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11.03.2026 01:33
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What a pretty sweetheart!
That's some nice San Diego weather out there, yum!
Wait I'm in Seattle...
(Jk, it's 42 degrees, I'm cold and my cat wants the doors and windows open.)
Roombas still get stuck going over a quarter inch thick piece of carpet while cleaning up dog hair, I don't know how these people are actually expecting bipedal robots to work in households.
Kid Robot and Dunnies - my brother designed some of those and a good company from what I recall.
Picture of a list of the final nine chapters of an audio book, they're labeled Epilogue Chapter 1 - 8 and then an outro chapter.
You can't have 3 hrs of epilogues!
Specifically the part of warfare that involves physical attacks vs cyber, psychological, financial, diplomacy, etc.
Do you seriously not think this is punk as hell?
Not joking, serious as hell, this is punk af.
taleoftales.itch.io/the-graveyard
Do you seriously not think this is punk as hell?
Not joking, serious as hell, this is punk af.
taleoftales.itch.io/the-graveyard
experience this world.
Throw your old ideas out the window, shut up and play.
Working in the game industry, entertainment at all really, is the middle finger to society in the end.
It's punk as fuck folks.
You got your haters, you have your corporate overlords, and all for a choice.
Let me entertain you for no real economic value in the end.
Be yourself.
Play my game ...
Sir, I think we both have stepped over the line, picked it up, moved it, then did something obscene towards that line
Also, I'd rather anger the gods than have left no mark at all.
One life, if it's spent making things better for other folks, what more can be asked? :) It's why I love this industry
Sorry! My memory is terrible; we've talked steak houses several times since then and since we were at Bungie too!
Just funny that there is this lawyer floating around in the same companies doing the work over the projects I'm on more than a couple times. :D
Business demands by folks who just think about the bottom dollar have done so much harm in this industry. I don't know all the details of course, I could be wrong based on the data, but damn it was so cool.
@legalminimum.bsky.social has a book coming out (when?!) that actually will have some of the details of this thread but from the other side. He's actually impacted my life (good and bad!) more than anyone should have when we haven't met face-to-face yet
Eventually we'll hit a good local steak house
This increased life was also why our QA department could clean the floor against any professional team for other games at that time. It was harder to kill folks in our game, so they got better. Then going to a CoD or whatnot, where you just need to land a couple bullets? Winzo.
But even then, PC was winning too much.
Sooo, more life. :)
Essentially, in Shadowrun you have to use a lot of bullets to take down someone. You have to keep aiming at them while they're escaping, so this helped even out the console vs PC stuff.
The aim assist + life balanced.
Since we were one of the first console vs PC fps games we spent a TON of time trying to make it fair.
Sorry folks, PCs with the mouse just ripppppppped apart console players. It wasn't even fun.
Gun assist more on console, caused the reticle & bullets to aim towards enemies....
(another thread here, I'll eventually upload: x.com/ubahs1337/st...)
A lot of good times and since the studio is shut down now, no new good times or stories will ever happen there. I like to think some of the memory is kept around with little bits of experiences like in this thread.
We prototyped the original Shadowrun game on the Halo engine. FASA and Bungie were both owned by Microsoft at the time and also Chicago friends from before the MS era.
Halo source code just... laying around. It was weird.
I think Shadowrun was shipped on the MechWarrior engine?
The awesome HR lady's husband worked right next to Miyamoto at Nintendo for years. Some British savant who's career is crazy cool.
Getting them Mister Donuts from a trip to Japan almost caused a fellow FASA employee to miss their flight home.
@shinichiki.bsky.social is the master at travel.
After we shut down, I believe our old building was taken over by 343, way back when, and then DigiPen after that and is still there?
A mega church and golf course across the street.
Froggies in the little protected stream out front were cute.
mention the troll dong. But there are threads about that already.
Two blocks down the road was Flying Saucer Pizza, sci fi themed pizza joint. A version is still there today, but we would go there all the time and order Thai Fighter pizzas and beer. 🤤
Anyways, small random thoughts and experiences. I don't want to lose those.
I didn't even...
We had in the back of the studio an old Street Fighter 2 arcade cabinet. Had the Guile air suplex bug in it, twas rad.
7 regular smokers and Mitch, the studio lead, smoked probably a cigar a day.
A watermelon was left on a table for a month and went bad. That was me, my bad....
Biggest snowstorm in the region for decades and still hasn't been beat.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanukka...
The Hanukkah Eve 2006 storm happened right after a studio event. Out of nowhere snow covered everything, people trapped, not prepared and no way home other than walking...for days.
Me and a few friends slept in the studio for a night or two, then walked 7 miles home in the snow.
This was also when it was explained that critical contractors would never go full time. Not being allowed in many FTE only meetings, meant a lot more time to actually do work. So rad.
Anyways, finally got a real FTE loop & shutdown news happened during that, so got screwed again
that required VP signatures and, "don't talk about this"...but that was a long time ago and is funny now.
Needless to say, I worked for almost 4 straight years as a contractor there, but was the only employee at a "company" a few times. Fun stuff!
Contractors couldn't work for more than 9 months at a time, with a 3 month break. So, MS would just hire critical contractors as a vendor under random employee companies for 3 months then bring them back on under a new contract afterwards.
No idea if legal, but secret stuff.....