Tweaking the tiger's tail again...

[kickaha]

Our office nameplates at work have room for us to put quotations on them - in fact, they have a special space for them. I've been racking my brain trying to come up with a nice short quote for it. I finally got tired of the natterings of the people in the offices around me who are doing 'research' in... I'm not kidding... Second Life.

"Sociologists study sociological methods; physicists study physics." - Poincare

They probably won't even get it.

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[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Man, I tried to tell my boss we needed to look into the integration of Xbox Live and the OS via Windows Live Anywhere, and that the best way to do this would be to buy a couple of 360s and several copies of Shadowrun.

But am I testing multi-platform networked socialization interfaces with high polygon counts? No, I'm clicking links in IM clients to see what application launches.

I should be working with you, I guess.

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Shadowrun sucks anyway, I hear. I was supposed to be in the beta (for work) but considerate MS deleted my hotmail account for inactivity, so I had no MS approved addy for them to send an email to. Yeah.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I started playing pen-and-paper Shadowrun pretty much as soon as it came out; the consensus out there on the Xbox game seems to be "why did they call this game Shadowrun, when they could have made a game that was Shadowrun instead?"

I actually went over to the Games group the week I found out MS had purchased FASA Online, because I knew they *had* to make a Shadowrun game, and I wanted to be there when they did. Had a nice conversation with the test manager over there who woudl've been in charge, but they didn't have any plans at that time, and soon after that I had my incident with the company. Now I'm glad I didn't end up over there; NWN has shown me what an RPG can be, and I'm pretty sure MS couldn't have produced anything like it at the time.

I signed up for the paid Hotmail account a couple of weeks before they were available to the general public, because I built the billing system and we needed people to test the system before we opened it up to the world. Since then, I've never had to worry about getting deleted, just twenty bucks on my credit card every year. :)

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

Oh gods, I worked on NWN. Gaaaah. Fucking Bioware.

Although the game was pretty good, all things considered. :)

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

NWN made up the vast majority of my gaming time for a couple of years; it is a pretty good game.

Sounds like you have stories; we should trade sometime, if you want to hear about how operating systems or multimillion-user online systems get made. :)

Them: "We're shipping Feature X!"

Me: "Who's the customer for Feature X? How will they be using it?"

Them: "Um..."

Me: "Yeah, that makes it easy to test."

[franktheavenger.livejournal.com]

If by 'stories' you mean 'rants' then sure. ;) Although I know a lot of interesting stuff it is my best interest not to repeat, sadly enough. :p