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Wanna Work for Dave Taylor & American McGee?

The well known former Id developers are starting a company to develop a shooter for the X-Box. They are looking for programmers, artists, level designers, and producers, but only if you're in, or willing to move to LA. If you think you're right for this one, you should email Dave.

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  1. Um, stuff that matters? by Mike+Schiraldi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, um, i'm looking to sell my car. Can i get a story on Slashdot too?

    1. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by professortomoe · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      Hey, nerds (At least ones who are into gaming) may be interested in this. Hell, if I was old enough, had refined my programming skills enough, and could move out there, I'd be all over it. Face it bub, it does matter, and people are bound to be interested in it. Plus, your car prolly sucks.

      --
      If I wasn't so lazy, I'd have a sig.
    2. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by archen · · Score: 1

      only if it has a penguin bumper sticker

      Just try something like:

      Man wants to sell car with penguin bumper sticker. Claims he uses Mozilla and likes it. Even has a geocities page saying he likes Mozilla, and dares anyone to slashdot it.

      Should be enough...

    3. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Yeah, um, i'm looking to sell my car. Can i get a story on Slashdot too?

      If your car moves faster than sound, or your car belonged to Pete Townshend at one time, then sure...

    4. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      The snow glided down slowly outside my window. It was the second day of
      Christmas break of my senior year. I was basically in love with Megan, and
      the events of a few days ago had done nothing to change that.

      I watched the snow fall gently, and wondered how much of her I'd be
      seeing this break. Since school was out, our usual cover of the school
      newspaper wouldn't quite work. We could always go out under the pretense of
      seeing a movie, but that wasn't anywhere near long enough to really enjoy
      ourselves.

      The phone rang, and I rolled lazily off my bed to answer it. The voice
      of one very excited Megan was on the other end. Apparently the Colonel (as
      I'd taken to calling her father) and his wife were going off to visit some
      relatives, and Megan has succeeded in convincing them to leave her behind.
      This meant she had the house to herself for a few days, and that meant *we*
      had the house to *ourselves* for a few days.

      After I hung up, I started scheming - I called one of my friends and got
      him to agree to tell my parents I was staying with him for a few nights if
      they called. With that taken care of, I'd be free to enjoy myself. It was
      going to be a Herculean task to wait until her parents left.

      ***

      I knocked again on the door to Megan's house. It was cold and there were
      flurries again. I just in the middle of wondering what could be taking so
      long when the door was abruptly yanked open by one ass-naked Megan. I stood
      there on the stoop for a minute, too surprised to say anything, but Megan
      yanked me in by the collar.

      "Its cold silly," she said, closing the door behind me. "Come on.... What
      are you waiting for?"

      That was all the encouragement I needed, and I started shedding my winter
      clothes. When I was naked, I grabbed Megan and pulled her to me for a kiss.
      I felt her icy cold little hand wrap around my cock and squeeze it, as if
      she were making sure I was ready. I felt like my cock had just doubled in
      size, as I scooped her up in my arms. I carried her into the kitchen,
      laying her gently on the kitchen table on her back. Placing her legs
      against my shoulders, I felt her hands rubbing my cock up and down her
      freshly shaved twat.

      Not wanting to wait much longer, I leaned forward and slid easily into
      her warm pussy - she was as wet as I was hard. I paused for a minute, my
      entire shaft buried in her pink folds, as she moaned for me to get on with
      it. To the accompaniment of wooden table creaking noises and girl
      whimpering Megan noises, I began rodding Megan, stuffing my tool in her, and
      then pulling it all the way out, watching her pussy close, and thrusting it
      back in again. The irregular timing was driving her nuts, and I could feel
      her finger nails digging into my buttocks, trying to get me to fuck her
      proper.

      With that, I began to stuff her like a thanks giving turkey, pistoning my
      cock in and out of her pussy, as she arched her back and squirmed under my
      assault on her kitchen table. I let my hand drift down to massage the top
      of her puusy, and to maul her breasts which were jiggling delightfully with
      each smack of my pelvis into hers.

      As I felt myself getting close to orgasm, I paused for a minute to press
      Megan's legs together, and to put them both over my right shoulder. This
      changed the pressures of the fuck, and presented her cute round ass as a
      target for my arrow to pierce. With a nice slap on the ass, I started
      drilling her again, watching my cock disappear into the wet pink slit, as
      she gasped on the table, already in the grips of her own orgasm.

      When I couldn't stand it any longer, I withdrew and Megan jumped off the
      table. Taking my cock in her hand, she engulfed the head with her mouth.
      Letting my thrust against the side of mouth, I came in torrents, covering
      her pretty face and dirty blond hair with my gooey sperm.

      ***

      It was about 3 hours later - Megan and I had ordered out for pizza and
      eaten leisurely in the nude, on the very same kitchen table on which I'd
      fucked her an hour or so earlier. We were now watching tv, curled up on the
      couch in the living room. A tv reshowing of Terminator was on, and I was so
      fixated by the scene where the Terminator blows away the gunshop that I
      didn't feel the soft hot wet sensation on my cock at first. When I did, I
      almost jumped out of my skin - Megan was gently licking my cock, coaxing it
      back to life. Despite the vigor of our earlier copulation, there was still
      life yet in my cock. Smiling at me, Megan slid off the couch and knelt in
      front of me, her head bobbing up and down in my lap, expertly pleasing my
      dick as I'd taught her to in the newsroom months ago.

      Stopping her ministrations for a moment, she smiled up at me again, as she
      pulled a ribbon out of from her ponytail. Putting the head of my dick back
      in her mouth, she grabbed my balls and wrapped the ribbon around them a few
      turns, before making a figure 8 around my cock and balls, and wrapping a
      loop around just my cock. When she was done, she tied it off on the top.

      It wasn't painfully tight, but it was enough to make the veins on my cock
      stand out in a way that they usually didn't. The sensation on my balls was
      equally nice - it felt like her hand did when she used to blow me.

      With that, Megan stood up and turned around. Standing on the footstool,
      legs together, knees bent, waving her ass at me. I placed one hand on her
      ass and gave it a good slap before sticking a finger up her cunt.

      Withdrawing, I guided her ass downwards, until she was just touching my
      dick. I lined myself up with her nether entrance, and watched as she bent
      her knees more, lowering her ass onto my waiting cock, impaling herself.
      This was definitely one of the sexiest things I'd ever experienced, I
      thought, as she continued to alternately raise and lower her ass onto and
      off of my cock. She had such a gorgeous ass, I thought, slapping it again
      for emphasis as she moaned, impaled on my cock. Not wanting to continue at
      her leisurely pace, I stood up, pulling her up with me, and twisted her
      around. After a little adjustment, I was sitting down again, and she was
      straddling me, but facing me this time, feet all the way back on the couch
      cushion, and supporting herself by her hands on my ankles, as I held her
      hips and bucked underneath her, driving my spear into her quivering ass.
      She held on for dear life as I continued to ream her ass out like a convict
      sentenced for life.

      Reaching up, I stuffed a few fingers up her twat and rubber her clit as
      she exploded into a quivering screaming orgasm, shuddering on top of my cock
      as I hammered her for all I was worth. Less than a minute later, I too came
      with a mind-blowing orgasm, painting the walls of her rectum white with the
      copious amounts of cum which I deposited.

      We fell asleep shortly thereafter on the couch, both overwhelmed by the
      post-orgasm peacefulness.

      Chapter 19: A Fine Day

      The next morning was one of those gorgeous winter days that make you glad
      to be alive. The air outside was cold, and the sky was a clear blue, the
      sun reflecting dazzlingly off the snow which remained in the yard. I
      stretched - sleeping on the couch hadn't been so good on the back - and
      padded into the kitchen to fix some coffee. I'd not really gotten a good
      look at Megan's house before - I'd come here a few times to pick her up to
      go out, but the Colonel had made sure I never got further than 10 feet from
      the door. With the coffee going, I decided to explore.

      I headed upstairs - the first bedroom I saw must have been a guest
      bedroom. Megan didn't have any siblings, I knew, and this certainly wasn't
      her bedroom, and the bed was awfully small to sleep both of her parents.
      Continuing my investigation, the next room I peeked into must have been a
      study for the Colonel. There was a desk with a couple perfectly lined up
      stacks of paper, and a floor to ceiling bookshelf. As much as I was dying
      to know what the Colonel liked to read, I decided it was better to finish up
      before Megan woke up.

      With that, I crossed the hall and walked into what must have been her
      room.

      I find it fascinating to see the bedrooms of other people. Our culture
      has made it such that the bedroom is the ultimate private domain of its
      owner - as long as its kept neat, even one's parents don't usually have
      influence within. Bedrooms tell so much about their owners - how the walls
      are decorated, which pieces of furniture dominate the room, what kind of
      books reside there. And because one usually doesn't decorate one's bedroom
      with other people in mind, it's a fairly honest glimpse into someone else's
      mind.

      Megan's bedroom was neat - a light blue carpet and off-white walls. Her
      desk was cluttered with papers and text books and other school work - it was
      clearly more of a storage depot than a work area. She had a large double
      bed up against one wall, covered with pillows and a few stuffed animals. On
      her dresser was a framed picture of us, taken in the newsroom when she was
      hanging out there after school by one of my friends. I was sitting in the
      office chair that the editors jokingly called the throne, and Megan was
      standing behind me, with her arms around my neck, face pressed against mine,
      smiling. It was a good picture - one in fact that I'd tucked away as well.

      I moved on, looking at her posters and pictures, getting a glimpse, for
      the first time really, of the girl as she was before I intruded into her
      life. Most of the pictures were of her playing some sort of sport - she
      clearly had an athlete's mentality and she was quite good at swimming, her
      chosen sport now.

      I decided to leave before I started thinking too deeply on anything.
      Next stop on the tour was the master bedroom. It was a large room, with a
      queen sized bed, light walls with a big skylight. There was a large TV
      against the wall opposite the bed, and what appeared to be a spacious
      bathroom off to the side. I was admiring the taste with which it had been
      decorated when I felt warm little hands circling my waste.

      After only a moment's hesitation, they slid downwards and were soon
      circling my semi-erect dick. I don't know about most of you guys out there,
      but if there's one thing as sure a bet as the sunrise, its probably morning
      wood. Not exactly hard, not exactly soft, and about 20 minutes worth. If
      there's a feeling quite like having your morning wood played with, I don't
      think I've experienced it yet.

      Anyways, standing in the door of her parents bedroom was just too good,
      and it was a matter of seconds before I was fucking her brains out
      missionary style smack in the middle of that big queensized bed. One big
      wet spot and a mutual orgasm later, we were ready for the day to begin.

      ***

      I wasn't sure if my dick could continue at her pace, so I thought I'd try
      to burn off some of that energy. We packed up some stuff, dropped by my
      house quickly, and headed out to one of the state parks in the area. It
      took about half an hour to hike up to the pond, and another 15 minutes to
      chip a hole in the ice with the hatchet I brought along to make sure it was
      thick enough. But 5 minutes after that, we were skating.

      I don't know if I've ever had a better day that that one cold December
      afternoon. We skated for a few hours, played kick-the-puck style hockey
      without sticks, almost wound up making out on the ice after some vicious
      checking, and then decided to head home. Just being around her made me
      incredibly happy.

    5. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Slashdot has sold its soul

    6. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      Home. Cathy, fifteen years old, was at home with her brother, Jim,
      who is five years her senior. Their parents were out for vacations, and would
      be back in a few days. Cathy was in her room doing her homework when she
      heard Jim come into the house. As usual Jim ignored her and went directly
      into his room. From time to time Cathy would be annoyed that Jim treats her
      like a little girl, as if she never grew up, but she's used to it so she just
      continued with her chemistry homework.

      An hour later she finished the homework for chemistry and decided to
      take a break. It was kind of unusual for Jim to be so quiet, no noise was
      coming out of his room. Cathy decided to forget about it and continue with
      her homework. She was about to begin her English homework when she noticed
      that her dictionary was missing. "Damn it. Jim must have taken it without
      telling me." Cathy got up and walked out of her room, determined to go to
      Jim's room to get the dictionary. As it was her custom she opened the door
      without knocking. She started walking in, saying, "Hey, Jim, did you..." She
      stopped in mid-sentence and froze. Jim was laying half-naked on his bed, a
      pornographic magazine in one hand, and his cock in the other, jerking off.

      Embarrassed, horny, angry, Jim panicked. He thought, "My younger
      sister, damn it." He dropped the magazine and sat up on his bed. "Come over
      here for a second, Cathy. We need to talk."

      Embarrassed and a little scared, Cathy stuttered, "No... I... I...
      I am... am sorry. I... am... am... leaving." She started turning around and
      stepping out of the room.

      Confused and angry, Jim shouts at her, "Cathy, stop! Get the fuck
      over here now! We have to talk. I mean it!"

      Cathy froze in mid step. Jim has never acted like that before. She
      started shivering slightly as she slowly turned around to face him. "What do
      you want to talk about?"

      Still confused and mad, and very horny, Jim said, "Well, you're
      younger than I am, so maybe you don't understand these urges. It's just...
      You have to understand that... Guys get horny sometimes... and... Well, they
      have to relief themselves... by whatever means possible. It's just a fact of
      life." Rambling on, Jim suddenly realized that he wanted to grab Cathy and
      fuck her. He has never though of her in that way, it is until now that he has
      noticed that Cathy has grown up, she is no longer the little girl. He is
      seeing her as a mature woman. And her presence is making him even more
      aroused. "Cathy, have you ever had sex before or touched yourself?"

      "You... you don't have to explain anything. I'm leaving. I did not
      see anything. Okay?" Cathy started walking out of the room. "I am leaving.
      I'm sorry I interrupted."

      "Cathy, get back here!" Jim yelled, as he got off his bed and stood
      up, his hard cock hanging out of his boxers. "You don't understand." He
      repeated as he caught up with her and grabbing her by her shoulders turned her
      towards him, to face him, before she could get too far. "Cathy, listen to me.
      And answer my fucking question! Have you had sex before or have you ever
      touched yourself?" He asked, unknowingly feeding his own horniness. He
      forced her to look into his eyes.

      "Let me go." Cathy started to panic as she sees the desire in his
      eyes. She has never seen that look in Jim's eyes before. "Okay. No, I never
      had sex before. And, yes, I have touched myself. Are you satisfied? Now,
      let me go! You are hurting me!"

      "I see. So you don't know what it is like, do you? You would
      understand if you knew what it was like." Jim said, tightening his grip on
      her even further.

      "I don't want to understand. Just let me
      go, and go back to whatever
      it was that you were doing. Please, let me go." Cathy begged, frightened and
      panicking.

      Jim could feel her trembling in his hands. "Cathy, you can't just
      walk away from this. You know what it is like to be horny. You are a fucking
      teenager for Christ's sake. And you can't tell me that my cock hanging out
      like this doesn't make you horny."

