Comments on: SHINY MEDIA HAS GONE BUST

By: Rock, Paper, Shotgun: super-hammers of happiness » The Sunday Papers

Rock, Paper, Shotgun: super-hammers of happiness » The Sunday Papers — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 16:26:44 +0000

[...] I missed this when it was posted, but reading Zorg’s take on his time working for the corporate dollar after selling out UK Resistance (and then getting …. [...]

By: GigerPunk

GigerPunk — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:13:53 +0000

da_cat – You mean all the Pet Shop Boys references weren’t enough of a clue?
And then there’s the quote:
“And I did not have sexual relations with any Shiny Media personnel….Being surrounded by that many confident women makes you feel a bit frightened.”

Is it just me that thinks the first part of that sounds very much like Bill Clinton? I say remove all the dresses of Shiny media employees (the female ones anyway) and test them for stains.

By: da_cat

da_cat — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:46:35 +0000

Buy an audi TT ? Zorg is GAY ?! Man – I didnt see that coming…

By: londonblue

londonblue — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:10:09 +0000

Ahh ChrisS if you own part of WiiWii then perhaps you’ll get access to it 3 days per week or something…

By: ChrisS

ChrisS — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 19:49:10 +0000

Ah. Presumably this would explain why I can’t post pics on my (Shiny part-owned) Wii blog any more. As well as why I’ve not had any money for a little while.

Good to know.

Also: 32k a year? Crazy. Still, you were worth it for the occasional witty and erudite post on WiiWii, fella. Well done, that man.

By: M. Zorg

M. Zorg — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:38:52 +0000

I hate to join in on the old “everyone was great” line, but everyone at Shiny was pretty damn good at writing. It was the templates that held everyone back. Simple stuff like not having a working comments system in the year 2009 and the adverts that obscured two-thirds of the content – literally physically repelling readers.

By: londonblue

londonblue — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 15:27:38 +0000

Nice one, Kat, as ever. Not taking anything away from Gary’s writing, but presumably if everyone else was so bad that’s why you hired two SM writers for T3?

Funny because in the past you’ve said how great a lot of SM writers are/were.

BTW nice wage, Gary ;) glad I wasn’t on that much as the owings would be even more horrendous!

By: Mister Moth

Mister Moth — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:23:02 +0000

Is anyone else sort of interested in how UKR would’ve looked in Shiny Template of Terror mode? Would it have utilised one of the reader logos, I wonder?

By: Ulick McGee

Ulick McGee — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 09:43:13 +0000

You jammy get!

By: M. Zorg

M. Zorg — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 07:44:05 +0000

Posts on the weekends? That’s always been for extreme emergencies only. Have to pretend we’ve all got something better to do on Saturdays & Sundays.