The Anonymous Source

[Kross]

No news day? There's no such thing as a "no news day" when you stalk a ton of game devs on twitter. Like, Paradox Interactive is planning an TBS-RPG like Heroes of Might and Magic. I'm the only one that reported on that last week.

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[Tradjus]

Well it's Harry Knowles, obviously.

 

[Plucky]

Is it me, or has the emo girl sorta went through some sort of Art Evolution...she looks a bit less dementedly distant and more...standard compared to the rest of the characters.

Unless, they're new characters, or simply one shots elsewhere in the building?

 

[80Maxwell08]

No news day? There's no such thing as a "no news day" when you stalk a ton of game devs on twitter. Like, Paradox Interactive is planning an TBS-RPG like Heroes of Might and Magic. I'm the only one that reported on that last week.

I love you for mentioning this. Where can I get more details on this?

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Seems legit. I bet it has Kinect voice commands. Everything needs Kinect voice commands.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Seems legit. I bet it has Kinect voice commands. Everything needs Kinect voice commands.

my toaster does, It even has Linux!

 

[Darklupus]

Hmmm...what should I use for a comeback?

How about: Be wary that anonymous sources can sock you holey, or false, non-credible information. For example, FF XIII Versus presumably being cancelled due to an unnamed source in Square Enix.

 

[shrekfan246]

Seems legit. I bet it has Kinect voice commands. Everything needs Kinect voice commands.

my toaster does, It even has Linux!

Have you installed Linux in your toilet and microwave yet? How about your Wii, PS2, calculator, and Nintendo DS?

In my vigorous attempt to avoid MovieBob today, I forgot Critical Miss updated as well. This strip made me laugh, though. I wasn't expecting the sock puppet.

 

[The Wooster]

Is it me, or has the emo girl sorta went through some sort of Art Evolution...she looks a bit less dementedly distant and more...standard compared to the rest of the characters.

Unless, they're new characters, or simply one shots elsewhere in the building?

If you mean Penny, that isn't her.

These are new characters in the Out of Tens news office. They're currently named ... uh... "fat guy" and "the Asian chick" in our scripts.

 

[Evil Smurf]

Seems legit. I bet it has Kinect voice commands. Everything needs Kinect voice commands.

my toaster does, It even has Linux!

Have you installed Linux in your toilet and microwave yet? How about your Wii, PS2, calculator, and Nintendo DS?

In my vigorous attempt to avoid MovieBob today, I forgot Critical Miss updated as well. This strip made me laugh, though. I wasn't expecting the sock puppet.

My toilet is a server and the shower is where I do my torrents

 

[The Rogue Wolf]

"Release date of February 31st? Seems legit!"

I would not be surprised at all if something like this was the case with most "anonymous sources"

There's a reason most of them "were not officially authorized to discuss the matter".

 

[BehattedWanderer]

Seems legit. I bet it has Kinect voice commands. Everything needs Kinect voice commands.

my toaster does, It even has Linux!

I see someone was overcome with installation anxiety.

Is it me, or has the emo girl sorta went through some sort of Art Evolution...she looks a bit less dementedly distant and more...standard compared to the rest of the characters.

Unless, they're new characters, or simply one shots elsewhere in the building?

If you mean Penny, that isn't her.

These are new characters in the Out of Tens news office. They're currently named ... uh... "fat guy" and "the Asian chick" in our scripts.

I like "fat guy with large 'chops". He's my new favorite. I suppose that means we'll never see him again.

 

[unacomn]

I love you for mentioning this. Where can I get more details on this?

Not a lot of details yet, the community was being asked what they liked most about Heroes 3, in relation to a new project the company could be working on.

It's all here: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?620116-Tell-me-why-you-loved-Heroes-of-might-and-Magic-3

 

[Ghonzor]

Maybe you're just knit-picking now.

I'm not sure whether I want to sigh and groan or just laugh my ass off.

And you forgot your sunglasses

 

[Akimoto]

"...poisoned dart into their abdomen."

I lol'ed. Hard.

 

[80Maxwell08]

I love you for mentioning this. Where can I get more details on this?

Not a lot of details yet, the community was being asked what they liked most about Heroes 3, in relation to a new project the company could be working on.

It's all here: http://forum.paradoxplaza.com/forum/showthread.php?620116-Tell-me-why-you-loved-Heroes-of-might-and-Magic-3

Well apparently I need to make an account there to see so I'll just wait and keep an eye on Paradox for the time being.

 

[shintakie10]

That's why us American's have two terms for this kind of thing:

An anonymous source: We're making this up.

A source who wishes to remain anonymous: We may actually have a source on this one. But we're still probably making this up.

Captcha: the slogan "no time to waste" is associated with which car?

I have no goddamn clue. Seriously. Captcha questions are supposed to be things like, "What color's the sky" or "Is the Sun yellow," stuff that everybody actually knows, not this marketing crap that you'll only know if you pay attention to marketing.

And, seriously, I realize this is supposed to advertise the car to me, but I'm going to get it wrong, and have no idea which car was even being advertised at me. This is a total failure of both spambot testing and advertisement.

Edit: Picked one at random, happened to be it. Didn't pay enough attention to see which one it was.

If that is the captcha I'm thinkin it is, you don't have to get it right. At all.

There were a few captchas where it would ask me how I felt about such and such product. I literally typed in the words "Piece of shit" and it accepted my answer. Captcha fails are hilarious and sad.

On topic!

That's generally what I assumed they meant when they say it is an anonymous source. Also. Lol.

 

[kouriichi]

At least hes a more credible source of information the Fox.

 

[Akimoto]

Tito only wears socks.

I did not need to know that. Unfortunately I just had to read through the post again and your post was placed strategically on the way down.

Guess I was socker-punched.