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misanthrope
01/07/2005, 05:25 pm
What gives? It seems like the correllation between game quality and programmer obesity is weakening. Don't get me wrong, the telltale team are quite the strapping specimens, but a little weight might give you that extra "leverage". The anchor in your "tug of war", if you will. If salary is the issue, then consider consuming mass quantities of pork rinds and beef jerky. You know, trucker food. I... I don't really know where I'm going with this.

ChooseStevo
01/07/2005, 11:14 pm
Programmers are overweight because they sit around all day programming and don't go outside or do anything else. Maybe they need to sit down and work more instead of going out and having lives and stuff.

Get in your closest and have food delivered.

HieroHero
01/08/2005, 12:33 am
yeah telltale need to sit at a computer more..once they are morbidly obese will we get the game we want! :-?

misanthrope
01/08/2005, 08:54 am
Exactly. They should be so fat that when you buy the game, there are sticks of butter inside the box.

would it be possible...?

just think... having the option to super-size the burger and soda that comes with your game.



And the dudes from telltale need to post more. Interaction with the team is always cool. I still play with my He-Man dolls.

HieroHero
01/08/2005, 09:37 pm
someone should be filming a documentary.. telltale team sits at computer all day programming eating nothing but pizza and take away and they become obese/depressed/and impotent.. it will be a surefire hit!

Heatherlee
01/18/2005, 12:34 am
Including sticks of butter in games would up the cost of the game, especially since a special refrigerated department would have to be set up in the game store.

Don't get your hopes up too high about our programmers gaining too much weight. Between Graham's healthy eating habits, Kevin's hockey playing and Randy having to keep up with pre-teen daughters, this crew isn't likely to tip scales anytime soon.

-Heather

Stormchaser
01/18/2005, 02:20 am
I heard, that being skinny and fit is 'in' these days :)

JCD
01/18/2005, 05:46 am
I've heard that too, but I never really believed it.

Steve2000
01/18/2005, 06:32 am
As long as the games they make are fat (as in: full of cool stuff) - I don't care what the programmers look like.

If games did come with sticks of butter they might sell better, all food that is really bad sells well.

Burn
01/18/2005, 09:58 am
Ohhh, i thought it was spelt phatt.

HieroHero
01/18/2005, 11:31 am
are you prepared to back that up heather..how about we weigh the combined telltame team now.. and weigh them again once the game is complete.. of course all the fans guess the difference in weight plus or minus between now and then..the person who is the most accurate wins a copy of the new game...





ps. i may have gone completely mad waiting for the announcement of the new game..

Heatherlee
01/21/2005, 04:51 am
hmmm....interesting....torturing my co-workers is a fabulous idea as long as it causes no pain to myself.

We would need to find a scale though. And it might be tough to wrestle Kevin onto a scale. He can be a little sensitive.

Heather