WSJ article about the game rather than Jared

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Jan 14th 2011, 16:38:26

Excellent work Dave/Dev crew. You managed to paint the game in a very good light, and still give good context to the larger story.

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Jan 14th 2011, 16:41:56

thanks for the kind words, but it's unfortunate that this got to the point that it is media-worthy.

like I said in the irc chan, I'm not happy about having to speak to the WSJ, but given the alternative I think this is the lesser of two evils.

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Jan 14th 2011, 16:45:47

Huffington Post being the alternative? :-S

As always, holler if you need a hand w/ something. Despite my horrid FA skills, I'm actually not too bad at public releases and such.

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Jan 14th 2011, 16:51:43

Normally I wouldn't see this because I have sigs turned off, but a perfect storm of circumstances allowed me to see that N0W3P's last post about being good at press releases has a sig of 'I wrote this with my penis'. Oh, the irony. lol

I cannot see your signature - so if it's witty, put it in a post instead! :p

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Jan 14th 2011, 16:52:25

I don't think that's called irony...

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Jan 14th 2011, 17:15:36

I call it the NOW3Penis.

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Jan 14th 2011, 17:35:20

Good one Pang, that was a nice article. :)

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Jan 14th 2011, 17:55:09

im a little grumpy no one mentions BRE

i think it makes it a cooler story for the game coming from bbs's

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Jan 14th 2011, 21:31:55

Very nice article. Thanks Pang and WSJ

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Jan 14th 2011, 21:40:01

Pang attends the University of Guelth

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Jan 14th 2011, 21:54:28

yeah I have been pointing that out too heh.

I guess that makes me an alumni of the U of Guelth as well.

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Jan 14th 2011, 22:16:43

Goooo Guelth Grythons!

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Jan 14th 2011, 22:33:55

Thank you for the arcticle.

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Jan 14th 2011, 23:07:57

I almost moved to Guelph:)

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Jan 14th 2011, 23:25:22

it's a nice little city with a crappy name no one can ever spell :p

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Jan 15th 2011, 0:13:38

Very nice article. I've been pleasantly surprised by the WSJ throughout all of this. I'm impressed. :-)

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Jan 15th 2011, 6:12:23

They've been nicer than what I was expecting, I have to admit. I don't read the WSJ, though, so I don't know what's the norm for them.

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Jan 15th 2011, 6:40:54

At least they got an actual screen shot of the game

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Jan 15th 2011, 13:55:49

Nice interview, Mr. McVittie

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Jan 15th 2011, 16:17:21

wait mcvittie is pang? ahh yeah i was like whos that person, thought it was a color lol.

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Jan 15th 2011, 19:09:18

I'm impressed we get a friendly nod at all. These stories ARE about Jared Laughner, after all, the game and what it's about are secondary facts to the larger issue.

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Feb 8th 2011, 11:42:02

Earth: 2025 could never have gotten such a good article written about it... let alone having Mehul say one thing nice about it. :P

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Feb 8th 2011, 18:12:32

I thought the game started in 96? I don't quite remember, but I thought the Beta didn't even end until like Aug. 96.

I played BRE in 95.

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Feb 8th 2011, 18:28:01

OMGorz! an earther is on da wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jared_Loughner

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Feb 8th 2011, 21:16:27

Oh for the love of...

I go away for ONE single reset and not only does the game change but now we have Earther's shooting up the place and Pang getting all interviewed by the WSJ.

Nuts...

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Feb 8th 2011, 21:24:48

it'll make a good case study and thesis in Pang's attempt to get his doctorate.

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Feb 8th 2011, 21:37:32

what I'd be more interested in is the reaction of community itself, but since I was personally involved in it, I can't use it for any research.

that being said, I have no desire for a doctorate :p

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Feb 8th 2011, 22:01:09

based on my local news, i pretty much qualify it as normal for somebody to shoot people to death on any given day.

OMG! the people in Arizona are running around killing people the same way that we do it here every other day!!! The Shock!!! The Horror!!!

they got that many people willing to shoot each other in Arizona?

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Feb 8th 2011, 22:06:29

Have you ever been to Arizona? It's all very nice to look at but as far as things to do goes...

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Feb 8th 2011, 22:21:03

no, but i had a friend from Houston spend like a month bleeding out of his nose before he got acclimated to the climate, if that counts for anything...

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Feb 8th 2011, 23:35:41

fail. He just has nasal issues. But I call Tucson home.

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Feb 9th 2011, 8:15:21

There's too much earth jargon without the um... jargon.
"According to current leaders,..."?
We're cemented as clans too heh.

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Feb 11th 2011, 9:20:02

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Feb 11th 2011, 22:55:00

He is amongst us??
Jared Lee Loughner?

OMG

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Feb 11th 2011, 23:11:23

i dunno, last i heard he was in jail, but i saw this movie once where some skinny beotch who was whacked out on drugs shot a cop in the head, then got da faked executed and then started working for some secret masonic group that went around killing people, but she grew a conscience after the drugs wore off and pretty much just refused to kill anybody anymore, so she had to fake her death again, but make it look real.

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