Mad Minute Meltdown

[Arctic Blast]

I remember being on the periphery of the tail end of this mess and not really understanding what the Hell was going on. Glad to know, as sad as it is.

[jomni]

Thanks for the article. Never knew about Coder.

[Martok]

Damn, that really is a rather tragic story.  I was aware Mad Minute Games wasn't around anymore, but otherwise I knew nothing about how that came to be. 

I love this line...

Mad Minute volunteers poured into the thread to condemn or support Timpko, while Wargamer regulars offered harassment and judgment from the sidelines.

Heh. 

[AltDess]

It's a shame this had to happen.

[Arctic Blast]

I personally didn't see any bias. I saw an article that managed to be quite down the middle while discussing a topic that has been overflowing with emotional responses from the outset.

[Nefaro]

I wondered when one of those 'emotional responses' would show up.

I avoided most of the bickering at the time, and I certainly don't know all that happened.  It sounds like nobody ever will other than the two people in question.  But every time someone shows up fully touting one side while thrashing the other, I smell bias.  There's two sides to every story and when one is blasted right off the bat - reader beware.

[Jarhead0331]

I do not necessarily disagree with the general point Altdess is making.  There were a few times while I was reading the article that I thought to myself that it was a little biased towards timpko.

[Nefaro]

I do not necessarily disagree with the general point Altdess is making.  There were a few times while I was reading the article that I thought to myself that it was a little biased towards timpko.

Same here.  I do think it had more time spent on Timpko's position.  But the majority of what I ever heard was how he punched some guy with cancer, and no mention was told of the other side, so this was an unusual look.

[Longdan]

It is rather like taking sides in a marital dispute isn't it?
You want to support your friend in a rough situation but you never know what
is really going on, no matter how close you are.  There are some loose ends.

[LongBlade]

It is rather like taking sides in a marital dispute isn't it?
You want to support your friend in a rough situation but you never know what
is really going on, no matter how close you are.  There are some loose ends.

Good point. Usually there are His Friends, Her Friends, and Our Friends.

No one is more valued by the people in the separation than those loyal to them.

[Longdan]

^^That is true but the people who were on my side during my marital crash and burn
were backing somebody who was responsible for no less than 50% of the problem.

[son_of_montfort]

I do not necessarily disagree with the general point Altdess is making.  There were a few times while I was reading the article that I thought to myself that it was a little biased towards timpko.

Same here.  I do think it had more time spent on Timpko's position.  But the majority of what I ever heard was how he punched some guy with cancer, and no mention was told of the other side, so this was an unusual look.

Funny, when I was reading, I felt that the first half was leaning toward Bryant.

The article is full of the same type of unfair loaded snipes.
---"while Wargamer regulars offered harassment and judgment from the sidelines. "--- case in point, Timpko slams all of you too.

The reason why we are all chuckling AltDess, is that this is not an unfair snipe - the crowd at Wargamer was well known for being contentious in their discussions.

[mikeck]

I'm not sure how releasing the maps made TC2M  a totally worthless game. In order to play, you still had to buy it. I understand that expansions are gone. At any rate, Norb created the code so why shouldn't he be able to "take it with him"?

The world is a shitty place and relationships break up all of the time. Why people spend so much energy getting involved in arguments that they know little about or that don't involve them is amazing. I can't say that the article was biased because I don't know what really happened.

Btw, the comment about the war gamer was by the author, not Norb.

I bought Scourge and have had nothing but great experienced with Norb and his team. When my rig went down, it took one email and 10 minutes before he sent me new download links to redownload the Antietam and Pipe Creek expansions I bought.