      "NO, it doesn't!" Cathy screamed, as she reached up trying to break
      free.

      "Goddamnit, Cathy! Do I have to fucking spell it out for you?" Jim
      said firmly, while pulling her back into his room. He pushed her forcefully
      onto his bed. "All women are whores. You can't tell me that you want it any
      less than the next slut."

      "Jim, stop. I don't want it. Let me go." Cathy started crying,
      trying to sit up. "I'm going to tell mom and dad if you don't let me go."

      "Mom and dad are not here right now. And beside they won't believe
      you. They know you are always lying. You little slut." Jim pushed her back
      down.

      "I'm not a slut. Let me go. Don't do this. Damn you!"

      Jim was becoming angrier and more frustrated, but mainly he was
      hornier than ever. He got on top of Cathy, pinning her down beneath him, and
      said angrily to her face, "No, Cathy, damn YOU. You are the one who came in
      here. You wouldn't have been watching me if you weren't a little slut."

      Cathy tried to push him off, but he was stronger and heavier. "I
      wasn't watching you. I didn't mean to come in here like that. How was I
      supposed to know what you were doing? NOW, let me go!"

      Seeing tears running down her cheeks, and feeling her body trembling
      under him, Jim could tell that Cathy was afraid, and trying to reassure her,
      he said, "Look, Cathy. It's okay. You haven't done anything wrong. We're
      not doing anything wrong." And, as he said this, he kissed her gently on the
      lips. His hands began moving down to her waist, to feel her. He kissed her
      again, this time a little bit longer. Cathy continued to squirm beneath him,
      but he's got her pinned down. His hand slowly migrated down, sliding under
      the waistband of her shorts, to feel her pubic hair. But, something is
      strange. Then Jim had a realization, "You ARE a slut! You're up here
      telling me 'NO, no, damn you!' And all the while you're wet as a whore! You
      like this don't you? You really do want it."

      "NO, please stop. This is wrong. It doesn't matter what either of us
      wants. This isn't right. Mom and dad will be mad at both of us. Stop."
      Cathy squirmed and twisted around trying to get away.

      "What, are you embarrassed now? Embarrassed that your own brother, in
      a violent frenzy, cock flying all over the place, can make you horny? Are you
      ashamed? Well I don't give a fuck. You're horny, and you want be fucked
      right now. And don't try and tell me otherwise." He kissed her harder on the
      mouth, forcing his tongue into her mouth, his hands roaming and probing over
      her young, innocent body. "Look, you little slut! Mom and dad are on
      vacation, and they won't be home for a couple more days. The fact is that we
      are both horny. So why don't you just give into your 'twisted' desires and
      acknowledge them as your own. I don't think you have a choice." As he said
      this, he started to undress her. His hands slid up her shirt, over her arms,
      tossing the shirt onto the floor. "Come on, Cathy. Lighten up and enjoy it.
      You might as well..."

      Trying hard to control her instincts, Cathy tried not to respond her
      brother's kisses and touch. Slowly she felt her own resolution breaking down.
      She tries one last time. "Stop, before it is too late. Please, Jim."

      "Arrgh, goddamnit Cathy! Don't give me that shit. You're not going
      to stop this, no matter what you do. So you might as well just enjoy it." He
      continued roaming her body with his hands. He began to unbutton her shorts,
      forcefully sliding them off her body and onto the ground as she squirmed
      beneath him. Once again, Jim probed around her crotch. "Gosh, Cathy. You're
      even wetter than I thought. This is really getting you off, isn't it? Well
      don't worry. You many not know what is coming, but you are in for the ride of
      your life. On the other hand if you are going to get violent every time you
      get horny, you will have a hard time getting fucked except by those kinky
      types." Jim laughed at his own attempt at joking. And his hand continued to
      feel her crotch, engaging the wetness. Suddenly, in a mad burst of strength,
      he ripped off her panties tearing them open down the middle. Cathy's crotch
      was exposed now. He tossed the rag that was her panties to the floor.

      Cathy turned her head to the side as he ripped her panties off. She
      knew that she couldn't stop him. She was sobbing quietly, hoping that this
      was just a nightmare and that she'll wake up soon. She turned to look at Jim
      again, her eyes full of tears, begging.

      "Why would you want this to stop Cathy? You don't want this to stop
      or you wouldn't be so fucking wet and horny. You can tell that I don't want
      this to stop. My cock wants to pound you and make you squeal like the slut
      that you are. So why should we stop? It's pointless to combat your desires."
      Saying that, John decided to give her some freedom. He embraced her where
      she was, and flipped them over. Now, Cathy was on the top and Jim beneath
      her. "Let's test my theory. You are free to get away, if you want. I know
      you are wet and you want it. You are free to resist or to indulge your
      desires. So what is it going to be?"

      Cathy could feel her hard cock against her crotch. She tried to push
      herself up to get away, but her hands slipped on the blanket and she falls
      back
      down right on top of him. She could feel his cock pressing harder on her
      crotch.

      "There you go. I was right." Jim said, as he moved his hands around
      to brace her ass as he position himself underneath her, ready for entry. As
      he pushed her downward with his hands, his pelvis thrust upward and inserted
      his cock into her tight virgin pussy. "You see? It wasn't so bad, was it?
      Do you still want to go away? What does your body say?"

      Cathy gasped in pain as she felt his cock enter her. She was still
      sobbing, and she ignored his questions. Seeing her distress, Jim moved his
      hands from her ass up to her back, and undid her bra, tossing it aside,
      freeing her breasts from their constraint. He slowly slid his cock out of her
      and pumped it back into her with a slightly harder, firmer thrust. "There,
      that is good, isn't it?

      Cathy did not answer. She just looked at him, hating Jim for what was
      happening.

      Seeing her teary eyes, Jim pushed her up so that she was straddling
      him, free to ride him as her body dictated. He could see the conflict in her,
      her instincts screamed for her to go on while her rational told her that she
      shouldn't be with him, her brother. Cathy closed her eyes and said between
      sobs, "I hate you. Why did you do this? It hurts."

      Seeing and understanding her internal conflict, Jim decided to help
      her resolve it. He got out of her, and grabbed her by the waist and pushed
      her down, so that she was lying on her stomach. He placed two pillows under
      her stomach, raising her ass. Then he got on top of her, straddling her legs,
      and reinserted himself into her. He began to pump his hard cock in and out of
      her, slowly building up the pace. Cathy was squealing and squirming beneath
      him. But all he could do to comfort her is to lean down, kiss her neck and
      whisper in her ear. "It's alright. Don't worry. Relax. Doesn't this feel
      good?" Cathy's juices were getting all over his pubic hair and balls,
      splattering all over the place every time he thrust deep inside her.

      Cathy buried her face into the pillow on the bed as Jim picked up
      speed. His scrotum swinging like a pendulum, colliding with her pubic hair.
      He continued to thrust in and out of her, with more and more power, more
      intensity, more fury. Slowly, Cathy's instinct began to win the battle inside
      her, taking over her body. She was moaning and sobbing at the same time. The
      pillow muffling her sounds. Continuing his sexual ferocity, Jim bend down
      covering her body with his, and whispered in her ear, "Do you know what it is
      like to cum from a cock inside you? You are going to like it, you little
      slut. You're going to love it. And you'll know what it is like really soon."

      Jim continued pumping in and out of her, harder and harder, her juices
      were flying everywhere. He could feel them dripping down his thighs and
      making her crotch glisten. He whispered again. "You are really enjoying this
      aren't you? It is okay to moan. Take you face out of the pillow, don't
      suffocate yourself. No on will hear you but me." Jim started pounding into
      her quicker as he felt himself nearing the edge. "Come on Cathy. I'm going
      to cum soon. You are so nice and tight inside. Let's cum together. Don't
      you like this? Huh? Talk to me!" Cathy just shook her head and buried her
      face deeper into the pillow. She was mad and disgusted at herself for
      enjoying this, for nearing the edge, and she wasn't going to let him hear her
      moan.

      Suddenly, in a mad, rhythmic, pumping fury, he began to enter orgasm.
      Cathy felt it, as he collided into her with unmatched power and intensity.
      Soon, she felt his warm cum inside her, five large squirts. This pushed Cathy
      over the edge and she entered her own orgasm. The pillow muffled a little her
      screams, her muscles tense. Then she felt Jim collapsing on top of her,
      panting, his cock slowly becoming flaccid. Cathy was still sobbing; the
      pillow was covered with her tears and sweat.

      Cathy stayed still for a few moments with Jim on top of her. Then she
      started squirming, trying to get him off her. Jim rolled to one side and
      looked at her naked body. Then he grabbed her by her shoulder and forced her
      to turn around to face him. "You see. I was right. I knew you'd like it."

      "I hate you." Cathy responded. Then she pushed his hands away and
      got up from the bed, running out of the room.

      Jim yelled after her, "Mom and dad won't be back for a couple of days.
      I'll be here if you want it again." And he laughed as she ran into her room
      and slammed it shut.

    7. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      lalalalalalaa...ah yes, the comment

      poop!

    8. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So in other words if you weren't an inept child you'd want a job developing a game with a failure like Dave Taylor, because games are just so l33333t?

      I think you typed slashdot.org when you meant bluesnews.com. Also, consider changing your diaper, bub.

    9. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Another elitist American child.

      Slashdot: Site for Americans, People That Waste Human Flesh.

    10. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wrong. Real Nerds would know that becoming an Xbox developer, would cost them all their self-respect.

    11. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by rapett0 · · Score: 1

      Yes, you can. You just did :)

    12. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      It's past your bedtime, kid.

    13. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by abiogenesis · · Score: 2, Informative

      If you are somehow related to Id software, yes you can:

      Buy John Romero's Ferrari On EBay

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      Donate free food to the hungry at The Hunger site.
    14. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      If it's a Bond car.

    15. Re:Um, stuff that matters? by JavaJoe · · Score: 1

      Only if you are John Romero :-):-):-)

  2. xcv by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    first post!

  3. My list of skills by Latent+IT · · Score: 2, Funny

    1) I like playing games where I get to shoot things.

    2) ???

    3) Hire me!

    1. Re:My list of skills by DRAGONWEEZEL · · Score: 1

      Hurray for Underpants Gnome Economics!!!!!!!

      My Econ teacher said this one allways works.

      1. Obtain lots of something. (i.e. Gaming Skills.)

      2. Dazzle them with Unobtainium Technology (the ??? part)

      3. Profit.

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    2. Re:My list of skills by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      wanky wank force

    3. Re:My list of skills by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      OK, these "Step Two: ???" jokes were funny at first but this one was just pathetic. Since you're so uncreative, at least find a different joke to rip off of.

    4. Re:My list of skills by Latent+IT · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      Ha! Hahahaha! You're so witty and observant! Hahahaha! Damn, you really showed me!

      You're like, superior to all of us!

    5. Re:My list of skills by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      you don't take criticism very well, do you?

    6. Re:My list of skills by Requiem · · Score: 1

      He's serious. It's not funny. It was old a long, long time ago, and unlike the AC, I'll put my name to this.

    7. Re:My list of skills by zapfie · · Score: 1

      I thought it was funny, don't mind them. :P

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    8. Re:My list of skills by Latent+IT · · Score: 1, Flamebait

      That's great. Thanks for putting your name to it. Then I could look at your post history, gaze longingly at your string of 1's and 0's (hey, your karma is binary!) and your other witty comments like, 'I like ass.'

      Good for you. =)

    9. Re:My list of skills by Requiem · · Score: 1

      Oh, I'll readily admit I'm not funny. You, on the other hand...

    10. Re:My list of skills by Latent+IT · · Score: 1, Redundant

      Don't care what you think. ;p

  4. Once in a life time by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Its definetly a once in a life time chance.... why everyone not just move out to albany instead, its gonna be the new tech capital of the world ;)

    1. Re:Once in a life time by Archfeld · · Score: 2

      LOL, there is not gonna be a new tech capital. That's the whole point. Put the corp offices where taxes are best and telecommute everyone else. It worked for Diakatana..errr okie maybe albany is agonna be big :)

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  5. Hiring open source programmers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    That is an extremely bad idea. It's not uncommon with junior open source programmers running of and cloning the project and giving it away for free (smoothwall for example, there are countless of other examples).

    People do open source for different reason and just a minority are fanaticals but you put yourself in risk hiring people with a open source background.

    1. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by paladin_tom · · Score: 1, Insightful

      I disagree. If someone is concerned about their project being cloned, I think junior open source programmers are the least of their worries.

      Proprietary software products are often cloned by other proprietary vendors. After Doom was successful, many similar games, such as Rise of the Triad, came out from other software shops - and this was before Id open-sourced Doom. To take another example, the Windows 9x interface was largely a more Macintosh-like replacement for the interface from Windows 3.x; GNOME and KDE also use a similar interface (and I believe this chain goes all the way back to Xerox, who did a lot of research into modern GUIs). Seeing how a product works, from a user's perspective, often gives a good developer enough information as to how to create a clean-room implementation.

      Furthermore, cloning a project on which you have worked is a legally risky venture, since you're (ex-)employer can point out that you have insider information as to how the product works. When people were cloning IBM's design of the PC back in the 80s, they made sure that the engineers re-implementing it had no prior exposure to the design.

      As for a more modern example, consider the Mono project . These guys are re-implementing Microsoft's .NET development infrastucuture, and they're not the guys who worked on .NET for MS. Furthermore, I believe they avoided looking at MS's Shared Source implementation for BSD, specifically because Mono is to be a complete clean-room implementation.

      I do not believe open source programmers are the risk you make them out to be.

      --
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    2. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      • I do not believe open source programmers are the risk you make them out to be.
      What else do you not believe?
    3. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by MiniChaz · · Score: 1

      And thank god someone did fork Smoothwall! They have been playing fast and loose with the GPL from the start and their attitude to the community is shocking. Use IPCop guys.

    4. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by paladin_tom · · Score: 0

      What don't I believe? Sheesh, well, for starters, I don't beleive that:

      • 0 = 1
      • people should hurt each other
      • private property is a God-given right
      • CmdrTaco will lead an army of tacos on a killing spree, leaving the Taco Bell dog undisputed Emperor of the world
      • ...
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    5. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      And? What else? You've only listed four items.

      That's hardly enough for us to decide whether you're wasting our time or not.

    6. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      "Ok little girl, suck this lollipop!" said Gary as he fed his eight inches
      into the tearful sissy boy.

      David sucked his sister's distinctive tasting cum juice that she'd just
      secreted. Kathy was getting very excited once more and lowered herself down
      a bit further so that her cute bottom was resting on the top of her
      brother's head. Gary took the hint and shoved his dick back into the older
      sister's messy cunt and thrust a couple of times before again withdrawing.
      With a fresh coating of love juice on his dick, Gary once again slapped his
      meat into the crying Della/David.

