No snappy headline today.

Posted on February 17, 2006 by Scott Jennings| 102 Comments

As of this afternoon, I’m no longer an employee of Mythic Entertainment.

The parting was on good terms on both our sides… and driven more than anything else by my family and I’s simply wanting to return to the Southwest.

The fact that I’m moving on to a really fantastic opportunity (which I’m not sure I can talk about yet) also doesn’t hurt. :)

At any rate, as you can well imagine, things are REALLY HECTIC for me right now. More later.

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  • http://www.corpnews.com Mr. Poppinfresh

    Be any more secretive and they’ll do an end-run around FISA to wiretap you.

  • http://ambernight.org Amber Night

    No snappy comments from me today. I’m sorry for Mythic, but happy for you Lum! I’m sure you’ll keep us all up to date on your new life and going ons. Best of luck to you!

  • savagex

    Grats!

  • http://www.corpnews.com Galt

    Quite the news Lum. All the best!

  • Staarkhand

    Let us know what you’re doing as soon as you can. For now, how about some juicy hints. Can we safely assume it’s in the gaming industry, possibly of the MMO flavor? Will you no longer prevaricate about how you’re not really a game designer, just a jumped up database programmer?

    Anyhow, best of luck, and being ultimately selfish I hope you’re going to work on a new MMO so you can contribute directly to my life. You do have something to offer.

  • Balasarius

    Congrats!

    Please tell us that you’re working for Blizzard on the Starcraft MMO.

    I want to be a Protoss Templar.

    Entaro Adun, executor!

    /giggle

  • http://jnfr.com Kytelae

    Very cool. Southwest where?

  • scottj

    Yes, it is in the MMO industry, and no, I can no longer use the “I’m not really a designer” copout.

    Further I cannot say until I am debriefed by Echo Base.

  • http://www.camelotherald.com Sanya

    Fucking fucker.

    (Inside joke, people, nothing to see here, move along.)

  • Caya

    Wow, congratulations :)

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  • Mandella

    I know, you’re going to be working for Cornered Rat, aren’t you?

    Heh, I kid, but seriously whatever has Lum the Mad involved as an actual dev will certainly be on my “got to try it out” list.

  • samsam

    Congrats, Lum! Mythic won’t be the same without ya, I’m sure – I hope I don’t regret reactivation of my DAoC accounts….

  • Vowels

    That’s great news!

    I hope no one shoots me for hoping the original post meant the LtM site would achieve resurrection, hehe. I’d far rather have a brand new MMOG though. :)

    V

  • Laitriem

    *sniffles* NOOOOOOOOOOO
    *hugs Lum* I will miss you fixing stuff–and wish you all the best

  • Aufero

    “REALLY HECTIC” must be an understatement. Good luck with the move, and congratulations on not being able to deny being a designer anymore.

  • Kathygnome

    Hey, good luck! Southwest? Northeast? South America? Afghanistan? It’s all better than living in the District burbs.

  • Elistor

    Must fight urge..
    Must not give in…
    oh who am i kidding….

    WE FEAR CHANGE

    *hudles in a corner*

    Someone had to say it

  • http://blog.psychochild.org/ Psychochild

    Good luck, man. Now you’ll see what it’s like to really be under the hammer. :)

    Have fun,

  • Just_a_guess
  • http://www.fiercekitten.com/ Georgia

    I think Scott would rather scoop his eyeballs out with a rusty spork pulled out of a toilet Mr. Just_a_guess.

  • http://www.killtenrats.com Zubon

    Positive things for you. Don’t forget to spread the word if they need more. ;)

  • http://therrik.blogspot.com/ Therrik

    Best of luck Scott. Good to see you won’t be able to use the “not a designer” cop out anymore. Still sad to see you leave Mythic.

  • Merusk

    Big grats, Scott. Best of luck in the Southwest and wherever you’re running off to.

    I take it they offered you *2* bagels, hm?

