Incline Chris Avellone Appreciation Station

[Roguey]

Korriban, Manaan, Hk-47 and Jolee Bindo were the best written parts of Kotor.

Funny thing about Gaider providing the best work is that at first he was falling behind with writer's block and seriously considered quitting Bioware until Karpyshyn told him to just think of it as a fantasy game with space magic.

 

[biggestboss]

I participated in the Global Game Jam this weekend and Chris Avellone was the keynote speaker: https://youtu.be/8sdcq7CbPsc?t=470 (Timestamp ~7:50-ish)

IMO there were a lot of thinly veiled jabs at certain known entities. I love this man.

 

[Verylittlefishes]

I participated in the Global Game Jam this weekend and Chris Avellone was the keynote speaker: https://youtu.be/8sdcq7CbPsc?t=470 (Timestamp ~7:50-ish)

IMO there were a lot of thinly veiled jabs at certain known entities. I love this man.

He looks better.

 

[agris]

NoseCam

 

[True Ukrainian]

And here I thought Avellone had gotten over old feuds and found happiness in life.

 

[Latro]

I participated in the Global Game Jam this weekend and Chris Avellone was the keynote speaker: https://youtu.be/8sdcq7CbPsc?t=470 (Timestamp ~7:50-ish)

IMO there were a lot of thinly veiled jabs at certain known entities. I love this man.

he has a final fantasy 7 tifa statue on his top shelf

 

[Verylittlefishes]

I participated in the Global Game Jam this weekend and Chris Avellone was the keynote speaker: https://youtu.be/8sdcq7CbPsc?t=470 (Timestamp ~7:50-ish)

IMO there were a lot of thinly veiled jabs at certain known entities. I love this man.

he has a final fantasy 7 tifa statue on his top shelf

What is that "Gandalf but not exactly" thing right to it?

 

[Wunderbar]

And here I thought Avellone had gotten over old feuds and found happiness in life.

he's that guy who stayed with the gold inside sierra madre vault.

 

[True Ukrainian]

And here I thought Avellone had gotten over old feuds and found happiness in life.

he's that guy who stayed with the gold inside sierra madre vault.

Dead Man's Hand was an autobiography.

 

[Grauken]

I don't understand why he left, he's like the perfect Codexer, never able to just let it go

 

[fantadomat]

And here I thought Avellone had gotten over old feuds and found happiness in life.

he's that guy who stayed with the gold inside sierra madre vault.

Well i managed to take the gold and leave

 

[Quillon]

Why does gold have any value in the wasteland tho?

 

[fantadomat]

Why does gold have any value in the wasteland tho?

Gold always have a value. I covered my bed with it in the casino suit,the left over i stacked on the bureau,with some silver bars too. Made a bunch of pyramids with the bars.

 

[Roguey]

Why does gold have any value in the wasteland tho?

For the same reason it's always had value.

 

[Cosmo]

Why does gold have any value in the wasteland tho?

https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1859/critique-pol-economy/ch02_4.htm

 

[Quillon]

Why does gold have any value in the wasteland tho?

For the same reason it's always had value.

Like that time in history when some incident killed over 9x% of earth's population and left all the the unused gold/whatever earthly possessions across the world unattended/useless for survival?

 

[True Ukrainian]

I read somewhere in a societal collapse scenario, gold not only worthless, but dangerous to possess, since it would attract men with guns to rob and possibly kill you. What has value in a collapse are personal skills, such as being able to fight or work machinery or help run a warlord government.

 

[Wunderbar]

Why does gold have any value in the wasteland tho?

For the same reason it's always had value.

Like that time in history when some incident killed over 9x% of earth's population and left all the the unused gold/whatever earthly possessions across the world unattended/useless for survival?

it's a post-post apocalypse.
NCR currency was backed with gold and took a major hit after Brotherhood destroyed NCR's gold reserves.

 

[fantadomat]

I read somewhere in a societal collapse scenario, gold not only worthless, but dangerous to possess, since it would attract men with guns to rob and possibly kill you. What has value in a collapse are personal skills, such as being able to fight or work machinery or help run a warlord government.

Nigga we are talking about fuckings games lol,everyone knows that knowing how to cave skulls is superior skill when shit hit the fan. Also gold and silver do have their uses,both of them are superior antibacterials and good conduits. Also bad guys will come and fuck you up even if you don't have gold,it is not like they have xray vision that tells them which idiot have a gold bar tucked in his bag.

 

[Quillon]

Why does gold have any value in the wasteland tho?

For the same reason it's always had value.

Like that time in history when some incident killed over 9x% of earth's population and left all the the unused gold/whatever earthly possessions across the world unattended/useless for survival?

it's a post-post apocalypse.
NCR currency was backed with gold and took a major hit after Brotherhood destroyed NCR's gold reserves.

Gold should have lost value in accordance with the percentage of lives lost, minus some of unrecovered/destroyed(how?) gold percentage

 

[Bohrain]

Gold's usefulness as a currency would probably depend on how hard the society collapses. Precious metals are handy to use as currency as they are scarce to begin with, slow to produce (meaning manageable inflation), easy to store and carry around. But those properties are meaningless if tangible and human capital evaporates to the point that society degenerates to hunter gatherers. For those kind of tribals gold is only worthwhile as a bauble, something that is useful on it's own like salt would probably work better as a currency.
Fallout setting is quite advanced on the rebuilding part so it makes sense for them to appreciate gold as a backer of currency.

 

[Roguey]

Avellone's still mad about Obsidian hiring and feedback practices.

this would be ChrisAvellone who tolerated my love of Planescape pretty well.

Well, (1) I think your skills were far better than what we could offer, (2) you proved it, and (3) I would have hired you, and we'll leave it at that while I drink myself into oblivion.

I don’t know how to process this, but thanks. You are a gem.

We lost so many good applicants (like you and Mitsoda) because of this "input".

None of the games this guy worked on are renowned for their writing so I'm not sure it was such a great loss. Urquhart and Parker do have terrible taste though.

 

[Nano]

I'm confused. Mitsoda was at Obsidian for three years. I thought the reason he was fired was because he screwed up royally on his Alpha Protocol job. Avellone is the one who heavily rewrote Mitsoda's work!

 

[<3sRichardSimmons]

I think Mitsoda’s departure may have had more to do with personality conflicts between him and Parker.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

These rants are even funnier after Microsoft acquisition. Feargus probably just reads them, then he laughs and then he jumps butt-naked into his vault of Microsoft money, Scrooge McDuck style.