Outspoken game designer David Jaffe is trying to teach himself that on the internet, silence is golden. So he's going to see if he can "just shut the f**k up" for the next six months, and he's even willing to make a wager on it.
When David Jaffe says something, he typically does it in the loudest way. Caps Lock pressed down so hard there's a fingertip groove in the key, expletives soaring across the internet, Twitter used in exactly the opposite way it's meant to be. 140 characters? Not enough for David Jaffe.
As it turns out, when David Jaffe decides to keep his mouth shut, he still can't help but be outspoken about it. Jaffe has effectively banned himself from the internet in an attempt to teach himself the lesson that we all have to come to terms with eventually, no matter how wrong everybody else online is: it's just not worth it.
"One day I will learn that it's just not worth saying a damn thing," Jaffe wrote on popular message board NeoGAF. "Which really- to be fair- is the smart way I should be doing things. Let's make a deal Neogaf...right here, right now. Let's see if I can JUST SHUT THE F**K UP for the next 6 months."
So Jaffe has suspended his Twitter account and his blog is now invite only. His YouTube channel still seems to be up, but I'm not sure it'll stay that way. Might want to download some of those classic vlogs in case you can't go half a year without watching Jaffe talk to his webcam and wear funny hats. I recommend his take on Sarah Palin, an oldie but a goodie.
And the thing about Jaffe is that he knows how outrageous he is and how outrageous he can be. So he knows that doing this whole Six Months of STFU thing, as I'm calling it, won't be easy for him. Therefore, he's instituting a wager. If he breaks his promise of not voicing his opinion on anything other than the game he's currently developing and you manage to be one of the first three people to call him out on it, well, he'll give you a free copy of his game. A free game, for telling a game developer that he's talking too much about something that's not his game. I'm not sure who to cheer for here.
Good for Mr.Jaffe. He will be able to spend his time focusing on his family and passions. The problem with the internet is that eventually a line will be crossed that we start questioning how our peers view our credibility when we talk about the activities in our daily lives.
Personally I cannot really commit to places like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter and other social networking sites because it is just strange for me to put myself out there and constantly maintain those sites.
Seriously though, that's what I liked about Jaffe, he's such a foul mouthed say-exactly-what-he-thinks-only-more-offensive kinda guy, it's really no surprise he came up with God Of War.
Seriously though, that's what I liked about Jaffe, he's such a foul mouthed say-exactly-what-he-thinks-only-more-offensive kinda guy, it's really no surprise he came up with God Of War.
Keane Ng: Jaffe has effectively banned himself from the internet in an attempt to teach himself the lesson that we all have to come to terms with eventually, no matter how wrong everybody else online is: it's just not worth it.
And why does he have to abstain from the internet to do that? Was dictating to other people all he did online?
Kinda hopeless I think...the guy has to give up on the internet entirely just to keep his mouth shut? Thats like becoming a recluse in your home so you will learn to not argue with people in real life...
A pretty good definition of a narcissist is someone who loudly trumpets shutting up. Jaffe needs the services of a psychologist, possibly R. Lee Ermey.
Well, I'm personally hoping that he can pull it off. Too bad I have no idea who he is nor do I particularily care (yeah yeah I know about GoW. Good for him).
SimuLord: Jaffe needs the services of a psychologist, possibly R. Lee Ermey.
Do you mean Ermey as the actor or Ermey playing Hartman from Full Metal Jacket?
AvsJoe: Do you mean Ermey as the actor or Ermey playing Hartman from Full Metal Jacket?
WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?! DID YOUR PARENTS NOT LOVE YOU ENOUGH WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?!
...what does it say about me that I consider the first half of FMJ to be a comedy?
Hey, same here. "BULLSH*T! I'LL BET YOU CAN SUCK A GOLF BALL THROUGH A GARDEN HOSE!" I call it the best war movie ever because it tramples the line between seriousness and comedy with such ease. No other war movie has done that (except maybe Apoc Now, I haven't seen it).
AvsJoe: Do you mean Ermey as the actor or Ermey playing Hartman from Full Metal Jacket?
WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?! DID YOUR PARENTS NOT LOVE YOU ENOUGH WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?!
...what does it say about me that I consider the first half of FMJ to be a comedy?
Hey, same here. "BULLSH*T! I'LL BET YOU CAN SUCK A GOLF BALL THROUGH A GARDEN HOSE!" I call it the best war movie ever because it tramples the line between seriousness and comedy with such ease. No other war movie has done that (except maybe Apoc Now, I haven't seen it).
I don't know if Apocalypse Now so much tramples the line as proves that there is no line, just a gigantic gray area which it spends the entire movie in. I always feel like I should go out and pick flowers and sing happy songs with birds and squirrels afterwards just to restore the balance in my personal universe. (kind of like how I feel about the Fallout games, come to think of it.)
AvsJoe: Do you mean Ermey as the actor or Ermey playing Hartman from Full Metal Jacket?
WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?! DID YOUR PARENTS NOT LOVE YOU ENOUGH WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?!
...what does it say about me that I consider the first half of FMJ to be a comedy?
Hey, same here. "BULLSH*T! I'LL BET YOU CAN SUCK A GOLF BALL THROUGH A GARDEN HOSE!" I call it the best war movie ever because it tramples the line between seriousness and comedy with such ease. No other war movie has done that (except maybe Apoc Now, I haven't seen it).
I don't know if Apocalypse Now so much tramples the line as proves that there is no line, just a gigantic gray area which it spends the entire movie in. I always feel like I should go out and pick flowers and sing happy songs with birds and squirrels afterwards just to restore the balance in my personal universe. (kind of like how I feel about the Fallout games, come to think of it.)
