Fargo comments on FOOL
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rbusslinger
First time out of the vault
Quinntus, why do you create a screen name today and post this?Quinntus said:
If this is true
1. This is inside information which you are guilty of sharing
2. Interplay would be required to make this information public
Since it has been over a month since the SEC filing you mention I find it hard to believe you. Do you care to elaborate?
A check with the Orange County court can determine the validity of my claim of an involuntary bankrupcy filing and the date of such.
Note: Interplay did not file for bankruptcy, only several debtors filed with the orange county court an involuntary bankruptcy notice. Interplay was then served with those documents.
A judge may still dismiss that filing as having no merit, including an option to penalize those that filed if the judge felt it was done for malicious purposes. Or, if the investment story is true, Interplay could use the money to pay those debts (and others) to satisfy the filing.
I highly suspect the timing of said investment claim.
Note: Interplay did not file for bankruptcy, only several debtors filed with the orange county court an involuntary bankruptcy notice. Interplay was then served with those documents.
A judge may still dismiss that filing as having no merit, including an option to penalize those that filed if the judge felt it was done for malicious purposes. Or, if the investment story is true, Interplay could use the money to pay those debts (and others) to satisfy the filing.
I highly suspect the timing of said investment claim.
Briosafreak
Lived Through the Heat Death
There's nothing available on Orange County court and Supreme Court, at least online, can anyone check it in presence or by phone?
This is not inside information, you aren't on ragingbull or similar place, this is news matter, and therefore needs to be checked but if it is right there's nothing against showing it.
This is not inside information, you aren't on ragingbull or similar place, this is news matter, and therefore needs to be checked but if it is right there's nothing against showing it.
Briosafreak said:
*whistles a tune*
Briosafreak
Lived Through the Heat Death
Ahahahahahah
Edit: The case appears to have been put on the Santa Ana Division indeed, and is beeing reviewed by Judge Theodore Albert.
The court is located here and has these phone numbers:
Can anyone double check this info?
Edit: The case appears to have been put on the Santa Ana Division indeed, and is beeing reviewed by Judge Theodore Albert.
The court is located here and has these phone numbers:
Can anyone double check this info?
Role-Player said:
I don't know why Fargo thinks everything has to be so farcical and clever ala the Terry Prachett school of writing, poking fun at tired genres instead of spending his efforts on making something fresh and worthwhile. God knows fantasy deserves to be parodied at this point, seeing as it's sunk to the level of cliche, mass-marketed crap, but if he started working on a Wasteland sequel I can't help but feel that he'd treat it the same way he did The Bard's Tale. I'd rather he didn't at this point. I'd rather he remainined idle. I rather not see "Wasteland 2: Yet Another Wacky Day in the Desert." The next PA game to hit the market better be something great. No more geek jokes, no more witty references to old TV shows and pop culture. Enough of that already. It's half the reason why FO2 sucked so bad. Make something dark and haunting, moreso than FO1 even. And no, drugs and whores in themselves do not a mature game make. Can Fargo pull it off? I doubt it. Can Bethsoft do it with FO3? No. Then what? Well nothing, but one can always fantasize about what it would be like to see a game as great -- or even greater -- than FO1. One can always imagine what the game industry would be like if developers actually had talents that went beyond coding. If only they could write, that'd be a good start. Granted, I can tell that Fargo is different than most his ilk; I can tell that the guy has some sensitive, intelligent, art fag leanings in him. Still, his efforts are in vain. But what the hell am I blabbering about anyway? Judging by the consensus of the self-proclaimed Fallout fans on sites like this and DAC, the drugs and whores will suffice -- that and the freedom to walk into a town and mow everyone down with a chain gun. I think it was a post by Sander I once read on here that nailed it on the head: when people talk about how much they love Fallout, it usually is about the drugs and whores and ultra-violence, and has little to do with appreciating the dark irony of a shiny, happy, dumb fuck 50s world destroyed by nuclear fire, or the writing, or the incredibly profound ending of FO1. It's why I read the posts akin to "Well, I can see how FO1 had a better and more consistent storyline, but there's just so much to do in FO2!" It's philistines like this Bethsoft are working for, guys who want to play out their middle class, masturbational fantasies of being a tough guy roaming the wastes with a big gun and fucking whores and shooting up people and so on. Fun stuff, to be sure, but it's not what Fallout was supposed to be all about.
