The corpse of Interplay still roams this fair earth

[Sol Invictus]

It sounds like Herve is laundering his money and using Ballerium as a front to wash his money clean. I doubt much money is actually going into the Ballerium project, and he can always declare the money they return to him as 'profits'.

 

[The Vault Dweller]

Look, a paper dog just chased an asbestos cat through Hell!

For that Silence you have my eternal respect. Not only did you make a good point, but with an actual line from Fallout 2! A perfectly matching one.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

 

[Corith]

It sounds like Herve is laundering his money and using Ballerium as a front to wash his money clean. I doubt much money is actually going into the Ballerium project, and he can always declare the money they return to him as 'profits'.

I dunno about laundering, but I suspect that money from the Titus liquidation "fell" into his possession. His arrogance of refusing admit he screwed up with Interplay and that he doesn't know how to run a company - much less a game company, will not let him walk way.

I also think he saved up his pennies from Avalon.

Does he really think a MMORTS is going to fly? Blizzard sort of tried with their battle.net, and look the direction they went, right into MMORPGs with World of Warcraft.

No offense to the hard working people on Ballarium, but I don't think their game is going to do well.

 

[Ashmo]

What about looking at Tactical Commanders, which happens to be an ORTS already.

I don't see how the idea is supposed to be innovative -- or extraordinarily successful.

 

[Maphusio]

Look, a paper dog just chased an asbestos cat through Hell!

For that Silence you have my eternal respect. Not only did you make a good point, but with an actual line from Fallout 2! A perfectly matching one.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller

Yes VERY well said.

 

[4too]

Faith Based Reality

Faith Based Reality



Ashmo:

... I don't see how the idea is supposed to be innovative -- or extraordinarily successful.

An important concept in our post industrial, post modern, and post prosperity era
is that ""appearance is everything"'.

This prime directive is immediately obvious in the marketing that assaults us 24 hours, ""8 days a week"".

How many masked calls do you all still field since you registered on the National Do Not Call List? The Caller ID we PAY for does not ID those telephone marketers that PAY the phone companies for the next level of access. Caller ID appears helpful at first, and then becomes 'necessary', and that justifies a larger phone bill every month.


On the Science Front , Faith Based World View can not suffer "the witch" or rather "the monkey" , of that sad old Evolution Theory to contradict STRICT INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE; can not suffer "the witch"" to live"".

""Do not suffer the witch to live"", even if, the theory stands down off it's scientific method 'high Equus caballus", and gets in line with all the other wanna be realities. What once was a polite 'zen', warm and fuzzy belief in ""THE TAO OF PHYSICS"' decades ago, is now a full frontal political movement to inflict STRICT INTERPRETATION OF THE BIBLE (King James'!) into ALL school systems. THE SAME Academic Industry that still has trouble "teaching Johnny to read". Clearly in this venue's context, this conception of the here and now, that institution FAILED to indoctrinate 4too in "THE ELEMENTS OF STYLE".

I spin my own essay montage, while following my own interpretation of this thread. Once I gild the lily in BELIEF, 'we' MUST accept it as gospel, 'we' do it all the time when King James' verse cloaks an agenda. When third parties evoke the demon of 'queer fear'. When American soldiers become the RED HERRING for every hustler and snake oil salesman. Why stop at marketing, why stop at game proposals?

So relax, do it here. You know you 'want to' -- out source -- your ''freedom to associate''. Be One with Paul, ..., John, George, and Ringo:""Relax and float down stream ...""

Feel the comfort of ""warm and fuzzy""(TM).

""Appearance is everything."'

Politics hurt your brain? Steam roll the difficult issues with flag waving conceits.

Example. In American politics, the successful redefining of the 'brand' - LIBERAL - is another marketing coupe.

Heard on Talk Radio yesterday, that the third party darling of the Bush Coalition, the Swift Boat Truth Squad, don't like the AARP's natural hesitance on supporting the Bush proposed changes in Social Security.

True to their moral, and, or, ethical standards, the S.B. Truth Squad do not mince around with debating the Social Security Issue head on, but break the AARP's kneecaps by trumpeting the AARP supports GAY marriage, AND goes right for the 'stab in the back' implying THE AARP DON'T SUPPORT THE TROOOOOOPS!