So basically it succeeded in doing what Catch 22 and Thin Red Line tried to do but failed?
AvsJoe: Do you mean Ermey as the actor or Ermey playing Hartman from Full Metal Jacket?
WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?! DID YOUR PARENTS NOT LOVE YOU ENOUGH WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?!
...what does it say about me that I consider the first half of FMJ to be a comedy?
Hey, same here. "BULLSH*T! I'LL BET YOU CAN SUCK A GOLF BALL THROUGH A GARDEN HOSE!" I call it the best war movie ever because it tramples the line between seriousness and comedy with such ease. No other war movie has done that (except maybe Apoc Now, I haven't seen it).
I don't know if Apocalypse Now so much tramples the line as proves that there is no line, just a gigantic gray area which it spends the entire movie in. I always feel like I should go out and pick flowers and sing happy songs with birds and squirrels afterwards just to restore the balance in my personal universe. (kind of like how I feel about the Fallout games, come to think of it.)
So basically it succeeded in doing what Catch 22 and Thin Red Line tried to do but failed?
Catch-22 the book or movie? Because the book succeeded handily in accomplishing the task. I've never seen Thin Red Line so can't comment.
AvsJoe: Do you mean Ermey as the actor or Ermey playing Hartman from Full Metal Jacket?
WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?! DID YOUR PARENTS NOT LOVE YOU ENOUGH WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?!
...what does it say about me that I consider the first half of FMJ to be a comedy?
Hey, same here. "BULLSH*T! I'LL BET YOU CAN SUCK A GOLF BALL THROUGH A GARDEN HOSE!" I call it the best war movie ever because it tramples the line between seriousness and comedy with such ease. No other war movie has done that (except maybe Apoc Now, I haven't seen it).
I don't know if Apocalypse Now so much tramples the line as proves that there is no line, just a gigantic gray area which it spends the entire movie in. I always feel like I should go out and pick flowers and sing happy songs with birds and squirrels afterwards just to restore the balance in my personal universe. (kind of like how I feel about the Fallout games, come to think of it.)
So basically it succeeded in doing what Catch 22 and Thin Red Line tried to do but failed?
Catch-22 the book or movie? Because the book succeeded handily in accomplishing the task. I've never seen Thin Red Line so can't comment.
Movie. I really want to read the book, though. Was it good?
This seems like a high-profile version of those long, long "I AM QUITTING MYSPACE/FACEBOOK/LIVEJOURNAL/DEVIANTART/GAIAONLINE FOREVER!!!!11ONE" posts that the children throw up every time they come across a wee bit of internet drama.
AvsJoe: Do you mean Ermey as the actor or Ermey playing Hartman from Full Metal Jacket?
WHAT IS YOUR MAJOR MALFUNCTION?! DID YOUR PARENTS NOT LOVE YOU ENOUGH WHEN YOU WERE A CHILD?!
...what does it say about me that I consider the first half of FMJ to be a comedy?
Hey, same here. "BULLSH*T! I'LL BET YOU CAN SUCK A GOLF BALL THROUGH A GARDEN HOSE!" I call it the best war movie ever because it tramples the line between seriousness and comedy with such ease. No other war movie has done that (except maybe Apoc Now, I haven't seen it).
I don't know if Apocalypse Now so much tramples the line as proves that there is no line, just a gigantic gray area which it spends the entire movie in. I always feel like I should go out and pick flowers and sing happy songs with birds and squirrels afterwards just to restore the balance in my personal universe. (kind of like how I feel about the Fallout games, come to think of it.)
So basically it succeeded in doing what Catch 22 and Thin Red Line tried to do but failed?
Catch-22 the book or movie? Because the book succeeded handily in accomplishing the task. I've never seen Thin Red Line so can't comment.
Movie. I really want to read the book, though. Was it good?
The book is excellent. The movie is...a movie based on a book.
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David Jaffe Bans Himself From the Internet
Outspoken game designer David Jaffe is trying to teach himself that on the internet, silence is golden. So he's going to see if he can "just shut the f**k up" for the next six months, and he's even willing to make a wager on it.
When David Jaffe says something, he typically does it in the loudest way. Caps Lock pressed down so hard there's a fingertip groove in the key, expletives soaring across the internet, Twitter used in exactly the opposite way it's meant to be. 140 characters? Not enough for David Jaffe.
As it turns out, when David Jaffe decides to keep his mouth shut, he still can't help but be outspoken about it. Jaffe has effectively banned himself from the internet in an attempt to teach himself the lesson that we all have to come to terms with eventually, no matter how wrong everybody else online is: it's just not worth it.
"One day I will learn that it's just not worth saying a damn thing," Jaffe wrote on popular message board NeoGAF. "Which really- to be fair- is the smart way I should be doing things. Let's make a deal Neogaf...right here, right now. Let's see if I can JUST SHUT THE F**K UP for the next 6 months."
So Jaffe has suspended his Twitter account and his blog is now invite only. His YouTube channel still seems to be up, but I'm not sure it'll stay that way. Might want to download some of those classic vlogs in case you can't go half a year without watching Jaffe talk to his webcam and wear funny hats. I recommend his take on Sarah Palin, an oldie but a goodie.
And the thing about Jaffe is that he knows how outrageous he is and how outrageous he can be. So he knows that doing this whole Six Months of STFU thing, as I'm calling it, won't be easy for him. Therefore, he's instituting a wager. If he breaks his promise of not voicing his opinion on anything other than the game he's currently developing and you manage to be one of the first three people to call him out on it, well, he'll give you a free copy of his game. A free game, for telling a game developer that he's talking too much about something that's not his game. I'm not sure who to cheer for here.
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