But oh yeah, Fargo.. uh, I'd rather he didn't touch Wasteland, though thumbs up to him for bitch slapping a fellow industry member. There, I'm on topic.
philowar said:
Yeah, that's us. We liked Fo
oS more than anyone else.Per said:Yeah, that's us. We liked Fo
I wasn't referring to everyone, just a sizable percentage whose tastes run contrary to my own (ie those who don't see the inherent lameness of tribals, Mecha Anime, Old West environments, and New Reno).
Bradylama
So Old I'm Losing Radiation Signs
Isn't that the percentage we beat like red-headed step children?
Briosafreak
Lived Through the Heat Death
Bradylama said:
Yep
Slap Stick / Meat Puppets
Slap Stick
OWWW! Yoo Ah meeen Dadd-ah!
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Meat Puppets
Consider a survival horror treatment of Cormac McCarthy's ''The Road".
Where would human protein rank in one's ''food pyramid''?
Recall the old black and white TV episode of ''Twilight Zone'', ''How To Serve Man''.
The fan boys of heroic, loot 'n' scoot, fiction would acquire a new interpretation for ''eating themselves''.
And, the Mythic Wild West axiom, save the last bullet for yourself ...
Consider the farming in '''The Road"" when it would go MMO ... capturing and culling the only 'sure' source of nutrition, other players....
4too
Slap Stick
OWWW! Yoo Ah meeen Dadd-ah!
.......................
Meat Puppets
Consider a survival horror treatment of Cormac McCarthy's ''The Road".
Where would human protein rank in one's ''food pyramid''?
Recall the old black and white TV episode of ''Twilight Zone'', ''How To Serve Man''.
The fan boys of heroic, loot 'n' scoot, fiction would acquire a new interpretation for ''eating themselves''.
And, the Mythic Wild West axiom, save the last bullet for yourself ...
Consider the farming in '''The Road"" when it would go MMO ... capturing and culling the only 'sure' source of nutrition, other players....
4too
Maybe it's so awesome, it's invisible.
Like the Ecuadoran submarine fleet.
Like the Ecuadoran submarine fleet.
* Sigh * Isn't this 'joke' over by now?
Come on, even Herve himself must have made the conclusion it has been over for him for a long time now, his business enterprises have ruined two companies and some lame brain scheme to get a couple of millions of 'development' money had no chance to begin with.
Other people would have taken the clue by now, or are we dealing with a special breed of idiot?
"We will never surrender, no matter how great our stupidity."
Come on, even Herve himself must have made the conclusion it has been over for him for a long time now, his business enterprises have ruined two companies and some lame brain scheme to get a couple of millions of 'development' money had no chance to begin with.
Other people would have taken the clue by now, or are we dealing with a special breed of idiot?
"We will never surrender, no matter how great our stupidity."
The Dutch Ghost said:
It is not idiocy. It is arrogance. He firmly believes that he is the greatest businessman on earth, and that only his fantastic skills can restore Interplay to a thriving company. He holds Brian Fargo 100% responsible, not himself.
The game industry is rife with this level arrogance. It is filled with the untalented who believe that their work, no matter how bad, no matter how foul, is perfect, beyond belief, and awe-inspiring. They lack any amount of modesty or self-reflection and have even developed a low, contemptuous opinion of the paying customer who might have the audacity to criticize their work .
Herve's treatment of employees, investors, and shareholders; his product choices; his refusal to abide by court decisions; his circumventing French law, are all indicative of game industry arrogance, not idiocy.