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/concur... Haven"t laughed this hard in a while... Thanks

If you have an FHA or VA, absolutely. If not, no way, unless they offer a streamline with under 1k closing costs overall. I"d be very leery of this and before you do anything, get a Good Faith Estimate. It will cost you cash out of pocket for any refinance for the closing costs...

Grave, you wouldn"t be telling the guy anything he didn"t know. I"d be a sounding board, and give advice. I would not get involved, and wouldn"t mention his skanklet hit on you. I think even if you did tell him, he"d ignore it because fucked up or not she makes him happy. However, a...

Best series ever.. and it might even get finished before GRRM pulls a Robert Jordan. Last comment on politics: Term Limits WERE passed in a lot of states, but the Federal Courts overruled the states and said they couldn"t impose term limites on Federal office. A bunch of BS if there ever was.

This is really the wrong forum for any type of rational discussion on politics, due to the rabid and young nature of most of the people here. Mass is heavily Democrat. Really, I"d love to see America have many more political parties. We have hundreds of millions of people, and yet just...

Isn"t Moorgard their Creative dude on the MMO side?

That has less to do with Blizzard and more to do with the quality of other releases. I guarantee if SW:TOR has strong buzz with it"s open beta with good story, fun gameplay, and nice classes it won"t mattter what patch or expansion Blizzard releases, it"ll still grab huge chunks of market...

38 is a small shop. If they"re anything like other small shops, when someone leaves, another takes their workload, in addition to keeping most of their own. Plus, actually not having a product probably allows them to shift executives without having an impact. Also, Zhex is right....

I actually prefer companies that promote from within, and I think I"m done playing devil"s advocate. No promises though. Now would be a great time to drop some hints or information so we can have something substantial to talk about, instead of the fun of office politics and the success rate...

Outside of red herrings and bad analogies, I have yet to see anything that would indicate she brings anything to the table to be excited about. I"m not saying she"s unqualfied, but if you were giving a fair analysis, Flight, you"d probably not be comparing her with her meagre resume to...

Damn! It must be due to all those games she"s designed and developed. Feel free to list them off for me Flight.

I shall try and present my thoughts about the other side of the argument. This company has been running for a while, and promoting someone well liked is probably a better avenue than bringing in a hot shot outsider to take over. Continuity in projects is important. I"m really surprised Curt...

Feel free to refute any of my points, Believe. Or not. It"s sure easier to hurl insults to someone who hasn"t insulted anyone, and claim TROLL! while also claiming not to be a suck up. Sarcasm aside, Kuro, One of my fav series growing up was: Jade Raymond seems to have done decently. I...

Well, given they are begging for cash and are years away from release, a leadership turnover to someone with a sparser resume will certainly effect things. I never said anything about their game, since they have none. I also never said she was unqualified, just that from an outsider perspective...

That"s a good point. However, from a PR perspective their resumes are not in the same ballpark. She"s running the ship of a game development company without a single game to her credit that I can see. She isn"t selling or marketing content deals, she"s steering the Copernicus ship and is the...

Dorfeater, don"t confuse CEO with employees. A CEO is the head cheese. The person running the ship. The Captain. It"s a position execs covet, and most go down with the ship. The ones who voluntarily leave either get a bigger ship, or are running from government probes. Neither scenario...

They replaced the independent knowledgable insider with his own vision with a "yes girl", perhaps? Who needs The Guild. Plenty of 38S Drama!

My remark was based on the feedback given. She was a fucking play tester. They generally don"t get promoted to VP slots. While I don"t matter at all, good luck selling her and your company now. According to the media you are looking for more funding. Who is asking for that matters: A...

This would be the place to reveal to us why you picked her and to expand on her accomplishments. The fact you went Ad Hoc and got defensive speaks even bigger volumes. p.s. She still has jack and shit on her resume about actual games experience. She has a degree in internetional relations...

They hired this girl a year ago who is now the CEO. I have yet to see any real game experience on her resume. She was the VP of games at Comcast before. Forgive me, but what games did Comcast make or do? I guess who you know and being a looker is all it takes in Boston and at Comcast. She has...

Sports are by and large the upper tier of entertainment in America. Professional Athletes are silly overpaid, just like Hollywood actors, and other celebrities. However, it"s supply and demand, and the American way. I realize there are millions of people who can do what I do. There are few...