Allow me to dignify this world view with a soft science, mocking of logical proofs.

""Appearance is everything."'

AND, ""seeing is Believing"".

Faith is based on Belief.

'Seeing is an "act of faith".

What we 'believe', where we focus our 'faith' is as close to reality as any sinner dares.

The 'take no prisoners' marketing of political thought extends into the commercial arena.

We are bullied to shut down our mortal moral mental machinations,
lay off our individual responsibilities to think, and -- out source -- free will, and our personal freedoms to "faith based" dogmas.

""Try before you buy"" has become reversed, ""buy before you try"".
(I saw it on Fox News. I read it in Genesis, Chapter ...)

Pardon my "pointing". Perhaps I can return to the 'Heave / Ballroom','' Zombie Jamboree'', thread, here.

Ashmo:

... I don't see how the idea is supposed to be innovative -- or extraordinarily successful.

Perhaps if they 'talk the talk' their title will walk the walk to a profitable bottom line.

Perhaps one reason that the game industry goes to the lowest common denominator is that it wishes to clad it's inherent risk in the ""warm and fuzzy"' (TM) aura of 'accepted belief'.

If what sold some non specified number of boxes before, it 'must' work for the next level of the conceptual pyramid scheme.

It's a belief system that mirrors doing rituals for "luck'', like 'game socks' to a nervous athlete.
The ritual becomes dogma when it matters which foot gets the lucky socks first.


Now that I've muddled the waters of clear thought. I will terminate this world view with a last gasp at analogy.

""Appearance is everything."' in game publication. It's a belief system that grounds it's smart money savvy in the P.T. Barn-um Truism;

""There's a sucker born every minute.""





4too

 

[Briosafreak]

You`re a better construtionist than my feminist studies professor 4Too

And in this case i agree, in games there has been a growing process of "Barneysm" as in politics there has been a process of "Archbunkerism"

 

[4too]

Two Replys For The Price Of One

The Daughter My Mother Always Wanted



Briosafreak:

You`re a better construtionist than my feminist studies professor ...

It appears the gender comparisons are literary. My pattern baldness is not offended. The hair on my back is safe from laser surgery, that DNA werewolf pattern will forever stand, long, lush, and lust-er-ing, to honor my father and mother.


My mom was a Home Economics teacher. She made the effort to instruct her sons in domestic life skills, as not igniting the oil, while deep fat frying on the stove top, and basic sewing machine skills for timely wardrobe interdictions.

My brothers and I were never: ""The Daughter(s) My Mother Always Wanted"".

I gained a "healthy" indifference to fatty fried foods after I had to wash more than half of the ceilings and walls, though out the house, because of a spectacular smokey, kitchen conflagration. Learned to delegate complex cuisine preparation.

Sewing. I enhanced my boy's tendency to take machines apart. I preferred a high performance, high RPM style to mending jeans. This resulted in jamming the machine/breaking needles. To my delight, I was soon deep into maintenance levels, way over my head. BUT I was successful in the reassembly. Lived to deconstruct another day. This fostered a mechanic's arrogance that plagues me to this day.


...................................

Fig Leaf To Bobbin The Thread ...



From where I stand in this universe, I see a relativistic continuity in style and substance between all phases and flavors of marketing, be it deemed private or public sector.

Therefore my desire to load a number 8, squirrel shot, and "worry" the varmints with a broad pattern of pellets, at over 80 yards.
Why wait to see, ""the whites of their eyes""?


4too

 

[Corith]

Another rat fled the ship

From the OC Register, under business-orangecounty business briefs (http://www.ocregister.com/ocr/2005/03/16/sections/business/oc_briefing/article_443998.php)

Interplay Entertainment Corp., an Irvine developer of computer games, is without an accountant, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission on Tuesday.

Squar, Milner, Reehl & Williamson LLP dumped Interplay in March because it was concerned about Interplay's future. There were no financial disagreements in 2002, 2003 or this year, but Squar said in a letter that it couldn't do its job any longer since most of Interplay's employees had quit or were fired beginning last June.

By September, Squar said in a letter, no one was left in the accounting department except for the controller.

Herve Caen, its chief executive, was not available for comment.