I really would love it if I had a president I could at least attempt to believe in, and believe in general. If Obama makes it past the primary, I could actually vote for a president I liked, instead of the lesser of two evils.
I admit, I don’t often stop to consider the fashion of the character I’m playing. They either look cool or interesting or sexy or funny or not. But then again, I’m not Tim Schafer sadly enough. If I were, I’d obviously dress better at the least:
So, on his left side, he tucked the shirt in, to show his trim figure and stylish belt buckle. “What a handsome young man,” you might say, “If he gets that shirt washed, he may date my daughter.” But his right side is untucked, like the shirt of a wild man, a renegade, a scoundrel. “What is that guy up to? Why is his shirt untucked? Does he not give a damn about me and my rules?”
These are his comments after playing Uncharted. I admit, they weren’t my comments after seeing that game, but you know, maybe I’m missing something. Maybe I’m not seeing the inner workings of the design. Now I start to wonder, did the Uncharted guys spend a lot of time thinking about the shirt? Did they have meetings on whether it should be fully tucked or not tucked at all? Were there angry emails that went back and forth about the color, the design, the tuckedness of it all? Or did they just stumble upon the “mullet” of character design?
Now I have to take it a step beyond that. Did the Gears team think about the armor they had the guys in (I’m guessing not much beyond, “that’s awesome, dude!”)? Why did the Gears people dress that one girl they showed in a cut scene in clothes, in a war zone, where as all the guys were dressed in some sort of super futuristic armor (a pet peeve of a friend of mine)?
What about those damn WoW bastards? Did they honestly sit down and consider how hideous their armor looked, even when a full set it made and think that was great? It’s Blizzard so they must of had user testings, focus meetings, and more. How did the mish mash sillyness that is the WoW armor/clothes setup pass whatever QA they have?
Really, how much work goes into character design and the clothes they wear? I’m assuming it’s different at each company, but I wonder how much real thought is put it into something so obviously important. Heck for that matter, do companies think it’s important or do they just have a guy throw some designs up and one gets picked and that’s that?
So many questions, so few answers.
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What Would Matt Do: What would I do? I think the question is, what wouldn’t I do.
That is, if you’re a public servant on the take!
“Let me be clear of our intentions: Any public servant who cashes a check from the videogame industry will be exposed by the PTC as taking a stand against families, and his or her actions will be communicated to constituents in his or her congressional district.”
I don’t really know how to take this.
First, I’m pretty happy for the Parents Television Council, what with them expanding beyond just television as of late. I think it’s great that mentally retarded (no offense meant to actual retards. I’m sure they wouldn’t be caught dead running an organization like the PTC) are able to run such an organization. Maybe they can get a Bronze medal just for competing?
Second, that they, a big organization almost assuredly using lobbyists themselves, complaining about another organization using lobbyists brings joy to me heart. Really, there aren’t much more foolish complaints you can make than, “They are going to use the exact same system we are! Lets call them on it!”. I guess you can’t really expect much from the same idiots that flooded the FCC with complaints when Janet Jackson’s nipple was shown during the superbowl (the next idiot that tells me their kid seeing a nipple ruined them is going to get a god damn smack). Ok, I guess that explains it. They are just plain stupid. Can’t really argue with stupid.
I do like that they have no problem lying to get their point across:
Winter went on to accuse the Entertainment Software Rating Board of failing to “prevent companies like Rockstar Games from subjecting millions of children to sexually graphic material as they did with Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.”
What the fuck are kids doing playing GTA, any version, much less SA? And how would the millions of kids that supposedly saw this content have done so? They couldn’t have unless they had PC and modded their content. Sure, it was included on the disc when it was shipped, but, and this is the important, there was absolutely no way to access that section of the game without modding the game! None! So the whole fucking complaint is bullshit. I really love these guys.
I see the PTC, I mean the idiots, also complain about bad language in tv shows constantly. These guys are awesome. I don’t know about you, but I feel pretty comfortable writing them off as retards…except, well, politicians don’t. The FCC listens, politicians listen and so do others. I can’t tell you how happy that makes me (I’m lying).
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What Would Matt Do: Did I care enough, I’d suggest someone watching the watchers. Post every single politician that takes donation from these jack offs and post it on a website called, http://www.IAcceptedDonationsFromIdiots.com. That would sweet. Someone go do that, would ya?
If you’ve gone to register a domain recently, you might have noticed Network Solutions charges a lot more than most companies to register a domain. What you may not have known is that if you search a domain with Network Solutions and don’t buy it right away, they lock it so you can’t buy it for certain number of days. That some seriously shady shit.
From mindvallylabs:
Turns out that many domain registrar have been snooping on customer searchs and quickly registering any hot name a customer searchs for but does not register immediately. These registrars know these domains can later fetch premium prices.
At the very least it’s stupid business practices, at the worst, it’s deceitful big business using their power how ever they see fit. Just thought you should know.
What Would Matt Do: Not using Network Solutions ever again, that’s for sure. It looks like NWS even followed up on the blog posting above and told them to basically not be such babies.
And lo, there came a time when the WMDs were not found, but the WWMD was still here. In that, the forsaken time, the Matt shall rise again, like a phoenix from the ashes…ah, fuck it, I’m back, I’m still here, I’m ready to call people stupid. It’s kinda my gig.
To start it off, I’m not going to talk about this. Why? Because the more attention paid to Trolls on the internet, the happier they are. I say fuck them. If said Troll can’t even be bothered to play the game, I can’t be bothered to respond. PA puts if very nicely here.
To really start it off, I have to thank John Romero and Mike Wilson. Without them, this post wouldn’t be here today. I would have continued to think, maybe I should start updating the site again and then not doing it. Which I’m very good at.
Instead, we have an old school hissy fit by two of the older gentlemen in the game. You may or may not remember these jokers from the likes of Ion Storm, or Wilson from God Games or Romero from…well, whatever he’s been doing since Daikatana was the biggest hyped piece of junk of it’s time. Most likely though, you probably don’t remember because neither of these guys have done much in recent years…at least not much related to games. Except for a lot of talk about Gamecock and how it’s teh awesome. Awesome yet to be seen. But, you ask, what brings us together today? This aforementioned hissy fit:
From John last week:
It got much worse at Godgames where he pretty much just partied all the time and after the whole thing got reined in by Take 2 he went underground for a while, waiting for his next victim/investor so he could go hogwild all over again. And thus was born Gamecock.
Awesome sauce!
Of course, Mr. Wilson being the big child that he is and not taking well to being called a jackass, responds:
And unlike you, I didn’t get to file a federal trademark for my own personal catch phrase,” Suck it Down.” I remind you of these things only to remind you that there was absolutely nothing done by me or Ion Storm, including the advertisements which bore your name and which you happily posed for, that didn’t require your full approval and grand signature.
It’s much longer than that, but it amounts to more he said, he said bullshit. And I love it. I miss the days of the .plan updates, the developers talking smack all the time and the heated flame wars. I for one am tired of the facade! Bring on the fun, bring on the retards, bring on more old school gents still trying to make it in today’s gaming world!
Or maybe, neither of them should be doing this and it’s not only not good for their companies, but not smart. Nah, that’s crazy talk. To be fair, Romero did update with a I think we’re mature enough to stop this post, but we’ll see.
What Would Matt Do: I’m just happy to be back in the saddle again! And if I were either Romero or Wilson, I’d keep my fucking head down until I proved myself again. They both came from some really big money losses and failures and probably shouldn’t be shooting off at the mouth about it. But hey, I guess that why I don’t work in the game industry, I just don’t know how to properly behave.