Forgive me George [Archive] - 3D Realms Forums

Tommyboy

06-28-2006, 12:37 AM

Gamespot has this weekly podcast with a hotline to call in and leave messages so after last week when one of their editors went on a rant about how DNF doesn't really exist I decided to call in and leave a message posing as Mr. Broussard and they played it this week. You can find the whole podcast here (http://www.gamespot.com/features/6153261/index.html) and skip about 42 minutes in or I've edited the call portion and you can find that here (http://media.putfile.com/George-Broussard-Call).

I hope this will be taken in jest. ;O

Commando Nukem

06-28-2006, 12:47 AM

You sound nothing like George... Good God those dudes are mega ignorant if they don't realise you sound nothing like em! lol

Tommyboy

06-28-2006, 12:48 AM

Ha I'm pretty sure they realized, especially since I'm sure they played the Prey demo where George actually DOES call a radio show.

Spooger

06-28-2006, 01:00 AM

lol, even though you don't sound like George, that was pretty funny! :D

Amakou

06-28-2006, 01:01 AM

Psychonauts in Dee-En-Eff arcade machines. XD

~Amakou~

Metal Boss

06-28-2006, 01:38 AM

its pretty obvious they knew it wasn't him, but, still funny

Commando Nukem

06-28-2006, 01:56 AM

Is it? One of them asks the question and one replies with "Yes". and then then someone else doesn't know. lol

Funny either way, listened to it about 10 times now.

Guere

06-28-2006, 02:25 AM

Well that was funny :)

Yatta

06-28-2006, 02:30 AM

Hahahahah! :D

Tommyboy has teh sexay voice. :love:

John

06-28-2006, 03:05 AM

Ha I'm pretty sure they realized, especially since I'm sure they played the Prey demo where George actually DOES call a radio show.

That isn't George speaking in the game.

trackit

06-28-2006, 03:35 AM

haha :D i dont think george will forgive you though :)

Sang

06-28-2006, 04:26 AM

Nah, I think they realized it wasn't George (why else would they be laughing)

Thewho

06-28-2006, 04:38 AM

You can hear the real George Broussard here.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6300416539473165189

hell-angel

06-28-2006, 04:43 AM

Cool video. :D

SantaClaws

06-28-2006, 04:47 AM

LOL, Awesome video, very nostolgic. Damn, see them haircuts! Scott and George was a couple of "Young Uns" back then. I dunno how I would feel about someone impersontaing me though, not kool.

Rider

06-28-2006, 05:17 AM

You can hear the real George Broussard here.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6300416539473165189

Lol, Ihd software :)

Tim. Just Tim.

06-28-2006, 08:17 AM

LOL dont worry about offending anyone, they're all laughing too hard to be offended.
BTW, you sound more like Napolean Dynamite than George B

lonestar

06-28-2006, 09:52 AM

"was that the real george broussard"?

bwhaha... alright!

Denz

06-28-2006, 10:05 AM

You can hear the real George Broussard here.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6300416539473165189

Awesome. I love how they work. :D

DK2000

06-28-2006, 02:27 PM

Awesome. I love how they work. :D
work - yeah - right

Tommyboy

06-28-2006, 03:55 PM

You can hear the real George Broussard here.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6300416539473165189
Whatever man, he's just putting on that voice for the cameras. He sounds exactly like I portrayed.

Denz

06-28-2006, 04:09 PM

You don't sound like him. :o

SyntaxN

06-28-2006, 04:14 PM

Forgive me George
George never forgives. Anything. Instead he´ll delay DNF. Look what you´ve done :mad: :o ;)

ZuljinRaynor

06-28-2006, 09:12 PM

I'm sorry, but I found the whole call in thing as flaimbait. Jeff is especially retarded and annoying when it comes to DNF and 3DR and I was afraid it was going to landslide from there.

Commando Nukem

06-28-2006, 09:36 PM

Nah, I think they realized it wasn't George (why else would they be laughing)

Because they thought the call was idiotic?

avatar_58

06-28-2006, 09:40 PM

I would have done a Hank Hill voice for George to really overdo it:

"Now you boys better stop makin' fun of my vidgia game or I'm going to kick yer ass I tell you what!"

JayBiggS

06-28-2006, 09:45 PM

Lol, Ihd software :)

Contrary to what I once thought, it is pronounced Ihd software, not I D software or whatever

Rider

06-29-2006, 05:11 AM

Contrary to what I once thought, it is pronounced Ihd software, not I D software or whatever

Hmm, odd...

I D Software would make more sense you know... like having a great Idea?

meh, details details.

Commando Nukem

06-29-2006, 05:17 AM

I think ID means instict driven or something to that effect. (someone told me that.)

