The "whatever's on your mind" thread

[coolsome]

I was a gibbering idiot when I met Colin Baker, Sylvester McCoy and Phil LaMarr.

[Secret Fawful]

If I met any of those guys, my brain would instantly explode trying to put together coherent actions.

[DAISHI]

If it's any consolation, Ron Gilbert is slightly overrated. Though Schafer's pretty cool.

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by DAISHI

If it's any consolation, Ron Gilbert is slightly overrated. Though Schafer's pretty cool.

Bullshit. It's even worse because I had two good opportunities to really talk to Ron, and I gave them both up to pander to Tim. I was scared the second time because I thought I'd be the "creepy fan" by trying to have a conversation with the obviously unapproachable Ron Gilbert.

And I know Ron recognized me the second time and I actively ignored him. Ugh.

[coolsome]

Originally Posted by Secret Fawful

Bullshit. It's even worse because I had two good opportunities to really talk to Ron, and I gave them both up to pander to Tim. I was scared the second time because I thought I'd be the "creepy fan" by trying to have a conversation with the obviously unapproachable Ron Gilbert.

And I know Ron recognized me the second time and I actively ignored him. Ugh.

You could try talking to him online with the anomonity and the abilty to plan and proof read what you want to say would help you say what you couldn't in person.

[Secret Fawful]

Originally Posted by coolsome

You could try talking to him online with the anomonity and the abilty to plan and proof read what you want to say would help you say what you couldn't in person.

There's no guarantee of a response, and it can be hard to get in-depth online. I doubt Ron wants to respond to a book, which is what I would write.

Who would want to read a book made up of questions?

[Noname215]

I’ve met Ron Gilbert. He’s very talkative.

As for other celebrities, I’ve met (or have come very close to meeting) the following:

Harrison Ford
Jeff Ross
Bruce Campbell (me visiting L.A.)
Billy Gibbons (airplane)
Lemony Snicket (he went to the same middle school as me)
Clint Eastwood (leaving the set of “Hereafter”)
Sammy Hagar (The San Francisco Zoo)
Robin Williams (Union Square, pretty sure he lives in SF)
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg (walking in Golden Gate Park)
Huey Lewis (met him in Marin County)
James Rolfe, aka The Angry Video Game Nerd (he was looking at Vertigo locations)
Rob Schneider (he was born in SF)

[Secret Fawful]

I bet you have stories then.

I've met or spoken with:
Ron Gilbert
Tim Schafer and the Double Fine Team
The Telltale Guys
Hideo Kojima
Gary Whitta

Celebrities I've spoken with online:
Matt (Two Best Friends Play)
Benzaie (a celebrity?)
Film Brain (a celebrity?)
John Romero
Bill Tiller

And I have friends on the forum I've met or know personally:
GuruGuru214
Icedhope
Alcoremortis
Puzzlebox

And friends I've not met but know personally:
Monkey_05_06
Rather Dashing
Comrade Pants
AllenB

Celebrities I've pissed off personally by being an asshole, causing myself eternal shame:
Bill Tiller (Curse of Monkey Island, A Vampyre Story)
John Romero (DOOM)

[Alcoremortis]

Ooh, we're playing the name-dropping game?

Bill Nye
J.K. Rowling
extended time with John de Lancie (I was in a play that he directed)
Jackie Chan
George Lucas
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Johnny Depp
The Dalai Lama
Tamora Pierce
Christopher Paulini
Seth MacFarlane
Brian Jacques
Majus

Yeah, and George Clooney came to my school, but I missed him.

I'm probably missing a few.

[Vainamoinen]

Originally Posted by der_ketzer

the word you are looking for is interactive movie.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of the idea that an interactive movie is "not a game". If you played ludo with a bunch of friends, you'd go for quite a while without taking a turn, your interactivity is definitely very limited and STILL it's uncontestedly a game.

That's just some kind of defamatory re-naming. Which I do not condone, but understand to a degree - as it is meant to backseat drive Telltale in a direction I'd probably like better than the present endeavors.

