Every industry has one. The free-thinking rebel that redefines the rules. He says what no-one else will say and does what no-one else will do. Fuelled by raw passion, he seizes an art form by the throat and drags it to its apex. What they invented, he makes it sing. His peers hate him but the public love his style. At once he intimidates and inspires; breaking down the walls that secure some yet block others. Welcome to MDickie.com - home of the games industry's first true 3-dimensional character! Whether he's the "hero" or the "villain" depends entirely on your perspective...
Look at this badass motherfucker, /prog/. You'll never be as cool as him if you only keep making toy programs.
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Anonymous2009-11-19 21:02
Further to an earlier post ("The Pie Thrower", 30th September 2009), I suspect the phantom book reviewer can be traced to this grubby little forum where co-ordinated attacks on my character were being plotted. Suffice to say, it's a putrid sewer of baseless opinion - gushing forth from a group of inarticulate programmers who have never achieved anything. I had given the reviewer the credence of being a legitimate part of the games industry. It turns out that his "27 years of experience" amount to being the tea-boy in some IT department somewhere, and his "colleagues" are none other than those he corresponds with digitally. I did suspect that a legitimate game designer wouldn't have the time or the inclination to engage in this kind of stuff. I certainly never did while I was busy achieving various things. These tirades against my work are so self-defeating. They accuse me of being a talentless loser and then proceed to spend days on end talking about such an individual?! They accuse me of being "arrogant" and then spew the kind of mean-spirited filth that would never cross my lips. I'm fascinated by evil and wretchedness. I always wondered whether Nazi concentration camp guards would glance at each other and rhetorically ask, "Are we the bad guys?" It's a fitting question for these people to ask themselves. Do they genuinely believe they're the "good guys" and I'm the villain of the piece? Do they ever glance back over the filth they wrote and concede that it wasn't justified and wilts in the light of my dignified response? Ditto for the cowards you often find commenting on YouTube videos. These people make my critics in the Blitz community look positively civilized! Speaking of whom, I understand they also have a pissy little thread about my book. I'm not entirely sure one of their number isn't responsible for the review in question. I wouldn't put it past them, since they search tirelessly to find holes in my work so as to feel better about their insignificant output. Either way, we can chalk it up to a miserable human being who criticizes more than he contributes. Incidentally, anybody posting under the name of "MDickie" is an impostor. Anything I have to say can always be found at this site first...