Originally Posted by
Wolfie
Well said, Shidoshi. Although I seriously doubt Dave has changed much since then. I have never met anyone that would just bold-face lie directly to your face like Halverson would. Except when Bergstien came along... man, those two were a match made in Hell.
Uh oh... ex-GameFan staffer +1. *heh*
Like I said, I'm willing to believe he's changed. I don't agree with a lot of the things that went down during my time at GameFan, but I also know that if you don't know the whole story on things, it is easy to fill in the gaps with mis-information and incorrect assumptions. Sort of the same way that it's easy to form an opinion of somebody know you only via the internet that ends up being wrong.
I won't take back what I've said about him in the past, but at the same time, I'm willing to get past all of that and give him a chance for who he is now. I look back at who I was back at that point, and I would hope that people would look at my more for who I am now than who I was then. *heh*
And sorry about your mad scientist character, but I was just following Dave's orders
He could be pretty mean-spirited with that shit. Especially if you dressed or looked a little differently.
Trust me, no hard feelings at all. My one Terry story, since I didn't have a lot of encounters with you, was right before I "left" the magazine. (When I moved back to Nebraska, but kept running the AnimeFan section.) Terry had put a lot of work into a brand new version of my character, which then only got used once - in the comic where all of the old staff members were killed off, and the remaining staff members were searching through the rubble.
Originally Posted by
IronPlant
I forget, it would have been around the time GF had it's own quake2 server. I remember playing with a bunch of the GF and GR staff a few times.
I can't remember exactly if it was Quake or Quake 2, but this was what pretty much got me into playing FPSs. I liked Doom and whatnot before that, but I swore by the control pad when playing them. Dan Jevons tried everything he could to get me to try keyboard + mouse, assuring me that it was the only proper way to play. I simply couldn't believe him, and was stubborn about trying it for a long time. Finally, I broke down, and finally saw the light. I spent many a night after hours in the office playing against the other guys.
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