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Chat Box – State of the Industry

SonicRob: http://www.edge-online.com/news/ex-infinity-ward-bosses-sue-activision
SonicRob: oh shiiiiiiit
SonicRob: activision descends to a new level
SonicRob: firing the guys who made MW2 to avoid paying out a bonus
SonicRob: if it’s true, that is
FyreHaar: oh fuck
FyreHaar: “Instead of thanking, lauding, or just plain paying Jason and Vince for giving Activision the most successful entertainment product ever offered to the public,
FyreHaar: daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmmmmmmmmnnnnnnnnn
SonicRob: “After all we have given to Activision, we shouldn’t have to sue to get paid.”
SonicRob: a $1 billion game

Chat Box

SonicRob: new space marine screens
FyreHaar: yay!
SonicRob: ultramarines vs.
SonicRob: goffs?
FyreHaar: sendy el linko
SonicRob: http://us.thq.com/us/game/screenshots/5286/1
SonicRob: I call bullshit
SonicRob: that is maya with photoshop on top of it
SonicRob: when you say you are posting “screens”
SonicRob: do not post concept art
SonicRob: this bodes ill
SonicRob: they are playing us false
SonicRob: these people ain’t got shit
FyreHaar: I’m with you
FyreHaar: there’s no way
FyreHaar: that is real time
FyreHaar: however,
FyreHaar: if it is this is the best looking game ever
SonicRob: that is why it is not
FyreHaar: here
FyreHaar: they could be screenshots from a cut scene
SonicRob: you wanna tell me that these jackoffs are the ones who finally figured out how to get a playstation to properly anti-alias?
FyreHaar: those are not screen shots from a PS3
FyreHaar: maybe from a godbox PC
SonicRob: CGI stills, maybe
SonicRob: I still think concept art
FyreHaar: it’s ad copy
SonicRob: they look too painterly
FyreHaar: very conmetaical
FyreHaar: cinematical
SonicRob: wow
FyreHaar: ?
SonicRob: does it possess the property of meta, en espanol?
SonicRob: con-meta-ical
FyreHaar: portugese, actually!

Chat Box

FyreHaar: omg
SonicRob: ?
FyreHaar: god damnit I’m tired of this!!
FyreHaar: I’m tired of listening to a song and finding new meaning in it and realizing that my life before was sort of colourless without tragedy to inform it
SonicRob: wtf?
FyreHaar: I just get this feeling that everyone who has experienced trauma has a club that people who haven’t don’t get
SonicRob: I’d just as soon skip the trauma and not get it, thanks

What’s my name?

A new weekly feature on handles.  Name yourself carefully lest Sonic and I mock your handle mercilessly!

To start, observations on the nature of handles. A handle is about self definition, naming yourself for an entire segment of reality. Pretty heady stuff! People go for the unique, the funny, the intimidating. Here at fns.com we appreciate the multifaceted handle. The handle that can be read and interpreted in multitudinous ways.

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Chat Box

SonicRob: Ridley Scott has a Robin Hood movie coming out with Russel Crowe
FyreHaar: Old news
SonicRob: looks ordinary
SonicRob: trailer is out
FyreHaar: Sienna miller had been cast as Marian, but they changed it cuz she was too young for Crowe
SonicRob: it’s Cate Blanchett
FyreHaar: fucking a right
SonicRob: still looks boring
FyreHaar: it’s Robin Hood
FyreHaar: Errol Flynn took it, beat it, sexed it and wrapped it in a bow
FyreHaar: nothing left to say
SonicRob: well this is another one where he’s all grim and revengey
SonicRob: being Robin Hood looks like no fun
SonicRob: you’re just dirty and angry and sometimes covered in blood
FyreHaar: and somehow getting your revenge makes you happy and fulfilled!!
FyreHaar: there’s no PTSD in medieval times!
FyreHaar: would you like a pepsi with that?

Back on the horse

After technical difficulties kept me away for several months I started playing Dawn of War II again this weekend.

The online multiplayer (not Last Stand, haven’t gone there yet) seems to be populated solely with noobs and douchebags. There were a couple of exceptions but the strongest trend I experienced this weekend was what I’m calling the “First Shot Concession.” This consisted of my side losing the first clash of forces, which usually comes in the first 30 seconds to a minute of the game, followed by one of my teammates wanting to concede. I did concede when the match was truly out of our hands but never in the first minute. Nothing has really happened by then.

I get the sense that this sort of player thinks that playing a losing match is a waste of time. At least one of the times I put the smack down on a first minute concession we kept a much superior opposing side on their game for at least ten more minutes, ending with a score of 0-124 . For the uninitiated, that’s pretty damn close considering we were getting our asses handed to us most of the time.

I’ve had a great time playing matches I eventually lost. There is a fantastic feeling to losing a match and coming to the scoring screen and finding out that your moderately experienced team held off a team composed entirely of maxed out, all the way leveled up “pro” players. That you made them work for the victory.

So for all the players out there here’s a point to remember. It’s about playing the game and having fun regardless of the outcome. If you don’t feel that way, go back to Modern Warfare where you belong.

-fyre