Moving this video to Romero's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

Permanently discarding this video - kill requested by Romero.

John Romero was a good map designer but the real skills were from John Carmack who was at the forefront of game engine design in the 90s. Oh, and Ion Storm was the epitome of excess with throwing money at their lavish offices and the game itself and getting little in return.

I agree with #1 though, an even more ridiculous sum of money was tossed at the Gizmondo with investors duped into thinking they would have the next greatest thing on their hands. I believe they had tens of millions in debts when they were shuttered which is worse than the Ion Storm + 3D Realms cockup combined.

Duke Nukem Forever was already a joke status five years ago and I would be surprised if anyone ever took it seriously after that.

Tags for this video have been changed from 'oscar romero, priest, assassinated, el salvador, 1980' to 'oscar romero, priest, assassinated, el salvador, 1980, raul julia' - edited by enoch

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EDIT: ^Sifted, if you appreciate it you can vote on it: http://videosift.com/video/Chomsky-on-Oscar-Romero

That was great! At first I was thinking it would be sacrilegious because John Carpenter's The Thing is the best horror movie using practical effects ever made (well, that and George Romero's Day of the Dead) but, I lol'd.

Exthellent.

Thanks for the hand-up!

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*promote

And the name of the movie is Hard Ticket to Hawaii.A poster for the fine move

From IMDB: Two drug enforcement agents are killed on a private Hawaiian island. Donna and Taryn, two operatives for The Agency, accidentally intercept a delivery of diamonds intended for drug lord Seth Romero, who takes exception and tries to get them back. Soon other Agency operatives get involved, and a full-scale fight to the finish ensues, complicated here and there by an escaped snake made deadly by Toxic Waste!

The trailer

>> ^Croccydile:
For a game company that took that long to develop one game, they get what they deserved. Exactly as he said in the video... other and better games came out in the time they sat around twiddling thumbs 90% of the time and my attention was diverted elsewhere.
Hell, I remember Prey being first demoed back in 1997 and at least even that eventually made it to release.
For those who dont get the John Romero reference, or already forgot about that abomination on its own http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana
Now if Valve would hopefully not pull the same thing in regards to Episode Three...


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For a game company that took that long to develop *one* game, they get what they deserved. Exactly as he said in the video... other and better games came out in the time they sat around twiddling thumbs 90% of the time and my attention was diverted elsewhere.

Hell, I remember Prey being first demoed back in 1997 and at least even that eventually made it to release.

For those who dont get the John Romero reference, or already forgot about that abomination on its own http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daikatana

Now if Valve would hopefully not pull the same thing in regards to Episode Three...

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

"We're just a fart in the wind. This ought to take care of all that silly dynasty talk."
Ron Wolf

"If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart."
George A. Romero

"Fart"
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