MAX MCGEE'S PROFILE
I CAN'T NOT MAKE GAMES.
I have enough lockerspace to hold an episode of Friends.
"We'll make a toast to absent friends and better days,
To remembering and being remembered as brave
And not as a bunch of whining jerks!
Don't lose your nerve.
Do not go straight
You must testify
(or I'm going to come to your house and punch you in the mouth)
cause CLOWNS MUST STAND."
- TW/IFS, "All The World Is A Stage Dive"
I have enough lockerspace to hold an episode of Friends.
"We'll make a toast to absent friends and better days,
To remembering and being remembered as brave
And not as a bunch of whining jerks!
Don't lose your nerve.
Do not go straight
You must testify
(or I'm going to come to your house and punch you in the mouth)
cause CLOWNS MUST STAND."
- TW/IFS, "All The World Is A Stage Dive"
Iron Gaia
As the only human awake on board a space station controlled by an insane AI with delusions of deification, you must unravel the mystery of your own identity and discover: "What is the Iron Gaia?"
As the only human awake on board a space station controlled by an insane AI with delusions of deification, you must unravel the mystery of your own identity and discover: "What is the Iron Gaia?"
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Iron Gaia: Virus Review
For the record...I don't think NTC3 did anything wrong whatsoever. His review is a fine review, really. I just...5%...20%...whatever. My point was just that most RM games are quite bad and IGV doesn't even have to be all that great (although of course I think it is) to be among the better ones. But anyway NTC3's review was fine he and I are cool. It's not even all that negative of a review, it's just pretty typical "fan of original disappointed with sequel" stuff that creators have to get used to.
Corfaisus I have been advised to ignore you so *ignores*. One less thing to worry about. And I still will continue to feel like my hilarious expose of your over-the-top hypocrisy (*calls people full of themselves while making hilariously unfounded self-aggrandizing posts all over the place*) was my magnum opus of forum posting. And whatever you have to say in response to this...I won't see it. Ever! Yay!
There really is something to this whole "Ignorance Is Bliss" thing.
Corfaisus I have been advised to ignore you so *ignores*. One less thing to worry about. And I still will continue to feel like my hilarious expose of your over-the-top hypocrisy (*calls people full of themselves while making hilariously unfounded self-aggrandizing posts all over the place*) was my magnum opus of forum posting. And whatever you have to say in response to this...I won't see it. Ever! Yay!
There really is something to this whole "Ignorance Is Bliss" thing.
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Iron Gaia: Virus Review
author=Corfaisus
I just have to say that people who are this full of themselves have no right to call themselves artists of any sort because such a thing requires one to identify and acknowledge the faults in their creations and to humbly take responsibility for such shortcomings. And this is how it's always been.
author=Corfaisus
people who are this full of themselves
author=Corfaisus
full of themselves
author=Corfaisus
full of themselves
author=Corfaisus
I've got a new idea for a game! It came to me while I was sitting on the toilet. I project it to be the next big hit and one that will shake you to your core. One that demands emotional investment. It's gonna be meta and minimalistic as fuck.
It's going to push your suspension of disbelief to the limits as you encounter moments like "Be right back, I've gotta go let the dog out." followed by 20+ seconds of absolutely nothing. Afterward, you'll get a message like "Okay, I'm back. Thanks for waiting."
I smell Misao.
author=Corfaisusauthor=slashphoenixThe difference is that my games don't revolve around the childish notion of "saving the world"/"being a hero" and the personal, unfulfilled, Mary Sue power-fantasy that comes with it.
And Corf mocking a game for being about saving the world is... like... some level of meta-blindness that I can't comprehend.
author=Corfaisus
C'mon now, just because you don't get my brilliance doesn't make my games not good.
author=Corfaisus
Check out some of my games, and no, I'm not joking. I don't waste my time making anything that I know is going to be garbage.
author=Corfaisus
I'm not a lazy twat so I've developed the discipline necessary to see a project through to the end, regardless of length or what I'm "not comfortable with" (which is a list that's shrinking every day because I'm daring to step outside of my comfort zone constantly, and I've been fortunate enough to never be put into a position where I can fall back on previous successes). Regardless of using RTP, I actually put a lot of thought into all that I do and I'm not afraid to scrap a whole thing just to make it better.
author=Corfaisus
You know what's truly horrifying? One person buying your game and that's it. Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful that they dropped a whole $25 in my lap "for all the good I do at RMN", and I know simply completing the game is success enough in my own right, but we've got bills to pay and mouths to feed. My hopes of getting noticed and making some real dough now rests at the mercy of big-name youtubers like Game Grumps, PressHeartToContinue, and Pewdiepie (all of which I've sent a message to).
