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Firefly MMORPG Announced
bishiraver writes "Multiverse has announced that they have gained rights to a Firefly Massively Multiplayer Online Game. Multiverse is a company started by several former Netscape employees, and they have developed an engine/network that works for all of their games. They intend to break into the MMO industry by being an MMO publisher of sorts. By standardizing, they can provide a less expensive alternative to the tens of millions of dollars and several years it takes to currently develop an MMO. They have said they will hire out a studio to build the game for them. Corey Bridgets, Massive's Executive Producer, says: 'If you're doing science fiction, you have to really think it out and create an incredibly rich environment that is compelling in its own right, and worth exploring and going back to week after week. That's what Joss Whedon did with Firefly.'"
Everything about the Multiverse project screams "half-assed" to me, from their bad copy to their vaporware examples to their ridiculuous, sycophantic jargon in TFA. Using a terrible screenshot was a cheap but effective way of highlighting that not only do they not have a snowball's chance in hell, they appear to be lacking in taste, class, technical skill, and attention to detail. I'd be really happy if I'm proven wrong; Firefly is one of the best sci-fi shows in my book.
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I officially don't understand /. -- I got frist post. Not intentionally. Just pointed out that perhaps, of the many strengths in Firefly, we might be less than inclined to count the music among them.
/. used to be this insanely moderated.
What makes no sense is that I got modded flamebait for this, while I say much more flame-tastic stuff about how crappy this Multiverse system looks later in this thread that's been modded insightful. Similarly, I wrote a pretty dumb reply and a pretty smart reply in a recent thread about Novell killing off Hula, and the friggin' dumb reply got bumped to +5 for a time. I was actually relieved when someone marked it overrated. I don't feel like
Online citizen journalism from the inner city: The View From The Ground
I like the corny music in Life Aquatic. it's techno but retro.
“Common sense is not so common.” — Voltaire
Also, I've found the best way to avoid being labelled a troll or having someone mod you out of existence is to always add something like:
"I'll probably be called a troll for this, but..."
"...but I have the karma to burn"
"This will probably get buried..."
It is like subliminally telling people "if you think this is a worthless comment, then you really aren't looking close enough or aren't wise enough to see the true value in it". Out flows the ++ mods who of course ARE wise enough to see all the value. Either that or the truly insightful poster is just too paranoid and self critical to see their own arguments as valid.
Of course, this will probably get buried offtopic, but I've noticed it too often to stay quiet...
And once again you wish you could mod the moderation +1 funny
Not to mention there is no consensus on slashdot, official or otherwise. You may think there is after you get modded to oblivion for saying that Clinton was as big a retard as Bush, just in different ways, but that's just a group of assholes with agendas and mod points pooling together to try and censor you (which, I migth add, is impossible considering that anyone is free to browse comments at -1). Usually these same assholes get metamodded to oblivion, and never get a chance to inflict their totalitarian impulses again. It doesn't always work, but what system is perfect? If you know of a better one, by all means, let us know.
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