      "Oh yeah, suck my dick Della! Suck your sister's cum off my hot dick!"
      Meanwhile Kathy had another idea that would humiliate her sissy little
      brother even more. She turned over on to her hands and knees and pulled her
      buttocks wide apart exposing her pink arsehole to Gary.

      "Stick it in my arse baby!" she cried, willing her boyfriend to violate her
      most sacred hole. Gary didn't need a second invitation and removed his prick
      a second time from David's mouth. He lined it up against the moist tight
      opening and pushed until the head of his prick breached the elasticated ring
      around Kathy's hole.

      Slowly Gary pushed his weapon up the young girl's anal passage until he felt
      something blocking his way. "Don't stop honey, that's just some of my shit.
      Oh yeah, that feels so dirty" Gary had never encountered such a perverted
      couple of sisters before, but he wasn't complaining. He pushed his prick all
      the way into Kathy's bottom, breaking up her turds with his battering ram.

      "Now feed it to Della!" cried Kathy, who was busy fingering her cunt while
      Gary had been fucking her arse.

      Gary slid his cock out of the girl's arse-hole and had to cringe at the
      sight of his prick covered in dark chunks of girl shit. Nevertheless he did
      find the thought of feeding his crap-caked member to Kathy's sister's mouth
      a tremendous turn-on. The seventeen-year-old stud holding David's horrified
      head still with one hand, pushed his shitty prick against David's lips.

      The TV teenager screamed and cried as Gary forced the chocolate covered
      shit-stick into David's mouth until it hit the back of his throat. Gary felt
      a large amount of spunk rising from his sac and pushed even further so that
      the tip of his cock was pressing against David's adam's apple and his balls
      were slapping against the young child's chin.

      With that Gary let out a loud scream and pumped out his thick creamy baby
      making fluid directly down David's throat turning the spurting waste-covered
      dick into a shit and cum éclair.

      David struggled to swallow all of the sperm and excrement and ended up
      bringing some of it up and letting it spill out of his mouth and all over
      the rest of his face.

      Scott sat on his bed not knowing what to think about the sweet
      thirteen-year-old girl who he'd taken to the beach and held hands with, as
      the same little girl tried to recover from her ordeal.

      Della just wasn't the girl he thought she was.

      How right Scott was.

    7. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by acceleriter · · Score: 2, Informative

      Smoothwall was already free. It's principal author, despit his talent, seems an insufferable prick, and although I don't use either product, I hope IPCop drives him straight into bankruptcy. And no, I'm not giving him my "address of service."

      --

      CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.

    8. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Can you please enlighen us of the issues? Really, I would like to know.

    9. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Care to give us some more info? I have no first-hand information myself but it's an interresting example.

      From what I read it seems like some GNU fanatics took the code, web-graphics and documentation and changed the graphic-logo from smoothwall to Ipcop, doing this they ignored the copyright on the graphics and documentation (illegally so).

      It also seems ipcop exists only because smoothwall also have a commercial version with some more stuff thrown in. This is what pays smoothwalls bills ofcause, while also contributing free code in the basic version.

      Something missed?

    10. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by acceleriter · · Score: 1

      There's some anecdotal stuff that alludes to Mr. Morrell's personality in various threads within this story. Google's Usenet archive turns up some more.

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      CEE5210S The signal SIGHUP was received.

    11. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Please see sibling post--I meant to reply to yours, but replied to my own.

    12. Re:Hiring open source programmers? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Many, if not most of the Doom spin-offs were developed by "allies" rather than competitors of Id software. For example ROTT was based on technology licensed from Id and it was designed by Tom Hall (who wrote the original design for Doom). Raven software's games Shadowcaster, Heretic and Hexen also used Id's graphics engines and were partly designed by Id's John Romero. Rogue Entertainment was even located in the same building as Id when developing the Doom-based RPG Strife.

      Licensing the engine to other developers was and is a big source of income to Id. It took 2-3 years before the other companies successfully cloned Carmack's graphics technology for games such as Duke Dukem 3d and Dark Forces.

  6. want ads? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    shouldn't this be to http://wantads.slashdot.org?

    1. Re:want ads? by Iffy+Bonzoolie · · Score: 1

      This is a good idea. At one point, classifieds2000 was the only money-making division of Excite. Perhaps slashdot should build out a classifieds section... just for the appropriate categories... tech jobs, computer stuff, personals.... everyone's doing it! And it might actually make money or something.

      It would be fun, anyway.

      -If

      --
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  7. omg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    did slashdot get hit with a stupid stick all of a sudden?

    1. Re:omg by SpatchMonkey · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      No, Taco's just trolling again for banner ad hits. Don't worry about it, just turn image loading off in your browser.

    2. Re:omg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Wasn't slashdot ALWAYS just a big ass stupid stick ? a very very very very long stupid stick at that.

  8. Weak story by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    This sucks, what, you pimping to monster now? Here's a nice job, why don't you all fight over it so we can get someone who's a sucker..

  9. Too bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Too bad that John Romero probably doesn't want to leave Texas.
    What a killer game it could have been !

    1. Re:Too bad by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      John Romero is one smart guy to stay in Texas.

    2. Re:Too bad by Troll+on+ice · · Score: 0

      What a killer game it could have been ! .....4 years and millions of dollars later daikatana2 now with tint control..

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  10. How much... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    did they pay for this ad?

  11. when did slashdot turn in a classified? by tkny · · Score: 1, Insightful

    this sounds more like a want ad than 'news'.

    1. Re:when did slashdot turn in a classified? by necrognome · · Score: 1

      Well, a bunch of geeks are looking for work, especially in a field that would be rewarding. That kind of matters, don't you think?

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      Let's get drunk and delete production data!
    2. Re:when did slashdot turn in a classified? by vsprintf · · Score: 1

      It's called "product placement" and it's all the rage now. Commercials/ads not working? Put the commercials/ads into the regular progamming/product. Who says /. isn't cutting-edge? :)

  12. Requirements by MagPulse · · Score: 1

    They probably don't want replies unless you've already been through the entire product cycle on a released game. These people are after money and success, they don't care about your 3D engine on SourceForge.

    1. Re:Requirements by XMunkki · · Score: 1

      Actually, if the engine shows great promise and mature coding style, they still might consider the applicant.

      I don't think THAT many companies really, REALLY, care about school diplomas and work success (of course they DO matter a lot), rather than demonstrated skills.

      Of course, it is easier to demonstrate those skills when you have a finished game. Although an open source project will let the employers see straight to your code and see what you have done.

  13. L.A. huh.... by The_Guv'na · · Score: 2, Funny

    Could you throw in some firearms training? [And yes, I have been to L.A!]

    1. Re:L.A. huh.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Could you throw in some firearms training? [And yes, I have been to L.A!]

      Dude - if you're going to engage in the sport, make sure you're aware of all of the rules.. a friend of mine was arrested in LA for shooting a Camaro... apparently it was Buick season.

  14. Very cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Too bad I hate the US, game programming, id software and especially the X-box.
    Otherwise very cool job.

  15. Wrong place mate by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You're not trying to pick up OSS/FS advocates for developers unless you fancy to risk getting your products a bit GPL-contaminated.

    That's not the case always, but hry mate, you can't afford screwing up repeatedly, can you?

    It's nto developers you're looking for here, but artists, web site designers, free-riders, Microsoft bashers and this sort of stuff...

  16. Alice by fazil · · Score: 4, Insightful

    At least American McGee is capable of developing a non-cookie cutter game like Alice.

    I like the Guy.. I like Twisted.. I hate repetitive crap games.. the lack of creativity. Remember the 80's? When every game looked and felt different?

    I find American McGee's games reminicent of those times. Creative. Different. Strange. *FUN*

    --
    -=-Ze End-=-
    1. Re:Alice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      > Remember the 80's? When every game looked and felt different?

      Yeah, I remember, every second game was a space invaders clone.

    2. Re:Alice by GigsVT · · Score: 5, Funny

      Remember the 80's? When every game looked and felt different?

      You must have forgotten the Atari 2600.

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    3. Re:Alice by rklrkl · · Score: 1
      Unfortunately, Alice didn't sell too well [in the UK anyway] - I picked it up in the bargain bins a couple of months ago for 3.99 pounds ($6). A shame really, cos it's not a bad little game and even has its own official Web site.

      I haven't finished the Alice game (got bogged down with the excellent GTA3 :-) ), but the general consensus on the Net is that the ending "sucks" (not much happens when you complete it).

    4. Re:Alice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Well if'n that weren't a plant post.

    5. Re:Alice by fazil · · Score: 1

      Yes.. the ending may suck.. but I found the journey to be pretty trippy :)

      See, now I find the trip in GTA3 to pretty good.. but almost always the same.. drive around.. kill kill.. drive around.. kill some more.. Drive around.. splatter a few bums... splatter some more cops.. kill some FBI..

      And while that's great.. when you compare it to alice.. where almost every room was something new....

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      -=-Ze End-=-
    6. Re:Alice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Personally I though Alice was a typical platform game with way too many ridiculous jumping puzzles. The imagery was neat, but the gameplay was the same old crap.

    7. Re:Alice by snoozebutton · · Score: 1

      too true.. hoping there would be a much better ending to it... thinking that there should have been something cooler AT LEAST when you finished it on "Nightmare"..

      oh well.

    8. Re:Alice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Alice certainly had great atmosphere. However the game play was unrelentingly linear with absolutely no deviation from a single, locked path. It wasn't worth finishing.

    9. Re:Alice by donky · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Did you actually play Alice, or just look at the screenshots?

      Alice was just your typical repetitive 3D shoot em up, it was even worse for the fact that it had this great story, yet all it used it for was a backdrop and to weakly link in a purpose. Sure, the level with the floating leaf looked great, but apart from that it was one of the most disinteresting, boring and repetitious games I ever played - and I played it through from start to finish.

      I don't know what other games American McGee has made, but Alice was not *FUN* It was repetitive crap, with a modicum of creativity that didn't make it properly into the game.

  17. Huh huh huh, monster.slashdot.org by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    At least userfriendly.org doesn't front about it!

  18. Sweet Jesus by BlackTriangle · · Score: -1

    The only reason anyone would want to move to LA is to check out all the hot Persian girls. Other that, isn't it a barron polluted wasteland that crushes the soul and poisons the body?

  19. Major Bad Mojo... by Glove+d'OJ · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Taco,
    Since when did /. start running calssified ads? I mean, how much are they / week, and who decides when to place them? I totally understand that this may be of some interest to some people, but it hardly meets the bar as "news." Come on, now.
    Just what were you thinking?

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  20. Dave? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Dave's not here, man!

    1. Re:Dave? by 3nd3r · · Score: 0

      no no it's dave man... let me in man...

  21. Surely there will be a Linux port by defile · · Score: 2

    One way or another, ddt will see that a Linux port is produced. (Inside joke)

    1. Re:Surely there will be a Linux port by Saint+Nobody · · Score: 2

      what, you mean because linux gives him a woody?

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      F(#define F(x) int main(){printf(#x,10,#x);}%cF(%s))
    2. Re:Surely there will be a Linux port by defile · · Score: 2

      Haha, that's "one way", but there's still "or another".

      But I won't say anything unless Dave says it. :D

    3. Re:Surely there will be a Linux port by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

      Haha, little boy! Thrashed you good and the first thing you did was pout, the sencond thing you did was put me as a Foe. What a looser.

      Saint Nobody is a little girl.

  22. ah by AA0 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    /. their email, why not. They are looking for employees and now you cut off their primary method to get it. Good job guys.

    You could have at least put another link up for people to harass.

  23. Another high-interest story brought to you by Rob by SkipToMyLou · · Score: 0, Troll

    Jesus christ, since when does Slashdot post help wanted ads?
    Is this their new advertising method, posting stories for money?
    Even though he's selling out, I have to give props to Taco for having the balls to post a story about Xbox, with all of it's evil Microsoft connections. I guess taco-snotting may just be a rumor.
    BTW, read my journal. If you don't like censorship, you'll like my journal.

  24. hi by asv108 · · Score: 1, Troll

    My name is Alex. I like cats. I need a job. Here is my resume. Can I get a slashdot story?

    1. Re:hi by FigBugDeux · · Score: 1

      I would have hired you, except your image randomizer sucks.

    2. Re:hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

      You have the most pathetic resume I've ever seen in my life. We're really hard up for employees but I wouldn't hire you if you were the last job-seeker on earth. Maybe you should submit to the local McDonald's?

    3. Re:hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      ok, here's the reality for a lot of you bumbs. I know some of you are the real deal, but don't think for one minute that because you know how to install redhat and type configure; make; make install in an xterm that you're a software enginneer. In my experience "most" of the people that I've met that the lan party freaks, or the redhat is the best os ever and windows sucks are not only immature, but not very serious when it comes to real software engineering. sorry for the rant, I'm getting really sick of slashdot and especially capt taco in general, and the overall quality of this website has been going down for about two years now.

    4. Re:hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hi Alex. The writing is too small to read in the html version. Make the writing bigger. One good way to do this is not to specify fonts or sizes in the html, just let the browser defaults do their work.

    5. Re:hi by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You have a dedicated page of "boxen". Do you *really* expect to get a job? Seriously.

      I've got a Systems Administrator job going here in TX, and if I were to interview someone who used that kind of "3l337" crap language, I'd immediately compare them to Slashbot wannabes and count them out just on that basis.

      If you want a serious job, smarten up your site and CV.

  25. -1 OFFTOPIC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    wtf in this? Score: +2?

    1. Re:-1 OFFTOPIC by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The guy probably has auto +1 bonus, bub. Don't be clueless.

      Besides, this is a reference to how squake got created.

  26. Now THAT's a Solid Machine! by SEWilco · · Score: 3, Funny

    Why does a shooter for the X-Box need to be developed?
    Is it armored, so an ordinary gun can't destroy it properly?

    1. Re:Now THAT's a Solid Machine! by happyslinky · · Score: 1

      that could explain why its so damn heavy....

    2. Re:Now THAT's a Solid Machine! by Anguirel · · Score: 1

      No, no, no... they want a shooter for the X-box as in, a gun capable of shooting the X-box. Imagine: X-boxen dropping out of the sky, crushing the opposing army...

      --
      ~Anguirel (lit. Living Star-Iron)
      QA: The art of telling someone that their baby is ugly without getting punched.
  27. New Slashdot market by siphoncolder · · Score: 1

    Old model: slashdotting websites into oblivion
    New model: slashdotting inboxes into oblivion

    --
    i'm amazed that i survived - an airbag saved my life.
  28. Oh great by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    How many emails will he get to create a special secret level, the dark, smelly cavern of goatse.cx?

  29. How did this post get modded up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    "Face it bub, I'm not interested in this, and don't know anyone who is, but it must be anyways, because, ummm, it has to do with programming and gaming {Even though there's no story in this story}. Yeah, that's the ticket."

