Comments on: A Day Full of LOOT

By: LOOT Shatters the Fourth Wall | HomeStation Magazine

LOOT Shatters the Fourth Wall | HomeStation Magazine — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:49:02 +0000

[…] fortunate enough to be able to visit LOOT’s offices at Sony Pictures Studios. As you recall, I’d been there before, but it was Cube’s first time. And I’m fairly certain he was properly sick of me going […]

By: Munly Leong

Munly Leong — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 05:47:52 +0000

This is a fantastic and very profound article and it’s a pity it’s buried on “just” the Homestation page.

As someone who is weighing a very important decision or on whether or not to locate in Orlando (half step) or LA/Santa Monica for a startup game studio this was very helpful. You also succinctly described the sense of history in Europe or older cities a lot better than I could other than a ‘general feeling’ of things.

Anyway enjoyed the article and the magazine. I can’t spend anywhere near the time in Home that most of you can but I use the magazine to peek into what ‘life’ would be like if I did. It gives me a sense of nostalgia each time I log in of older more limited virtual worlds (not a compliment to Home however!) and a younger time

By: Kassadee Marie

Kassadee Marie — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 23:19:58 +0000

I love Norse too… ummmm, I mean the way he writes. What a fun article and it makes me look forward to the new stuff from Loot. I’d better start saving my pennies.

By: tbaby

tbaby — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 13:42:46 +0000

Great article Norse. I heard about this gathering and I’m sooooo jealous yall got to see all that. What a great tour of Sony Pictures and sounds like you had a great meeting with LOOT too! Great pics too. I also think it was great you got to meet beta76 and DOD, cocobaby, cat, and animus from PST toos! How awesome to have all that talent in one place to experience all that at the same time ^__^

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 07:44:57 +0000

…You know, I totally dig the idea of a Home-Con. No one ever thought a Star Trek convention would work, and the very first one they ever tried pulled in *way* more people than they thought they’d ever receive. The idea of a Home-Con (I’d personally call it “Open Home” or some such), probably held in San Francisco or Los Angeles, would be amazing.

(Everyone may rest assured, by the way, that Terra will indeed be receiving her LOOT t-shirt. I fear that whip as much as everyone else here does. We like keeping Terra happy.)

::whipCRACK!:: >o_O<

By: Gideon

Gideon — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:40:28 +0000

What an amazing opportunity for you Norse! It’s great to see the developers taking a real interest in including the community leaders. Hearing of this gathering makes a pie in the sky concept I had a while ago seem like a distinct possibility for the future: A Home-Con. I would love it if there could be a gathering of Home devs each year to show what they are working on for Home. Invite only or open to the public, I think it would be a great community building event.

By: Olivia_Allin

Olivia_Allin — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:16:16 +0000

I can’t help but think that Norse had to feel like he found the Golden Ticket in a Wonka bar.Getting to go see where the magic is made! Envy is not a strong enough
word for what I am feeling. Johneboy may dream of a John size space so he could be smuggled in Norse’s bags, but because of my reconstruction and my lack of Johnny 5 like fear, I can be disassembled and placed in more than one bag… my fear lies in trusting the airlines to get the bags with me in them there and then the Humpty Dumpty ability of Norse to put me back together again. I bet all the Loot’s horses and all the Loot’s men (and women) could.
I do envy what Norse saw behind the curtain yet I don’t envy having to see the future and keep it to myself for fear of causing a paradox or a riff in the time space continuum.
The first person perspective writing of Norse seem to be almost a metaphor on how I would have experienced his adventure. The hustle and bustle of the flight and L.A. rat maze to get to the Loot cheese is how I see the real world versus Home kind of. The stresses of everyday living vs. the world where magic is made. And afterwords there is Olive Garden, or in my case sushi or pie, and a first class ticket home.
I am excite for whats to come for all of us in Home and happy to know a good friend has seen the future and without speaking details, reassures us that it is wonderful.
So I will sit back and wait for my Home, our Home to open the curtain and we all Salsa dance down the Yellow Brick Road with our Everlasting Gobbstoppers… how can I work Humpty Dumpty back in…and um… our over sized omelets. Oh and POKER… neener neener neener!(FTW)
I should take my pills and calm down!

By: Terra_Cide

Terra_Cide — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 02:11:35 +0000

A T-shirt, huh? I’m guessing they caught wind of our pajama-party meeting of a couple of weeks ago…

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:40:53 +0000

I love the way Norse writes..it is something I try to emulate..

By: Susan

Susan — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:38:42 +0000

that’s funny…

By: Burbie52

Burbie52 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:28:52 +0000

It sounds as though you had a good trip Norse. Glad to hear it as you work much too hard and you need down time like the rest of us. I will be very interested to see what Loot comes up with. All of us in Home are waiting with bated breath for the new Hub and related spaces and this just adds to the anticipation of where Home is taking us in the near future. Kudos on the article, and kudos to Loot for stepping up and helping to advance the social aspects in Home, something we all want.

By: johneboy1970

johneboy1970 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:10:47 +0000

Indeed, it is the journey (and the telling of it) which makes the destination all the more savory.

By: Kid Fleetfoot

Kid Fleetfoot — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 10:48:50 +0000

Is Terra going to get her shirt or are you going to keep it?

By: NorseGamer

NorseGamer — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:48:23 +0000

The biggest challenge with this article: how to write about LOOT previewing their upcoming goodies for Home, when you’re not allowed to divulge what those goodies are?

The second challenge: how to make this story unique, since multiple Home journalism outlets were covering it with the same restrictions?

Ultimately, I figured the real strength of the story lay in its ability to provide for personal anecdote. The golden rule of writing for HSM: we care less about the subject being discussed and more about how that subject made the author *feel.*

Generally speaking, my favorite journalists tend to take that approach. Jeremy Clarkson and Jason Whitlock are both masters at it. Indeed, it could be argued that all of New Journalism is founded on this notion.

Thus, in the truest sense of the aphorism, I made the article more about the journey than the destination.

By: Patchex

Patchex — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 08:09:21 +0000

Wow is Right… I do have to say I skimmed a bit, like I often do when Steven King goes on and on about some object I don’t want to read about anymore, yet I did read almost everything after the plane ride. I am glad you guys Met up in real life, and meeting Loot was a special treat… Glad to hear you enjoyed it… You didn’t say much about the groups you met though… I’m gona have to take a look at GI’s and PST site to see if they wrote anything to and compare the experiences…
Also I have to say that the best part of the article I read was the part about it being Game focused… Nice to see that… we have been seeing it a lot more lately so seeing it written that it will continue is a great thing…

Not everyone gets Experiences like this one… Its good to see the Devs giving out Life time memories like this one… Only Down side I see to that, is too bad all the Users and Community members can get the same treatment… Yet at least they picked some Active and Community geared ones to give the opportunity too… Also thank you for Doing like GI and letting me Post this with out signing into the site. Yet you made me give an email Address?

Patches

By: johneboy1970

johneboy1970 — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 06:30:09 +0000

Wow…somehow you’ve managed to cause some Home-drool with absolutely no specifics whatsoever. Loot has always brought great stuffs to the table…to be that blown away by what’s comming down the pike is a sure sign that we may have one heck of a holiday season in our virtual world.

And I would have given much to see the Foley Room -- as a sound and acoustics enthusiast that’s like a Norseman getting a glimpse of Valhalla. Maybe a big pot of my famous sauce and meatballs will allow for some John-sized-space in your luggage on your next time out