Originally Posted by Jennifer

That definition doesn't work for The Walking Dead. It's a casual adventure game with action elements. The adventure style puzzles and inventory are there, they're just not too challenging, making it a casual adventure.

An interactive movie would be something like Dragon's Lair. There's definitely moments requiring thought in The Walking Dead, rather than just reflexes.

I think it was even Dan who suggested calling BTTF an "easy adventure", which would be about the worst name for a "new genre" I could think of.

In German forums, I have repeatedly suggested to call TWD an adventure game without thinking twice about the matter. But then the fighting starts, because people would love to project their own personal definition of the genre to every gamer alive. Fact is: the adventure genre isn't really defined as such and we unfortunately don't catch a glimpse of where its boundaries might lie when people utter the meaningless phrase: "That's not an adventure anymore". Still, the only halfway worthwhile definition I have ever seen was not one of a "core concept" of the adventure genre, but instead mostly an enumeration of which gaming elements are absent!

We could go on for ages defining what an "adventure is", but we would only do it to classify certain games as not belonging because we have somehow once decided that we like adventure games so by definition, game concepts we do not like can not be adventure games.

To better Telltale's future games, that would not be constructive. In fact, it's pretty daft.

I'd rather have a meaningful discussion about where TWD failed in its concept of interactivity. And, without any judgement, I think there are quite some areas where even the designers' self-imposed interactivity ideas DID fail.

We could even make a thread that says "registration 2010 or earlier required" so only ye olde community participates. But we'd rather not put this in TWD forums, this kind of exclusivity isn't exactly welcoming.

[RetroVortex]

I... I apparently talked to the guy who made FTL on Omegle once...
(That was a great conversation. Though I pretty much dominated it by blabbering on about Super Punchout, (I analysed that game earlier that day and wanted to share my findings))
And I did hang out on the Zombie Cow forum for a little while so I did talk to the Zomboid guys and Dan a little, (though Dan is a bit of a pretentious dick though tbh)

Kinda jealous of you guys.
(I was also jealous of the FTL guy because he had actually met those guys. (He also agreed that Dan was a bit of a dick! XD))
But I hope one day I could make something good enough to get recognition from my heroes.

[Jennifer]

I met Weird Al.

Embarrassingly, I was in the front row at the concert and he tripped over my feet. o_O

I didn't mention that when I talked to him after the performance, and he didn't bring it up either, so either he didn't know it was me or he was very polite.

[RetroVortex]

Obligatory first post via new electronic device.

[Johro]

Originally Posted by Jennifer

I met Weird Al.

Embarrassingly, I was in the front row at the concert and he tripped over my feet. o_O

I didn't mention that when I talked to him after the performance, and he didn't bring it up either, so either he didn't know it was me or he was very polite.

Weird Al's an awesome guy. Even when he's mad, it's more tongue in cheek, "did Weird Al just rip into me? That's FANTASTIC!". I've met Dave Mustaine a few times. Good guy. He just went a little crazy with the whole finding God, supporting Bush, and then buying into the government conspiracy thing recently. Yeah. Like Jon Schaffer, I really wouldn't mind NOT talking to them again.


By the way, what I'm thinking right now... FUCK the users on Kotaku.

[Giant Tope]

Not the best panorama job, boy do I wish I was back here.

[Chyron8472]

For God's sake.

Please resize that.

[DAISHI]

lol. Chyron's gonna come at you with a fist.

Although, yeah, that thing is huge. Hah.

[Chyron8472]

Seriously. If I had access to the Admin Control Panel for these forums, I would set it to automatically resize too-large images to be 800px

[Giant Tope]

Honestly I had no idea. I uploaded it from my phone so it's hard to tell.

I'm gonna let dashing resize it for me.
Sorry.

Edit: (Thaaaaanks >_>)

[Iryon]

People tend to accuse me of not seeing the big picture and now I have to admit they seem to be right.