    1. Re:How did this post get modded up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Carolina Porfirio was 19 and part English with an Italian father, hence the
      name. She worked as an office girl for a company in the same building where
      I rented an office suite for my business in Nice, down the corridor on the
      same floor. All that follows happened shortly after I split up with Ginny
      Harris and was preparing to leave the Riviera to go to Spain. I was, by this
      time, a full member of the Riviera Rape Club and wanted to provide the club
      with a bitch we could abuse, torture and sex kill.

      I chose Carolina because the young 5'4" cunt was gorgeous (in fact, she was
      stunning, a real head turner) and close enough to keep under observation for
      a while but far enough not to be connected with me. There was little chance
      her disappearance would be linked to me. I kept a watch on her for a couple
      of weeks and learned her name, age, that she commuted by train from across
      the border in Ventimiglia, Italy (only a 30 minute train ride), had no
      boyfriend, and jogged every evening. The jogging would explain the
      sexwhore's lovely athletic look. The jogging looked like the best
      opportunity to abduct my chosen sexbaby and that's how we got her.

      As soon as we had the sexy bottom babe in a safe place (by this I always
      mean safe for the abuser, not the victim), we crowded around (there were 8
      of us) to fondle Carolina's body still with her clothes on. I think this is
      very humiliating for a sex object to be fondled fully dressed. It is like
      being raped but with the added fear of knowing it is yet to happen. Then we
      ordered her to do a striptease for us. She tried to back away from us,
      shaking her pretty head and crying, looking down at the floor and saying
      "Nooooo" and "Pleeeeease!" over and over. It took a punch deep in her belly
      and a hard brutal kick from behind right in her teenage cunt, which sent her
      sprawling and retching on the floor, to change her mind.

      It's interesting that even a tracksuit can look gorgeously sexual on an
      attractive love object, male or female. Carolina was wearing a powder blue
      track with a pale pink stripe over the left shoulder and down the body,
      repeated in the trouser part to the ankle. On her small pretty teenage feet
      she wore white and bright pink reeboks and dayglow pink cotton anklesocks.
      After fondling the 19 year old whoregirl with her clothes on, we made the
      babybumsex bitchgirl do a striptease and dirty dance for us. I lied to the
      pretty bumbaby, saying that we'd also kidnapped her kid sister (an 11 year
      old ugly duckling, quite unlike her delicious big sister) and would kill it
      if she didn't perform for us and obey all our commands completely and
      immediately, no matter how disgusting and evil she thought them. I told her
      to leave the reeboks and the cute little sexy sox on. In fact, the fat
      bottom girl Carolina wore them throughout her terrible ordeal, and died with
      them on.
      Following the dirty dancing, throughout which Carolina cried her lovely blue
      eyes out, we made her stand with her hands on her pretty head so we could
      all feel and fondle her nude body all over. Then I made the fucking
      babysex kneel down so that we could take turns in front of her pretty face.
      Each man was allowed to present the teenage whore with either his penis or
      his bum, but not both. Most gave her their cocks to lick and kiss, but I
      was one of only two presenting her with our big bums, making the lush
      childwoman lick up and down our dirty cracks and kissing our bottom holes.
      It's hard to describe the feeling of it to someone who hasn't experienced
      the wonderful sensation of killing a very sexy looking girl (or boy). I'm
      not in the least sorry about doing it. She deserved to be murdered for
      being so lovely and sexual, for being a very pretty young female and for
      having a gorgeous body. I am sorry only that I've not done it more than
      once. There are so many I would love to have killed, girls and boys, women
      and children. Among these are my ex-wife Elaine, a number of
      ex-girlfriends from my earlier years including Doris, Maggie, Patti and
      Mary, and, more recently, Laura Green and her children, Lindy Sutton and
      hers and, of course, Ginny Harris, her sisters and her lovely little boys.

      Anyway, back to Carolina Porfirio. We kept Carolina alive in captivity
      for 15 days. After the stripping and rude dancing scene on the first day,
      the only clothes the sexy cunt was allowed to wear until she died were her
      little white and pink reeboks and her bright pink ankle socks. I think it
      is important to strip condemned beauties of all their dignity. They have no
      rights, anyway. His or her life is entirely in your hands and you learn
      very quickly to play the dirty cunt's emotions like a musical instrument.
      It's half the pleasure of working your way up to murdering them.

      We used Carolina for sex and humiliation games for about 5 days during which
      we raped her many times in all her holes, often brutally gangraping her.
      As well as her gorgeous tight teenage vagina, we used her fat young bottom
      and her pretty mouth, her nose and her ears. I was thrilled to discover the
      fucking little bitch was a virgin throughout her body and I was the first,
      and among the last, to use her luscious fuck holes. On one occasion, the
      child woman had a man in her cunt, another in her bottom, two men
      alternately fucking her mouth, one trying to push the knob of his penis in
      her nostril, another spurting his cum in her right ear, and a cock in each
      hand to be wanked. She often had her titties fucked and the resultant
      spunk sprayed on her face as a punishment for having such lovely young
      teenage breasts with nipples. She was fucked in her armpits whilst being
      made to look at the horrible prick poking out from between her arm and her
      lush young body, and hold her cute face as close as possible in order to
      receive the shower of gooey white sperm on her tongue. The teen goddess
      was fucked between her closed athletic legs and along her deep bottybobo
      poopoo crack. We even managed to squirt spunk into her teeniegirly urethra
      via a fine hypodermic needle.

      Another fucking I gave her several times is one I particularly like for its
      deep humiliation factor. I've done this to many of my victims, male and
      female. It is essentially a matter of fucking her or his face in a literal
      sense. You need to make the sex toy lay down or sit with her/his head back
      against a wall or seatback so that you can create friction on both sides of
      your penis as you press your belly against the victim's face. You lay your
      cock against her cheek with your balls near her mouth so she can lick them
      and your knob right next to her eyes above the bridge of her nose and then
      you jerk your whole body up and down in short fast strokes until you cum on
      her eyes (or in her hair, if you've got a long cock). A nice variation is
      to make her lay on a table and stand behind her head so that you can lean
      across her and lay your penis in the opposite direction with your knob above
      her lips, allowing you to squirt your filth in her mouth or all over that
      part of her face.

      Days 5 to 9 were largely filled with canings, whippings, beatings and
      kickings combined with painful and humiliating bondage and suspension. On
      day 9 we began to torture Carolina. I won't tire you with what would be a
      long list of all the nice, loving and very painful and humiliating things
      we did to her gorgeous body but would like to tell you about the needles in
      her fat spunkbags (200 in each chest baby), in her vulva, inner and outer
      cunt lips, vagina and inner thighs (over 500 used in this area including
      many inside her cunthole and two long ones forced through her cervix into
      her filthy babybag), in her big soft, full bottom cheeks (200 in each) and
      around her tiny bumhole (50), in her shoulders and upper arms (100 in
      total), in her calves (50 in each), in her belly (300 including 50 long ones
      directly inserted through her bellybutton) and 100 in her beautiful teenage
      face (through her eyelids, nostrils, tongue, lips, earlobes and cheeks).
      Although I like pretty well every torture ever invented, I think I love
      needles the most especially when they're used in huge quantities as on
      Carolina. Her screams and whimpering were so sexy to hear and her
      uncontrollable shaking with fear beautiful to see. Especially nice was
      when she began to hyperventilate from the combined effects of fear and pain.

      Although Carolina thought that we wouldn't kill her because she was
      performing to our requirements, the tortures on days 10 to 14 quickly became
      more and more extreme. We were careful with our games because we didn't
      want her to die from any of the stresses on her lovely body until the day we
      planned to murder her, day 15. One of the most amusing of the extreme
      tortures was the steaming of her uterus. I forced one of those women's
      steam curling tongs deep into Carolina's slimy cunthole and pushed the top
      four inches of it through her (by now badly damaged) cervix into her filthy
      uterus, then turned it on full. As soon as it was at its top temperature
      (she was already screaming from the searing of her cunt flesh), I pressed
      down on the steam control and held it down for a full five minutes until all
      the water was used up pouring into her vagina and uterus as boiling hot
      steam. Delicious screaming and, amusingly, she involuntarily pood herself.
      I enjoyed feeding it to her on a spoon.

      On the 14th night, I had Carolina kneel before her masters and told her that
      we would decide this night whether or not we would kill her the next day. I
      told her that she may plead for her life and, if she did it well, we might
      consider letting her live. That was a wonderfully erotic evening listening
      to the child woman crying and screaming, begging and pleading for her life.
      She promised so many idiotic things, many of which we'd already done to
      her magnificent body. At the end of it, we all fucked her one last time,
      each of us choosing one hole (I buggered her laying on top so I could look
      into her eyes as I told her the methods we were going to choose from for her
      execution - this prompted yet more begging which helped me to explode in her
      pretty bottom one last time).

      On the morning of day 15, the last day of lovely Carolina Porfirio's short
      life, I went with my colleagues to its cage and, after unchaining it, made
      the whore stand with legs wide apart and hands under its breasts holding
      them up and out for us to see. A mirror was placed behind her so we could
      see her lovely bottom. Then I told the curvy, pretty teenage girl that I
      had decided she would be murdered later that day. She immediately began
      screaming and wailing, sank to her knees and crawled forward to kiss my feet
      and up my legs to my penis in an endearing bid for mercy. She pood herself
      again and lost control of her bladder. Before any pleas for mercy were to
      be considered, the lovely child woman was ordered to lick up her disgraceful
      mess on the chamber floor.

      That morning, while we 'considered' her plea for mercy, she agreed to a
      torture hysterectomy. One of my colleagues was a retired doctor who'd
      specialised in gynaecology and he led the fun operation. Everyone got a
      turn to do some cutting inside Carolina's young body, but the doctor had
      control in order to keep the cunt alive for her execution later in the day.
      He did so well, I gave him a very expensive bottle of rare wine as a thank
      you gift. Especially, as he saved just for me the final exquisite moment
      of the poor girl's mutilation, the removal of her uterus and ovaries from
      inside her nubile young body, her hopes of having children in a bloody
      tangle of bits and pieces of mangled flesh which I pulled from between her
      legs and trailed up her body to dangle over her beautiful, sobbing pale
      face. As the blood dripped onto her lips and her most intimate sex meat
      dangled over the bridge of her nose and in her beautiful blue eyes, Doc went
      to work inside cauterizing the wounds to prevent the bitch from bleeding to
      death or going into shock. God, that was such a loving and sexual moment,
      almost as good as taking the young whore's life itself.

      At this time, Carolina thought she had just paid the price for keeping her
      useless fucking stupid life. With the bleeding stopped plus some emergency
      surgery on what had been her cervix, and pumped full of suppressant drugs,
      Carolina was allowed to rest for an hour. Meanwhile, her uterus, ovaries,
      vascular tissue from the cervical area, and chunks of flesh from the lining
      of her vagina were gently braised on a griddle. When it was cooked enough
      to make it tender, we fed Carolina her own internal sex organ piece by
      piece. The pretty whore (now only half a woman) was pumped full of
      adrenaline and other stimulant drugs. I told her that she could be shown
      no mercy, since she was a female sex toy, and a very pretty one at that, and
      we would kill her in precisely one hour.

      The fucking pretty teenage whore didn't scream and wail at this news.
      Instead, she lost all colour and swooned, almost losing consciousness.
      Only the drugs in her system prevented the lovetoy from fainting. She
      looked as though she knew this was coming but, even so, couldn't believe it
      was happening to her, like it was a nightmare from which she would wake up
      at any moment. I ordered the cute bitch to walk to the execution chamber.
      This was, in fact, just another room in the basement chambers in which we
      had set up a wooden platform with a rope noose hanging above it from an
      overhead beam. She gasped and cried when I gave her this command but
      meekly obeyed. She was made to wiggle her bottom as she walked and to hold
      her fat young breasts in her hands. As she entered the chamber, the first
      thing she saw was the rope noose which shocked her so much she cried out
      again and fell, sobbing uncontrollably, to her knees.

      The noose was actually merely for effect. Much as I like hanging, I had
      another more interesting, cruel and humiliating death in mind for Carolina.
      A swift, hard kick to the filthy slut's kidneys sent her sprawling on the
      chamber floor, retching. She was dragged along the floor by her pretty
      blonde hair to a wooden frame against the wall and facing the noose.
      Carolina was bound to the frame by her wrists and ankles and all we all
      gathered round to watch her darling angelic teenage face as I read the
      charges to her.

      I remember the words as if I'd spoken them yesterday. "Carolina Porfirio,
      you are guilty of being 19 years old, being a sexually attractive whore,
      having a gorgeously pretty face and a beautiful, lithe body, of having large
      breasts, a tight, slimy cunt, a big, pert bottom, and gorgeous long legs.
      You are also guilty of having no uterus inside your body. Moreover, you
      are guilty of being a filthy little teenage whore, a beautiful female sex
      toy slut. Worst of all, you have, for the last 14 days, been showing your
      gorgeous big filthy body to men. You are a dirty little girl, a fat young
      tart. And for these reasons, I condemn you to die. You will give your
      life for our pleasure, Carolina. You will be killed in thirty minutes,
      lovegirl. You now have the opportunity to save your sister's life,
      Carolina, although not your own, by agreeing to eat the meat out of your fat
      teeny tittiebags."

      Pleading with us not to kill her kid sister, the teen bitch agreed to eat
      her own titmeat, although she hadn't a clue what this meant. She didn't
      have to wait long to find out. Her breasts were cut open with the slice of
      a razor sharp scalpel in a straight line from her chest to the nipple of
      each bobo and both tits were opened like the petals of a flower. The
      female was so full of stimulants that the shock of having her tits cut open
      would be unlikely to kill her or even make her faint for quite a while.
      Using a spoon with a crafted razor sharp edge, I dug into each spunkbag in
      turn digging out titmeat and fatty tissue and fed it to her. The sharp edge
      of the spoon cut the inside of her mouth as she sucked the bloody mess off
      the spoon and swallowed it. Feeding Carolina her own breasts took about 10
      minutes. We stuffed them with those soft, spongy things plastic surgeons
      use for enlarging bitches' tits. This seemed kind of funny, and we all had
      a giggle at it. Doc sewed up the tits as best he could, and then we led
      Carolina to the noose.

      She was shaking with terror and began to plead one last time not to be
      killed. We stood her on the platform, tied her hands behind her back and
      put the noose around her neck. She was screaming and struggling and trying
      to kick us. That was nice to watch. Her ankles were then tied by cords
      to metal rings on either side of the platform, stretching her pretty legs to
      their painful maximum. At this point, the murder method was unveiled.
      Carolina thought she was going to be hanged but I wanted her to suffer real
      terror, pain and utter humiliation in her pretty death.

