Kind of surprised that I haven't seen any PolyCounters from Valve on here, especially considering the relationship between the PolyCount community and Valve itself! Where are you all at? :)
I know a good few people at valve, and they are polycounters :) There are people here from all over, every studio in the world. It's one big dysfunctional family.
I've always sort of assumed Polycount had a ridiculous amount of lurkers. They're here, as are tons of others I'm sure, they're just not "active". Over the years I've come to view Polycount as more of a steady beacon, rather than a ridiculously active postfest where all the "cool" kids hang out during the day. A somewhat…
Dont know about Polycount but Bay Raitt seems to be online quite a bit. He's quite active on the 3Dcoat forums. I wonder if that Pirate thing was a team building exercise? that would be awesome :)
I don't know, every time I've ever submitted "person X has made something really really cool and it should probably be given attention" stories to Destructoid it's gone ignored. I think if news of a recent hire would have drawn attention from the dirt sheets it would have happened by now with one of Polycount's many many…