Oh This Just Ticks Me Off! - Page 4

gregebowman · #31 March 2nd, 2004, 03:50 PM

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Maybe an updated demo could be released with the 1.91 patch included, and MM or Shrapnel could get that demo out to the PC game magazines to be included on their demo discs. Just a thought.

That is an excellent idea. You should email that to MM right now Greg.
Maybe when I get home, AT. One of my coworkers is getting canned, mostly in part for doing personal e-mails at work. So I'm not taking that kind of chance. But feel free to do so yourself if I don't get around to doing it tonight.
Man sounds like my old company when the belt got tightened. They would fire people for realy DUMB stuff. One guy spilled his breakfest, when we had cafiteria serivce, on the floor and it stained it. He was terminated. So people stopped buying food and they closed the cafiteria. Another guy was rifed for accepting a call from his wife on his own cell phone during a safety meeting.

I was there for both so I know. I heard that they fired people for surfing the web, emails, phone calls, sitting down when they should not have been, etc. Just uber nazi BS reasons.

Well, I work for the state of Florida. Mostly in beaurocracies (?), once you're past your probation period, you're set for life. This person went too far in her antics, and therefore is being "encouraged" to resign. It would make for a better office atmosphere once she leaves, but unfortunately, until we get a replacement for her, I'll be stuck doing most of her work. So I might be going to this site less than I usually do once she leaves at the end of this month. Hopefully it won't be too long.

Cipher7071 · #32 March 2nd, 2004, 04:08 PM

My experience was much the same as Lord Shleepy's. It was not so much that I was bored with the games I'd been playing, but that they were the sort of games that once you've been through them once or twice there's not much else to do but look for Easter eggs.

So I started a search. I spent some time looking over the freeware and shareware until I got hold of SEIII. It was tough getting started, but for some reason I had to learn to play it. Then, later on, when I found SEIV I had to buy it. Three years later, here I am hanging around in the Shrapnel Forums and playing SEIV Online.

I guess the point I'm trying to make is that I had to go looking in order learn the game existed, and it's that kind of interest that eventually leads us to a game like SEIV. I don't think there's anything wrong with the Online approach to promoting the game. Maybe there just need to be a few more links out there.

(hmmmm...what game like SEIV?)

edit: decided to get Lord Shleepy's name right. I had it 'Lord Schleppy'...heh heh

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Atrocities · #33 March 2nd, 2004, 04:13 PM

I would love to get a job with the state I live in. But those jobs are reserved for college grads and family of those already employeed.

Tis a sad state I live in.

Atrocities · #34 March 2nd, 2004, 04:14 PM

Hell if my state knew how much fun SEIV was, they would tax us everytime we booted it up and played it. (No kidding on that one folks, they tax us for farting if they could)

Atrocities · #35 March 2nd, 2004, 04:17 PM

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Ahh....yess...many year ago...at the height of my nerdiness...I stumbled across a banner ad on some long since extinct website in some dusty corner of the internet at 3 am and was thereby introduced to the glories of SEIII. The resulting carnage was horrific...and strangely mesmerizing...and for hours...days...weeks...i continued to send my ill-conceived ships to the slaughter. The inevitable galactic dominance was eventually achieved...followed by a brief spell of boredom...until I learned of SEIV through the malfador web site and was launched into another orgy of mouse-shattering conquest and destruction.

Oh the horror...the sweet horror...

This has to be one of the best written Posts that I have ever had the pleasure of reading on any forum. Thank you.

gregebowman · #36 March 2nd, 2004, 05:12 PM

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I would love to get a job with the state I live in. But those jobs are reserved for college grads and family of those already employeed.

Tis a sad state I live in.

Well, I had 2 2 year degrees, but I think what got me into Florida was my military career. Almost 10 years in the Air Force probably helped me more than anything else, since I had just moved into the state at the time. And no, not one of my in-laws were working for the state either.

Lord_Shleepy · #37 March 2nd, 2004, 11:35 PM

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This has to be one of the best written Posts that I have ever had the pleasure of reading on any forum. Thank you.

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Hee hee! Lord Schleppy thanks you all.

Atrocities · #38 March 2nd, 2004, 11:59 PM

Well Greg any man who is man enough to have the DUKE as his avatar is ok in my book and deserves a good job.

"Well Pilgram?"

My dad new John Wayne.

I wish that I would have had the chance to meet him before he passed on.