      Mirrors were arranged behind and in front of her. Behind, so that we would
      have a good view of her bottom during death. It's always good to watch a
      sex toy's bottom during murder, to see the way it moves, especially its
      wobble, and to see what comes out of the anus. Nice also to glance at the
      legs from behind and the curve of the creature's back. In front, because we
      wanted Carolina to be able to see exactly what was being done to her.

      Carolina Porfirio was now in the last few minutes of her life as I opened a
      small trap door in the platform immediately below the teenage whore's
      genitals. Then, stepping to the side of the platform, I inserted a metal
      handle into the ratchet at the top of a post which had just been inserted
      into a socket in the floor. By turning the handle, I was winding an
      orchestration of cogs and drives which produced a narrow steel shaft from
      the trapdoor between her legs. The shaft was about an inch in diameter
      brandishing a sharp point and tiny steel barbs each about a quarter of an
      inch in length and pointing in all directions. I quickly wound the shaft
      up to meet Carolina's wriggling cunthole then, leaving a colleague to drive
      the shaft, I went round to her front to guide the vicious steel shaft into
      Carolina's young body. The noose was tightened around her neck to make her
      body movements as dangerous as the shaft which was about to enter her
      vagina. Wearing a safety glove to protect my hand, I grabbed the shaft and
      two others helped to steady Carolina's shaking, struggling body. With my
      other hand, I opened her fat, sticky cunt lips. The rising shaft was now
      easy to guide into Carolina's young body. An inch inside the screaming
      teenager, the shaft had purchase on her cunt flesh and would now plough its
      own path as the drive mechanism forced it further and further inside her,
      through the remains of the place where her uterus had been, into her stomach
      and through her diaphragm.

      Without careful guidance and a good knowledge of anatomy, the shaft could
      penetrate either lung or her heart or pass between them. Whilst, with Doc
      on hand, we had adequate anatomical knowledge, and we could, with his help,
      easily guide the shaft past her vital organs, my decision was that the shaft
      should be allowed follow its own path. It, in fact, penetrated one of her
      lungs, evidenced by the sudden spurt of pink and red foam from her mouth.
      Blood was also pouring down her lovely legs and the shaft itself. It
      finally came out of Carolina's long pretty neck just beneath her chin. I
      was thrilled to see she was still alive, if barely. Rather than let her
      drown in her own blood in her perforated lung, I asked for a bowie knife and
      plunged it into her belly, slashing around in there to sever her organs. We
      all came on Carolina's face as she died.

    2. Re:How did this post get modded up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      TERRORIST!!! You are a filthy terrorist and the MPAA is going to h4XX0r u! ph34r!

    3. Re:How did this post get modded up? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Why would someone want this story to appear on their site? Remove it.

  30. You'll have to sign an NDA... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    if they use the X-Box development kit. If they were asking for help to do the first unlicensed X-Box game, now that would be a Slashdot worthy news.

  31. Re:Sweet Jesus QWZX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    Um, dude, Persia has been dead for centuries. They would now be called "Iranian".

    On the other hand, it's not surprising that they prefer to call themselves Persian Girls. For similiar reasons they aren't called Iranian Rugs, either.

  32. Yawn by SpatchMonkey · · Score: 1

    Yet another first person shooter. How tedious.

  33. im gonna email dave by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0


    and so is every porn site and spammer i can sign him up to, if he wants responses im sure we can fill his inbox for him, thanks for the mailto link, the spamcrawlers will enjoy it :)

  34. I would send my Resume but .. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    the poor guy is gonna get spammed into hell !
    so whats the point ?
    he's never gonna see YOUR resume ..
    he'll end up deleting 1000's of emails
    just to be able to cope

  35. then they don't have much of a product by g4dget · · Score: 2
    It's not uncommon with junior open source programmers running of and cloning the project and giving it away for free (smoothwall for example, there are countless of other examples).

    If junior open source programmers can "run out and clone the project", then obviously "the project" can't be very big or complicated. If it weren't the "junior open source programmers" that clone it, it would be a competitor, or some other open source project. Perhaps the business management of the project should take then hint and look for a more profitable project.

    just a minority are fanaticals but you put yourself in risk hiring people with a open source background.

    Yes, you do put yourself at risk: at risk that if you persist in doing something stupid, your programmers are going to run out on you. I'd consider that a benefit. But to each their own.

    (smoothwall for example, there are countless of other examples).

    Was there actually a company stupid enough trying to make a business out of that?

    1. Re:then they don't have much of a product by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      I would say that it's unwise to hire people with an open source history. If you conduct business you are ofcause (as you said yourself) always at risk but open source programmers are higher than typical. Some see you as evil for charging for your products (but they like getting salary either way) and sees it as their destiny in life to clone your product just for the purpose of driving you out of business.

    2. Re:then they don't have much of a product by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0
      And I'd say it's stupid not to. People who have participated in open source projects know a lot of software and techniques to save a business money. And open source packages will compete with your products, whether you like it or not; hiring people with an open source background makes no difference.

      But it's good if people who are clueless have such prejudices: it makes it much easier for open source efforts and smart companies to compete.

  36. Slashdotted email. by Sivar · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "...you should email Dave."

    Poor Dave.

    --
    Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
    1. Re:Slashdotted email. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      As of this writing, Dave is desparately browsing NYT, MSNBC and CNN, looking for a story submission to bump their job announcement off the top spot.

    2. Re:Slashdotted email. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      +1 Funny!

  37. OT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    No seriously, this story is off topic. Slashdot, don't waste our time with want adds for developing a game that will run on a game console sold by the possible anti-christ.

  38. I want... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    a turd person shooter.
    You know, like shooting Taco and other /. staff.

  39. They want teams not individuals by damyan · · Score: 4, Informative

    Before getting too excited, check out their website - they are looking for development teams, not individuals. Sending in just your CV probably isn't going to get you very far!

    However, there is actually in interesting story here - the whole idea of there being a third party connecting the money (publishers) with the developers, but controlling the design and management on the project seems to be quite different to how things currently work in the games industry.

    1. Re:They want teams not individuals by EvlG · · Score: 3, Insightful

      The problem with this arrangement is, these are all things most development teams are very capable of doing on their own. Presumably, Carbon6 would take a large chunk of the royalties from the game as compensation; however, what is the real benefit of working with them?

    2. Re:They want teams not individuals by damyan · · Score: 1

      I suppose it would free up development teams from having to drag around all the extra weight of the executive type people who have to deal with publishers, get funding etc.

      I'd imagine that what carbon6 are hoping to do is to tempt entire teams away from whatever studio / publisher they are currently working for and setting up on their own.

      Also there may be teams around who have great coders / artists but need a good solid design to work with - which is something I think carbon6 are offering. (I sure wouldn't like to work in that sort of environment though!)

    3. Re:They want teams not individuals by EvlG · · Score: 2

      I suppose it would free up development teams from having to drag around all the extra weight of the executive type people who have to deal with publishers, get funding etc.

      That's not what would happen, because now these people would be needed to manage the contact with Carbon6. And I really doubt Carbon6 would completely isolate the team from the publisher - that would be unnatural.

      I'd imagine that what carbon6 are hoping to do is to tempt entire teams away from whatever studio / publisher they are currently working for and setting up on their own.

      This is exactly what they are trying to do, but I don't see the incentive for a team to jump ship. It seems inevitable that they would lose royalty points, etc... What do they get out of it?

      Also there may be teams around who have great coders / artists but need a good solid design to work with - which is something I think carbon6 are offering. (I sure wouldn't like to work in that sort of environment though!)

      This seems puzzling, because there is no shortage of design in the industry. Granted, not all of it is AAA great, but there is a lot out there to be found, particularly in mod communities.

      However I can see the need to be set up with a promising design from the start. So maybe there is some utility in this - helping a fledgling studio start. However, that clearly can't be the only aspect of Carbon6's buisness plan. They would be obselete in 3 years.

    4. Re:They want teams not individuals by damyan · · Score: 1

      I agree totally - however, some people do seem to have been tempted by these sort of things in the past. Isn't this somewhat similar to what Lionhead were doing a few years back with their satellite studios?

    5. Re:They want teams not individuals by Laser+Lou · · Score: 1
      Presumably, Carbon6 would take a large chunk of the royalties from the game as compensation; however, what is the real benefit of working with them?

      Many teams can create simple games that work on the developers' PCs, but few know how to ship good ones that everyone can play. The people leading Carbon6 have that experience. Getting help from such people can be a factor in making a game that stays on the shelves. Isn't that worth a decent royalty payment?

      --
      No data, no cry
    6. Re:They want teams not individuals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      NOTHING!!
      Well, unless you count the royal ass-raping.

    7. Re:They want teams not individuals by The+Cat · · Score: 2

      these are all things most development teams are very capable of doing on their own.

      Pitching to publishers? Oh no. If there's anything I'd rather have someone else do, it's pitch to publishers.

    8. Re:They want teams not individuals by EvlG · · Score: 2

      But that is the problem. Having someone else do it ensures that your interests are not always #1.

      What is good for a developer is not necessarily good for the middle-man, and vice versa.

    9. Re:They want teams not individuals by The+Cat · · Score: 2

      Having someone else do it ensures that your interests are not always #1.

      Your interests are not very likely to be #1 anyway.

      What is good for a developer is not necessarily good for the middle-man, and vice versa.

      But it's always good for the publisher. That's usually most of the problem. What's good for a developer is to involve publishers only when it is absolutely necessary.

    10. Re:They want teams not individuals by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 2
      The people leading Carbon6 have that experience. [...] Isn't that worth a decent royalty payment?

      Maybe. Then again, the Apogee/iD people all made the same jump a few years ago by making good games and coming up with a great marketing strategy (give it away at first, then for later games, let them have the first few levels free as a taster and sell the complete game to them once they're hooked). There's nothing to say a talented development team couldn't do much the same today -- the Internet is far more developed now than it ever was before, and the reputation of a great game (the sort of game Wolf3D was in its day) would spread very, very fast.

      I'd say that to some people, it would be a sound investment to get these guys doing your legwork. But you'd have to watch the level of royalties; look at the RIAA and music companies compared to the actual artists, and what's happening to them now...

      --
      If you disagree, post your argument. (-1, Overrated) isn't your personal censorship tool for views you don't like.
    11. Re:They want teams not individuals by EvlG · · Score: 2

      Your interests are not very likely to be #1 anyway.

      That's a resignation I don't think many developers are willing to accept. Nobody will put you first except yourself. And a smart developer can look out for themselves.

      But it's always good for the publisher. That's usually most of the problem. What's good for a developer is to involve publishers only when it is absolutely necessary.

      Not necessarily. Smart developers can work almost any situation in their favor if they know what's up and how to handle it. Remember, there is more than one publisher out there...

    12. Re:They want teams not individuals by blair1q · · Score: 2

      Not a problem.

      At my university, the only time I entered an ACM programming competition I sat down and realized that everyone else in the room was in 4-man teams.

      I tied for first.

      --Blair

    13. Re:They want teams not individuals by Bytenik · · Score: 1

      Conversation with a publisher without Dave Taylor and American McGee presenting for you:

      You: "We have this really cool game idea we want to develop!"

      Publisher: "And you would be?"

      Conversation with a publisher with Dave Taylor and Amercian McGee presenting for you:

      Amercian McGee: "I worked for id."

      Dave Taylor: "Me too."

      Publisher: "How many zeros should I add behind the "1" on the cheque?"

      No, really! That's pretty much how it works! If you have successful published titles, then you can easily get money for another title. If you just have an idea and a team, it's much harder to find money.

      --

      "Scientists prove we were never here."
      -- Devo

    14. Re:They want teams not individuals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      You, and 99% of Slashdot, too. Acing the ACM programming competition is not
      the same as working on real software projects with 1000000 lines of code, half
      of it crap by your standards and written by other programmers.

    15. Re:They want teams not individuals by blair1q · · Score: 2

      But that sounds exactly like the competition.

    16. Re:They want teams not individuals by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Million lines of code at the ACM competition? Not a chance. Million lines of code in a corporate setting? Common occurrence. Welcome to the real world, and watch your step as you come out of the ivory tower.

    17. Re:They want teams not individuals by blair1q · · Score: 2

      1. Don't be a literalist.

      2. I've been out of the ivory tower for 12 years, and kick ass in the real world, too.

      A Million lines? Peanuts.

  40. Here's some stuff that matters by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I walked in on my Dad to see his hairy leg squatting over my baby sister. I could see his large balls rubbing against her chin as he
    turned to look at me.

    "Hey Bud," he said as I stood there - staring and speechless - unable to ignore such a lewd and disgusting sight. Unable to comprehend this new level of perversion. This new level of depravity.

    "Hey kid, you're just in time." He said. "Get your little ass over here." I dropped my book sack on the floor. I was cautious at first. My dad could be real unpredictable and I'd learned early on to be weary of him. But when I looked down between his hairy legs to see his hard cock sticking straight up as it always did against the thin trail of hair on his stomach, a steady stream of precum running down the shaft, I knew he wasn't looking to fight - but to fuck.

    I curled my lip up at the sight of him. He smelled. He always did. In 1977 he worked in the mines and at that time there was a lot of work to do. Every day after work he'd come home covered in that thin misty soot from head to toe.

    "What are you sneering at ya little fucker?" he asked and reached up to grab my 10 year old cock through my pants. I bucked my hips forward and
    grunted. "You're little cock is already hard so don't go giving me shit about what I'm doing."

    Of course - I knew better than that.

    "I've been waiting all day for you to get your little ass home so I could try this. I've been hornier than a mother fucker all day. It took everything I had not to go and shove my cock up your little sister's cunt. I waited because I knew you'd like this."

    My dad continued pressing my on my cockhead with his long fingers and I continued moaning and pushing my hips toward him. We'd been having sex
    since I could remember and he probably started me at the same time he did my sister - as a baby, but we never talked about that. In fact, I
    was the one he caught licking out my baby sister one day after he came home early from work and the rest is, as they say, history.

    "Like what?" I asked him reaching down to unbutton my pants.

    "Like watching me take a dump on your baby sister's face." He replied and grinned.

    "What?" I said meekly not believing what he was saying now. There seemed to be no end to my dad's depravity.

    "I said, I'm gonna take a shit right in your kid sister's face and your gonna help me," he said and grinned. It was an evil grin, twisted and
    perverse in it's own way. "Now get your face down between my legs. I want you to get a close up of this shit."

    I did as he said moving back behind him, already smelling the funkiness of his dirty ass crack. I could see the hairs were all plastered and
    wet with his ass sweat.

    "Smell good?" he asked me and chuckled. "You ain't seen nothin yet." He said and then moved his ass closer to my baby sisters face. She just
    laid there, her blue eyes staring up at his hairy ass hanging over her without a clue of what it really was.

