Incline Chris Avellone Appreciation Station

[Camel]

Yeah, Ol' Joe was soyfacing before it became a meme.

He was thinner back then and he’s much richer now.

 

[Roguey]

Chris continues to pad his linkedin with old things no one cares about

Narrative Designer/Writer
ArenaNet LLC

May 2016 - May 2017 1 year 1 month

Sea-Attle

- Design consultant, hired to help with pitches in preproduction (project is now canceled, I believe).

Design Consultant
Blind Squirrel Games

Jun 2015 - Nov 2016 1 year 6 months

The New Shiny Office Park

- Design consultant, hired to help with pitches in preproduction (project is now canceled, I believe).

 

[agris]

Roguey this is far-fetched, but there may be a connection to his ongoing legal battles. establishing continued, lasting ties to developers before/after the slander hit could help him establish the basis for projections based on lost employment opportunities due to the libel.

edit: to put it another way, help establish a trend before/after the witchunt began, so he can demonstrate damages (aka $$$).

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

From what I recall, someone ttried to #meetoo Angry Joe but he immediately threatened to sue and it was over within 24 hours. Perhaps there's a lesson here.

 

[Don Peste]

Is this tweet New Vegas 2?

 

[koyota]

Man.. Retired... The world missed out on Tim Cain...

Tim Cain`s story feels like if Stanley Kubrick had made a few cult films and then vanished for 14 years making some studio-appointed blockbuster film that was never finished

Only to come back and have his last movie, be a movie that he didn`t even really direct (The Outer Worlds)

 

[Roguey]

Chris is getting fed up with the Randian accusations.
https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1500156718369566726

Predestination doesn't usually mix well with a true role-playing game.

Also, the whole Ayn Rand thing is stupid, I've never read any of her stuff (which, being an English major, is embarrassing on my part), so it's just randos trying to make a case to support their own views. It usually says more about the bleaters than the actual work.

But yeah, I just focused on the construction of the setting + make an antagonist. It's a lot simpler than whatever shallow-as-shit college wannabe reading interpretation of the game.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Additionally he's confirmed that the "side with the Think Tank" ending of Old World Blues was cut because Bethesda decided that they no longer wanted to support endings where you could side with an evil group.

https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1499954794340913154

Yep, it was the cut ending if the Think Tank "won" and we had ending slides and everything

Bethesda was like, "you better not do this ending shit again after Dead Money"

Bad guys don't win

Only Bethesda won

(P.S. Showing the bad guys winning is actually very true to Fallout 1)

https://twitter.com/ChrisAvellone/status/1500160336795619328

With most things with new vegas, it was likely down to time constraints.

Nope, they just didn't want it

But glad to see it was preserved, I'm sure the VO and slides exist somewhere, too.

Thanks for the clarification Chris. Having watched previous devs talk about the development of the dlc, I just assumed this was another case of time and budget constraints. Glad to know it was a creative decision.

I wouldn't call it a creative decision, more like the publisher didn't want it. :/ So "de-creative" might be a better word for it, and it was another example of de-Fallouting the original spirit of Fallout.

As much as I disagree with Bethesda kiddifying the setting (which they continued to do with Fallout 4), there is some grim amusement that the guy who once said that you never should have been able to side with the Legion because they're a bunch of sexists is also seething that Bethesda wouldn't allow you to side with a bunch of mad scientists who go on to commit weird science atrocities and murder on a mass scale if they break out of their containment. But at least they're not intolerant!

 

[antimeridian]

Weird that Beth went on to allow you to side with a bunch of mad scientists who commit atrocities and murder in FO4...

 

[Kev Inkline]

de-creative, de-Fallouting...what's next? de-ownering?

 

[Sordid MCA/Prosper Hybryd]

de-creative, de-Fallouting...what's next? de-ownering?

de-cancelling?

 

[deuxhero]

being an English major

MCA has a degree in English?! Huh. Surprised to see a successful author with one. Actual successful authors who know hundreds of published authors can think of "maybe... 10" with one and know more with a background in accounting.

 

[Nano]

Chris is a lot more direct on Twitter now. I like it.

 

[Major_Blackhart]

So is he starting to find his balls or what?

 

[The_Mask]

I can't be arsed to actually type all this out, but if any of this goes away, MCA basically confirmed that you could join the Think Tank in New Vegas, but it was cut out.

 

[Maxwell's Demon]

MCA has a degree in English?! Huh. Surprised to see a successful author with one. Actual successful authors who know hundreds of published authors can think of "maybe... 10" with one and know more with a background in accounting.

You have to understand, before 2000-2005, universities hadn't sunk to ideological conditioning of their students. While it wasn't as prestigious as a STEM degree, getting an English major during this period could still be considered as having a good education.

 

[pomenitul]

I've never read any of her stuff (which, being an English major, is embarrassing on my part)

Quite the opposite, really. His knee-jerk self-deprecation can be irritating sometimes.

 

[Humbaba]

I always thought Ayn Rand was well known in America in particular, despite her ideology being mostly disregarded trash.

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

I always thought Ayn Rand was well known in America in particular, despite her ideology being mostly disregarded trash.

She’s quite well known, but mostly for the ideas she brought into the mainstream; most literati consider her to be a poor writer that’s not particularly worth reading (I agree, her prose is trash).

 

[Roguey]

John Galt's speech is 60 pages (three hours to actually speak) long. She was on the spectrum.

 

[Zed Duke of Banville]

Anthem by Ayn Rand (1938) is an excellent dystopian novel novella, written at a time when she evidently understood the virtue of brevity.

 

[GhostCow]

Anthem by Ayn Rand (1938) is an excellent dystopian novel novella, written at a time when she evidently understand the virtue of brevity.

I was actually going to post this but forgot. +1 for this being pretty good. I can't speak about the rest of her work because it never seemed worth the effort.

 

[dacencora]

Anthem has pretty interesting prose and a fairly well-developed plot. I greatly enjoyed it when I read it. Never could get into other books by Rand.

 

[Humbaba]

John Galt's speech is 60 pages (three hours to actually speak) long. She was on the spectrum.

GRRM writes 1500+ pages long books. If it weren't for Hemingway I would've said being long winded was the American style.

 

[ERYFKRAD]

John Galt's speech is 60 pages (three hours to actually speak) long. She was on the spectrum.

GRRM writes 1500+ pages long books. If it weren't for Hemingway I would've said being long winded was the American style.

Grrm sucks though

 

[koyota]

Chris seems to be enjoying his extra free time.
Go through his twitter replies lately and he is answering almost all the autistic NV questions thrown at him.