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The 10 Most Interesting People in Gaming for 2005
jkdove writes "GamerGod rolls out their list of "The 10 Most Interesting People in Gaming for 2005". From the article: "Our list draws from a wide slice of the gaming community. A respected game designer is on the list, but so is a political figure, a game player, a man with an agenda, and even a modder. Each person was selected for their ability to grab and hold the headlines with their design, deeds, or words; and for their contribution to twelve months of gaming headlines, news, scandals, sensations, and entertainment.""
Sadly, no matter how absolutely ridiculous, I have a feeling the US Congress will make the list for 2006.
I am exploring the outer limits of slacking and procrastinating on my companies latest game engine...
and I want the 30 seconds I just wasted skimming through that list back.
Slashdot really needs to do a story on just how worthless game journalism is these days...
There were a tremendous number of people on the list that I'd never heard of, which suggests a fair amount of creativity when picking names. Where's John Carmack, who's building rockets? What about Bono, who's helping back elevation? Then there's Gabe Newell, who's work with Steam is slowly changing how game publishing is done.
Perhaps girls who lick PSPs are more interesting, but somehow less important than the above.
But you must know that was all staged right? Even the banter in the beginning was just plain fake. "let me do some calculations...I give us a blah blah percent chance". I mean, what calculations are you frickin making there?
And besides, this is WoW...in which death means nothing except running back to your corpse.
Also, have you been where they were? did you see them all just like run around stepping on all the eggs and not even doing anything except letting themselves be killed?
Let's face it, if Leeroy had run in there by himself, my guild would have just stood there and let him die, then we'd rez him...that's it.
I mean, it's a VERY funny video, but it's fake.
"Leo Fender was in a 'state of grace' when he designed the Stratocaster." -- Paul Reed Smith
I would be much more interested to read about ten people who had created and actually released genuinely good games.
Carmack: the last OpenGL programmer (in gaming).
Slashdot's top 50 top 10 lists of 2006 .. Which should be ready next week
The only things certain in war are Propaganda and Death. You can never be sure which is which though
I find it funny that without the least interesting (number 10) of the list three other more interesting (numbers 8, 7, and 1) would either not have happened, or would be significantly less interesting. While the 'Hot Coffee' mod might not have been terribly interesting on its own, the fact that it spawned this much attention surely must warrant a higher spot than number 10.