I don't need to get rich, but my family could really use that money, you know. I mean, God, I skipped out on spending time with my extended family at my grandparents house on Thanksgiving so I could keep an eye on who all was purchasing the game so that I could, you know, give them what they want ASAP.
author=Corfaisus
I just have to say that people who are this full of themselves have no right to call themselves artists of any sort because such a thing requires one to identify and acknowledge the faults in their creations and to humbly take responsibility for such shortcomings. And this is how it's always been.
author=Corfaisus
people who are this full of themselves
author=Corfaisus
full of themselves
author=Corfaisus
full of themselves

author=Link_2112
All this coming from a guy who is making a 2k3 RTP epic about dragons. Yeah.
What are you thinking about right now?
author=Corfaisus
"Cops are pigs" to "women are bitches".
We are proud to present to you Broadway's newest thriller:
Iron Gaia: Zealotry
Sampling hits such as "Anything you can do, I can do better" and "Play that funky music".
I assure you that "women are bitches" does not accurately summarize my views on anything, Corfaisus.
Gamergate Target Zoe Quinn Launches Anti-Harassment Support Network
Hi, so I'm happy (not quite the right word but close enough) to be not banned anymore.
I'd actually love to engage with this topic once again because I was think I was severely misunderstood (and that's an understatement), but I won't until I feel reassured that I was banned for...any reason other than having the "wrong" opinion. Because my opinion hasn't changed and I don't want to get banned again for still having it.
For me to feel reassured that I was banned for any reason other than having the "wrong" opinion, I'm going to need to have a private, real time conversation with one or more of the staff members involved in the decision to ban me. The important thing to note is that even given two full weeks to cool down and gain distance from the events I still think that my ban was completely and flagrantly unjustified, unfair, and flat-out wrong. The only thing that has changed really is that I've gotten the good sense to be squicked out that Zoe Quinn of all freaking things is the hill I would choose to die on, so to speak.
If the case can be made to me--in a real time conversation--that I was banned not for having the "wrong" (i.e. "impolitic") opinion but for some actual violation of the site's rules, then I might come to feel differently. Of course, I need to get a chance to change your mind too, because at present the only truly acceptable outcome for me is a public apology for the ban.
But anyway, let's not discuss this here, please. It can't be a forum conversation, it needs to feel more human than that. In my opinion, the time between posts adds too much distance and detachment and makes it too hard for either side to listen and remain civil. I want something that has less of the feeling of charge and counter-charge, volley and counter-volley, and more of the rhythm of an actual human conversation.
Until I can have a private, real time chat about this with the staff members involved, I'm going to try on principle and post a lot less across the boards but we all know I have an RMN addiction (and you bastids made me quit cold turkey!) so who knows how well that will go. There we go, I think I have covered all my bases (or "all my base", so to speak).
I'd actually love to engage with this topic once again because I was think I was severely misunderstood (and that's an understatement), but I won't until I feel reassured that I was banned for...any reason other than having the "wrong" opinion. Because my opinion hasn't changed and I don't want to get banned again for still having it.
For me to feel reassured that I was banned for any reason other than having the "wrong" opinion, I'm going to need to have a private, real time conversation with one or more of the staff members involved in the decision to ban me. The important thing to note is that even given two full weeks to cool down and gain distance from the events I still think that my ban was completely and flagrantly unjustified, unfair, and flat-out wrong. The only thing that has changed really is that I've gotten the good sense to be squicked out that Zoe Quinn of all freaking things is the hill I would choose to die on, so to speak.
If the case can be made to me--in a real time conversation--that I was banned not for having the "wrong" (i.e. "impolitic") opinion but for some actual violation of the site's rules, then I might come to feel differently. Of course, I need to get a chance to change your mind too, because at present the only truly acceptable outcome for me is a public apology for the ban.
