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[Vic]

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reported for doxxing

 

[puur prutswerk]

Just bring shitbox back ffs

It's just so... quiet. We have been months now without drama. The drama fields have run dry, bereft of any new fruit. The workers sit down, lamenting their lack of jobs. Drama harvesters sit idle.

The quiet grows.

Perhaps we need to appease the great Dramamama in Dramadise so we will be allowed to feed from her dual dramamammaries again. Mayhaps the return of the Shoutbox would appease her enough.

 

[Latro]

Crispy is gay in my dreams but in reality I never suckled at my mother's breast enough

I can’t believe the vile old man would edit my post to include such vile lies

This is not mod abuse. This is mod rape

 

[Silverfish]

Low tier drama is ruining the Codex. We need a better level of drama.

How do we go about upgrading?

We could make up baseless accusations and spread them around. Incidentally, did you know that SDG and Theodora are actually the same person?

 

[Peachcurl]

Good idea, lacks spice.

 

[mediocrepoet]

Low tier drama is ruining the Codex. We need a better level of drama.

How do we go about upgrading?

We could make up baseless accusations and spread them around. Incidentally, did you know that SDG and Theodora are actually the same person?

I heard SDG is Latro's mother. Probably a good thing Latro didn't suckle much, that shit is 60 proof.

 

[Maxie]

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I may be appeased with bountiful booba...

 

[MLMarkland]

Yo MLMarkland I've only recently become aware of your existence and I need to get some of your lore straight for my .txt file, if you don't mind:

1. Where did you get the money to invest in games. Are you a trustfund baby or something?
2. Was your movie a self-funded vanity project? I've only seen the trailer, but it looks equal parts relatively expensive, yet also kind of awful, like the sort of thing one makes when they have lots of money, but no taste. Based on the trailers, it doesn't look as bad as The Room, but it seems like it's mining the same territory. Maybe we should arrange a Codex Movie Night to find out?

1. Chase Bank, Ubisoft, Emergent Game Tech and Amazon were the biggest sources of finance from 2009-2019. My being from a wealthy family allowed me to not take an upfront salary lots of times and take backend which helped bolster my business cred, but the cost of me does not pay for even the cost of prototyping something AAA or game engine related.

2. MR is 80% external finance and 20% internal (friends from HS/college law school and myself) — again, I didn’t pay myself upfront and neither did the full time producer Emilia, which is a huge chunk off the top.

I don’t mind putting my own money into things, Halloween, AN, The Thing, some ARGs, etc. but rarely would I take the double gamble of playing with my own money and my own idea — that’s a huge risk and usually fails.

I did get unlucky a couple of times on things I went in on, particularly Halloween. I always did due diligence, there was no way in 2013-2015 that I could have known through lawyers and normal ways, that Harvey Weinstein would take the whole thing down. It’s not like I was foreign to Hollywood or Malibu, I heard plenty of stories. But they usually framed Harvey as a “bully and sociopath” — that’s not abnormal in business, him actually rapin people and getting convicted, I had no way of foreseeing that and neither did a lot of people who’s names you know. He cost normatively degenerate people in Hollywood billions of dollars by going way over the line, I was one of them. None of us are amused. It’s why he fell so hard — none of us would give him the time of day, from a transaction or finance POV, once the rape allegations seemed legit.

You can put Malibu Road side-by-side with any director’s first movie. We did it as a biz dev exercise to close theaters in 2020 (which lockdowns made worthless but whatevs). We beat everyone in past half century+ except:

Ridley Scott
Orson Welles
James Cameron
Robert Altman
David Fincher

And maybe Christopher Nolan (his first movie is black and white and not great and rides on performance — I’m willing to give Chris a tie).

Ridley was the strongest beat (The Duelists vs Malibu Road is not really a competition). But Ridley put a ton of his commercial directing money into the Duelists and some people don’t like it.

Malibu Road is gonzo it’s supposed to be funny sardonically and a send up of “great movies from the 1960-1972 era” and not taken too seriously — it’s about a true story of rogue CIA officers partnering up with high class call girls and illegally dosing people with LSD. A real and serious event, but hardly the subject matter for an incisive and serious movie (compare JFK).

