Comments on: I Was Here

By: EGTF

EGTF — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:25:06 +0000

Thanks Tom, sorry about doing the idiotic thing of getting singer and actor mixed up.

I’m in Chicago next weekend, I’ll have to check out this bottled Guiness phenomenom. And take artistic pictures out of a plane. But no playing *unannounced* game for me, I lack the importance and 9 years of age that Mr.Francis has over me.

By: Roadrunner

Roadrunner — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:28:34 +0000

Guinness is the only beer I like, and even then if it was a weigh up between Guinness and sparkling water, I’d take the water xD

Not much of a fan of alcohol…Except spirits.
I can’t really talk though, being underage and all.

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:18:58 +0000

Just played the HAWX demo, good fun and nice to have something that makes you feel cool and doesn’t take too much effort. I don’t think I’ll buy it, the demo scratches that itch too well. I might pick it up when it’s released on budget though.

By: Jimmay

Jimmay — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 13:39:49 +0000

Just wanna say it’s not always in a freaking bottle. I’m in Chicago and I think it’s a crime against nature as well.

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:55:30 +0000

Bottled Guinness is generally okaytimes, but misses the point of Guinness entirely.

By: The_B

The_B — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:51:12 +0000

There is only one place I’ve ever been to that ever does Guinness in a bottle.

It was a pole dancing club.

And fucking expensive.

By: Ludo

Ludo — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 01:26:24 +0000

:) Is it Guinness Orisinal? That stuff is just odd. Has to be draft for me.

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:21:10 +0000

It comes in a freaking bottle.

By: KING

KING — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 21:31:47 +0000

The square streets of modern cities, especially most American cities, makes me do this:

Also: They have Guinness in San Francisco ?

By: Lack_26

Lack_26 — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:27:40 +0000

How to design San Francisco; Lesson 1.

Street planning:

– Draw a square
– Repeat

By: Kollega

Kollega — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 17:12:40 +0000

Oh,damn it. Why? Why all the celebrities (including gaming/development/inernet ones) live in California,and i’m stuck on the other side of our planet?

Just felt i absolutely needed to say that.

By: The_B

The_B — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:24:08 +0000

They only generally advertise it on the site for a short while, the places go pretty quickly. I only got my place last year thanks to a mixture of good timing and good luck really – it wasn’t an advertised position as far as I know anyway…

On another note – I half wondered why Tom was promoting the new Edge covers other than it being interesting that there was 200 of them. Having now got it, I see his name in the contributors section. Damnit Francis, you have used your wily powers of persuasion again for EVIL and self gain. (I applaud this)

By: Bobsy

Bobsy — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:36:45 +0000

According to Future Publishing they’re not currently doing work experience:
http://www.futurenet.com/jobs/wideTemplate.aspx/Jobs_In_Publishing/Work_Experience/

But I’m pretty sure according to PCG magazine they are. Mixed messages!

By: Pentadact

Pentadact — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:51:57 +0000

Yeah, the pic is just a crop of one I took from the plane:

LGM: Ha, I didn’t know that had gone up. Link, if anyone else wants to see: http://edmundmcmillen.blogspot.com/2009/03/party-time.html

Stan Lee: At the party? Either you looked a lot younger than that time I met you in Santa Monica, or you’re another Stan Lee and consequently a hard man to Google.

EGTF: RobIN Williams. Dno about work XP, Tim’s department.

By: SenatorPalpatine

SenatorPalpatine — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 23:33:24 +0000

That’s pretty sweet. Must’ve been pretty hard not to ask any questions.

And that’s a very cool picture, where’d you find it?

By: Kodiak

Kodiak — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 18:07:45 +0000

Yeah, San Francisco has weird streets. After the earthquake at the turn of the century, the city planners decided to rebuild the city in a perfect grid, and didn’t give a rodent’s fundament if the landscape got in the way of all the right angles and straight lines. That’s why some inner city streets try to go straight up a cliffside and other streets have to tunnel through a granite ridge. All that unnecessary planning and construction and hardship, and it ends up looking like a weird little building farm.

By: Little Green Man

Little Green Man — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 17:34:06 +0000

I really like that bit of you in the video on Edmund’s blog. “Congratulations on being two years older than me”. Awww.

By: Chris Evans

Chris Evans — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:53:36 +0000

San Francisco – the home of all indie game devs

By: J-Man

J-Man — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:49:45 +0000

If someone photoshopped that picture it would look like something straight out of Mirror’s Edge.

By: peterd102

peterd102 — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:45:30 +0000

Woah

By: Ludo

Ludo — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:22:32 +0000

Did you actually take that picture? It’s awesome.

By: EGTF

EGTF — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:17:38 +0000

Is it sad that as someone coming close to the end of my teenage years, I’m using BBC iplayer to watch X-Men cartoons?

You make the life of a video game journalist sound exotic Tom, first evenings with Robbie Williams now this.

Whilst on the subject of journalism do you check your futurenet email? I emailed in about a month ago asking questions about that work experience PCG was offering. I came across as bland and arkward in it I believe, so I understand why I didn’t get a reply back in a hectic PCG office. I’m wanting to know if you got it at all though really.

By: DoctorDisaster

DoctorDisaster — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 15:56:03 +0000

They put Dazzler in a video game?

That’s awful.

By: ZomBuster

ZomBuster — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 11:15:10 +0000

All those guys live in San Fransisco?

By: Stan Lee

Stan Lee — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 09:14:51 +0000

I was there too!

By: Plumberduck

Plumberduck — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:25:44 +0000

I assume Jonathan Blow went off on a half hour tangent about how the multiple tines of Wolverine’s claws represent the Many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, right?

By: Aftershock

Aftershock — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 06:23:10 +0000

I’m surprised you didn’t explode. I would have.

By: Bret

Bret — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:49:01 +0000

Nightcrawler’s best.

Was it one of those six player jobbies?

If so, who had to player Dazzler? Inquiring minds want to know.

By: The_B

The_B — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:39:51 +0000

Who did you play as? Tell me it was Wolverine. G’wan. And Gabler better have been Venom. Although I guess he wasn’t in that game.

Still, Venom with the voice of the Goo Balls would be all kinds of awesome.