What the fuck? BOOM goes the hate machine on blogspot. LOL @ anonymous writings. This could also be totally fake, I am not sure. But I am home sick and this shit is entertaining.
http://icefrogtruth.blogspot.com/
You might want to ask why I am posting this. Why do I risk me and my friends's jobs? The answer is that ever since Abdul has joined Valve, he has been poisonous to the company. He is incredibly hard to work with, absolutely impossible to talk to in person due to a complete lack of social skills, and easily holds the most unpleasantly domineering work personality of anyone I have ever met.
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Isn't it essentially an exact remake of the original with all the returning characters? There was nothing stopping them from reverse engineering the original game.
They could have hired him as part of the PR campaign to appeal to the already large userbase that DOTA provided.
Contrived
There's a large difference in tone and motive behind the 2 writings that makes one feel more real than the other.
**gets me a seat...**
Anyone want popcorn? I gots a big bucket.
http://icefrogslife.tk/
It's all probably written by the same fool. Judging by the number of anonymous posters (and memes) it most likely originated on 4chan; that wouldn't surprise me at all.
Why are DOTA, Hon and LoL subject to such drama is beyond me though.
They don't even seem all that fun...
You can pretty much say that about any artistic medium or anything at all really. For example, Avatar is just an adaptation of Pocahontas. Another example would be someone adapting a wooden chair to have a cushion on it.
Anyway, I don't think he would have been able to piggyback himself into Valve. Sounds like some people are jealous and throwing a fit at the announcement of DOTA2.
lol what ?
It's as if I would create a polished tower defence map based of someones elses work and then claiming to be the alpha and the omega of it all.
I wasn't trying to say that what he did was similar to Avatar and Pocahontas. I was just adding onto Bibendum's post about how nearly everything is an adaptation of something else.
I really have no idea what's gone on behind all of these thousands of DOTA mods and such or why Icefrog was the one out of all of them that was chosen by Valve to work on DOTA2.
Even weaker is the assumption that because there was another designer involved, his contributions aren't worth shit. Guinsoo (the other designer) already has a job at Riot.
I realize I took the original quote out of context, and this is probably not fully what you were implying so I apologize if it seems like I'm strawmanning you. The tone of your first post just came off as very "whatever he just leeched off someone else's success" fit for a typical HoN troll.
Also sorry for my misinterpretation.
http://truthepic.blogspot.com/2010/10/horrible-truth-about-cliff-bleszinski.html
That was fucking awesome.
Randy was right... THEY ARE TAKING OVER!
No. Because there are stabs and accusation at other companies as well. That would be a VERY poor viral attempt if it was ever tracked back. That would end up with Valve in court for defamation of other companies.
Edit: In fact thinking about it. That fact alone makes me even question it being a real Valve employee. Why would they go and diss the other companies Abdul worked with? Just mentioning his work history would have been enough. Unless this person is so completely stupid and slightly sucked up with Valve being normally better to not realize that beyond getting himself in trouble IF it was from a real employee and found out. Again as above, it could lead to legal trouble for Valve with these other companies which I'm sure they would love to share /pass off to this former employee.
Well because he/she is supposedly fearful for their own life because the Mafia is involved. Since the real icefrog is dead by a "supposed" suicide. BTW what is Abdul nationality? That blog references hints about Armani suits back gives no info as to Italian, Russian, or other.
I want some popcorn as well.
Soon we'll need a sub-forum for those u.u;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
https://twitter.com/georgeb3dr/status/27283945396
I could never really get into DOTA, hope Valve make something good out of it.
This is going to get me some awesome hats for my TF2 account. Hats > Probably fake internet drama.
(Besides, the "Valve Employee" could not recall the name of the agent? That's unfortunate. After all, if he'd name the agent then people could have traced them and asked about oh wait I see what's going on here.)
Oh no!