As a parent of a 15 year old with Aspergers, I can relate, also. Zehn, why in the world are you staring at a wall. I use 2 monitors with a big screen TV in the corner behind me. I have a pretty big home office, though.

I disagree. Given what we were playing gamewise even 10 years ago, and the ridiculous computing and disk power that we can get dirt cheap now, I think it"s just a matter of time. I think Blizzard is a lot closer to this than anyone thinks. Asherons Call 2 had some good ideas, but they were...

Again, that"s where the dynamic future of MMOs comes into play. The current crop is really a single player, single threaded story with small group multiplayer built on top. The carrot is mudflation and item upgrades. We"ve been stuck here because the tech is limited. Hopefully that will change...

UO did quite nicely with an open sandbox world, although it was limited by a lot more technical issues. Second life is a great example, but it isn"t really an MMO, but a social portal. I think it"ll take some great design, but if the hooks are in place you certainly can make it work. It might...

First, I think everyone loves a good story. I think reading is somewhat of a generational gap. I"m 40 and a voracious reader. Even in a busy month I"ll down 2 or 3 novels while doing 60 hour work weeks. I"ll wipe out 10 or more during a slow month. I grew up with few good TV channels, and...

We need to get back to discussing this more:

2600 is a console that everyone had. Get back on the Desktop computer thread, hoser. If you want to flame, then at least break out the Intellivision.

The beauty of the Commodore 64 tape drives. Apple had those uber IIe floppies. When I started in IT, my first experience coding backup software was on huge floppy drives like the smaller 5.25". The more I see Myspace, twitter, and facebook, the more I miss the days of BBS" and Doors...

Between Yserbius and Imagination network, and AOL NWN I think most of my early paychecks were completely eaten up there. F Compuserve and it"s hourly fee too. People today don"t have a clue about the fun of 1200 and 2400 baud modems and pay by the hour online fees. I remember Wizardy in the...

Yep, I still have the boxes from the early 80s and the first game. I put countless hours into that on my first crappy PC.

Clancy was deeply involved with Red Storm entertainment before it was purchased by Ubisoft. Saying he was just a name is a bit of a disservice to him. Obviously he is now since it"s a large corporate entity. p.s. Ut! You listed Wing Commander, but not Privateer 1 & 2. Your opinions therefore...

The quality of storytelling is so poor for most of the FR series, it"s sad. I think if one videotaped and transcribed random D&D sessions from the 80s, you"d get a better read than so many of these. I think a lot of RA"s popularity is he was one of the few who could actually write novels...

I"m having a hard time discerning if this is tongue in cheek or not. Regardless... One of our largest complaints is the lack of proactive communications by so many companies, due to the trolltastic behavior displayed when they try and have meaningful conversations. Your thread here makes...

I know you guys are doing a new IP, but in considering Salvatore further, I"d love to see him design and help mesh out an AD&D MMO world. His novels are a great fantasy fluff read, but his descriptions and imaginings of the Drow underworld are amazingly well done and would translate...

A bit tongue in cheek there. I like Salvatore"s work, but I love the unpredictability and fun of reading A Song of Ice and Fire. I"d love to see that in a game, and I think Salvatore"s fantasy is a bit more rote and predictable. Then again, if you hired Martin, your schedule would have to...

Really, I"d differentiate between development and a production issue. In dev, if you can segregate tasks to allow great compartmentilization you can get good returns for more people. If, and only if, you have them at a high level across the board. For production support in a real environment...

I"m trying so hard not to purchase AION as I think it"s a WOW clone, but I really have the MMO itch right now and it seems the only decent option unless I want to go back to Azeroth... I"ve been trying to fight the urge with Popcap games and Sid Meier on Steam, but it just isn"t hitting the...

Imagine how much more cash you could"ve generated on the market.. Oh, wait. That reminds me to go check my 401k to generate some anger for my workout. Ha. I haven"t had an RSS subscription to Massively for a while due to the poor content and writing. It seems I"m not missing much.

It get"s unused by the legacy gamers. WOW as a game is still growing and plenty of people are experiencing that content for the first time. My biggest problem isn"t the legacy content, it"s replaying said content if you want to max out another character. I"d love for them to have a new...