refresh the thread before posting.

[jpinard]

Oh he’s cut back on the ganja quite a bit since another TJ adventure. He smoked a couple of bowls in his masseuse friend’s VW van (Seriously, a VW van. This was like 1999 or 2000, too.) on the ride down to the border one chilly fall night, got himself silly drunk, and wandered off down back alleys trying to find the zona norte with his last $300 in the world in his pocket. We couldn’t reach him, so we ditched him and went home at 5AM or so. Obviously he got mugged. They took his wallet, cell phone, jacket, and shoes. Late the next day he made his way back to the border, convinced the guards he was American by calling his brother (who refused to come get him), and took a cab ride all the way back up to orange county. An extremely expensive cab ride, since he had no money.

…but that’s another story.

Stusser, I wonder if he is/was infected with Toxoplasma Gondii parasite. Skip to the 16:00 minute mark if you don’t want to see the whole video. It’s all fascinating theory. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/04/how-cat-poo-parasite.html

[nlanza]

The reason I won’t be talking about anything I do anymore is simply that it has become impossible for me to have any discussions about games on this forum without someone jumping out of the woodwork and saying “BUT THIS THING YOU ARE COMPLAINING ABOUT WAS IN ASSASSIN’S CREED” or something similar, as if it invalidated all my opinions and views. Well, fine, you don’t get my opinions or views anymore, which is why you are seeing significantly less of me on the forums.

It always fascinated me how angry people got about that.

I mean, what would they have done if they ran into the developer of a game that wasn’t, you know, good?

If the worst problem in your life is that AC or AC2 was merely pretty good instead of great because of one pet peeve, things really aren’t so bad.

[RyanMichael]

Stusser, I wonder if he is/was infected with Toxoplasma Gondii parasite. Skip to the 16:00 minute mark if you don’t want to see the whole video. It’s all fascinating theory. http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/04/how-cat-poo-parasite.html

That beard is able to think and talk! How creepy.

[ZekeDMS]

Is that a medical video or a linux tutorial?

[RepoMan]

What’s the difference?

[Raife]

He’ll be okay as long as the parasite doesn’t mutate to be beard-resistant.