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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Moose1 on July 18, 2004, 05:25:53 PM

Title: Voss isn't the only blast from the past back in the news...
Post by: Moose1 on July 18, 2004, 05:25:53 PM
Derek Smart is back.  And as big a jerk as ever.

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/07/17/0533221&tid=206
Title: Voss isn't the only blast from the past back in the news...
Post by: Pongo on July 18, 2004, 05:29:09 PM
But hes a nob that actually MADE a game.
Title: Voss isn't the only blast from the past back in the news...
Post by: Moose1 on July 18, 2004, 05:42:18 PM
Speaking as somebody who actually BOUGHT that "game"...yeah, I guess it was a game.  Technically.  Actually, it was really just a bunch of subroutines flying in close formation, and a manual written by four non-English speaking Mongolians on an all-weekend crank and booze bender.

The thing about Derek is, unlike Voss, he'll stand and furball with you on forums.  Seeing Derek Smart post on a Usenet thread, back in the day, was like watching some poor newb coming up at a capped field and seeing all the vulchers set up a closed left-hand traffic pattern to get a crack at him.  Derek would post, we'd knee him in the virtual nuts, he'd keep coming back for more long after anybody else would've just slunk off.  Dude's a masochist.

Read the linked thread on the Slashdot article, the one that goes to the HLP Freespace 2 board.  Nice to see that Derek's people skills are still as good as his game programming.