Deli Clerk: Ticket number 361! Ticket number 361!
Patron: Uh… ticket number 361?
Justin: Yes, goddammit, number 361! He said it fucking twice! You were standing right here! You fucking retard! After your boss tells you twice what to do while you’re at your job, do you have to ask him in exactly the same terms what you’re supposed to be doing?
Patron: I like mayonnaise.
Oh, yeah; once I finish this overdue project I’m working on, I have an article on the merits and techniques of fighting while drunk. So don’t get in any drunken brawls until then, please.
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But damnit St. Patrick’s day is this weekend! I have an entire weekend of drunken brawls scheduled. You best get that post cranked out by Friday Night.
Oh and thanks for the info on the Bigod 20 “Like a Prayer”, finaly got it, it’s got that perfect mix of funny and bad ass.
In other news, everyone should read my current livejournal post, and stare slackjawed in awe and horror.
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Not that this has anything to do with anything on your journal, but I’d like to say I’m both amused and depressed by the upcoming EverQuest rpg you guys are about to put out. I am amused, because it’s a maliciously evil marketing strategy on the part of WW (and I applaud those evil people involved). On the other hand, I’m way disappointed by what seems to be a drop in quality control.
White Wolf’s Totem: O’ Mighty Dolla
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Jesus. You people don’t let up, do you?
Why post this to Justin’s private journal? That’s a fucking tacky and cheap way of making sure that you get heard.
You wanna bitch about it? Come over to *my* journal. I helped to write part of the damned system. Leave Justin out of it; the man just wants to get drunk, bitch at deli customers and spin house in peace. Jesus…
Joseph
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What? I can’t hear you from the top of the giant pile of money I’m sitting on.
Seriously, manpower is stretched to the max. The glut of d20 material is finally thinning out (mercifully), and the market is retracting: Customers are no longer purchasing any piece of shit with a d20 logo, so retailers aren’t buying just any piece of shit with a d20 logo, so distributors aren’t buying just any piece of shit with a d20 logo, meaning that (quality) products on the d20 bandwagon have to stand out to earn the attention of those three tiers.
D20 has also occupied a prominent place in the market since its appearance, meaning that it’s drawing existing dollars away from other titles. What does that mean? It means that, right now, being able to successfully employ the OGL is key to being more than a subsistence publisher. Call it “O’Mighty Dolla” if you want. I’ll call it “the ability to pay my rent and have dinner.” “Sensible business” is also a good thing to call it.
Regards,
Justin
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Oh, and as if market vaccilation wasn’t enough, the increase in the number of books that has to be brought out to maintain profitability means that you’re doing _more books_ in the _same amount of time_. Development is a sink-or-swim environment. The moment one book slips, you can’t just make it up on the next book, because that book has an equally tiny window of work time devoted to it. I’m in front of this fucking computer morning, noon and night (with the exception of Saturday night, when I have a second job at the club) and I’m _still_ as much as two months behind on certain projects. I _eat fucking meals_ in front of the computer.
I understand concern over quality control, and share your sympathy. But it’s not like we’re sitting around over here, fucking around and printing whatever bullshit happens to make us millionaires this week.
You know all that bitching I do about late manuscripts and flaky writers making schedules fall to shit? I’m one of those late, flaky people now, mostly because I’m trying to contribute to a hobby that I observe largely out of love for it and have taken on too much work.
Regards (Again),
Justin
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And, yes, it drives me to drink. Anybody who thinks this job is all fun and frivolity has a naive view of it.
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I ain’t gay or nuthin’, Justin, but I’ll give ya a hug if ya want.
But then you have to put my homebrew bloodline, aZZraporz, in the next V:tM book.
Quid pro quo, my man.
P.S. I’m making my way through NYbN now. So far, it’s groovy. :-)
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Shit, the previous post was from me.
Being Anonymous is part of my jet-set lifestyle, but it can bite ya in the ass if you’re not looking.
Dave Turner
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Wow Justin. You’re a lot more civil than I thought you’d be when confronted with a tacky question/accusation like that. I’d say “good job,” but your rants make for much better reading. I hope you’re meaner next time.
