Double Fine is pretty awesome

[CptStern]

http://www.iheartchaos.com/post/10979610401/why-doublefine-is-the-greatest-game-company-ever

 

[Dan]

Hey look Stern, I can also use the internet and post links of everything I see:

Did you know that Apple is releasing a new iPhone today? Yeah crazy:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/apples-lets-talk-iphone-keynote-liveblog/

Did you know that people are dying in Somalia?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/us-somalia-conflict-idUSTRE79352E20111004

Did you know that The Onion writes satyric al news?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/longtime-coffee-shop-employee-thought-customers-wo,26227/

 

[CptStern]

so why dont you post those threads instead of polluting my thread with people dying in somalia? are you really that lazy?

 

[Dan]

so why dont you post those threads instead of polluting my thread with people dying in somalia? are you really that lazy?

Sorry, could you please link your reply to an internet article of some sort and please quote a relevant paragraph.

 

[Viperidae]

While we're at it, let's just skip the thread process entirely and all visit reddit regularly :V

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

Sorry, could you please link your reply to an internet article of some sort and please quote a relevant paragraph.

It's crap like this post right here that make it unenjoyable to post on certain forums. No need for forum elitism.

 

[Dan]

How is that elitist? Am I part of a select group of people who holds disproportionate power over others? If anything, Stern, the man who rolled over his post count, is the elite party in this argument, but I still don't see how elitism factors into any of it.

My complaint is that he posts more internet links on a discussion board than I get forwarded emails of cat videos from my relatives. It devolves the forum into a link dump. When I replied, he had the 5 most recent threads all about internet articles on penises or other craptacular news. This just happened to be the most mundane of them all.

 

[CptStern]

While we're at it, let's just skip the thread process entirely and all visit reddit regularly :V

because then eye gouging would become the norm?

 

[RakuraiTenjin]

How is that elitist? Am I part of a select group of people who holds disproportionate power over others? If anything, Stern, the man who rolled over his post count, is the elite party in this argument, but I still don't see how elitism factors into any of it.

My complaint is that he posts more internet links on a discussion board than I get forwarded emails of cat videos from my relatives. It devolves the forum into a link dump. When I replied, he had the 5 most recent threads all about internet articles on penises or other craptacular news. This just happened to be the most mundane of them all.

I guess NO new threads are better than new ones not to your standards, then, right? Just relax man it's just the net. Its no big deal and its okay to slip into elitism once in a while, just nip it before it gets out of hand.

 

[<RJMC>]

to get on topic,thats is indeed awsome

 

[Escaep]

cool.

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Debbie downer much, Dan? Stern often saves me trips to websites I'd rather not spend my time on.

honestly.

 

[Stigmata]

But I Heart Chaos is such a...... good website......

 

[Acepilotf14]

While we're at it, let's just skip the thread process entirely and all visit reddit regularly :V

I don't like reddit. It's like 4chan, only with ratings.
Ratings and 'karma' ruin websites.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Hey look Stern, I can also use the internet and post links of everything I see:

Did you know that Apple is releasing a new iPhone today? Yeah crazy:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/04/apples-lets-talk-iphone-keynote-liveblog/

Did you know that people are dying in Somalia?
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/04/us-somalia-conflict-idUSTRE79352E20111004

Did you know that The Onion writes satyric al news?
http://www.theonion.com/articles/longtime-coffee-shop-employee-thought-customers-wo,26227/

I didn't know any of those things. Thank you, charitable stranger!

 

[NeptuneUK]

I for one, enjoyed the link.

 

[Eejit]

Come on Stern it isn't really a thread if it doesn't have PHOTOS OF MOUNTAINS

 

[dfc05]

^Not really comparable -- Dan's mountain pics obviously take way more effort and awesomeness to get than copy-pasting links, and he doesn't make several threads about it every day.
(I don't have any issues with Stern threads though. I ignore half of them where the topic is either irksome or of no interest, but whatevs, not worth complaining about.)

On topic... that's cool, but he makes it sound like Double Fine was keeping tabs on him and sent him the card out of the blue, when (more realistically + hopefully) his friend sent an email like "hey we visited your office a long time ago and now my friend is sick, can you send him a card" -- which, (1) doesn't detract from the company's niceness, and (2) is considerably less creepy.

 

[Krynn72]

Are we really having a conversation about the value of Stern's threads... AGAIN?!

 

[Schweppe]

Ever since Stern's Threads was floated on stock exchanges around the world, the value has been fiercely debated - Can a virtual commodity with no real substance really have value? This is a question that I think will be discussed for many years to come. I don't have the answer. But one thing is for sure; Stern's Threads is here to stay.

 

[Vegeta897]

^ I laughed hard.

I'll just be leaving this thread now.

edit: In fact I'm sigging that. SORRY KRYNN

 

[BabyHeadCrab]

Ever since Stern's Threads was floated on stock exchanges around the world, the value has been fiercely debated - Can a virtual commodity with no real substance really have value? This is a question that I think will be discussed for many years to come. I don't have the answer. But one thing is for sure; Stern's Threads is here to stay.

Bravo, sir, Bravo.