    Suddenly the silence of the room was broken by a loud wet fart. I could see my dad's asshole open up as the nasty gas filled the air around my
    baby sisters face. The wind of it blew her thin hair as she wrinkled her nose and then turned her face. My dad grunted again as another fart
    blew out of his hairy hole. He moaned then getting off on how perverse this was and then having and audience to watch it all.

    "How'd you like that one?" he asked me turning his head, his eyes intense and strong.

    "That was nasty dad," I replied, yet still harder than ever.

    "Oh yeah, " he said still squatting over my baby sisters little body.

    "Well take a look at this!"

    Suddenly a thick brown log of shit started to push out of his hole. I could see the muscles in his legs strain and the veins in his neck pop
    out as he pushed. I could hear him grunt as the log pushed out of his smelly butt. It was thick and hard at the end and smelled worse than
    anything I could imagine.

    "How's that look champ?" he asked me without turning around.

    "I just grunted and said nothing." It looked like a brown snake pushing it's way out of his ass.

    Suddenly it broke off and fell right on my sister's face.

    "Aahhhhhhhhh," he moaned and let out a loud wet fart right in her face.

    Bit's of shit fell in her open mouth. I could see her eagerly pushing the shit out of her mouth with her little tongue. She had an utter look of disgust at the anal assault from her own father.

    "What's she doing now?" my Dad asked me as if I were his commentator and this were nothing more than one of my school projects.

    "She's got shit all over her face and in her mouth. She's trying to get it out with her tongue."

    "FUCKIN A!" my dad said reaching back with his large hands to pull his ass cheeks even farther apart. Suddenly another large log began to ease
    it's way out of his ass.

    "Mmmmmmmm," he moaned as it broke off and fell on my sisters neck and chest. It was followed by another loud nasty fart as bits of wet shit exploded from his filthy anal cavity.

    "Ahhhhhhh FUCK! This is hot," I heard my Dad say. Suddenly I looked even closer to see a thin runny string of shit and ass juice drip from his asshole directly into my little sisters mouth. She smacked it unknowingly and then closed her eyes and turned her head in disgust.

    "Goddamn..." I whispered watching this incredibly disgusting show while eagerly jacking my 10 year old cock. Seeing that was almost enough to make me cum.

    Suddenly my dad turned to look at me. He smiled. The combination of him looking at his smelling shitty asshole and his smiling face was
    uncanny and it was also driving me crazy.

    "Well Bud, I think I'm pretty much done here. Nothing much left in the old pooper. I was still stopped over watching him squatting over my
    baby sister's face like she was some type of human football ready for him to punt. That's when he lowered his ass and began rubbing his
    asscrack all over my little sisters face.

    "AAAAHHHH FUCK DAD!" I said feeling like I was going to cum any second.

    "That's so fucking nasty!" and indeed it was. My little sister's face was covered with my Dad's shit and he was in fact getting more shit in
    his ass crack by doing that than if he hadn't. At one point I wondered if she could still breathe.

    "Fuck it feels good too kid. Rubbing my dirty shit covered ass all over your little sister's face and mouth."

    I couldn't see my Dad's hands, but I could tell he was jacking his cock. I wondered if he too was ready to cum.

    My Dad then moved away from my baby sister to look at his work.

    "Goddamn." He said staring down at her with his intense blue eyes. Her entire body was wet and messy and brown but remarkably, she wasn't even
    crying.

    I could see my Dad's cock dripping precum. "Fuck this is nasty," he said reaching back toward his ass with his hand and wiping it across his shitty hole. He brought it back, his fingers caked with shit. He sniffed it a bit and then turned his head.

    "Fucking stale beer," he said and then ran his fingers across my little sister's mouth. He suddenly inserted them and slowly began sliding his thick shit covered fingers in and out of her little baby mouth. I knelt there jacking my little 5 inch cock obscenely. This was so fucking hot.

    Then to my surprise my little sister began sucking on my Dad's shitty fingers! They went in brown and came out white.

    "Fuckin little bitch likes it!" my Dad hollered and grinned. "She's a natural little shit eater."

    Then I watched him take his long middle finger, smear it in his shit and then slowly stick it up my little sister's cunt. I watched in amazement
    as he fingered her hairless bald cunny.

    "Fuck Dad," I said still jacking my cock.

    "Pretty hot, huh boy," my Dad asked and grinned up at me. Aren't you
    glad I waited for you."

    I just nodded yeah as he continued finger fucking this 10 month old
    baby. He then reached up with his shitty fist and began jacking his
    hard adult cock. The sight of him kneeling there, his shit covered cock
    dripping cum while fingering my little sister was too much and I started
    cumming.

    "AAHHHHHHHHH FUCK!!!!!" I yelled, "I'M CUMMMMIINNNNGGGGGG!!!" I shot
    several feet into the air. Cum shot out all over my shit covered baby
    sister's face and even landed on my Dad's arms and leg.

    "Fuck son," my Dad said, "I told you to warm me before you shoot off
    like that."

    I just shrugged still coming down from my high.

    My dad eagerly eyed my cock as he reached between his legs and grabbed
    his cock. "Fuck this feels good," he said as he began jacking off with
    his shit. I watched his thick white cock turn a slimy brown and
    listened to the squishy slick sounds of his jacking off.

    "Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm" this feels good kid," he said. Suddenly my Dad
    stood up - his cock jutting straight out from in between his hairy legs.
    His cock curved hard to the right and the head was lemon shaped. A
    string of shitty precum fell from the tip. I reached down and wiped it
    off for him.

    "Fuck kid!" he said and jerked his hips forward as I suddenly wrapped my
    hand around the shitty head, "Grab your sister and follow me."

    I picked up Katie and followed my Dad into the back of the house. A
    brown shit stain smeared his asscrack and ran down between his legs.

    Once in the bathroom he sat down on the commode.

    Put your sister down, he said. I obeyed putting the little shit baby in
    the sink.

    I looked at my Dad who just grinned, spread his legs and pointed to his
    cock. "Suck it," he said, his voice seemed to echo in the small room.

    "No way!" I said repulsed. "That's disgusting." Suddenly, quick as a
    flash my Dad grabbed my arm and pulled me down on the floor twisting it
    back in the process.

    "Do it or I'll break your fucking arm off!!!!" he hollered.

    "AHHHHHHhh, ALRIGHT!" I screamed already smelling his funky asscrack and
    shit covered cock.

    I leaned forward.

    "Just hold your nose," my Dad said spreading his hairy legs some more.
    I bent down and ran my tongue across my Dad's cock head. Precum and
    shit smeared my tongue and I tried to spit it out into the bowl below
    him. My dad then slapped me hard in the side of the head. "You swallow
    that shit!" he said meanly.

    I began to cry. "Now get down there and suck my fuckin cock!"

    I moved in again closing my eyes as I opened my mouth wide and swallowed
    his hard cock.

    "AAAHHH Fuck Yeah," my Dad moaned, bucking his hips forward as I blew
    him.

    "That's it ya little dick sucking faggot. Ya fucking shit licker. Suck
    my fuckin cock. Suck on that hard Dad cock."

    I gagged as he pushed my head down on his thick dick. Suddenly I began
    to vomit and could feel it in my stomach.

    "Uuuuugghhh, agggghhhhh," I choked as the thick stuff erupted from my
    gut. I backed up as vomit flew from my open mouth all over my Dad's
    cock and balls and legs.

    "You filthy little faggot!" my Dad screamed. I expected him to hit me
    again, but was surprised to see him reach down and slowly jack his cock
    with it.

    He just grinned again and grabbed his slimy shit and vomit covered cock
    by the base and waved it at me like a weird treat. "You did it - now
    you eat it." He said.

    I leaned forward and again began sucking his hard cock into my mouth,
    vomit and all.

    After a few minutes my Dad was grunting like crazy.

    "That's enough," he said pushing me away. "Get your little sister out
    of the sink."

    I stood up, my hard little cock sticking out between my legs. My Dad
    quickly reached out and grabbed it, pulling on it with his large shit
    covered hand.

    "UUUgh," I moaned as he jerked my cock. "That feels good Dad."

    When he stopped, I went over to the sink. My baby sister looked up at
    me through a dark brown mask. It was already turning hard and drying on
    her face.

    I handed her to my Dad who in once quick plunge shoved her down on his
    hard 7 inch cock.

    My little sister let out a yell that almost split my eardrums.

    "AAHHHHHHHH FUCCCKKKKKK YEAH!" my Dad screamed bouncing her up and down
    on his cock. Suddenly there was blood and it was coming from my sister.
    It began leaking from around his cock shaft and running down my Dad's
    hairy balls and into the toilet below.

    All the while she was still screaming and crying and I had in the
    meantime began jacking off again.

    "OOOHHHH GOD YEAH!!! My dad moaned through clenched teeth. "FUCKIN THAT
    LITTLE BLOODY ASS BABY CUNT. SHOVE MY HARD FUCKING COCK UP THAT BABY
    PUSSY. GONNA FUCK THE GUTS OUT OF IT. FUCK IT TILL IT BLEEDS. GONNA
    BLOW A FUCKING HOLE IN THAT TIGHT LITTLE CUNT."

    "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH FUCK!" he screamed one more time and
    brutally slammed my baby sister all the way down on his hard cock, the
    cords of his neck straining like they were gonna burst.

    His legs suddenly kicked straight out as he came, blood shit and cum
    erupting everywhere.

    "I'M CUUUUUUMMMING!" I screamed as I began shooting as well, blowing my
    load all over my Dad and little sister. Some hitting my Dad in the face
    as well. He came too in a total explosion of hot fucking blood and cum
    mixed with shit. Incest cum.

    Suddenly everything came to a stop. I looked down at my Dad. My baby
    sister impaled on his fat cock. The water in the bowl below a bright
    red.

    "Oh fuck," I said as he pulled her off his cock with a sick 'plop'
    sound. As he did, runny shit that was red and yellow and white spilled
    out of her cunt onto his deflating cock and balls. My Dad simply
    dropped her on the floor. She wasn't moaning, wasn't crying, wasn't
    doing 'anything'.

    My dad just sneered at my horror like he always did.

    He nodded and then spread his legs and pointed with his thick finger to
    the bloody glob between his legs.

    "Lick me clean," he said and smiled.

    I just shook my head with disbelief when he grabbed my hair and pushed
    my face down between his legs. My mouth opening on his cock and
    instinctively pushing out my tongue and wrapping it around his thick
    blood coated mushroom head.

    "Mmmmmm," that's it kid, "Clean that dirty fucker off. Suck off all
    that blood and cum and shit. Make sure you get it nice and clean. Yeah
    boy, that's it. Taste your sister's bloody guts on that cock??? You
    like that don't you boy?"

    By that time I just looked up at him, lost in a daze, my face covered in
    a mask of blood.

    "Yeah, do it good for Daddy. Get me real clean , ya hear? And maybe I
    won't do the same to you."

    I did as he said and even pushed his legs apart further and ran my
    tongue all over his big hairy balls and then down along his nasty ass
    crack.

    "OOOOHHHH Fuck YEAH!" my Dad said getting hard again. "Clean out that
    fuckin ass. Get all up in there kid."

    "That a boy. That feels so fuckin good son."

    After I was done cleaning off my Dad to his satisfaction, he simply got
    up and left the room. I then turned to look at my baby sister and
    suddenly wondered if she was dead. I wondered if my Dad had fucked her
    to death. Blood was still running from her pussy that was now a funny
    shade of red. I filled the tub with water, bathed her swollen little
    pussy, and wondered what my Dad would think of next.

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  42. XBox is proprietary by leandrod · · Score: 2

    XBox is proprietary and owned by our eternal foe Microsoft. Therefore this is helping our ruin. Now, if the company would use profits from XBox sales to subsidize a copylefted, up-to-date port for GNU systems, I'd be all for it.

    At lease id has always created cross-platform code, and even donated some of it, even if belatedly.

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    DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
    GNU Project, Debian GNU/Lin
    1. Re:XBox is proprietary by Richard_at_work · · Score: 1

      Now, if the company would use profits from XBox sales to subsidize a copylefted, up-to-date port for GNU systems, I'd be all for it.

      Auuuh diddums, my heart bleeds. Why the hell should a company, you know, one of those things set up to make money, subsidise anything? I can bet that if they did subsidise a port, they wouldnt make their money back, as the linux market jsut isnt there, and isnt likely to be there for many years to come.

      Also, why is advocating the production of a game on one platform helping our ruin??? im sorry but i didnt see "Property of a fat penguin" stamped on Slashdot anywhere. Yes, some people might not like Microsoft, but that doesnt mean we should stop reporting on stuff happening.

      And, if you didnt notice, id have only donated code in such a way to destroy older engines, so companies only license newer engines from them at probably a much greater price.

      Also, is it jsut me noticing stuff that doesnt exist, or are more and more people advocating linux and OSS soley on the basis that its costless (ie, costs no money for licenses)? And these same people are moaning that more companies should "donate" their applications to the movement? Oh and exactly the same people moan that functionality in OSS isnt the same as closed stuff?

      If anyone, ANYONE can show me a OSS compliant document format that even approaches the usefull ness of the .doc format, then i swear ill do my best to switch the company i work for over to it. So far i havent. And i doubt i will. Know why? The file format that opensource applications seem to live on is plain txt, which is next to useless for companies. Sure .doc has virus problems, but take certain security precautions and they go away. I havent had a virus attack on any machine i have ever had control over in the past 5 years. Infact ive had more issues with remote holes in linux boxes than viruses.

    2. Re:XBox is proprietary by electricmonk · · Score: 1
      If anyone, ANYONE can show me a OSS compliant document format that even approaches the usefull ness of the .doc format, then i swear ill do my best to switch the company i work for over to it.

      XML?

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    3. Re:XBox is proprietary by Richard_at_work · · Score: 1

      And XML is as good as a .doc? nice idea, but no potatoes. XML is good for chucking a lot of pure data around between sources, but its shite for actual document usage.

    4. Re:XBox is proprietary by Trevin · · Score: 1
      If anyone, ANYONE can show me a OSS compliant document format that even approaches the usefull ness of the .doc format...

      Try TeX.

      (Yeah, I know it has nothing to do with OSS, but .doc is a text document format.)

    5. Re:XBox is proprietary by Richard_at_work · · Score: 1

      OK, nice one. Still a few problems. i dont envisage my sales team being easily able to send out tender quotes using tex :) Still, worth a look.

    6. Re:XBox is proprietary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      umm..moron. XML is capable of encapsulating any data even the contents of an entire doc and more.

    7. Re:XBox is proprietary by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      try LyX. its a GUI interface to TeX for your sales team.

    8. Re:XBox is proprietary by luserSPAZ · · Score: 1

      And you think they could generate reports writing .DOC files by hand? They must be skilled with a hex editor. Are you complaining about a file format or an application? Make up your mind.

    9. Re:XBox is proprietary by __past__ · · Score: 1
      This comparison is insane. It is like arguing whether Excel or Unicode is better for dynamic web pages.

