A bit of net.humour
by Chris on Jul.23, 2006, under Humour and Internet
Found on the interweb a short time ago, and brought again to my attention today by the good folks at MetaFilter:
Events since Duke Nukem Forever was announced.
This is a bit of a sobering list of things that have happened since DNF was announced nine+ years ago. The truly jarring one is the fact that NASA — amongst the most legendarily ponderous bureaucracies in North America — “proposed, authorized, announced, designed, launched and successfully landed [the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity] upon Mars where they have been exploring the surface for over 2.5 years.”
Wow.
2 comments for this entry:
July 23rd, 2006 on 1:13 pm
Wow, that’s quite a lengthy list. Seriously, after this long, how many times have they scrapped and re-scrapped their work? I mean, I can’t imagine that any of the original work (other than perhaps some basic designs) can still be useful by now…
July 25th, 2006 on 8:44 am
Hard to say, really. It’s not like the developers are talking.
Interestingly, they have a $500,000 bonus hinging upon them shipping by the end of 2006. I wonder if that’s motivating them? And I wonder what the hell kind of crack their publisher is on?
I can only hope that it’ll be good, that’s all.