Put it next to The Room, see which one you watch.

I was not originally in the cast. We shot 60 days with other actors. I Kobe Bryant hero balled the last 5 full shoot days and last 2 partial days, mostly second unit.

I’m in the movie because the biggest mistake I made was casting the guy I replaced. He choked. It happens. He is a good actor with a lot of TV experience — but the movie set environment is way more intense.

And our lead actresses were the closest you get to movie stars who didn’t make it (like a Vince Young or Ryan Lead in NFL).

I was not alone in casting Jessica and Lillian, they are powerful actresses. Clint Eastwood cast Lillian. Gus Van Sant and M. Night Shyamalamadingdong cast Jessica, plus she had multiple arcs on network/broadcast.

The cast collectively has over 300 unique SAG broadcast/network/streaming/studio credits. Almost all of them are good or great, some of them are one lucky break from being household names. Jessica has been in the top 10K actresses in Hollywood all ages and types for 15 years. It’s like the NFL, some people catch the break and can play at speed; both Jessica and Lillian can play at speed, they got cast in big things that didn’t hit, so it’s like getting drafted by a losing team. They both could still hit, they are young enough — maybe they both hit later in life — some actors and actresses are not meant to be successful young and are better when older.

My main problem was straight guy actors who could hand with the two pro actresses on camera, I didn’t have the budget to hire someone who would definitely work, so we tried a lot of people and eventually I said fuck it, I’ll do it I’m tired of waste my investors money and my time.

 

[MLMarkland]

I assume historically codex was much more well known, but that no longer seems to be the case. A generational thing, or whatever you want to call it.

It depends. I know Lindsey Laney and Kate Dollarhyde lurked the dex for a bit during the Deadfire days getting incredibly frustrated with the things I was saying. Though I would agree it's likely that the majority of new devs are content to check the discords, reddit, resetera, and twitter for feedback and have no interest in what some relatively small low status forum says. Bethesda can't even be bothered to blacklist us anymore.

Roguey is usually right these days — can’t believe I wrote that.

2005-2015 absolutely lots of devs outside of even RPGs lurked here to find the holy grail.

 

[Grauken]

I assume historically codex was much more well known, but that no longer seems to be the case. A generational thing, or whatever you want to call it.

It depends. I know Lindsey Laney and Kate Dollarhyde lurked the dex for a bit during the Deadfire days getting incredibly frustrated with the things I was saying. Though I would agree it's likely that the majority of new devs are content to check the discords, reddit, resetera, and twitter for feedback and have no interest in what some relatively small low status forum says. Bethesda can't even be bothered to blacklist us anymore.

Roguey is usually right these days — can’t believe I wrote that.

2005-2015 absolutely lots of devs outside of even RPGs lurked here to find the holy grail.

Turned out we were Monty Python all along

 

[MLMarkland]

I assume historically codex was much more well known, but that no longer seems to be the case. A generational thing, or whatever you want to call it.

It depends. I know Lindsey Laney and Kate Dollarhyde lurked the dex for a bit during the Deadfire days getting incredibly frustrated with the things I was saying. Though I would agree it's likely that the majority of new devs are content to check the discords, reddit, resetera, and twitter for feedback and have no interest in what some relatively small low status forum says. Bethesda can't even be bothered to blacklist us anymore.

Roguey is usually right these days — can’t believe I wrote that.

2005-2015 absolutely lots of devs outside of even RPGs lurked here to find the holy grail.

Turned out we were Monty Python all along

Yes a good and simple analogy

 

[MLMarkland]

I think that's him. I think he wants to be a cop or something. It fits his personality perfectly.

Yeah totally just bailed on being law enforcement because I loved the vibe but lost the app.

GTFO

 

[MLMarkland]

remember when rogay was given staff status to tend to the twitter only but suddenly xe became the semi-official spokesperson for whatever dumb shit codex is up to unabashedly providing xir retarded insights everywhere and everytime

I'm just sharing my opinion which I would do anyway if I wasn't part of the staff.

Roguey has changed the least in a decade

 

[MLMarkland]

I've read this entire thread and I have no idea what the fuck is happening here

Neither do I

Explaining the situation from your point of view would be a good start, rather than trying to act like a victim. Because it is not obvious what is going on from the OP.