While the rest of the world takes shots at me and jumps on a bandwagon together; I’ll do the thing that I’ve been taught to do.
To Justin, I’m sorry I think the context of my statement was missed. Clearly I’ve offended you, and I hope that it will not spoil your day. I certainly don’t think it was a poor business move on the part of White Wolf, and I hope that this move brings you success.
To Oakthorne, I did not mean to deride the d20 system. I’m sorry if it seemed as such. My only real beef is with the content and style of the EQ game world.
Again, I apologize to you both.
*Ignores the EverQuest arguments.* Well Justin, I won’t be able to legally drink until a little over another year, so yeah, I’ll wait.
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?????? where did that come from?
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Just be happy he didnt add the title “The scrotum kicker” to his “reguards, Justin”.. ive seen that before and it wasnt pretty..
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Unless you’re like me and looking for a reason to drink.
Please don’t confuse content with medium. There is nothing wrong with the EverQuest game world that I can think of. There’s actually a fairly detailed history of the world in there somewhere. What causes the problems is the medium and presentation of said world. The MMORPG was designed so that the world economy is based entirely off of killing monsters, who all move at the same speed regardless of size, with the occasional “fetch quest” thrown in for flavour. That’s how the MMORPG was designed to work. I don’t see White Wolf, of all people, designing the d20 game to work identically. What I do see them doing is taking the existing backstory/geography, perhaps expanding on it, and creating just as cool a setting as… oh, say any of the other settings they’ve created.
-IanW
I’m not Justin (obviously), but…
WHY WAIT?
Who cares if it’s legal or not? I drank my first beer with 14 and bought the first one when I was 15.
But then again, I do live in Germany and not the fucking USA. Over here, you can buy and drink beer legally as soon as you’re 16.
Drunken boxing
Your drunken kung fu can never beat my Seven Flying Tigers Style!
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*grin* Seven Flying Tigers can’t be my “screaming bullets from a .45 style.”
Unless it’s drunken screaming bullets from a .45, also known as the way of the mangled foot.
Wha’chu Talkin’ ‘Bout, Willis?
And we all hate those fucking retards that question even the most direct statements/requests/instructions/whathaveyou.
Reminds me of what I’d mused on a few days ago about people asking for directions which required a simple ‘left’ or ‘right’ instruction. Almost invariably, they’d do the opposite of what I said.
I mean it’s already been official that no one listens, especially not to me (’cause what the hell do I hafta say, anyway?), but do they HAVE to be so completely non-observant and…well, stupid as to make one think they don’t even use ANY of their senses or baser instincts?
Kinda makes ya wanna beat ‘em with a rusty leaf rake or something, huh?
Goddamn, how I hate people…but I love gatherings…isn’t that odd?
Scruffinton “Ok, so I fucked up Randall’s line from Clerks. Go strangle yourself with your own intestines” J. the Denatsate
Current Music: 88 Fingers Louie, “Drunk And Ugly”
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No love for me. I have been very, very bad.
I have a similar problem with people on buses who ring the stop bell more than once! Why they do it, I don’t know. It’s not like the driver can’t hear it!
As for the drunken brawls, I’ll wait for your wisdom. :)
Eryx.
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I would say that I love you Justin, but then you would think that I am stalking you for purely evil reasons…I only stalk Danes who wear purple shirts…
What kind of keg do you want for the Labor Day party?
Jaded_True_Brujah
P.S. One of you regs get me a code!!! My email is somewhere on the WW forum!
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You need a reason to drink?
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Not really, but it’s nice to have a reason.
Beer, o mighty beer
I don’t know why I’m even writin’ this but:
They seel frickin’ beer by vending machines in Spain. [half a Euro buck for a can]
The same in Italy.
The same in southern [mediterrany coast] Turkey.
God, you gotta love la Mediterranne! And then you gotta love Germany and Austria too, what better drink for breakfast???!!!
Oh btw, NYbN is gooooood.
Okay I disappear now.