Incline Chris Avellone Appreciation Station

[Strange Fellow]

MCA is an artist. I would be very disappointed indeed if it turned out he doesn't have a drinking problem.

 

[Fairfax]

Surely there's more people who can discuss the Dragoncon incident. I mean a crowd of people had to see that, right?

Edit: Apparently this was something that may or may not have happened in 2013 and a cursory glance shows no one mentioning it at all. Sounds suspicious. Then again DragonCon is one big nerd orgy and I suppose there could be a "What happens there stays there" policy (which this guy is breaking ).

He had the "Crowdfunding Video Games" panel, but showed up at the "Kickstarting Your Project" one, which happened at the same time:



It seems like it wasn't a big deal. MCA wasn't wasted and didn't 'steal the mic'. The moderator and the rest of the panel were friendly to MCA (and it seems one of them is a friend of his), and he was quiet for most of it. I don't doubt that DragonCon staff wasn't happy about it, but the guy on reddit painted a very different picture.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

How stupid.
If an industry veteran accidentally shows up to the wrong panel you know what you do?
You give him the mic. Especially when he was going to speak at essentially an identical panel already and therefore was prepared for it.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Lmao that entire panel seems to be on drugs.

 

[Roguey]

https://twitter.com/SquizzOC/status/1108601133671444480

A bit surprised MCA MDMA hasn't blocked him yet.

 

[zaper]

I've seen bigger crowds being formed around to point and laugh at a kid who tripped during lunch break. The kid was me but that's not the point.

I always imagine people like MCA being surrounded by a large number of connoisseurs of the roleplaying medium whenever they put themselves in front of a mic. It may be that he wasn't as well known in the distant year of 2013, before having his career jumpstarted by working on amazing titles such as Pillars of Eternity™.

(Is this how you shitpost?)

 

[Riddler]

https://twitter.com/SquizzOC/status/1108601133671444480

A bit surprised MCA MDMA hasn't blocked him yet.

Is he in the habit of blocking people?

 

[Latro]

MCA is an artist. I would be very disappointed indeed if it turned out he doesn't have a drinking problem.

MCA being a drinker isn't shocking, the drug usage is mildly surprising, but the real dig is that MCA just sits around at work drinking and getting high all day. Dunno, just doesn't seem the case at all? He also seemed fairly sober when he was here.

 

[BEvers]

Lmao that entire panel seems to be on drugs.

Well, they're in the video game industry. It's either drugs or crying rooms.

 

[Roguey]

MCA being a drinker isn't shocking, the drug usage is mildly surprising, but the real dig is that MCA just sits around at work drinking and getting high all day. Dunno, just doesn't seem the case at all? He also seemed fairly sober when he was here.

Imagine being Avellone and strolling into work drunk as skunk and tripping on Molly and still outwriting Fenstermaker 100:1.

 

[Quillon]

MCA being a drinker isn't shocking, the drug usage is mildly surprising, but the real dig is that MCA just sits around at work drinking and getting high all day. Dunno, just doesn't seem the case at all? He also seemed fairly sober when he was here.

Imagine being Avellone and strolling into work drunk as skunk and tripping on Molly and still outwriting Fenstermaker 100:1.

Drugs should help with creativity, no? Or was it mushroom trips...

You guys have any weed?

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

Judging from the stories about how Avellone worked on PS:T twenty-four hours a day and writes so much that Sawyer calls him a machine, I would rather assume that Master "da Man" Avellone does amphetamines.

 

[Kyl Von Kull]

MCA being a drinker isn't shocking, the drug usage is mildly surprising, but the real dig is that MCA just sits around at work drinking and getting high all day. Dunno, just doesn't seem the case at all? He also seemed fairly sober when he was here.

Imagine being Avellone and strolling into work drunk as skunk and tripping on Molly and still outwriting Fenstermaker 100:1.

Judging from the stories about how Avellone worked on PS:T twenty-four hours a day and writes so much that Sawyer calls him a machine, I would rather assume that Master "da Man" Avellone does amphetamines.

Gents, MDMA stands for Methylenedioxymethamphetamine. It's a stimulant that can be pretty speedy, but unlike amphetamines it gets your creative juices flowing. In college I would use it to write papers I had no interest in. As long as you will yourself to stay focused, you can get a lot done. No idea whether MCA uses performance enhancers, but writing ten times more dialogue than you need for your companions is not inconsistent with rolling on molly.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

I wanna try ecstasy.

What is stopping you?

I don't know any drug dealers.

Edit: Wait a second!

Chris Avellone

 

[Sukhāvatī]

I wanna try ecstasy.

What is stopping you?

I don't know any drug dealers.

https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?threads/general-blogdex-thread.82758/page-985#post-6093401

 

[Neanderthal]

I wanna try ecstasy.

What is stopping you?

I don't know any drug dealers.

If you drop any make sure to drink plenty of water (loads) and have somebody you can trust around just in case, lot of ecstacy back in my day was cut with rat poison to enhance buzz apparently.

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

I've suddenly realized that our resident Obsidian owner actually hinted at Chris' problem with drugs.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

A also want to try cocaine.

It's apparently a rich man's drug over here in Australia. There's no established routes from South America to Australia, so the transportation is more ad-hoc.

 

[Sukhāvatī]

It's apparently a rich man's drug over here in Australia.

And one of, if not the most, bloodiest.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Cocaine, rich man's drug? Maybe in the 1980s. It's very much available for everybody now. Rich people are probably juicing some custom mixes.

 

[Curious_Tongue]

Cocaine, rich man's drug? Maybe in the 1980s. It's very much available for everybody now.

Did you pay attention to where I live?

We don't have any South/Central American criminals here in Australia. There's no regular supply route for the drug.

It's more of a custom import.

 

[Haba]

RPG Codex then: so what if Chris was shitfaced, screaming at the camera and being pulled away by Feargus. Great artists have a right to be wild party people

RPG Codex now: there's no evidence of Avellone drinking at work anywhere ever

Nick then: Chris man, you're like my best friend. I'll invite you into my wedding, if I ever find the right guy!

Nick now: Mr. Avellone is an alcoholic and a drug addict with a habit of harassing people, that is why we removed him from Obsidian.

 

[Ninjerk]

On MDMA, everything feels great.

 

[True Ukrainian]

RPG Codex then: so what if Chris was shitfaced, screaming at the camera and being pulled away by Feargus. Great artists have a right to be wild party people

RPG Codex now: there's no evidence of Avellone drinking at work anywhere ever

Nick then: Chris man, you're like my best friend. I'll invite you into my wedding, if I ever find the right guy!

Nick now: Mr. Avellone is an alcoholic and a drug addict with a habit of harassing people, that is why we removed him from Obsidian.

Neither of those are mutually exclusive.

"Mr Avellone is an out of control alcoholic and drug addict. He is also my best friend."

 

[Prime Junta]

Neither of those are mutually exclusive.

"Mr Avellone is an out of control alcoholic and drug addict. He is also my best friend."

Badmouthing him on Reddit and being his best friend kind of are though. Or else he has some really shitty friends.