Victim? Lick my balls.

I didn’t start this thread, I posted an inarguably grey thing in another thread and crispy is butthurt and made this thread from that post.

It ain’t rocket science.

 

[MLMarkland]

Low tier drama is ruining the Codex. We need a better level of drama.

Maybe the real drama was the friends that we made along the way

BioWare games

 

[MLMarkland]

And of course

https://youtu.be/GROrp3XBRrE

Delete my account and remove my Developer tag.

You mods are too triggered.

I offer reality of the game business, it makes you sad.

DarkUnderlord you want it to end this way?

Drama rating:

Get that up to at least 6/10 or lurk the UKR thread.

 

[Peachcurl]

Drama rating:

Get that up to at least 6/10 or lurk the UKR thread.

6/10 means slightly above average drama. How would that be fair?

I much preferred your earlier thread. More substance. That was a solid 6/10, maybe even scratching 7.

 

[MLMarkland]

Drama rating:

Get that up to at least 6/10 or lurk the UKR thread.

6/10 means slightly above average drama. How would that be fair?

I much preferred your earlier thread. More substance. That was a solid 6/10, maybe even scratching 7.

Ok gimme notes and let’s dial this to 11

 

[Peachcurl]

Drama rating:

Get that up to at least 6/10 or lurk the UKR thread.

6/10 means slightly above average drama. How would that be fair?

I much preferred your earlier thread. More substance. That was a solid 6/10, maybe even scratching 7.

Ok gimme notes and let’s dial this to 11

High stakes. Plane tickets. Suspense. A twist. Backstabbing. Someone gets banned (no suicide). Womenfolk laments while nuclear clouds darken the horizon.

 

[KIss My Ass]

1. MLMarkland attempted to make a new thread today containing some of his favorite movie trailers (and didn't even bother to embed them properly) but a thread for movie trailers already exists, in the Library
2. I moved MLMarkland's posts to that existing thread
3. I noted that, for some reason I still can't fathom, MLMarkland edited one of those moved posts to include his "company" LinkedIn account
4. I edited that post to remove said link, because that's a no-no
5. MLMarkland got upset that I edited that out then re-edited the post to say what the first post in this thread now says
6. Since the newly-edited post contains a complaint and a request (actually, a demand) to delete his Codex account, I moved that post to Site Feedback
7. You are here

You're getting out of control crispy. First accusing me of doxxing now you're harassing MLMarkland. Upper management needs to have a conversation with you.

 

[MLMarkland]

Drama rating:

Get that up to at least 6/10 or lurk the UKR thread.

6/10 means slightly above average drama. How would that be fair?

I much preferred your earlier thread. More substance. That was a solid 6/10, maybe even scratching 7.

Ok gimme notes and let’s dial this to 11

High stakes. Plane tickets. Suspense. A twist. Backstabbing. Someone gets banned (no suicide). Womenfolk laments while nuclear clouds darken the horizon.

You’re describing my life give me something to work with

 

[United Nations]

1. MLMarkland attempted to make a new thread today containing some of his favorite movie trailers (and didn't even bother to embed them properly) but a thread for movie trailers already exists, in the Library
2. I moved MLMarkland's posts to that existing thread
3. I noted that, for some reason I still can't fathom, MLMarkland edited one of those moved posts to include his "company" LinkedIn account
4. I edited that post to remove said link, because that's a no-no
5. MLMarkland got upset that I edited that out then re-edited the post to say what the first post in this thread now says
6. Since the newly-edited post contains a complaint and a request (actually, a demand) to delete his Codex account, I moved that post to Site Feedback
7. You are here

You're getting out of control crispy. First accusing me of doxxing now you're harassing MLMarkland. Upper management needs to have a conversation with you.

That's what happens when you get old... He needs to win THE WAR... The war HE LOST BACK IN 'NAM!

 

[Vic]

he also lost his virginity in nam

 

[Vic]

who needs condoms when you got napalm amirite

 

[Roguey]

Roguey has changed the least in a decade

Basic personality is the same but I've calmed considerably and quite a number of my opinions have changed.