      The point is, .doc sucks (because Word does). It doesn't carry any semantics, basically you cannot do anything interesting with a .doc except printing or reading it. On the other hand, while it is all about presentation, it is bad at that - just use another printer driver, and this presentation changes all along.

      Nothing stops you from implementing an as braindead format using XML. That is exactly what OpenOffice.org did. Still, it may be braindead, but at least it might be easier to parse.

      The One True Way for document storage is using semantic markup. Of course, it's not something widely popular in the marketing department, but that might be due to the lack of meaning in the documents they prouce.

    10. Re:XBox is proprietary by leandrod · · Score: 2
      > Why the hell should a company, you know, one of those things set up to make money, subsidise anything?

      Because they are part of the human race, and being a company they can do more for it in some ways, like ones that require costly resources, than individuals. Granted they can do even more useful things than porting a state-of-the-art game to the GNU system, but this at least would be related to their own turf.

      > why is advocating the production of a game on one platform helping our ruin?

      Because the owners of that platform are conspiring with other copyright and patent owners and with corrupt politicians and media to destroy our freedoms and prosperity. That is because they support DMCA, TCPA, software patents and all this absurd intellectual property monstruosity. It had a limited scope and good intentions when it was created, but now it is a monstruosity.

      > im sorry but i didnt see "Property of a fat penguin" stamped on Slashdot anywhere.

      I do not particularly care about penguins, I am fond of gnus... but seriously, some of us still do care about liberty.

      > Yes, some people might not like Microsoft, but that doesnt mean we should stop reporting on stuff happening.

      It is not about dislike, but judgement. And this was not reporting, but advancing.

      > And, if you didnt notice, id have only donated code in such a way to destroy older engines, so companies only license newer engines from them at probably a much greater price.

      I did not notice indeed. Can you expand on this, and perhaps even give some nice URLs? Thanks in advance.

      > are more and more people advocating linux and OSS soley on the basis that its costless

      Not my case, I assure you. But in these economical hard times, it is only natural that the free beer camp has more of a hearing. I would rather freedom.

      > ANYONE can show me a OSS compliant document format that even approaches the usefull ness of the .doc format

      Both LaTeX (LyX) and SGML (DocBook, TEI, XML and the like) do semantics, stylesheets and have user friendly tools available. There are others I am missing probably, not to mention things with a more limited scope as Info and the like. Now Microsoft Word for Windows is a disaster&hellip. It stopped being useful when around version 2 or 6 it quit suporting stylesheets and switched to templates.

      But then there is the question, what makes a document format useful for you?

      > The file format that opensource applications seem to live on is plain txt

      Wrong. It is either SGML, its XML sibling and some DTD, or LaTeX.

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      Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA
      DA, DBA, SysAdmin, Data Modeller
      GNU Project, Debian GNU/Lin
  43. From the site.. by Gossy · · Score: 3, Informative

    News and press releases
    September 14th 2001
    job openings posted

    Front page
    If you are part of either an established game development team or a new team with outstanding talent, and you are looking for funding and intersted in...

    Not very current and I hope you've got a fair bit of experience in the video games industry before you send off a CV - the programming and artist positions they have open each demand at least 5 years.

  44. Why is this different than working for others? by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 2

    I guess the angle is that Dave Taylor used to work for id and has been a Linux advocate? Does that make him a great person to work for? There are hundreds of other game companies always hiring. And of course it would make sense in this case to hire someone with:

    1. Game development experience.
    2. Console programming experience.

    And this surely isn't the right place to troll for those.

    1. Re:Why is this different than working for others? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hundreds, eh? Show me five. And no, finding something on monster.com from 1997 doesn't count.

    2. Re:Why is this different than working for others? by msaulters · · Score: 4, Interesting

      Dave Taylor is also the former co-founder of the now defunct Crack.com which released Abuse and the incomplete Golgotha. At UT Austin, he helped start the IEEE-CS National Programming Contest, which involved teams of college students developing and pitting AI's against each other in a client-server gaming environment created by ddt's team. Sort of an AI 'Robot Wars'. Ddt has both game development, console development AND business development experience. I rather hope this venture is more successful than his last, and I'm confident his previous experience will make it so. Having known several people who've worked for him, I would say YES, he's a great person to work for. Having known my fair share of loyal /. readers, I daresay this IS a good place to troll for people with immense programming talent, and if no previous console experience, they will likely share Dave's point of view and be able to quickly learn all they need to know about porting to a console.

      Why is it that people feel the need to bitch about every story that's posted these days?

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    3. Re:Why is this different than working for others? by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Why is it that people feel the need to bitch about every story that's posted these days?

      Okay, well, you got me there. I'll take my lumps.

      My point is that people know about Dave because he had a big web persona during the fanboy glory days that followed the release of Quake, back when .plan file updates make headlines on gaming news sites.

      But at the same time, Dave's game development history is pretty weak. He worked on DOOM, yes, but he was just a grunt. Abuse was written by someone else (Jonathan Clark). Golgotha was never completed. I'm not saying that Dave is a bad guy or a knucklehead or anything like that. He's certainly not the loudmouth that Brian Hook turned out to be. So we all know Dave because of his little failed company, and we're all clamoring to work for him. But who knows the names of the people who worked on Grand Theft Auto 3, Final Fantasy X, Age of Empires, Metal Gear Solid 2, Siphon Filter, of Medal of Honor? These are all huge, huge games, each of which sold over a million copies (with the exception of Medal of Honor; I don't know how well it did).

      The bottom line is that the fanboy worldview is severely--and intentionally--limited.

    4. Re:Why is this different than working for others? by Junks+Jerzey · · Score: 2

      Hundreds, eh? Show me five. And no, finding something on monster.com from 1997 doesn't count.

      Okay, five game developers currently hiring:

      1. LucasArts
      2. The Collective
      3. Blue Shift
      4. Microsoft Game Studios
      5. The Fizz Factor
      6. Raven Software

      Oh, look, I named six of the top of my head. I'm willing to bet you've never heard of three of these, which shows you don't know a whole lot about the game business.

    5. Re:Why is this different than working for others? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Indeed, as you predicted I hadn't heard of Collective, Blue Shift, or Fizz Factor. Gee, maybe that's because all the games they made were (as a quick google search shows) total garbage. Oh no, I haven't heard of companies that make Star Trek derivatives, crappy sports games and corporate pandering for Mattel and Nickelodeon. I guess I should bow down to your superior knowledge of the game business.

    6. Re:Why is this different than working for others? by msaulters · · Score: 2
      My point is that people know about Dave because he had a big web persona during the fanboy glory days that followed the release of Quake, back when .plan file updates make headlines on gaming news sites.
      I thought he was pretty well-known back in the days of Doom. The linux port IMO is worthy of inclusion in the recently posted 100 linux milestones.
      But at the same time, Dave's game development history is pretty weak. He worked on DOOM, yes, but he was just a grunt. Abuse was written by someone else (Jonathan Clark). Golgotha was never completed. I'm not saying that Dave is a bad guy or a knucklehead or anything like that. He's certainly not the loudmouth that Brian Hook turned out to be. So we all know Dave because of his little failed company, and we're all clamoring to work for him. But who knows the names of the people who worked on Grand Theft Auto 3, Final Fantasy X, Age of Empires, Metal Gear Solid 2, Siphon Filter, of Medal of Honor? These are all huge, huge games, each of which sold over a million copies (with the exception of Medal of Honor; I don't know how well it did).
      I don't want to argue just for the sake of argument, but I feel you're not giving him enough credit here. Game development isn't just about one guy writing a hot graphics engine. It's a TEAM effort. He's got that experience in spades. Yes, he didn't write Abuse. Contractual obligations with id at the time prevented him from coding, as I understand it. On the other hand, he was managing a team of programmers, dealing with publishers, investors, and doing the day-to-day payroll type work. The question at hand was not the source of Dave's fame, but rather if he's a good person to work for. On that note, I'd say I would rather work for someone who's tried and failed and is trying again, someone who might have a better idea what he's doing.

      What, may I ask, does fame and fortune have to do with making good games or putting together a good development team? I'm not sure why you picked those particular titles, but I'd point out that Doom was/is a landmark in gaming, not just because of being the first, biggest hit 3dfps (yes, cite Wolfenstein etc etc tc. Doom was still the first to really hit the public eye), more than this, Doom made it big, because of the marketing and shareware distribution campaign, as well as the fun gameplay, and the realism of the gore. Was all this Dave's doing? Nope. However, he was involved in it. He was THERE. That's why we're talking about him now.
      The bottom line is that the fanboy worldview is severely--and intentionally--limited.
      OK.... So what?
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    7. Re:Why is this different than working for others? by EverDense · · Score: 1

      I haven't heard of 2, 3, or 5 and I work in the industry.

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  45. I doubt I would by Nigger_Beatdown · · Score: -1, Troll

    No *way* am I working for a nigger

    1. Re:I doubt I would by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Nice attitude. At least we can be reassured that no one will ever have to work for you, because you'll never amount to anything. Slashdot, one of the most open-minded places on the net, and a racist coward hiding behind his keyboard like you making stupid statements.

      To quote a distinguished professor at the university I attend, who has multiple doctorates from many prestigious schools, and is considered a leader and innovator in the field: "Fuck you."

    2. Re:I doubt I would by Nigger_Beatdown · · Score: -1, Troll

      Actually I almost have my phd from a respected field working with a respected professor... I'll give you a hint who he is... the prof isn't black...

  46. a shooter for the x-box? by kipple · · Score: 2

    ...and you're asking this on slashdot? haha good one :))

    [YES I'm ironic, don't bother mod me down if you didn't get it]

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  47. game industry job by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I need a job. I can code. I can cook coffee.

    yes, I'm the perfect junior 3d programmer! Unfortunately I do not get the job before I programmed an awesome 3d shooter demo at home and spend 2y in coding without making any money. yes, I can cook coffee... do I get the job in the game industry?

    [ ] yes
    [ ] no
    [ ] keep cookin... um coding

    1. Re:game industry job by Sister+Love · · Score: 1

      A word of advice. If you really enjoy making games, do not, and I repeat DO NOT get a job in the game industry. The Game Industry is a business and doesn't really care about making good games, let alone fun games. If you really like making games, get a job you can do in your sleep from 8-5, then make games at night and on the weekends. Trust me, you'll lead a much happier life. Game companies are pretty much sweatshops anymore.

  48. Better yet.. by Ogerman · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Why would any self-respecting geek want to write games for a proprietary Microsoft platform. For crying out loud, we need more multi-platform PC games! How about developing a highly modular Open Source game engine and then sell non-free scripting, levels, artwork, etc. (the part of game design that takes all the real time and effort) I would gladly support such an effort as compared to a game with binaries only. Then build a community around the game and encourage mods, network tournaments, etc. I guarantee you'll find a market because community is something that console systems will likely never have.

    1. Re:Better yet.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      because that's where the money is ..
      PS2 is very difficult to code ,if you come from a PC background
      Gamecube is dead sales wise ..
      XBOX is 2nd in the race at the moment ,
      and technically is the best console around right now .
      yes we all hate Microsoft, but try to remember this is NVIDIA's games console with microsoft on the box ...

    2. Re:Better yet.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      hehehe, PS2 is difficult to program for no matter what your background is! By program for I of course mean writing stuff that comes close to the maximum theoritical performance, not simply get something to work. Although that is harder than normal too :/

      BTW GameCube is beating the Xbox in total sales, especially world wide. In Japan the obsolete PS1 is significantly outselling the Xbox! Seriously, who buys a PS1 two years after the PS2 has come out when the PS2 plays all your PS1 games and uses all your PS1 perhiphreals?

      After the price drop Xbox sales have actually surpassed the GameCube in the US (one of the three territories), but the PS2 is beating both of them. Combined. Not only is the PS2 outselling them, but it has a huge user base already! Combined worldwide users of the GameCube and Xbox don't match the number of PS2 users in any of Japan, US, or Europe.

      I just had to drive home how poor the XFLbox is selling. WHen you read Wired or something you see all sorts of MS vs Sony stories because MS is STILL doing a great job of getting themselves known and sounding like a contender. Hell, most geeks on /. which should know better still think the XBox has a future. In reality this generation's war for market share is pretty much over and Sony is the winner.

      Nintendo and MS are battling for a distant 2nd/3rd place. Maybe Nintendo can come back (keep in mind PS2 outsells GameCube/Xbox combined and has a HUGE lead) if they can drop the price to $100 this Christmas and can build off of Pokemon, Mario, etc (Don't forget that far more gamers care about Pokemon than technical things like vertex shaders and harddrives), but they certainly won't take 1st place this generation. And MS has an even small chance.

    3. Re:Better yet.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      "Why would any self-respecting geek want to write games for a proprietary Microsoft platform"

      The same reason we write Windows programs during the day. Its easier to find a high paying job using MS products than GNU or anything Open Source.

      If you are extremely talented you can work at Redhat. If you're merely good you can write windows apps for money (such as XBox games) and then work on Free stuff at night.

      I expect the majority of /. readers use MS stuff during the day in some way as a key part of their job.

    4. Re:Better yet.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Maybe because that is a bad economic decision? Go take economics 101. Duh!

  49. Hi, I'm Mike the Gas Station Owner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I'm starting a new station a few blocks from here and need some people to pump gas, wash windows, etc. Wanna work for me?

    1. Re:Hi, I'm Mike the Gas Station Owner by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      hey screw you buddy

  50. New Slashdot business model! by Evro · · Score: 1

    On the heels of the story of LWN now taking donations, it look like Slashdot has begun selling classified ads as stories on the front page!

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    1. Re:New Slashdot business model! by leviramsey · · Score: 2

      A few months ago, back when the subscription flap was in full swing, Rob mentioned that they would start (essentially) posting company press releases for money.

  51. It' Mike again by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You definitely have the right attitude. You're hired!

  52. Uh oh by cdgod · · Score: 1

    Is this the first example of the Slashdot effect on an email address?

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    1. Re:Uh oh by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      i doubt it, how many people who read this website are actually qualified enough?

      but, i suppose when you take into account that most people aren't realistic about their own capabilities.....

    2. Re:Uh oh by Oswald · · Score: 1
      I find the naivete displayed here charming. I believe the post you replied to refers to SPAMMING, not honest attempts to apply for a job.

      You must live in a very nice place.

  53. Dave and his inbox... by horsie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Dave: "I'd like to check my mail"
    Slashdot: "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that"

    *ducks*

  54. How about a more creative name by Prizm · · Score: 1

    It seems that the common method for creating a company in silicon valley nowadays is as follows:

    -Find a futuristic or artistic/creative single noun.
    -Concatenate a single digit number between 1 and 9.

    And hence, we have these rediculously uncreative company names which all sounds the same.
    Cloud9, rhino9, carbon6, etc.

