Gizmondo's downfall...Brilliant read

Post by **Don Carlos** » Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:44 pm

http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/gizmondo.html

I bet lots of people have red faces at the moment :icon28:

Post by **Eraser** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:31 am

Heh, not too long from now we'll be reading the same article about the Phantom.

Post by **eepberries** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:42 pm

Ah. At first I read this thread as "Gizmodo." I was like... Gizmodo? What?

Post by **Turbine** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:30 pm

That is a good story of irony.

Post by **Fender** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:56 pm

What's ironic about it? Good story, but not ironic.

You don't expect a convicted mafia criminal to completely drain a company of all its assests? You don't expect a guy driving 190 MPH to crash his car? What is unexpected about that story?

Karma? Maybe. Irony? No. I fucking HATE Alanis Morissette. Nobody fucking knows what that word means anymore thanks to her and her stuipd non-ironic song. ffs

And I'll post this myself to save some moron from doing it later:

looks like irony upset fender, amrite?

Post by **shmup** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:14 pm

I was laid off from Warthog just before they were bought by Tiger or whatever. At the time, I was understandably miffed at losing my job, but looking back on it, I did ok I think

taking all of the demos and design docs we had and making them Gizmondo exclusives must have been pretty soul-crushing.
It would have been a talking point in future interviews though.

Post by **tnf** » Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:38 pm

Turbine wrote:That is a good story of irony.

No, no its not.

Post by **Chupacabra** » Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:00 am

Fender wrote:What's ironic about it? Good story, but not ironic.

You don't expect a convicted mafia criminal to completely drain a company of all its assests? You don't expect a guy driving 190 MPH to crash his car? What is unexpected about that story?

Karma? Maybe. Irony? No. I fucking HATE Alanis Morissette. Nobody fucking knows what that word means anymore thanks to her and her stuipd non-ironic song. ffs

And I'll post this myself to save some moron from doing it later:

looks like irony upset fender, amrite?

someone piss in your cheerios today sir?

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:29 pm

heh, i just read this in my Wired mag. fucking nuts this story.

Post by **Dr_Watson** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:49 pm

never knew that whole story... god what a "rabbit hole"; would make an excellent movie.