But anyway, let's not discuss this here, please. It can't be a forum conversation, it needs to feel more human than that. In my opinion, the time between posts adds too much distance and detachment and makes it too hard for either side to listen and remain civil. I want something that has less of the feeling of charge and counter-charge, volley and counter-volley, and more of the rhythm of an actual human conversation.
Until I can have a private, real time chat about this with the staff members involved, I'm going to try on principle and post a lot less across the boards but we all know I have an RMN addiction (and you bastids made me quit cold turkey!) so who knows how well that will go. There we go, I think I have covered all my bases (or "all my base", so to speak).
What are you thinking about right now?
Gamergate Target Zoe Quinn Launches Anti-Harassment Support Network
Let's unpack your BS Libby.
What? I didn't say her behavior doesn't factor into the argument. In fact her behavior is the best indicator of what a terrible fucking person she is. Her being a slut is an irrelevant side note, a minor component in the better and more comprehensive way of referring to her: a TFP, or Terrible. Fucking. Person.
Zoe Quinn is a TFP.
If doing--over and over and over again--something she herself said was tantamount to rape (see below, I got ahead of myself), isn't enough to make her a TFP in your eyes, then look up the story of the Fine Young Capitalists and what she did to them.
Let me just ask you this. If someone cheated with you dozens of times with at least five different people and probably more over the course of several months while constantly espousing a fundamental, principled belief in total honesty and openness and professing exclusivity throughout the entire course of events, would you think, oh, that's okay, his sexual partners are his own. Even if he didn't let you know that he'd been sexually active with other partners which is relevant to you because you're still having sex with him, and STDs?
If you learned with total certainty that someone--perhaps in your circle of friends, say--had done that to his partner, would you think, "oh, that's okay, his sexual partners are his own".
Or would you think..."WHAT A HORRIBLE LYING, CHEATING, MANIPULATIVE SCUMBAG."
Fucking READ the goddamn ZOE POST. Eron not only DOESN'T suggest that she sold sex for reviews, he explicitly says he is NOT saying that. Stop lying.
Other idiots--SEPARATE IDIOTS--wrongly concluded that. Eron did not suggest it.
The anti-gamergate side engaged in plenty of doxxing and death and rape threats and general fuckwittery (misgendering, sexist and racist insults, silencing of voices, torrential abuse, DDOSing, getting people fired) too.
This tweet is completely representative of the conduct and behavior of the SJW side.
See how she put "women" in quotes? Classy, right.
As I've shown above, the fuckheads in Anti-GamerGate can get dangerous too in their quest to 'show the whitecishetmale scum their place'. As many of the fuckwits in the Social Justice movement have decided to do to any PERSON who has so much as a dissenting opinion on the subject.
And what about the dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of women and minorities among them? Are they just stupid cunts who don't know any better? Is it that their opinions don't matter because they're women and minorities, or just because they're women and minorities who don't agree with you?
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If you (you being ANYONE) reply, please know that I will ignore your post if it does not include specific evidence that you have actually read and processed all of the above. I am interested in having a conversation, not in SHOUTING PAST EACH OTHER. So if you're not listening when it's my turn to talk--if you can't 'show your work' so to speak and indicate that you were listening--then I won't be listening when it's your turn.
author=Liberty
@Max: To second Suzy's post, the fact that you refer to her as a slut while also saying that her behaviour doesn't matter or factor into the argument is pretty telling.
What? I didn't say her behavior doesn't factor into the argument. In fact her behavior is the best indicator of what a terrible fucking person she is. Her being a slut is an irrelevant side note, a minor component in the better and more comprehensive way of referring to her: a TFP, or Terrible. Fucking. Person.
Zoe Quinn is a TFP.
If doing--over and over and over again--something she herself said was tantamount to rape (see below, I got ahead of myself), isn't enough to make her a TFP in your eyes, then look up the story of the Fine Young Capitalists and what she did to them.
author=Liberty
Her sexual partners are her own and the issue with her boyfriend has been explained several times over (for those not in the know: where the fuck have you been?
Let me just ask you this. If someone cheated with you dozens of times with at least five different people and probably more over the course of several months while constantly espousing a fundamental, principled belief in total honesty and openness and professing exclusivity throughout the entire course of events, would you think, oh, that's okay, his sexual partners are his own. Even if he didn't let you know that he'd been sexually active with other partners which is relevant to you because you're still having sex with him, and STDs?
