An actual request for free games

[Menzo]

This is a real email that came in today.

"Hi there,

I have been looking around at many websites that realy have given your game Fight Club a really bad name, for example

[a bunch of links to people saying Fight Club isn't very good]

As you can see it has not been doing to well, I would like to offer you the chance for a respective score of 79%, this is a high score for this game. If you could send me a sample to review I could have it up in no time. You can then point your product over to my site so we can both benefit."

[Wholly Schmidt]

Man, tons of games would kill for a respective score, I hope you took him up on it!

[Jeff Green]

Great...way to share my private email, Adam! And here I thought we had an understanding.

[RepoMan]

You mean ALL reviewers don't do that???

:twisted:

[Menzo]

I get some real winners. If people are interested I could share the "cream of the crop" from time to time.

[Moore]

Hah! Send him the game, he deserves that particular piece of gaming excellence.

[Alex Handy]

I'd love to see some of those Adam. I'll trade you: I'll put up some of the rediculous hand-written letters I get from this maniac in Walnut Creek about the bible and drunk driving, complete with mathematic diagrams.

[Sean Hargraves]

I'd love to see some of those Adam. I'll trade you: I'll put up some of the rediculous hand-written letters I get from this maniac in Walnut Creek about the bible and drunk driving, complete with mathematic diagrams.

Was that Will Wright?

[Talisker]

I get some real winners. If people are interested I could share the "cream of the crop" from time to time.
Heck yeah, please do!

[RepoMan]

I'd love to see some of those Adam. I'll trade you: I'll put up some of the rediculous hand-written letters I get from this maniac in Walnut Creek about the bible and drunk driving, complete with mathematic diagrams.
OH YES PLEASE.

If you need someone to go be a creepy Internet spy on this loonball, let me know; I live minutes from Walnut Creek.

Cheers!!!
Rob

[Lunch of Kong]

Alex,

One of my side-quests in life is to teach programmers that "ridiculous" is spelled with an 'i', not an 'e'.

It's a thankless task, but someone must do it.

[Menzo]

Here's another good one we got just as we were going into Iraq early last year:



-----Original Message-----
From: A Proud American
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 6:34 PM
To:
Subject: Message from website


This is to inform you that an advertising campaign has started against Sierra Software for their support of terrorism. The fact that this French-owned company supports Saddam Hussein and terrorism world-wide will soon be common knowledge. Our organization is contacting Best Buy, Target, Circuit City, Software Etc, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and all other retail chains that carry your products to inform them of Sierra's crimes against the American and Iraqi people. We are currently boycotting your products and placing decals stating that Sierra supports terrorism on the front doors of retail outlets across America. Vivendi/Sierra's support of terrorism must be stopped and a public apology must be made to the American people for your support of Saddam Hussein. Watch your stock drop dramatically as we literally snatch your products from the shelves so they cannot be purchased so that you may fund terror. Vive America! And may God strike down Chiraq and his friend, Saddam Hussein. Bon Soir, tete de merde!

[Matthew Gallant]

Alex,

One of my side-quests in life is to teach programmers that "ridiculous" is spelled with an 'i', not an 'e'.

It's a thankless task, but someone must do it.
Alex isn't a programmer, he's an editor-- of a magazine for programmers (and artists), but an editor nonetheless.

[Mike Cathcart]

I'll give you an 80% AND an Editor's Choice award. Hook me up.

[Lunch of Kong]

That's close enough. I won't discriminate based on a technicality.

[LionelThompson]

I am Jack's feeble attempt for a freebie

[Bub, Andrew]

Alex,

One of my side-quests in life is to teach programmers that "ridiculous" is spelled with an 'i', not an 'e'.

It's a thankless task, but someone must do it.

Isn't Alex Handy an Editor at a magazine?

[Delsyn1]

Here's another good one we got just as we were going into Iraq early last year:



-----Original Message-----
From: A Proud American
Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 6:34 PM
To:
Subject: Message from website


This is to inform you that an advertising campaign has started against Sierra Software for their support of terrorism. The fact that this French-owned company supports Saddam Hussein and terrorism world-wide will soon be common knowledge. Our organization is contacting Best Buy, Target, Circuit City, Software Etc, Wal-Mart, K-Mart, and all other retail chains that carry your products to inform them of Sierra's crimes against the American and Iraqi people. We are currently boycotting your products and placing decals stating that Sierra supports terrorism on the front doors of retail outlets across America. Vivendi/Sierra's support of terrorism must be stopped and a public apology must be made to the American people for your support of Saddam Hussein. Watch your stock drop dramatically as we literally snatch your products from the shelves so they cannot be purchased so that you may fund terror. Vive America! And may God strike down Chiraq and his friend, Saddam Hussein. Bon Soir, tete de merde!

