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Gizmondo's downfall...Brilliant read
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 6:44 pm
by Don Carlos
http://wired.com/wired/archive/14.10/gizmondo.html
I bet lots of people have red faces at the moment :icon28:
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 9:31 am
by Eraser
Heh, not too long from now we'll be reading the same article about the Phantom.
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 5:42 pm
by eepberries
Ah. At first I read this thread as "Gizmodo." I was like... Gizmodo? What?
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:30 pm
by Turbine
That is a good story of irony.
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 6:56 pm
by Fender
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?
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:14 pm
by shmup
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.
Posted: Fri Oct 06, 2006 11:38 pm
by tnf
Turbine wrote:That is a good story of irony.
No, no its not.
Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:00 am
by Chupacabra
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?
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 5:29 pm
by +JuggerNaut+
heh, i just read this in my Wired mag. fucking nuts this story.
Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 6:49 pm
by Dr_Watson
never knew that whole story... god what a "rabbit hole"; would make an excellent movie.