Feud Actually I've been around the block in businesses (small. medium & large) enough to know how they and the world operates and more importantly how successful ones operate. You never put all your eggs in one basket financially, never borrow against future (assumed) profits, and you ship new p...

To leave the realm of video games, consider Stanley Kubrik or Orson Welles. They are both famous for their creativity in the realm of film, and for their control over that creativity. Yet both of them had producers that they had to work with, and make concessions to. They both had large crews of pe...

Certainly, there is a spectrum between starving artist and drone. History has shown, I think, that Chris is much happier towards the starving artist extreme of that spectrum than the drone end. Perhaps this is incorrect. Only Chris can really make that choice, and he has to make it for himself. So ...

From my appraisal of Valve (and I have a number of their games, TOB, HL2 etc) most of their content coming directly from their development house is Source engine content. Even GMOD, and CS, which were initially outside initiatives that were legitimized, had some tie to the Source or Goldsrc engine,...

xander wrote:Yup. Troll.

xander

I get it that with that kind of monstrous post count you're a tad sensitive when it comes to criticism of IW, and are really now beyond having an actual discussion with, given the amount of time your clearly put into these forums and IW, but I forgive you.

Oh, shit! A tone troll! A troll? LOL. I'm pretty sure I'm not the guy labelling people as cunts simply because they dare to voice opinions I don't like regarding this news. Clearly it seems IW are now beyond criticism on these boards I take it? Introversion über alles!!! No, you complained that som...

Oh, shit! A tone troll! A troll? LOL. I'm pretty sure I'm not the guy labelling people as cunts simply because they dare to voice opinions I don't like regarding this news. Clearly it seems IW are now beyond criticism on these boards I take it? Introversion über alles!!! Would you care to respond t...

I don't know Chris but I wonder if his definition of good job with a decent development studio is the same as selfish and pompous sounding cunts who seem to think they are entitled to Subversion when they want it. You know if you're forced to run straight to the expletives box as a counter argument...

Saved by Valve again ... I hate to break up the high five fan party but frankly if sales of D+ on XBLA didn't keep the business going I can't see why on earth there is this optimism that getting Defcon on the PSN is suddenly going to rejuvenate Introversions fortunes. Your games (charming as they ar...

As someone who knows a thing or two about Urban design I have to say, that that's a pretty good looking City you've got going on there. Just the right mix of Urban & Green spaces. Bravo. Regarding the LoD I'd say you need to go down the gradient fade route that someone earlier mentioned, both in...

The final LoTR film was poor throughout. I much preferred the two towers.

There is quite an interesting interview at Rock, Paper Shotgun with Gabe Newell from Valve that sort of plugs into this whole debate regarding PC gaming and Consoles:-

http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/?p=180

The one thing that makes me shy away from consoles is the fact that as seamless as they are at delivering good game play experiences, they presently lack the ability to go beyond them in terms of integrating user made content modifications/adjustments. If you're just into gaming for gamings sake the...

xander wrote: If post count and join dates were removed, it would make fuck-all difference

Then there is no good reason not to do it then. As for your attitude whether it's driven by post counts or not, is far from endearing at times.

To you, it seems, everything is related to post count. You seem to think that Montyphy and I have superior attitudes because we have high post counts. In fact, we have superior attitudes because that is the way we are. You seem to think that we mock martin because he has a lower post count. In fact...