Murdoc

I'd be thoroughly disappointed if Chris was going just for community manager, no offense Chris, but your way too smart for that work and I hope it's more on the design/creative side because the industry needs someone like you adding your sensibilities into actual games.

We should have seen it coming because of all the updates... Personally if you look at what the last death of Idle Thumbs did to the community, this could all just be a stunt to be the most listened cast on the internet but continually killing and bringing it back. Harmonix or Valve are the only two companies that make sense to me... I hope Valve (because I don't play music games). edit: oops I guess its on the other side of the country so no valve. Well the east coast sucks, so beware. StarCraft 2: Damn you Chris you talk about games I have no interest in and make me want to play them, but based on your DoW talks I probably know its not for me. Also my brain totally shut off half way through the Tekken Kangaroo research chat, I had no idea what was going on. Red Dead Redemption: I believe Steve is right, I noticed it in the Hillcoat thing since it looked like they cranked the lighting accuracy up quite a bit and I know it's really easy to do this in their engine. It's a really slick engine, just not the most accurate when you start working with smaller, closed in spaces, hehe. SimCity: So Chris, your saying just build some basic stuff, dont do anything for a few years, then increase taxes and build? or are you just building little by little every year? I was only ever good at SimCity 1, sort of, but never awesome at it. Sim Ant was rad. Fuck the lawn mower. I like whistling for other ants and start rolling on some reds. Jurrasic Park Game: OK Jake, let's do this. I can make the room and possibly the Sam Jackon arm. We'll need a programmer and animator, you supply the music.

SPACE > FANTASY Now if I could use Space credits to try this game, Id at least give it a shot. edit: Also, and I know neptune is a pretty popular game with a lot of people, but why arent companies directly marketing their game towards the Idle Thumbs community; through us a Wizard or a Puffin race and youll have most of us shouting from the rooftops advertising this thing. Well thats my dream anyway.

Fuck My Fucking Life That'll be the title of my non-existent book if it isn't already taken. Turns out I did get into school, I've been thinking about off and on for 3 years now and got serious last summer. It's been a really long wait and a lot of hard work to get excepted into a class of 30 accepted students once a year. I thought that was the hard part and getting money to go to school would be easy. I paid back all my previous loans, I have outstanding credit, and had a surplus of cash last year that unfortantly had to be spent because I had one shitty year, but whatever, what's a little more money in loans compared to the big picture? So good bye job, good bye Montreal, and off to Vancouver! Well, apparently someone with outstanding credit, who paid back all his students loans isnt worth shit to banks, they look at my co-borrower... ok so I need a co-borrower, well that sucks. Oh wait, everyone in my family is a fucking deadbeat on their last dime so Im totally shit out of luck. I am supposed to start school in a month (granted this is a bit of my fault for being so niave of the banking system) and just finding out now (slow fuck banks) that I cant get any money to actually live (like eating and sleeping in shelter) to fucking go. Just fucking super. If I dont hang myself by September I guess itll be back to work for me with whatever company will take me. fuck my fucking life.

Nah I get the joke, I get why its funny and it doesn't matter if I think it is or not. And yeah again, I guess my fascination with this now is based on a negative principle that I think its been thoroughly explored. And again, I don't mean to piss on everyone's parade, I didn't mean that comment to be taken negatively, but rather if you take a step back at the chain of ideas, it's fascinating.

I know I need to lighten up on the topic, but all negativity aside, it's absolutely fascinating because I don't think I've seen a joke get run into the ground so much, so quickly. Again, don't interpret that as negative even though it really looks like it, I'm actually now fascinated how much more of it is yet to be created.

I'm in and can commit my finest suckiness to the situation!

Except wizard since it seems like it has a lasting power of a classic. I was just seconding that the running joke of max probably doesn't need to over see...'no big deal if I continues

Oh... So I'm guessing no more spirals? So who's the expected winner? Anyway sign me for the next, I'll even host since I haven't been playing for a month.

You know how the thumbs deliberately have to put an end to running jokes? I think, as a forum, we give max ides one more week and then stop... So I second Sombre.

You metioned theconros were tighter; but what specifically? Movement, aiming, cover? And by tighter is it now accepable or awesome? Because thats really my main hang up with most IO games, it's not fun to move or shoot.

Oh I beg to differ, he'll never replace Nick or Scoops, so he'll stay a guest over my dead body. If you want to replace him with Jake, however, I have no problems with that. Will listen to the episode on the plane, Thanks Thumbs!

Ah well, I'll take the files with me and try them on my comp at home too. We can pick this up in the fall anyway or just start over later.

You work in a studio, don't you?

You guys are getting eerily close to actual design meetings I've sat in on and quite frankly, think you've collaborated on EA's answer to Assassins Creed.

It's amazing that everyone is still very much in the game, the gain of having more stars will give people the edge quickly, but with the right alliances, even the mightest can fall quickly. THIS NEEDS SPECTATOR MODE... preferably something that works on an iphone; but the playabe game needs that too.

I'm going to blame this thread if anyone from Ea is reading it and getting ideas.

This has to be the longest, most indepth discussion about a 20 second idlethumbs joke rift ever in existence. I wonder what Max Ides middle name is? Is his full name Maximillian or Maxwell? What's his favoite colour?

Really weird. I'll see what the size is like when I zip up the entire game and post it on the box. Your using DF_31_08_Phoebus_2_1_3 ; right? edit: Just posted two new files with the game exe; so if that doesn't work, I don't know what would.

So much of that reminded me of the Fade to Black intro... (I have no sound, so maybe there was more context)

I have a camera on my iphone, so don't worry it's covered and I'll get closer then the eigth row. You could try Pming Chris, Jake, etc... or using the widely know Idle Thumbs e-mail if you want them to get a message; publicly posting seems like a really round about way of going about this and immediately makes me suspicious over the professionalism.

Did you generate a world/start a game before copying Lungfurnace over?

NP everyone, it's summer so I have a feeling a rythum to get this going might be a little weird until the fall, hehe. Playing here and there on my alternate version and honestly its the most boring place, everything is going well, the fortress is doing amazingly well(well compared to previous attempts). I hope the succession playthrough will provide a little craziness in it.

Yeah but Sean(jake?) is still right, green and purple portals would be so cool.