    Also applies to computer games, IE: rainbow6.

    One day, company names will relate back to the products being sold.

    1. Re:How about a more creative name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Rainbow Six was based on a book called "Rainbow Six" by Tom Clancy.

    2. Re:How about a more creative name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      what is this book thing ? where can i download it ? does it need a gf4 to run ?
      cos "book" sound so 37337, although once i heard my teacher mention it briefly.

    3. Re:How about a more creative name by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      well I work for a company called category5

  55. wtf by BlackTriangle · · Score: -1

    When you actually spend time around Iranians, then you'll have a bit more credibility. Iranian, Persian, it doesn't make a bit of difference to me. Apparently you've got some hangups, though.

  56. Translation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    "relocate to LA, work with McGee, TaAylor"

    Qualifications: You Must be gay.

  57. Worse then Hotjobs by a!b!c! · · Score: 1

    I've heard the postings at Hotjobs can often recieve more than 1000 replies.

    Posting for a video game development position on slashdot? Geez... the sky is the limit.

    Perhaps this is a scam for a recruitment firm to gather resumes. ;)

    1. Re:Worse then Hotjobs by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      A list of people not to hire, is more like it.

  58. Blatant advertising. by Dthoma · · Score: 1

    Are Slashdot stories allowed to be nothing more than 3-line advertisements? If I wanted shameless plugs, I'd watch TV.

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  59. Actually, they want both if you read further... by Svartalf · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check the Jobs link. It's not asking for teams, it's asking for specific things like "Lead Developer", "Lead Designer", etc. That's not asking for teams.

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    1. Re:Actually, they want both if you read further... by damyan · · Score: 1

      Indeed it does!!!

      However, it was so well hidden behind the flash interface it took me about two minutes to find it even after you'd pointed it out.

      Oh well. I'll get me coat.

  60. American McGee????? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It sounded like a toilet bowl manufacturer until I realised it's an actual human being's name...

    You Merikkkans really like to push your 'patriotism' to extremes, doncha?

    1. Re:American McGee????? by LighthouseJ · · Score: -1

      Listen, jerk. We "merikkans" didn't do anything, whoever named American liked that name. There's nothing wrong with patriotism at all, it's called pride of your homeland. I couldn't imagine being born from a country that shuns patriotism or pride.

    2. Re:American McGee????? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So what's the difference between the Communist system and yours? None.

    3. Re:American McGee????? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      So how come you never see a "Canadian McGee" or a "Mexican McGee" or a "Italian McGee"????

      Face it: you're a nation of morons.

    4. Re:American McGee????? by LighthouseJ · · Score: -1

      What the hell does communism have to do with patrotism. One is about one kind of government, the other is about having pride and ambition. I also don't have a "system", it's more of a belief. You sound like another drone that spouts out anti-government rhetoric, get off the soap crate and give someone else with more enlightened opionions their time, they deserve it more than you.

    5. Re:American McGee????? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Hmm, who's typed more words, you or me?

      Patriotism IS spouting off brainwashed nonsense. Communism is spouting off brainwashed nonsense.

      Except that when Communism fell, the Russians told themselves that everything they had been told about Communism was a lie, but that everything they'd been told about capitalism was true...

      Now go wrap yourself in the American flag while crying and believing you actually live in a free country.

      It's a cult, ok?

  61. Its XBox, not X-Box by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    See subject

    1. Re:Its XBox, not X-Box by vandenh · · Score: 0

      It D-O-E-S-N-T matter...

  62. Relevant Skills List by AlaskanUnderachiever · · Score: 2

    I like to shoot things too. I'm also good at being a YesMan, making espresso drinks, and I'm willing to compromise all morals for employment (up to and including homicide with a reduced sentence). The whole "programming, developing, directing" thing is a little weak but I'm sure my mad "killing anything that moves" skillz make up for that.

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  63. It's that time again! by 1155 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Time for everyones favorite quiz show, "Who's e-mail just got slashdotted?!"

    a) Bill Gates

    B) The guy in this story

    C) Malda

    To find out the answer, wait until this gets modded down!

    On to our advertisement...

  64. a shooter for the XBOX.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    ho hum..why bother..the nvidia chipset in the damn thing is gonna be outdated by the time the summer is over. Anyone seen the ATI 9700 yet ?

  65. Re:work for xbox? NEVER by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I fail to see the problem here - I work for Playstation, my friend's dad owns Gamecube and my little sister has GP32 hair.

  66. if it was on the old system by Datasage · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ad posted.
    3 karma has been subtracted from your accout.

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  67. Didn't McGee get fired? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    If id couldn't have the guy as an employee, is he really a good guy to work for?

  68. And in other news... by AndroidCat · · Score: 3, Funny

    New gaming company American McGee was found dead on Sunday. Police say it looks like a slashdot by email killing. They looking for a suspect named "Takko" who is presumed to be of japanese origin.

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    1. Re:And in other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      American McGee is the name of a person, not a company you stupid fuck.

    2. Re:And in other news... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      The stupid fucks would be the parents, in this case.

      Naming a kid with an adjective is seriously fucked.

  69. be careful what you wish for by Artifex · · Score: 3, Funny

    Too bad that John Romero probably doesn't want to leave Texas.

    Yah, when I lived there, I said that about a certain State Governor. See what happened? =)

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  70. Rasterman by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I would suggest someone give Rasterman resume to Dave since he has not done anything lately

  71. Before the real interview... by guttentag · · Score: 3, Funny
    "We'd like to bring you in for an interview, but we've got just one more "t" to cross. I need your Slashdot username?"

    "What for?"

    "Standard credit check. Need to find out whether you're an intelligent, helpful, informative individual or... well, this also helps us weed out the trolls."

    "Actually, I just got an offer from another company I couldn't turn down. Sorry."

  72. Dave working on a FPS? by tspilman · · Score: 1

    I was fortunate enough to have a chat with Dave at GDC 2001 and he seemed to not like first person shooters at all. I wonder what changed his mind. =)

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  73. LyX by starling · · Score: 1

    I'll second what the AC said, and as a special one-time offer you get a free link to it. LyX is truly the best word processor I've come across.

  74. Why didn't you finish college? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    You completed 115 credits and didn't get the degree? You had to be fairly close, no? A lot of employers would look at that and think you were a flake, I know I would. I think you have to spin that somehow or give it some context.

  75. Looks good by Digital_Fiend · · Score: 1

    These teaser images look pretty interesting.

    1. Re:Looks good by Liquid+Velcro · · Score: 2, Informative

      They're for McGee's take on Oz, as in The Wizard of... No I'm not guessing because of the picture of the flying monkey. I'm interested to see what he does with it. Looking at the website itself, it's a hard guess to say whether or not their approach to development teams are similar to Lionhead's or what my own company is doing - in that the studios operate independently of the publisher. (In this case, C6) It looks like C6 wants to micromanage each devteam they acquire, so that they have a stable of folks they can milk games out of. I don't know if I approve, but it'll probably work.

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  76. OT, but I don't care by Toasty16 · · Score: 3, Funny

    PCXL was more than just the best gaming mag EVAR, It was also a better prognosticator than Nostradamus. Case in point: It was a recurring joke that PCXL would shut down before Daikatana was released. This came true, as the final issue of PCXL was published in April 2000, while Daikatana was released on May 23, 2000, just a month later. Coincidence? Maybe, but wait until I provide the rest of my evidence of PCXL's psychic abilities...

    In the April 1999 issue of PCXL, they had a large April Fools section in which there was a story about John Romero (PCXL's favorite punching bag) leaving Ion Storm, cutting his hair short, and focusing on old school games. Well guess what, that is exactly what happened!

    www.johnromero.com/images/News/Haircut-After.jpg

    He quit Ion Storm, cut his hair and started MonkeyStone Games, which makes simple games for PDA's and the like.

    And there exists other, more circumstantial evidence regarding PCXL's talent for divination. In an editorial in the December 1999 issue of PCXL (shipped early November), editor Mike Morrisey states that he's sick of buying a new video card every six months, and that he's skipping the current generation (voodoo3/TNT2) because he's sure the Voodoo 6000 will be released in a few months. Lo andd behold, on November 16, 1999 the VSA-100 chip and the Voodoo5 6000 are revealed by 3dfx!

    I'm sure by now your jaws have dropped, as you have probably come to the same conclusion as I: namely, that PCXL was the best, most hardcore gaming rag ever, and that its existence was a threat to crappy game publishers and developers everywhere *cough* Eidos, Ion Storm *cough*. It had to be destroyed so that the game oligopoly could continue to pump out crappy games with short development cycles in order to maximize profits without the public being aware of their evil machinations. PCXL was the bastion of truth in the gaming world, and with it gone gamers would again buy crappy games which consistently scored high in the cookie cutter mags. It's a conspiracy I tells ya! ;-)

    1. Re:OT, but I don't care by Cruciform · · Score: 2

      Mike Salmon? Is that you?

  77. Re:wtf QWZX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    When you actually spend time around Iranians, then you'll have a bit more credibility. Iranian, Persian, it doesn't make a bit of difference to me.

    Except for that whole muslim fundamentalism thing, and the terrorism, and ...

    And by the way, I dated a "Persian" girl.

  78. How do I post a classified ad to Slashdot? by Sister+Love · · Score: 1

    We need programmers and artists too, where's the form to fill in my classified ad for /. ???

  79. Re:wtf QWZX by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    I had sex with a persian cat once, and it didn't like it one bit I don't think. Thankfully it was declawed. Anyway, it was awful funny watching it try to rub all that jizz out of its fur for the next few days. Stupid cat...

  80. SPAM bait? by devleopard · · Score: 1

    I know Slashdot didn't just post someone's email address on the home page ...

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  81. Wow by SL33Z3 · · Score: 1

    I'm not a game programmer and I don't live in LA, but can I just like, hang out with you guys? :)

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  82. Sell your soul..... by usmcpanzer · · Score: 1

    yeah, it may be for the M$ X-box, but half of you would probably sell your soul in order to be a 'game designer'.

  83. Get Interns. by DarkHelmet · · Score: 2
    They should seriously consider getting interns. I know quite a few programmers who would be willing to contribute to the project for free.

    Uhhh... Uhhh... Uhhh... I can do their webpage!

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    1. Re:Get Interns. by Reziac · · Score: 2

      You can do their webpage? [eyeing flash and CLSID string from a safe distance] Good, someone needs to ... us non-flash types can't even get in.

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  84. I want to work for Hideo Kojima... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    SO FUCKING BAD!!!

  85. American McGee is.... by nlh · · Score: 3, Interesting

    ...living proof that you need little more than a "weird" or "interesting" name to suddenly become very famous in this country (particularly among nerds....American McGee, Jello Biafra, etc...)

    I'm sorry, but could someone give me an idea of what this guy has _actually_ done to deserve such fame? I hope 'Alice' isn't your answer...I saw him talk at GDC '01 this past March, and my impression was that he wasn't even a part of the development team -- he wasn't even on-site...he'd ship off his "artistic visions" to the on-site team who actually designed/coded/drew the game, he got all the credit, and the press loves him why? Because he's got a cool name.

    Seriously...I'm happy to give him credit where credit is due...if the guy's a brilliant game designer, a top-notch dealmaker, a great programmer, or a lead artist, fine -- I'd love to know about it, but come ON...enough with the sensationalism.

    1. Re:American McGee is.... by nlh · · Score: 2

      Er....GDC '02. Eh, what's a year.

    2. Re:American McGee is.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      He's friends with John Carmack and Trent Reznor, and was involved with the creation of Quake (though I'm not sure to what extent. Do a google on him).

      And you think his name is his secret?

  86. Re: Salmon by Toasty16 · · Score: 1

    Hell no. But I see that YOU work for the Unreal boys. How's that whole "UT2k3" deal going? Any inside info or easter eggs you wanna divulge?

  87. Welcome to the new Slashdot! by eddeye · · Score: 1

    SWM, 26, non-smoker, seeks nubile SF 19-24 (all races) into programming, FPS and RTS games, and The Simpsons for casual sex. Must have porn star looks. Serious inquiries only. (661) 397-3030.

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  88. True story by Nailer · · Score: 2

    I'm a computer geek from Melbourne Australia currently spending some time interstate in Sydney in a vacation. Meeting up with a fellow freelance journalist and on our way to a club, our taxi passed a museum advertising its upcoming exhibit, Chinese Dinosaurs.

    "Chinese Dinosaurs?"
    "Chinese Dinosaur Ninjas"
    "Undead Chinese Dinosaur Ninjas"
    "John Romero's Undead Chinese Dinosaur Ninjas"
    (we both burst out laughing)

  89. Re: Salmon by Cruciform · · Score: 2

    Sorry, us peons aren't allowed to talk about it. Zug Zug :)

  90. And what wasn't a space invaders clone-- by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

    --was a Pac-Man rip off. Nostalgia clouds your vision and is for old people. Halo, Panzer Dragoon,, Super Mario Sunshine,, X-Box, GameCube, PS2, and yes even the venerable Dreamcast. . .to hell with the past, I'd much rather have today's gameing world any day of the week!

  91. My lips are sealed by Toasty16 · · Score: 1

    How about a little AC action on the sly?

    1. Re:My lips are sealed by Cruciform · · Score: 2

      I haven't played AC in ages. AC2 beta's coming up though. Looks pretty sweet. Tired of the stand and swing standard in onling RPGs though. Need something better. Hope AC2 changes that.

  92. Does anyone else see it? by anonymous+loser · · Score: 2

    I'm wondering if I'm the only one enjoying the irony of a CmdrTaco posting a story looking for X-Box developers.

  93. Need an oracle by beef3k · · Score: 1

    Sure, I'll apply for lead programmer. Now all I need is a million years experience as a developer, knowledge of all possible API's out there, a PhD in maths, chemistry, graphical design and one in psychology, 25 years experience in the gaming industry, a neat house and a great car. Just hope a girlfriend isn't required.

  94. Wait a minute! Classified ads! That's it! by Conspiracy_Of_Doves · · Score: 2

    That's what should be done to prevent the evil /. subscription plan. A classified ad section should be created. People can pay to put up classified ads for other slashdotters to respond to. That should bring in enough money so that a subscription plan won't be needed.

  95. Sure you did by BlackTriangle · · Score: -1

    And by the way, I dated a "Persian" girl.

    Uh huh

  96. Re:moderation madness by Toasty16 · · Score: 1
    how come all your repsonses are rated 2, even "Mike Salmon? Is that you?" Do you have an inside man? I'll ask again,

    DO YOU HAVE AN INSIDE MAN?!

    I think I blew this case wide open! And I'm talking all the way ;-)
  97. Re:moderation madness by Cruciform · · Score: 2

    It's cuz I have SuperKarma(tm).
    I guess once you have really high karma it just mods you up auomatically. Even if it's just chit chat.