Comments | dragonladyflame: you won't be happy with me, but give me one more chance -- you won't be happy anyway

dragonladyflame

you won't be happy with me, but give me one more chance -- you won't be happy anyway

Jan 30, 2007 00:27

Gamers are funny. More specifically, the way they react to the "canon universe" of their favourite game is funny, and though I always took it for granted, it's starting to hit me way more now that I actually write game material for a popular (i.e. ferociously defended) game line. (Now, I know I said I wouldn't be reading review-type things, but I ( Read more... )

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byzantienne January 30 2007, 19:24:20 UTC

... so. Do you take commissions in drawing in that style? Because it's all lovely and art deco and I would pay you money for character portraits.

dragonladyflame January 31 2007, 21:00:53 UTC

Reeeally? :steeples fingers: How much? And what characters?

heliograph January 31 2007, 03:10:16 UTC

Jaye: Well, just look at them. They all work really hard everyday and they're dissatisfied. I mean, I can be dissatisfied without hardly working at all.

I think when people spend healthy chunks of their lives mastering something and then the underpinnings of it changes (invalidating all the time they spent mastering it), they receive negative feedback equal to what they got from mastering in the first place.

There's a big difference between adding new stuff (151 Pokemon? Caught 'em all? Here's 50 more) and changing old stuff (these 50 Pokemon no longer exist) to the people that're invested in it.

dragonladyflame January 31 2007, 21:00:25 UTC

But people get just as mad when we add new stuff they disagree with as when we change old stuff. Not that I know, being as the interim developer won't ALLOW us to change ANYTHING in the first place. :P

peterzenkman January 31 2007, 05:06:28 UTC

I've probably told you this before, but Stephin Merritt is an awesome songwriter. According to a friend who interviewed him for Pitchfork, it's also nearly impossible to hold a coherent conversation with him.

dragonladyflame January 31 2007, 20:59:15 UTC

I bet. If he talks like his song lyrics, though, I would be so excited to meet him.

peterzenkman January 31 2007, 05:10:16 UTC

Oh, on the topic of unusual maladies, a doctor recently mentioned this one to me: Zenker's diverticulum.

spareme January 31 2007, 08:04:20 UTC

one of my favorite lyrics

dragonladyflame January 31 2007, 20:56:08 UTC

What a good song.