  • http://ve3d.ign.com/ Apache

    The heat and low humidity is good for old bones :)

  • Toastrider

    Once again, Lum is taxiing to victory.

    –TR

  • Evangolis

    Good luck and congratulations.

  • Pander

    A rant site will someday bitch about Lum’s game.

    And then the circle will be complete. The world will unravel, the next age will begin, and the dragon will be reborn.

    Good luck!

  • Freakazoid

    Wow. I wouldn’t have expected that.

    Good luck in whatever your new job is. Maybe you’ll actually get to design something! And it might be fun!

  • http://www.cesspit.net/ Abalieno

    *A rant site will someday bitch about Lum\’e2\’80\’99s game.*

    I’ll do it first!

  • Pander

    *ADDENDUM*

    A *good* rant site will someday bitch about Lum’s game.

  • http://www.wtfno.org Jiffy

    “and the dragon will be reborn.”

    And then large volumes of text will be written which don’t actually say anything. No wait….we already have someone doing that….. (we

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  • http://gawain.diaryland.com Gawain

    WOW!

    Well I was going to reup this week for camelot, but now… DOOOOOOOOMED!

    Now what will happen to camelot? I picture an apocolyptic meltdown, culminating in Sanya burning down mythic hq, and the lamb laying down with the lion, and silence covering the sky.

    And later you’ll look back and feel guilty that you alone brought on the downfall of mythic by leaving.

    heh.

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  • http://www.edgecase.net/devsite Cael

    I’ll look forward to the gloating official press-releases.

    Have an easy move.

  • http://www.skotos.net/articles/bth.html Jessica Mulligan

    See, now we can all say: “I knew him when…”

  • Walter Y

    [...]Now what will happen to camelot? I picture an apocolyptic meltdown, culminating in Sanya burning down mythic hq, and the lamb laying down with the lion, and silence covering the sky.[...]

    So, you actually expect things to improve around here with Scott leaving?

    Best of luck, Scott.

    -Walt

  • http://www.gamingtrend.com Jason Ballew

    Have to say, MMO and Southwest pretty much spells Austin. Could be wrong though, and, of course, best of luck to you, Lum. Like I told you at AGC, without The Rantings of Lum the Mad, I never would have gotten the nerve up to try doing net-journalism work myself.

    Good luck with your new job, and may you work on a game that Does Not Suck.

  • Coppersworth

    BAh! Tell us the part you can’t talk about right now! The suspense is killing me!

  • Erkht

    Old man shuffles out front door, film at 11.. Be sure to give the jar a kick on the way out and release that fairy!

    Austin is more South than West (twang!).. I’d say Orange County or Insane Diego would be more fun.. Everyone knows AoE *really* stands for Axis of Evil, so don’t go there, please!

    Of course, wherever you go, there you’ll be, and be useful I’m sure..

    Congrads Lum!

  • JLB

    Does this mean you will be working on the long awaited sequel to WW2 Online?

  • Gar

    W00T!

    that is all ..

  • Debbie

    Hmm…. Echo base sounds Stargate.

    They are making that in the Phoenix area and that qualifies as south west =)

  • http://ve3d.ign.com/ Apache

    ! I live in Phoenix :)

  • http://www.guildportal.com Aaron Lewis

    Hmmmm… NCSoft has an office in Texas, too!

  • http://www.stormhammer.org/forums Naladini

    Oddly enough, when I opened my mailbox today, the subject of one of the emails was:

    A New Heavy Weapons System Blasts Its Way Into Star Wars Galaxies!

    I thought it might have something to do with this announcement, alas, it did not….

  • LanTheWarder

    Congrats Lum here’s hoping it’s something in Austin.

  • http://www.cesspit.net/ Abalieno

    **Old man shuffles out front door, film at 11..**

    Reminds me “The Straight Story” from David Lynch :)

  • Wanderer

    Let us know as soon as you can, so we can anticipate playing it!

    And your contract damn well better have a clause explicitly permitting the rantings of Lum the Mad, or the company in question is going to have an awful lot of us to deal with.

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