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It's a bit hagiographic, but it's overall a very good book.
by gmmeyer 7y ago
It's a bit hagiographic, but it's overall a very good book.
- hyperman1 7y agoI had to look that one up. hagiography (webster): 1 : biography of saints or venerated persons 2 : idealizing or idolizing biography Yep, he's right
- AlchemistCamp 7y agoIt is? I thought Romero sounded like a nutcase! If him blasting music and destroying things with various weapons while devs were trying to code and running ads telling customers he was "about to make you his bitch" was a hagiographic gloss, then reality must have been truly dark.
- chihuahua 7y agoI think the "bitch" part was later, when his own company was developing "Daikatana", which was a famous disaster. Maybe he was more reasonable earlier on.
- UberMouse 7y agoThat advertising campaign wasn't Romero's idea; it was the idea of someone else at Ion Storm. Romero was initially a bit hesitant on the slogan but caved to pressure. At least that was how it was presented in (iirc) Masters of Doom, who knows what the actual truth is.
- AlchemistCamp 7y agoAh, good to know. It's been a couple of years since I read the book and I may also have misremembered something about the ad. I definitely had the impression that the guy would have been a very difficult coworker, boss or roommate, and he was all three for parts of the team at various times!
- chimpburger 7y agoRomero hated that ad. Some weasley manager pressured him into running it.