I'd like to see a poster. On the left is a picture of an adult penis, cut. On the right I'd like to see a bloody flap of skin. The caption should read "Separated at birth?"

Just an excuse to look at a penis I suppose. 

...thank you for your concern. I'm alive :)

Your exceptional artwork arrived safely and I'm about to proposition you for more... but I think I'll do that in private. 

Whoa. And Kell says I have Freudian issues. O_o 

what the fuck is going on here! o.0 

Sparth joined ID. This is news to me!!
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=53303 

what the fuck is going on here! o.0

When you find out, please be sure to let the rest of us know. Maybe it will help me make sense of my roommate who pours out the milk from her cereal.

P.S. the topic is a summarization of my comments from work today.

P.P.S. I forgot what this post post script was supposed to say.

P.P.P.S. e/n generation unite! 

Woaw !! This screenies would take place in Half Life 3 screenies preview!! They are very nice and impressive ... 

Agree entirely, that is perfect concept art for HL3. So....are Id making HL3 next then, lol.

Seriously nice one Sparth and GG getting hired. 

Sparth rocks so much, I knew he had had an interview at ID a few months ago, but didn't think he had accepted in the end.
I have to pester him into sneaking in a Nunukian style space map into whatever ID's next game is, he hasn't mapped in too long. =D 

That nunuk's hiring at id should be a news post here for a number of reasons.

1) The timing of Adrian's lawsuit

2) The fact that nunuk/sparth has been known to frequent these parts/#terrafusion, and now he works for id...it's like, the ultimate dream

3) The fact that the hiring of such an extremely top-notch artist like sparth means that id is takking a radically different turn in terms of art on their next project. sparth's style, in my opinion, is very fantasy/ethereal, and much more conducive to adventure games and "far out" settings than Adrian's typically war-ish evil artistic feel.

So this news definitely has implications all over the place, and we need a thread to discuss them in! 

So this news definitely has implications all over the place, and we need a thread to discuss them in!

Go create it ;) 

was Adrian carmack Fired...

Bluesnews says the reason was that he had 41% of the shares and wanted to sell id to activision. They other owners fired him so the company wouldn't be sold and they could buy the shares cheaper from him directly.

Greed makes people do all kind of stupid things.

I've always loved his art. 

2) The fact that nunuk/sparth has been known to frequent these parts/#terrafusion, and now he works for id...it's like, the ultimate dream

<brainfart>

Oh, I don't know about that. Not anymore. I think there are several companies ranking higher than id on the omgloligotanindustryjoblolkeke-scale. Valve. Epic. For one thing they have better tech. And their projects seem more innovative.

</brainfart>

3) The fact that the hiring of such an extremely top-notch artist like sparth means that id is takking a radically different turn in terms of art on their next project. sparth's style, in my opinion, is very fantasy/ethereal, and much more conducive to adventure games and "far out" settings than Adrian's typically war-ish evil artistic feel.

A good artist can apply her expertise to many different genres, ideally. She'd better, or she's just a one trick pony. Of course, that's fine for some people, maybe the contract is just for one project. It'll look good on the resume either way.

Anyway, this doesn't really tell us all that much about id's upcoming projects.

bambuz;

There're legal thingamabobs flying all over and claims to this and that. For one thing, I'm guessing Blues was not privy to any special information. Adrian Carmack claims he was effectively forced to resign, after he refused to sell his stock to the other owners following the activision bid. Having left id he is supposed to do so anyway, but his team of power-tie wearing walking excrement argues he shouldn't have to. Plus, he says he got shafted on some profit-sharing thing.

That's what he says. That's not necessarily what happened. Also, who cares?, id hasn't done anything remotely exciting in many years -- except for releasing old sources.

Chances are Adrian Carmack leaving is good for the consumers. What with id hiring new artists, if for nothing else. 

id hired anyone. Thought they were just the regular group of guys since they started (except for Romero and Petersen after awhile).

Conceptart.org is full of elitists. But I remember Sparth, and I saw that thread - some good work... but it leaves me bitter. 

id always hire at the start of projects. kenneth scott got a lot of press for q3, and they hired a bunch of new guys for Doom3 (I remember one new level designer worked on kiss: pyscho circus) 

id: "hey can we get that guy from KISS?"
id: "gene simmons?"
id: "no psycho circus, the game"
id: "y'serious?" 

...I thought Quake4 going Gold on Monday (see http://www.bluesnews.com/ ) would've warranted some sort of news post here. 

this isn't a general gaming news site. Nor is it a blog. So that's why there's no news when doom3 or quake4 or half-life 2 go gold, or when one of us gets a new job or buys a puppy. (Though, some people try to stick their puppy into otherwise legitimate news posts, I've noticed.) 

of course you can post about it in the GA thread! 

....ya, I guess I expected a bit of reaction in the GA thread. Meh, I'll assume people are too busy walking their puppies at the moment. 

walking their puppies

That's a euphemism. Right? �_� 

to PJW that now he has some free time, he may want to make a Quake single player level, but then I remembered Scampie mentioned earlier that that sort of thing is prohibited by the company contract.

<me walks a puppy instaed, darn> 

You can't be serious... right? 

I know of more restrictive clauses than that; my friend Hutch plays for a Minor League baseball team, he doesn't dare even to play a game of catch. 

I don't think CA.org is full of elitists. Quite the opposite actually, although I've never posted any of my artwork. I find most comments to be actually very helpful, and a lot of people there are actually just really good.

As for Sparth, that's why I didn't submit a news thread. It's good for him, but not news worthy at all.

Still, you shouldn't have rejected my news about getting a kitten for my birthday. Now you will pay.