fickle floridian: Come on, we all knew Lord British was an absolute nutjob, right?


Fixed.

"Dad, put Max in SpaaaaCEEE!!!"

Does the thing yell "THOU HAST LOST AN EIGHTH" if you screw up?

Does he work for gizmonic institute?

Working from home rocks! :)

Way to read the article subby. This dude didn't create squat.

I wouldn't expect anything less from Lord British ... that farking rocks!

Next stop: mumu.

DiscoSuperfly: Does the thing yell "THOU HAST LOST AN EIGHTH" if you screw up?

Loved using the Silver Horn in IV.

Pull out the floppy while the dungeon is loading for gold.

/gold

Oh and this give me a Howard Hughes vibe.

I don't understand why this merits an article. A guy bought a thing, is using said thing for said thing's intended purpose.

Can they do an article about how I don't waste $15k on an RC car with a camera attached to it?

vharshyde: fickle floridian: Come on, we all knew Lord British was an absolute nutjob, right?

Yeah, it's like Molyneaux's crazy needed a physical avatar.

Reminds me a bit of tick tock from Return to Oz (albeit after months of robo bulimia)

I like Big Bang Theory.

/there, I said it.

PROBLEMBOT APPROVES!! (new window)

He's still making games? Shouldn't he have learned to quit after the failure that was Tabula Rasa?

Plant Rights Activist: He's still making games? Shouldn't he have learned to quit after the failure that was Tabula Rasa?

That game had a ton of potential. Too bad they screwed it up and didn't give it enough time to fix it.
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Just throw a towel over it, problem solved.

Vertdang: I like Big Bang Theory.

/there, I said it.

There are people who don't?

*looks at photo*

Man, Richard Garriott has really let himself go.

*reads photo caption*

Oh.

jst3p: Vertdang: I like Big Bang Theory.

/there, I said it.

There are people who don't?

I've never seen it.

Wow, Subtard, way to read. Garriott didn't create shiat. He bought the robot. It's FARK.

jst3p: Vertdang: I like Big Bang Theory.

/there, I said it.

There are people who don't?

well, there's the popular fark pastime of "if more than 8 people have seen it, it's shiat" comments.

Plant Rights Activist: He's still making games? Shouldn't he have learned to quit after the failure that was Tabula Rasa?

It's something he likes doing, and so long as he can pay for it, why not keep doing it? I'm sure there are a lot of employees there who are happy to have a job, Robot Boss or not, and commercial flop or not.

jst3p: Vertdang: I like Big Bang Theory.

/there, I said it.

There are people who don't?

I don't. Granted, I only watched the first 5 episodes of the first season. But as someone who theoretically should heavily identify with the nerds, I just didn't like them. I felt like the show was laughing at them (and therefore, me) instead of with them.

Maybe it's just one of those things the show grew out of as it progressed, and maybe it's great now... but it didn't leave a good first impression.

Electriclectic: Plant Rights Activist: He's still making games? Shouldn't he have learned to quit after the failure that was Tabula Rasa?

It's something he likes doing, and so long as he can pay for it, why not keep doing it? I'm sure there are a lot of employees there who are happy to have a job, Robot Boss or not, and commercial flop or not.

jst3p: Vertdang: I like Big Bang Theory.

/there, I said it.

There are people who don't?

I don't. Granted, I only watched the first 5 episodes of the first season. But as someone who theoretically should heavily identify with the nerds, I just didn't like them. I felt like the show was laughing at them (and therefore, me) instead of with them.

Maybe it's just one of those things the show grew out of as it progressed, and maybe it's great now... but it didn't leave a good first impression.

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I had the same first impression, but fortunately some friends who had seen the rest of it assured me the real comedy doesn't come from that.

And they were right-- even if the show laughs *at* them sometimes, more often it high-fives them and paints them in a light similar to a star athlete team-- later episodes are written like "These guys are kind of epic and you people at home can only keep up with their talent because we're tailing them with cameras for you".

Electriclectic: It's something he likes doing, and so long as he can pay for it, why not keep doing it? I'm sure there are a lot of employees there who are happy to have a job, Robot Boss or not, and commercial flop or not.

The way I look at it, Garriot made some great games once. If he can keep himself employed making games, then that's fantastic. Hell, he might make another great game in the future.

He is a little bit nutty though. But that might not be a bad thing?