If you learned with total certainty that someone--perhaps in your circle of friends, say--had done that to his partner, would you think, "oh, that's okay, his sexual partners are his own".
Or would you think..."WHAT A HORRIBLE LYING, CHEATING, MANIPULATIVE SCUMBAG."
author=Liberty
Basically she slept with a guy who just so happened to be a reviewer for a site that reviews games. She has a game. A review of her game never showed on the site, but that didn't stop her ex (who may or may not have been cheated on who gives a flying fuck) from spreading rumours that she spread her legs for a good review (that I point out again does not fucking exist).
Fucking READ the goddamn ZOE POST. Eron not only DOESN'T suggest that she sold sex for reviews, he explicitly says he is NOT saying that. Stop lying.
Other idiots--SEPARATE IDIOTS--wrongly concluded that. Eron did not suggest it.
author=Liberty
Commence doxxing and general fuckwittery by a group calling themselves GamerGate who hide behind the notion of reviews needing to be fair but have done nothing to further that agenda beyond attacking any woman that comes out about their own experiences of harrassment in the gaming community, while ignoring most of the men who deliberately call the group out. Doxxing, btw, is releasing all the personal information about someone on the internet with the intent to ruin their lives.
The anti-gamergate side engaged in plenty of doxxing and death and rape threats and general fuckwittery (misgendering, sexist and racist insults, silencing of voices, torrential abuse, DDOSing, getting people fired) too.
This tweet is completely representative of the conduct and behavior of the SJW side.
author=Leigh Alexander
I call for mandatory abortions on all pro game gate "women"
See how she put "women" in quotes? Classy, right.
author=Liberty
It can be very dangerous, especially when fuckheads get it into their, well, fucked heads, that they 'need to show the bitch/slut/whore/etc her place'. As so many of the fuckwits in GG have decided to do to any woman who so much as has a say on the subject.
As I've shown above, the fuckheads in Anti-GamerGate can get dangerous too in their quest to 'show the whitecishetmale scum their place'. As many of the fuckwits in the Social Justice movement have decided to do to any PERSON who has so much as a dissenting opinion on the subject.
author=Liberty
And then laugh and say 'oh but we have women among us too' because everyone knows that having that one Black friend overrides any of the racist shit you throw around, duh!
And what about the dozens and dozens and dozens and dozens of women and minorities among them? Are they just stupid cunts who don't know any better? Is it that their opinions don't matter because they're women and minorities, or just because they're women and minorities who don't agree with you?
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If you (you being ANYONE) reply, please know that I will ignore your post if it does not include specific evidence that you have actually read and processed all of the above. I am interested in having a conversation, not in SHOUTING PAST EACH OTHER. So if you're not listening when it's my turn to talk--if you can't 'show your work' so to speak and indicate that you were listening--then I won't be listening when it's your turn.
Gamergate Target Zoe Quinn Launches Anti-Harassment Support Network
@AE:
No, I'm just ASJW. I don't care enough to add the second double-u. Yet. : /
Uh which people? What? Who? Huh?
I mean whatever, let me just go with a blanket no. Whoever you are talking about the answer is probably no.
No, u r gross. Sorry, use grownup words. Ten year olds say things are gross.
Zoe Quinn is gross. She is a bad person, to the degree that is disgusting. That is because she is a lying slut, and a whore. I can say that about one man without it demeaning all men. I can say it about one woman without it demeaning all women. I don't even feel she has personally wronged me in any way. It is just my objective assessment of her character from available evidence. Actually, "lying, sociopathic, self-aggrandizing, manipulative, emotionally abusive, scheming, megalomaniacal bitch" might be more on the nose. Is that better?
Before you continue to defend Quinn on what I'm assuming is the sole basis of the genitals she was born with (oh and by the way THAT'S SEXIST) read the entire Zoe Post and imagine how you would feel if you were Eron Gjoni and were lied to, manipulated, gaslighted, humiliated, cheated on, and just generally emotionally abused like that. And keep in mind there is video proof that the chat logs shown are totally undoctored.
Before some hypothetical insufferable fucktard interprets this as me approving of the campaign of harassment against Quinn, of course I fucking don't.
To conjure Jerry Holkins for a moment...