Hah! I knew it!

That's it. Sierra is never getting another good review at GameSpy ever! Unless, of course Adam sends me a free copy of Fight Club in which case I will give it the respectable score of 79% so both of us can benefit.

[Rimbo]

i love the french connection he threw in... that silliness compounded the stupidity

of course i hate france, but that has nothing to do with their support of saddam hussein, abuse of the oil-for-food program, penchant to surrender at the drop of a hat, insistence that their language not be defiled, general snootiness, invasion of England in 1066, sponsorship of anti-semitism or any of those things...

[DaveC]

Well, are you going to send it? ;)

[DaveC]

I'd love to see some of those Adam. I'll trade you: I'll put up some of the rediculous hand-written letters I get from this maniac in Walnut Creek about the bible and drunk driving, complete with mathematic diagrams.

Man, I wish I could post some resumes I have seen over the years. Got one once that went Theodore Kaczynski-Land. Started out double spaced type (and I mean typewriter type) and by the 4th page it was hand-written 2mm high scrawl about how computer engineering firms are the devil and are secretly building mind control devices.

[MikeTwain]

Dear Adam,

I propose to you a mutually benefit arrangement. My name is MIKE TWAIN and I am the husband of an internationally recognize money capitalist. If you please allow me to deposit 10 million dollars into your bank account then I will accept in return a copy of your game "Fight Club" for example.

These monies are from international laundering of gems and other weapons. I need to transfer these monies out of our country (USA) in order to avoid needless taxation by corrupt government official name CONDOLEEZA RICE.

Please hurry to confirm your agreement in this mutually agree situation so that I can quick to transfer sum of 10 million dollar into your account. Please send "Fight Club" immediately to confirm our plan!

Thanks!

MIKE TWAIN



:D

[MikeTwain]

computer engineering firms are the devil and are secretly building mind control devices.

I've been working on building a mind control device for years now but so far I haven't gotten very far. Other than Cathcart and like one other dude here everybody in the company is mindless so we can't tell if the device works.

I did manage to get Cathcart to agree to lend me Tales of Symphonia though.

[Dirt]

I'm still waiting for Civil War Generals III.

[JeffL]

(message deleted due to not being as funny when posted as it was when I typed it - being sober takes all of the fun out of forums.)

[Sparky2003]

For extra comedic value you should tell us the originating site :D

[Lunch of Kong]

You sobered up fast, Jeff.

[Brian Rubin]

I get some real winners. If people are interested I could share the "cream of the crop" from time to time.
Dude, absolutely! I wanna read this garbage!

[Alex Handy]

Yes I am a magazine editor, and no, I don't give two wet shits about misspellings in a forum.

In the magazine itself, however.... well, I have MS word spell check and a managing editor to save me.

I'll begin transcribing Louis' (the walnut creek nutjob) soon. Maybe I'll throw in some of the prison-based requests for subscriptions. I guess there's a lot of demand for making games about shives and salad tossing.

[Raife]

Maybe I'll throw in some of the prison-based requests for subscriptions. I guess there's a lot of demand for making games about shives and salad tossing.

That's shivs, Alex.

[Matthew Gallant]

No, shives is a baked potato topping-- sour cream with the chives already mixed in. For some reason, it's heavily marketed to penal food service programs.

[Warlord of Mars]

Man, I wish I could post some resumes I have seen over the years. Got one once that went Theodore Kaczynski-Land. Started out double spaced type (and I mean typewriter type) and by the 4th page it was hand-written 2mm high scrawl about how computer engineering firms are the devil and are secretly building mind control devices.

Wow. EA's really got to start treating their employees better.

[DivDevlin]

I wish I read this thread sooner :(

[Rimbo]

No, shives is a baked potato topping-- sour cream with the chives already mixed in. For some reason, it's heavily marketed to penal food service programs.

No, shive is part of El Goonish Shive (http://elgoonishshive/), an excellent fantasy-meets-reality webcomic.