John Romero's Daikatana on NPR "Flops" segment

[zipR]

On today's Morning Edition, a segment on famous flops talks about Romero, Ion Storm, and Daikatana.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4803167

[Commissar Rob]

Ouch. Nothing like being famous for a fubar.

[Scaryboy]

Luckily for John, Microsoft are absorbing all the ire that a post like this would usually generate with their rubbish announcement.

[Steve_Erhardt]

I heard this on the way in to work this morning... nice, but certainly nothing those of us "in the know" haven't already been over a billion times already.

[Kefkataran]

I'm just pleased to see an NPR-related story. No real reason other than that I <3 NPR.

[agentgray]

Wish they would podcast this stuff...they do some but this stuff is great.

[Kefkataran]

I recall hearing that there is a podcast for NPR's unarguably best show, This American Life. Think it might cost money though. Not sure.

[XxSATANxX]

This story is an epic. JR has never recovered.

[Ludoc]

Wow, you know life sucks when NPR is ripping on you...

[Ghost_Saint]

NPR is great. Listen to it every morning on the way to work.

[Steve_Erhardt]

Wow, you know life sucks when NPR is ripping on you...
LMAO!

NPR is great. Listen to it every morning on the way to work.
Same here. And on the way home, naturally. I get tired of their relentless anti-Bush slant, but it's still the most listened to radio station in my vehicle, regardless.

[Kefkataran]

I get tired of their relentless anti-Bush slant, but it's still the most listened to radio station in my vehicle, regardless.

At least their not as shameless about shoving your opinion down their throat as people like Rush Limbaugh and his ilk. Unless you're listening to Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me, but shit that show's funny.

[Blue]

My wife got me into NPR a while back and I became addicted to Garrison Keillor. That man is my personal hero. This past Thursday, on my wife and I's annivesary, he was at the Ohio State Fair and we managed to snag tickets. Dude is fantastic live. If you ever get the chance, you should check him out.

Sorry for the thread-jack.

Either way, Romero is more famous than I am. However I think I would prefer to keep myself a little low-key given Daikatana. Ah well.

[Rommel]

Rush is a show Kef, not an entire station. Big difference. Anyway, they failed to mention the most racist characters in gaming history.

[Kefkataran]

Rush is a show Kef, not an entire station. Big difference.

I suppose, but that was kind of my point. There's only a few specific shows on NPR that really shove their opinion down your throats. The rest just show it in a passing, subversive manner at best.

[Rommel]

So you're saying that the bias is only overt in a small portion, but present in all? Okay, you're right. Why would anyone find such a penetrated, unbalanced and uniform slant offensive?

[Kefkataran]

Everyone has bias. That's just how it is. Some programming and people are better at pushing their bias than others, and that's what I'm saying -- most NPR hosts/shows don't make their political bias the focus, and certainly not in the hateful, venemous way that many other radio hosts have made a living off of.