All I am saying is that she is a bad, bad person. The most toxic kind of individual, the most dangerous, is one who has started to believe their own PR, to believe that they are sanctified. And Quinn is just such an individual.
Literally and exactly yes. I think that most doctors are overpaid incompetent hacks but shrinks are way worse. Doctors are actually necessary. But shrinks? Man, fuck shrinks. They're vile leeches that take your money to pretend to care about your problems for an hour. That's why I won't see one. Talking to a friend who actually cares about your problems is both free, and superior in every way because the care and concern is unfeigned.
But this is OT.
If I thought Crash Override would for a second provide any kind of support for the dozens of pro-#GamerGate people that have been harassed, threatened, and doxxed, that would be another story. But I am positive it will only "help" people on the right side of the line of political correctness. That it will be politicized and used as a weapon. And that's fucked up.
No, I'm just ASJW. I don't care enough to add the second double-u. Yet. : /
author=pianotm
Okay, I have a question: Max, do you know any of these people, personally? I mean that as in, have you ever partied with them? Had dinner at one of their houses? Shared bean-dip recipes on Super Bowl Sunday?
Uh which people? What? Who? Huh?
I mean whatever, let me just go with a blanket no. Whoever you are talking about the answer is probably no.
author=suzy
Dude, do you really expect anyone to take you or your points about Quinn seriously when you say the perfect description for her is "lying whore slut"? That's... gross.
No, u r gross. Sorry, use grownup words. Ten year olds say things are gross.
Zoe Quinn is gross. She is a bad person, to the degree that is disgusting. That is because she is a lying slut, and a whore. I can say that about one man without it demeaning all men. I can say it about one woman without it demeaning all women. I don't even feel she has personally wronged me in any way. It is just my objective assessment of her character from available evidence. Actually, "lying, sociopathic, self-aggrandizing, manipulative, emotionally abusive, scheming, megalomaniacal bitch" might be more on the nose. Is that better?
Before you continue to defend Quinn on what I'm assuming is the sole basis of the genitals she was born with (oh and by the way THAT'S SEXIST) read the entire Zoe Post and imagine how you would feel if you were Eron Gjoni and were lied to, manipulated, gaslighted, humiliated, cheated on, and just generally emotionally abused like that. And keep in mind there is video proof that the chat logs shown are totally undoctored.
Before some hypothetical insufferable fucktard interprets this as me approving of the campaign of harassment against Quinn, of course I fucking don't.
To conjure Jerry Holkins for a moment...
You can’t threaten people with death, and I resent very strongly being made to type that out.Not only can you not do that because you can’t fucking do it, it has the power to obliterate everything else you say. In fact, it obliterates everything the people around you are trying to say. That’s what has happened now.
All I am saying is that she is a bad, bad person. The most toxic kind of individual, the most dangerous, is one who has started to believe their own PR, to believe that they are sanctified. And Quinn is just such an individual.
author=kylaila
Do you think about psychotherapists and doctors and others the same way I wonder?
Literally and exactly yes. I think that most doctors are overpaid incompetent hacks but shrinks are way worse. Doctors are actually necessary. But shrinks? Man, fuck shrinks. They're vile leeches that take your money to pretend to care about your problems for an hour. That's why I won't see one. Talking to a friend who actually cares about your problems is both free, and superior in every way because the care and concern is unfeigned.
But this is OT.
If I thought Crash Override would for a second provide any kind of support for the dozens of pro-#GamerGate people that have been harassed, threatened, and doxxed, that would be another story. But I am positive it will only "help" people on the right side of the line of political correctness. That it will be politicized and used as a weapon. And that's fucked up.
Iron Gaia Review
But...who made the original one that was in the wrong place?
I honestly don't even know if the one I first saw was the one you made or the erroneous one that was there before that. I'd need a timeline for that. But I am not disappointed that it remains a mystery. I like mysteries.
Actually if I recall correctly the page I was aware of was always in Videogames...so I don't think I even knew that there was another Iron Gaia page until now. Mysterious.
I honestly don't even know if the one I first saw was the one you made or the erroneous one that was there before that. I'd need a timeline for that. But I am not disappointed that it remains a mystery. I like mysteries.
Actually if I recall correctly the page I was aware of was always in Videogames...so I don't think I even knew that there was another Iron Gaia page until now. Mysterious.














