He's obviously joking, as he tends to do based on the rest of the responses on his site / BBSpot. Let's not pick questions like this for the interview, or we won't have a lot of interesting responses.
The interview was really and very funny at that, I strongly suggest checking it out. I don't understand why Wil is getting so much attention now, but I can't say I don't welcome it. He really seems to be a much funnier person than the Next Generation series let him be. His responses are funny, and more importantly, informed about the net culture. My favorite is his response about being like a camwhore without the wishlist.
Although I've stopped gaming altogether, I remember being incredible impressed by this team's results years ago, as they kept topping themselves. Laugh if you want, but I think it's things like these that allow gaming to be compared to some sort of a sport. After all, what is this but people continuing to beat their record, when everyone is sure there is simply no possible way to do it any faster.
Someone has made the remark that it's not possible to play through the whole game on nightmare. If you haven't seen the demos, you might not know that levels are done by different people, so the demo is not really one continuos game, but rather an ideal game that's a result of hundreds, if not thousands of invididual tries at levels. Yet every person starts each level only with items it would've been possible to pick from the last's level quick runthrough. Even though I don't have Quake installed anymore, I think I'll install it just to check this out, and you guys should too:)
I get paid hourly, but I know I'm an exception. It's definitely better though, especially for overtime purposes, since I feel you're really compensated directly for what you do. Also I'd like to disagree with whoever said being salaried means no timesheets - in order to bill companies in consulting, your employer still has to know how much time you've spent doing their stuff, so time reporting is usually a necessity either way.
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He's obviously joking, as he tends to do based on the rest of the responses on his site / BBSpot. Let's not pick questions like this for the interview, or we won't have a lot of interesting responses.
The interview was really and very funny at that, I strongly suggest checking it out. I don't understand why Wil is getting so much attention now, but I can't say I don't welcome it. He really seems to be a much funnier person than the Next Generation series let him be. His responses are funny, and more importantly, informed about the net culture. My favorite is his response about being like a camwhore without the wishlist.
Although I've stopped gaming altogether, I remember being incredible impressed by this team's results years ago, as they kept topping themselves. Laugh if you want, but I think it's things like these that allow gaming to be compared to some sort of a sport. After all, what is this but people continuing to beat their record, when everyone is sure there is simply no possible way to do it any faster. Someone has made the remark that it's not possible to play through the whole game on nightmare. If you haven't seen the demos, you might not know that levels are done by different people, so the demo is not really one continuos game, but rather an ideal game that's a result of hundreds, if not thousands of invididual tries at levels. Yet every person starts each level only with items it would've been possible to pick from the last's level quick runthrough. Even though I don't have Quake installed anymore, I think I'll install it just to check this out, and you guys should too :)
The movie Pi, a must-see if you haven't already. But since it rings a bell for you, obviously you have :)
I get paid hourly, but I know I'm an exception. It's definitely better though, especially for overtime purposes, since I feel you're really compensated directly for what you do. Also I'd like to disagree with whoever said being salaried means no timesheets - in order to bill companies in consulting, your employer still has to know how much time you've spent doing their stuff, so time reporting is usually a necessity either way.