Curt Schilling, 38 Studios, and Rhode Island

Or at least don't do sports well.

the moral of that article = being good at one thing does not make you good at everything

also Curt Schilling is the worst

http://www.vh1.com/celebrity/bwe/images/2009/08/tom-landrys-hat.jpg

"Are you guys working?"

"Yes, sir, Mr. Simpson."

"Could you … um … work any harder?"

"Sure thing, boss!"

great article

Yeah - surprisingly somewhat even-handed, when most stories have gone for the (deserved) easy attack

Once, after an IT guy’s rottweiler died, Schilling presented him with a brand-new pup during an all-staff meeting. There was much applause.

i dont want a new dog! he yelled running in tears to his cubicle

lol

Hahaha

looool

Minor bit of good news:

http://m.kotaku.com/5933268/epic-games-announces-best-studio-logo-ever

Some of the unemployed dudes got picked up by Epic and formed a new studio with this awesome logo:

http://img.gawkerassets.com/post/9/2012/08/impossiblestudios.jpg

They're working on an Infinity Blade game currently.

http://espn.go.com/boston/mlb/story/_/id/8460451/curt-schilling-sell-bloody-sock-collateral-failed-loans

the schadenfreude would be richer if he wasn't taking an entire state down with him

he put up the bloody sock as collateral for a loan. jesus.

More importantly, someone accepted a bloody sock as collateral for a loan.

Even a regular sock would have been bad enough.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy

He was on Sports Center the other night as an analyst. I was shocked. What does a guy have to do to be disqualified from a job there?

More importantly, someone accepted a bloody sock as collateral for a loan.

― Tom Hardy & the Batbreakers (Phil D.), Thursday, October 4, 2012 2:50 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is this offer open to the general public

this amalur game is kinda fun yall

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Former Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling — whose video game company underwent a spectacular collapse into bankruptcy last year — is selling the blood-stained sock he wore during the 2004 World Series.

Chris Ivy, director of sports for Texas-based Heritage Auctions, says online bidding begins around Feb. 4. Live bidding will take place Feb. 23.

The sock previously had been on loan to the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum. It has been at Heritage's Dallas headquarters for several weeks and will be displayed at the auction house's Manhattan office before it is sold, according to Ivy.

He said the sock is expected to fetch at least $100,000, though he described that as a conservative estimate.

http://online.wsj.com/article/AP205ee1b492d0473399d89b5ae9274f76.html

it's a conservative something

What sucks is that this amalur game is kind of great

Yeah, I bought it super-cheap a while back and haven't had the chance to play more than an hour or so, but I was really charmed by what I've seen so far. It was this RPS piece that made me pick it up: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2013/02/26/why-didnt-everyone-play-kingdoms-of-amalur/

It's good, but it's irritatingly buggy; like, entire sidequests can become unplayable because of bugs... (Though the game has literally hundreds of sidequests, so missing a few doesn't feel as bad as it might in some other game.)

Hint: when you get to one of those bulletin boards with missions you can accept (mostly in Warsworn fortresses, but they're elsewhere too), accept all three missions at once! Because if you accept only one mission, and later on return to get the other two, they may not work anymore.

Huge article in today's NYTimes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/business/curt-schilling-rhode-island-and-the-fall-of-38-studios.html?hp&_r=0

In the end, with warnings like these apparently ignored by the staff, only one of the 13 board members voted against the investment in 38 Studios. That lone dissenter was Kurt Wadensten, who owns Vibco, one of the country’s main manufacturers of industrial vibrators.

waht

That man is living the dream

http://www.vibco.com/

"This can't be right, a million orders for an A. Jourgensen?"

pretty disappointed "industrial vibrators" aren't what i was envisioning.

When the recreational and medical vibrators just won't do, you really do have to move up to the industrial models.

love that their page has no sense of self-consciousness or anything about this.

just like my gf.

"We can shake ALL the air bubbles outta your cement, awwwwwwyeahhhhh"

we're the vibrator guys
          ^expert

I went to their web page and started getting flashbacks to Morel Orel, had to click off

Help me out... what was like Moral Orel on their site?

guess he did put his fortune into that video game http://www.forbes.com/sites/zillow/2013/10/07/retired-baseball-player-curt-schilling-selling-house-home-contents-in-estate-sale

who wants to make a video game that bad damn

there are so many video games already

I feel bad for the people who lost their jobs and the people of the great state of Delaware, but on the other hand: lol

Delaware and Rhode Island are the same place to me

tough but fair

Curt Schilling ‏@gehrig38 3h

If someone were to buy Amalur, put team back on it, it's a billion dollar franchise, 2 years later and still no ones done what we were doing

it's true, I can't think of another software developer who bankrupted a state

Only one video game company put up a blood-soaked sock as collateral.

' 2 years later and still no ones done what we were doing'

Weird kinda delusion makes you make public statements like that, or sink your fortune into taking on WoW right out of the gate with a team of no MMO experience, or be a ball player who adds 'Gehrig' to his twitter handle

@williemayshayes

Gehrig is his son's name fwiw

Seriously?