You know what really grinds my gears?

[pietasterp]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

That I don't get royalties for this stuff.

I assume Dowd was your handiwork? You could file a claim; it's not like there isn't time for petty paperwork at the moment....

when I was a kid, I caught a huge break with a cheap little chocolate pie, one of these crust pies with goop in the middle

I liked breaking them open and eating them from the center to the ends

welp, I opened this specific one up and it was all green and fuzzy

good thing I didn't bite right into it!

This is such a l3ulvl story on so many levels...

[KG]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

News websites

Not the actual content, to each his own on that but they just take forever to load with the ridiculous amounts of embedded videos.

I saw someone on twitter say something like

“It’s like porn sites and news outlets switched” [emoji23]


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[DrJones]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I assume Dowd was your handiwork? You could file a claim; it's not like there isn't time for petty paperwork at the moment....

"Jon Dowd" wasn't just my handiwork; it's my name. (I guess nobody ever reads the credits.)

[pietasterp]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

"Jon Dowd" wasn't just my handiwork; it's my name. (I guess nobody ever reads the credits.)

Wait, there are credits?

There's some precedent for this....Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) sued Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (UCLA running back) over his name and I think....got some concessions? I don't really recall what the outcome was, but it was entertaining nonetheless. No idea if it was worth any of their times - almost certainly not. But who remembers?

[slickdtc]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

The credit roll video for MVP 05 was amazing dude! I think it was through the Options screen of the main menu, not like, after you win the WS or something. Haha

[BurghFan]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

"Jon Dowd" wasn't just my handiwork; it's my name. (I guess nobody ever reads the credits.)

J-o-n-e-s is a strange way to spell Dowd

Wait, there are credits?

There's some precedent for this....Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) sued Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (UCLA running back) over his name and I think....got some concessions? I don't really recall what the outcome was, but it was entertaining nonetheless. No idea if it was worth any of their times - almost certainly not. But who remembers?

The RBs name was actually Karim Abdul-Jabbar, spelled differently.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

"Jon Dowd" wasn't just my handiwork; it's my name. (I guess nobody ever reads the credits.)

It's because of people like Jon Dowd why I ended up on OS in the first place.

[DrJones]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Wait, there are credits?

To be fair, I don't think I ever looked at game credits either unless I was in them.

BTW, all of the other MVP "fake players" (ie, 1995 "scabs" who were on the outs with the MLBPA, Rick Reed and the like) like Alan Hughes, Scott Barcik, etc. were people I worked with. The one exception was "Anthony Friese" (ie, Kevin Millar), as one of our other producers chose that as an alias instead.

Probably about 50 of the minor leaguers that represented Top 100 prospects had names of friends and co-workers. The "Smallenberg triplets" on one of the Yankee farm teams were my high school buddy, his brother and father, all of whom are big Yankees fans.

As you might remember, we used the Giants' Kuiper & Krukow for our play-by-play. As an April Fool's gag, they had me personalize a baseball for Bonds himself, and they stashed it in his locker. Apparently Barry wasn't amused.

[DrJones]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

There's some precedent for this....Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (Lew Alcindor) sued Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (UCLA running back) over his name and I think....got some concessions? I don't really recall what the outcome was, but it was entertaining nonetheless. No idea if it was worth any of their times - almost certainly not. But who remembers?

I'm back working at EA these days, and I was the one who put my own name in MVP, so no, I have no intention of suing, haha (I'm pretty sure I signed a form acknowledging the usage of my name in the game, at any rate). It's just weird/cool when my name pops up every couple years alongside Pablo Sanchez or Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson. While I was staying at a hostel in Madrid a couple years ago (the night of the 2016 Real/Atletico UCL Final!), a couple dudes from New York recognized my name and figured out who I was, which was bizarre/hilarious. I also got a kick out of this:

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I'm back working at EA these days, and I was the one who put my own name in MVP, so no, I have no intention of suing, haha (I'm pretty sure I signed a form acknowledging the usage of my name in the game, at any rate). It's just weird/cool when my name pops up every couple years alongside Pablo Sanchez or Tecmo Bowl Bo Jackson. While I was staying at a hostel in Madrid a couple years ago, a couple dudes from New York recognized my name and figured out who I was, which was bizarre/hilarious. I also got a kick out of this:

Did you ever work with Steve Rechtschaffner, by chance? He is my good friend’s uncle and lives up in Vancouver. He worked with the Triple Play team and I believe must have worked for EA Big because I think he was involved with SSX (and maybe NBA Street).

