BC3K - History of Mr. Derek Smart's Flame War

13  2017-06-26 by a_normal_human

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Man it used to be so much fun to bait that guy. He almost couldn't resist making an ass of himself over trivial bullshit.

There were several game forums he must have had a search robot working on, because his name would get mentioned and he'd show up in the thread.

I started using Usenet about the time that he started posting. For a while, I was willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Y'know, like maybe he was a super abrasive and rude guy that was actually some kind of genius.

Of course, in time, it became obvious that he was no genius, and the release of BC3K and his subsequent deflections, excuses and lies made it clear that the only thing he was really good at was creating drama.

Still, that flamewar was the stuff of legends.

What cracked me up was that there was a Round 2. Some MMO that was struggling to hit release (Allods? no. Alganon? Something like that.) that was already attracting some pretty salty haters, when they for some reason hired DS to take over development. This was all in MMORPG.com's forums IIRC.

More coke machine and PhD hilarity. He continued to insist he had the degree. Threatened a few people with defamation. The game he was working on got worse and I think he just faded out of the picture. Or maybe he was going to sue the publisher or something.

There were also many comments on the ad campaign, which feature some hot looking chick with the box between her legs. Any one still have that? Please send me a scan of it, I would love to read some of the pre release hype.

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