Heres what Wiki says:

Name
Note the lowercase id, the correct pronunciation of which is a much-argued subject. The current official pronunciation is id as in "did" or "kid", which refers to the id as a psychological concept developed by Sigmund Freud. Evidence of this can be found as early as Wolfenstein 3D with the statement "that's Id, as in the id, ego, and superego in the psyche" appearing in the game's documentation. Even today, id's History page makes a direct reference to Freud.

Originally however, both letters were capitalised as an acronym for "Ideas from the Deep", and because of this many argue that it should still be pronounced "eye-dee". The I was later made lowercase in the release of the second Commander Keen series, eventually followed by the D. Since Wolfenstein 3D used the "id" pronunciation together with the mixed-case "iD", many argue that the capitalisation is irrelevant and purely a stylistic choice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Id_Software

Fair nuff?

Mr.Fibbles

06-29-2006, 01:51 PM

I've always called it I D Software. Did they say George's name right on the video?

Gatinater

06-29-2006, 03:00 PM

That voice sounds too ridiculous to be real. They were being sarcastic when they were debating if is the real GB or not.

avatar_58

06-29-2006, 03:18 PM

Wait, people called it 'eye dee' software? I've always referred to them as 'id' because the logo was lowercase. If they wanted to be called the other way they would have done it in caps 'ID'.

Then again who am I to argue.....I used to call apogee "apaw gee". :o

Commando Nukem

06-29-2006, 03:33 PM

I did too until I heard apogee mentioned in a video behind the scenes of DOOM3 (Or some kind of iD/3dr history thing.):D

Damien_Azreal

06-29-2006, 03:55 PM

Denz

06-29-2006, 04:05 PM

I say Apogee like Ah po (o like in hello) and gée (i don't know if there is a word that has é sound in english :o ) :o

Tommyboy

06-29-2006, 04:07 PM

I say Apogee like Ah po (o like in hello) and gée (i don't know if there is a word that has é sound in english :o ) :o
Fiancé?

Micki!

06-29-2006, 04:20 PM

Apogee like in Genious... (just try to lengthen it abit, because of the extra "e")

InAction

07-01-2006, 04:52 PM

You can hear the real George Broussard here.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6300416539473165189

"... who can play at work and make it pay .."
What world are they living in? They definitely thought, like people do these days, that game development is just a road on roses where you can have fun all day, playing games. :doh:

Commando Nukem

07-01-2006, 06:13 PM

Games are the next Rock and Roll. Its just that simple, misunderstood, attacked, and often considered something that just helps generate lazy people. In reality a lot of really really smart and creative people have come out of gaming and gone onto other careers. John Carmack obviously with his coding prowess is able to chose any number of programming jobs.

But its a nice article anyway, especially to look back on the "old days".

Too bad theres no place to download that sound clip from. :D

Nessus

07-01-2006, 06:26 PM

trackit

07-02-2006, 10:32 AM

i wonder what george thinks about it :D it he mad or is he laughing? :)

cladinshadows

07-02-2006, 02:20 PM

Nice work there lol. I'm surprised they played the thing being that it's so obviousely not George Broussard - but I suppose that makes for good radio - urr - podcast >_>.

As far as that whole "id and I.D pronunciation goes, I'm pretty sure Commando Nukem wiki definition and pronunciation are the correct ways to go. I personally called the company "id" and not "eye-dee" because it was lower case and had no periods between the letters. There was a phase where I pronounced the letters separately but I reverted back blah - you don't care! Anyways, I only recently learned what an id was in my psyche class and that is why I concur!

Neo

07-02-2006, 04:23 PM

haha good one. gave me a good laugh.

the true duke

07-02-2006, 08:41 PM

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Scream

07-04-2006, 06:58 PM

Funny shit. :) Why does George sound like Charles Nelson Riley? ;)

http://static.flickr.com/9/15487685_6f2de338af_m.jpg

rockmanekuzu8

07-04-2006, 07:10 PM

As I said to you before you did a very good DNF patriotic act, you did your best to defend the game. Even though you didn't sound like him, but the fools fell for it!!

LOL YOU ROCK DUDE!! :D

St. Toxic

07-04-2006, 07:51 PM

Funny stuff. Great voice too.

shiranui

07-05-2006, 02:27 AM

Impersonating a game developer is a serious offence.

Micki!

07-05-2006, 05:26 AM

^^
I believe that's why the threads title, is called what it is... :rolleyes:

rockmanekuzu8

07-05-2006, 08:45 PM

Impersonating a game developer is a serious offence.

Dude it's okay for now, he's not going to get in trouble. George would never harm a DNF fan like that, even though he was impersonated by someone else. ;)

Otto von Keisinger

07-05-2006, 10:55 PM

Of course, he'd still have to shake them down, if you know what I mean. ;)