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An Interview with Jeffrey Kalles
Jonathan writes "Former associate producer for Nintendo of America Jeffrey Kalles granted an interview with n37radio. The interview covers a wide range of topics from his time spent at Nintendo to the upcoming Nintendo Revolution release. The interview is available in both text and audio format for those who are interested."
Ultimate Nintendo fanboy.
http://www.mobygames.com/developer/sheet/view/deve loperId,67266/
I'm not fat, just big boned...
Mr Kalles: How do you sleep at night?
As you read this letter, you may feel confused at points. If you do, keep reading. The rationale underlying Mr. Jeffrey Kalles's morals is confusing. Fortunately, as you read the superfluity of examples about how Jeffrey has been trying to produce a large number of entirely wild extravagancies, most logorrheic indecencies, and, above all, the most dysfunctional blasphemies against everything that I hold most sacred and most dear, this letter will slowly begin to make some sense. Some background is in order: I'll tell you what we need to do about all the craziness he is mongering. We need to deal summarily with dishonest fault-finders.
I challenge all of the anti-democratic pickpockets out there to consider this: Jeffrey's like the man behind the curtain in the Wizard of Oz. Pull back the curtain of obscurantism and you'll see a flighty insurrectionist hiding behind it, furiously pulling the levers of collectivism in a disgraceful, pernicious attempt to create a kind of psychic pain at the very root of the modern mind. That sort of discovery should make any sane person realize that Jeffrey argues that the media should "create" news rather than report it. I wish I could suggest some incontrovertible chain of apodictic reasoning that would overcome this argument, but the best I can do is the following: He recently claimed that skin color means more than skill and gender is more impressive than genius. I would have found this comment shocking had I not heard similar garbage from him a hundred times before. Unless Jeffrey provides unequivocal evidence to the contrary, I will continue to suspect that I am morally and ethically opposed to his sophistries. As long as I live, I will be shouting this truth from rooftops and doing everything I can to raise several issues about his stolid roorbacks that are frequently missing from the drivel that masquerades for discourse on this topic. In order to convince us that his propositions are good for the environment, human rights, and baby seals, Jeffrey often turns to the old propagandist trick of comparing results brought about by entirely dissimilar causes. Once you understand his stratagems, you have a responsibility to do something about them. To know, to understand, and not to act, is an egregious sin of omission. It is the sin of silence. It is the sin of letting Jeffrey burn our fair cities to the ground.
We must recognize and respect the opinions, practices, and behavior of others. This call to action begins with you. You must be the first to discuss the advantages of two-parent families, the essential role of individual and family responsibility, the need for uniform standards of civil behavior, and the primacy of the work ethic. You must be the one to disabuse Jeffrey of the notion that space gods arriving in flying saucers will save humanity from self-destruction. And you must inform your fellow man that by Jeffrey's standards, if you have morals, believe that character counts, and actually raise your own children -- let alone teach them to be morally fit -- you're definitely a slimy slubberdegullion. My standards -- and I suspect yours as well -- are quite different from his. For instance, I aver that it's easy for armchair philosophers to theorize about Jeffrey and about hypothetical solutions to our Jeffrey problem. It's an entirely more difficult matter, however, when one considers that he has been trying for some time to convince people that he can achieve his goals by friendly and moral conduct. Don't believe his hype! Jeffrey has just been offering that line as a means to resolve a moral failure with an immoral solution. Jeffrey's vituperations may have been conceived in idealism, but they quickly degenerated into inane, self-serving imperialism. I definitely insist that we should speak up and speak out against Jeffrey, and I have formalized my commitment to this high ideal by ensuring that I always bear witness to the plain, unvarnished truth. If you were to try to tell his bedfellows that I need to spend some
he doesn't seem to have any info about the Revolution, and wouldn't say it if he did anyway.
I just heard on NPR that Richard Pryor has died of a heart attack. Of course he is most famous for appearing as wisecracking, jive-talking criminal "Leeroy Jenkins" in the critically acclaimed hit movie "Superman II." He is also well-known for starring in "Bustin' Loose", a movie about a wisecracking, jive-talking bus driver transporting a group of retarded kids across the country. Whether you enjoy his many groundbreaking movie roles or not, there is no denying his contributions to our modern-day stereotypical black comedic actors. Truly an American icon.
I'll only listen to it if I can call it a podcast.
"although I'm crossing my fingers that the new Salmon Max is gonna be good."
Is it just me, or does that seem a little fishy?
He only makes something like $18.75 per hour... that's not the kind of money I expected.
He earned 7 something (I'll translate that into 7.5) per hour when he started and at the end he earned 150% more. So 7.5 * 2.5 = 18.75. Let's say he works 160 hours per month: 160 * 18.75 = 3000. Let's be kind and give him 13 payschecks per year: 3000 * 13 = 39 000.
Jeff: [...] its funny to make fun of and ill laugh with the best of them and say 'haha, Microsoft blue screen of death, no matter what product you release!' It's not going to hurt them in the long run...
Jonathan: Isn't that fun though?
Jeff: It is fun, well, it's always fun...
My kind of guy :')
Fukcing terrorists. But thats also what you get for being soft on terrorists.
Isn't it scary how skittish most people have become about big corporations? So careful not to do anything that might anger them for fear of a lawsuit. Was it always this way?
Rats would be more funny if they could fart.
"His/Her career probably spans more years than those displayed since these dates are based on the credits documented in MobyGames" It seems to make people lose their gender.
It made watching paint dry seem exciting and fun.
The interview technique was plodding and dull...
Here's an example of how they can waste words, bandwidth and time and at the end, you get no useful information:
" If you're comfortable with me asking, how much money were you making when you left versus when you started?
Wow. I started...not very much, it was seven-something and hour.
So just above minimum wage?
Yeah, just above minimum wage...although at the time, it was a couple bucks more then minimum wage. You've got to remember, eleven and a half years ago. It was over eleven and a half years, the percentage increase, and you guys with the math can do it, it was about 150% increase from that wage."
There's no one on the planet who found that little exchange useful. Word after word to say "I didn't make very much".
Jonathan What are some of the other game genres you enjoy and the games in them?
Jeff [...]The Lucas Arts and the Sierra Online stuff; that's probably where I really fell in love with the adventure games. [...]I'm crossing my fingers that the new Salmon Max is gonna be good.
Myself, I found Salmon Max vastly inferior to Polish Quest, Funky Island or Day of the Testicle. Seriously, can somebody shoot the guy who transcribed this?
This was actually a really good interview. At first I was a bit put off by the fact that jeff wasn't some mover or shaker in the industry, but as I kept reading, the more I appreciated he wasn't. Lots of good ground level stories, advice, etc here. He spoke freely as possible, which is quite a change from the content-free PR focuesed interviews you see here sometimes I'm not even that interested in the industry and I found it enthralling. The early days of anything are usually interesting and the sometimes ordinary people they pick up for 2 dollars over minimum can be the best employees and storytellers.
And today we will be interviewing the Nintendo of America Head Janitor...
Ryan - http://www.thecosmotron.com/
That is all.
Hey, aren't "Associate Producers" a pretty lowly position in the games industry? Don't they like, get coffee for the producer? /. is using Jeff's name as if it meant something, which seems a little odd to me.
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