Don’t know if he still works there, but I was just curious. I know you were involved with Triple Play 2002 so I thought maybe you two may have coincided.

[DrJones]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

Did you ever work with Steve Rechtschaffner, by chance? He is my good friend’s uncle and lives up in Vancouver. He worked with the Triple Play team and I believe must have worked for EA Big because I think he was involved with SSX (and maybe NBA Street).

Don’t know if he still works there, but I was just curious. I know you were involved with Triple Play 2002 so I thought maybe you two may have coincided.

Yes, Steve was executive producer of the mini-studio within EAC that produced Triple Play, WCW (remember when EA made WCW titles?), and SSX way back in the day. (I started with Triple Play 2000.) I don't think he's been with EA for quite some time; he's now running some smaller game company in the Vancouver area, I believe? I probably haven't talked with Steve for 12-15 years, but he's still around the industry.

I remember Rechtschaffner best for NBA reasons, strangely enough. At the Grizzlies' last game before moving to Memphis, Steve got a lot of play for holding up a sign that read, "THANKS FOR THE WORST TEAM EVER", a pic that still pops up online every once in a while when the Grizzlies' sorry Vancouver history comes up. Also, my 1st Triple Play wrap party was in... March 2000, I think?... in a suite at a Lakers/Grizz game. (Only time I ever saw Shaq & Kobe live.) During a stop in the action, Steve turned to a couple of us and pointed out that a fellow EA exec was sitting about 5 rows behind the basket, a couple hundred feet from where we were, said he was going to hit him with a paper airplane (we'd all had a drink or two by that point)... and then he hit him in the shoulder! Imagine aiming a paper airplane at a specific person in a packed sports arena and actually hitting your target - damnedest thing I've ever seen at a sporting event, LOL.

[l3ulvl]

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This is such a l3ulvl story on so many levels...

What do you mean? there were zero crackheads in the chocolate pie, no one got arrested, there was no domestic violence, and no one blasted loud music

[l3ulvl]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

throwing away valuable tyson chicken bags (and other foods) and drinking warm beer while waiting for a replacement fridge

if your fridge is gonna die, it'll always die after midnight Friday

[Blzer]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I know a lot of people are on Tapatalk these days, but for those who still use computer, I access a lot of my websites through a couple of keystrokes and press Enter. So for OS, I just type "op" before getting here (though I'm sure just "o" would suffice, but it's habit).

Anyway, there are other websites where I can accidentally hit a typo at times (say I hit "gn" instead of "gm" for Gmail), and I press Enter so fast that I don't recognize the typo in time. What grinds my gears is when my browser history recognizes the typo shortcut instead of the website shortcut due to recency rather than frequency, so I go there again. What makes matters worse is now that typo is hitting more frequently. It's like when you bite your cheek: you just end up biting it more and more afterward because now that swell protrudes.

Obviously I can clear it from history, but I'm lazy like that.

[Majingir]

Re: You know what really grinds my gears?

I know a lot of people are on Tapatalk these days, but for those who still use computer, I access a lot of my websites through a couple of keystrokes and press Enter. So for OS, I just type "op" before getting here (though I'm sure just "o" would suffice, but it's habit).

Anyway, there are other websites where I can accidentally hit a typo at times (say I hit "gn" instead of "gm" for Gmail), and I press Enter so fast that I don't recognize the typo in time. What grinds my gears is when my browser history recognizes the typo shortcut instead of the website shortcut due to recency rather than frequency, so I go there again. What makes matters worse is now that typo is hitting more frequently. It's like when you bite your cheek: you just end up biting it more and more afterward because now that swell protrudes.

Obviously I can clear it from history, but I'm lazy like that.

That's exactly what we were talking about on phones too. How they seem to recognize typos more than what we meant at times, or autocorrect things not meant to be corrected.

Sometimes I'll make a mistake and autocorrect just doesn't even bother fixing it.