Major Malphunktion is now Live Producer.

[Grosbeak07]

Wow!

That job seems to have a revolving door.
Best of luck to you.

But...

What does this mean for DDO?
Is there a club for all the ex-producers to hang out and commiserate in somewhere?

Not really a revolving door. Glin is still there and has been around for something like 8 years now. Fernando is long gone, Rowan took his job, when Rowan went back to Lotro, the new producer came in, but she had been with ddo in a producer role for a number of years now. MajMal, now takes her job. Leaving QA empty and alone.

[amnota]

SgtShultz

[Thrudh]

Top 5 films:
Alien
Wizard of Oz
Kubrick everything (I cheated) Hands down the greatest director who ever lived.
Godfather II
Star Wars: ESB
Honorable mentions: Anything by Sergio Leonie, Spielberg, Scorsese,Woody Allen pre-1990 or Kurosawa. Ang Lee, and Woo get some props too. I like the new guy who is doing Godzilla. Monsters was a very competent film. Let's see if he has the chops.

You chose Alien over Aliens???

"Game over, man... Game over...", "In case you're not keeping up with recent events, man... we just got our a$$es kicked", "Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure".

[TheLegendOfAra]

I actually do something really weird with my cell phone. I make phone calls. lol

How... How does that work?
Is that like a Skype call or something?

[Arianka]

Not even close. Red Dwarf was the greatest of all time.

red dwarf was a comedy in a scifi setting. it wasn't really a serious scifi show. babylon 5 clearly was.

[Arianka]

Not really a revolving door. Glin is still there and has been around for something like 8 years now. Fernando is long gone, Rowan took his job, when Rowan went back to Lotro, the new producer came in, but she had been with ddo in a producer role for a number of years now. MajMal, now takes her job. Leaving QA empty and alone.

no she is still there as executive producer. maj mal is "live producer".

[Singular]

Wow, congrats MajMal. The game will be good in your hands.

[Merlin-ator]

Congratulations, Maj! I'm sure you'll do an amazing job!

[the_one_dwarfforged]

tv series:
#1 all time: TNG, a matured and more complete form of roddenberrys vision.
#2 *hip swivel* totally...ahead of...its...time.

grats

[haulindonkey]

There's a famous (well written and legitimately good) fanfiction that added a lot to Firefly, albeit as a crossover with Harry Potter.

Sounds terrible, but it was actually really good.

Got a name for this book? I'm interested...

[sephiroth1084]

Congrats! Though I'm not sure whether I should be congratulating you or the DDO community...

Assuming this isn't an April Fools prank (it's still March 31 in the US right?), congratulations! Look forward to DDO improving under your lead, I have more faith in you than anyone else.

PS: Keep your reputation for not taking ****.

Absolutely agree.

[Janisis]

Does that mean we will see a Kobold Iconic Race sooner?

[Rasczak]

Is Vyvyanne right or left-handed?

[Fedora1]

How... How does that work?
Is that like a Skype call or something?

No, no, not like Skype. There are no pictures. You flip open this hand held electronic thing (because its like folded in half) and then you know how you type letters when you're texting? You kind of start out like that but you use numbers. Then you hold it up against your head so that the part with the speaker is near your ear, and the other end is by your mouth/chin area. Whne you hear a voice say "hello" or something similar you then begin speaking.

[Garix]

You chose Alien over Aliens???

"Game over, man... Game over...", "In case you're not keeping up with recent events, man... we just got our a$$es kicked", "Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure".

Alien is the better film.....Aliens is much more fun

Also it's probably responsible for more lines of dialogue for use in any situation, Monty Python is possibly the only thing that can come close.

congrats To MM Just make sure the QA folks keeping trying to nuke the bugs from orbit, after all - it's the only way to be sure

[Produktion_Malphunktion]

You chose Alien over Aliens???

"Game over, man... Game over...", "In case you're not keeping up with recent events, man... we just got our a$$es kicked", "Nuke it from orbit... it's the only way to be sure".

Yes. Alien is the best haunted house movie ever made. the Alien and all the iconic stuff that was used for the next 20 years came from the first one. The ches tburster scene, the drippy water and chains stuff, the Space Jockey with it's amazingly subtle warning of the future, the sound design, the model making and the detail...it is just an amazing genre changing film. Cameron's film is great, but it had the net effect of ruining storytelling in games for 2 decades.

TNG as best overall TV. Sorry youngling, TOS is the superior series. No space cheeleaders, whiney kids that drive the ship, and a Kirk doesn't drink...tea. He drinks saurian brandy then beats the **** out of a bar of klingons. Picard tried that barfight thing and ended up with a new heart.
Out of the new series DS9 post season 4, nothing from Voyager, and the last season of Enterprise. I love TNG for seasons 2 -5 even love the last episode. But yeah, I'll take Kirk Spock and McCoy over Picard Data and Riker/Worf/Crusher. Going back, man was Worf written poorly.

[Saaluta]

I said it over somewhere else but now I can officially say congratulations on the level up. I vote on you changing your title to Colonel Onoscopy, cause I'm fairly sure that is how the job is going to feel at times

Saal

[Ungood]

All time: Trek. and...Trek. Bab5, Space 1999...early CSI,

Have you checked out "Star Trek Continues", if not, you might want to give them a look see, I was rather impressed by their camera work and attention to detail.

[Havok.cry]

Yes. Alien is the best haunted house movie ever made. the Alien and all the iconic stuff that was used for the next 20 years came from the first one. The ches tburster scene, the drippy water and chains stuff, the Space Jockey with it's amazingly subtle warning of the future, the sound design, the model making and the detail...it is just an amazing genre changing film. Cameron's film is great, but it had the net effect of ruining storytelling in games for 2 decades.

TNG as best overall TV. Sorry youngling, TOS is the superior series. No space cheeleaders, whiney kids that drive the ship, and a Kirk doesn't drink...tea. He drinks saurian brandy then beats the **** out of a bar of klingons. Picard tried that barfight thing and ended up with a new heart.
Out of the new series DS9 post season 4, nothing from Voyager, and the last season of Enterprise. I love TNG for seasons 2 -5 even love the last episode. But yeah, I'll take Kirk Spock and McCoy over Picard Data and Riker/Worf/Crusher. Going back, man was Worf written poorly.

I share this opinion, pretty much word for word.

[Spirethorn]

I rank Firefly above BabS

You know you may have a point. Firefly was killed in its prime, if they had kept it going and not crammed the rest of the series into a movie (which I loved btw) it would win hands down. That show should have run for about 5-7 seasons, not 1... *sob*

P.S. The ex-wife loved this one too...

One of the reasons I rank B5 so highly is the feeling it was planned out ahead of time rather than what I see in most TV shows where maybe the first season is planned out, then the rest feels like it is written week-to-week. B5 survived broadcast changes, being shoved into an 11pm timeslot, cancellation...still managed to have a beginning, middle, and end to the story. That can't be accomplished today.

Maybe Firefly would have been as good had it been given the same chance to grow, but we'll never know.

Also:
Vir: "I'd like to live just long enough to be there when they cut off your head and stick it on a pike as a warning to the next ten generations that some favors come with too high a price. I would look up at your lifeless eyes and wave like this."

(Related to B5, I'm still sorry we did not get to see the full plan for Crusade.)