Lu 

A programmers craft is not formalized? But if the nature of your beef is that I called game design fuzzier than programming, then just for you I'll state that programming is the fuzziest fuzz that ever fuzzed fuzz.

That is... Wow. I have no words.

In terms of work methodology, to a point, but the work a game designer does is a lot more fuzzy than the work of an architect, author, or even programmer. Those all at least have formalized backgrounds, whilst game design does not. Not yet anyway. And you know, it wouldn't surprise me at all if Carmack has said that exact thing. Anyway, Richard Garriot has responded. COPY PASTA:

The Ulillillia segment, holy shit. Amazing.

I would like my character to make a wise-crack every time he or she kills, or is about to kill a zombie. "Knife to see you" *stab* "Hammer time" *bash* "Have a seat" *chair smash* You can use those by the way, it's cool, I won't sue. Hahahaha, wow. I wonder if Telltale is gonna get any angry emails from people who thought this was also made by them.

Cute. Can you quit that petty rabble rousing bullshit?

Great shots, Toblix!

Definitely the stable build.

Alas, no multiplayer in the lite version.

I'm totally for a new thread for the new episode discussion too, because eesh! It was like I suddenly wasn't on Idle Thumbs anymore and it was unsettling.

I had a similar problem, but clearing the cache solved it for me.

Yes, I agree. I'd love to give it another shot if we could just get together on an afternoon or evening for a few hours.

Damn sweet shots, 'blix!

Done and done!

Sorry, it reads way bitchier than I intended it to, but it was an actual question.

It's a joke, what's the problem? There's a bunch of men that deny this is even a problem that exists.

Here's that Econtalk podcast Lacabra was referring to.

Well... Shit.

It'd just be Lu if this forum allowed nicknames to be 2 characters long, so Lu? I guess?

Complain on an online message board and that's probably about it. I'll never stop believing! Then, 80 years later when I'm on my deathbed, my cybernetics no longer able to sustain me and my breathing becoming heavier which each breath I draw, Gabe Newell, now a cyborg, calls me. "Gabe?" I say, the sound no more than a whisper, and he says "It's alright, it's alright, Lu, Half Life 3 is coming". I smile a weak smile and a single tear runs down my cheek as I close my eyes for the last time.

And story goes to... The Walking Dead! Woop!

Never really followed DICE Summit all that much, but some interesting talks came out of it, so I figured let's make a thread about it. Mington already posted this in the latest Idle Thumbs discussion thread, but I'm just gonna post it again. Like he said, he retreads a lot of what he's been talking about in the past weeks, so there won't really be anything new in there if you followed that closely. David Cage's talk, of which Warren Spector said in his own talk: "I need to apologize to David Cage who gave half of my talk yesterday, if you're in the audience please introduce yourself, because I agreed with everything you said and disagreed with every solution you proposed" I think a lot of us would agree with him there, at least I do, to an extent.

I believe they've been working on the next generation valve engine stuff, among other things.

Dropping an inappropriate Idle Thumbs reference in the acceptance speech would be valued very highly. Good luck!

Shit, I'm sorry guys! I don't think I can give anyone admin powers, but I'll schedule in the event.