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Offline Mongoose

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Mike Kulas retires from Volition
on: April 28, 2011, 04:18:32 pm
Mike Kulas, the founder of FreeSpace developer Volition, Inc. (and co-founder of Descent developer Parallax Software), is stepping down as president of the company after 15 years at its head.  Without :v:, none of us would have a reason to be here, so here's a 21-beam salute to the man who made it all possible.  Thanks for all your hard work, Mike, and best of luck in your future endeavors!
« Last Edit: April 28, 2011, 06:15:24 pm by Mongoose »
 

Offline Jeff Vader

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition Software
Reply #1 on: April 28, 2011, 04:24:28 pm
23:40 < achillion > EveningTea: ass
23:40 < achillion > wait no
23:40 < achillion > evilbagel: ass
23:40 < EveningTea > ?
23:40 < achillion > 2-letter tab complete failure

14:08 < achillion > there's too much talk of butts and dongs in here
14:08 < achillion > the level of discourse has really plummeted
14:08 < achillion > Let's talk about politics instead
14:08 <@The_E > butts and dongs are part of #hard-light's brand now
14:08 <@The_E > well
14:08 <@The_E > EvilBagel's brand, at least

01:06 < T-Rog > welp
01:07 < T-Rog > I've got to take some very strong antibiotics
01:07 < achillion > penis infection?
01:08 < T-Rog > Chlamydia
01:08 < achillion > O.o
01:09 < achillion > well
01:09 < achillion > I guess that happens
01:09 < T-Rog > at least it's curable
01:09 < achillion > yeah
01:10 < T-Rog > I take it you weren't actually expecting it to be a penis infection
01:10 < achillion > I was not

14:04 < achillion > Sometimes the way to simplify is to just have a habit and not think about it too much
14:05 < achillion > until stuff explodes
14:05 < achillion > then you start thinking about it

22:16 < T-Rog > I don't know how my gf would feel about Jewish conspiracy porn

15:41 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
15:47 < EvilBagel> butt
15:51 < Achillion> yes
15:53 <-INFO > EveningTea [[email protected]] has quit [Quit: http://www.mibbit.com ajax IRC Client]

18:53 < Achillion> Dicks are fun

21:41 < MatthTheGeek> you can't spell assassin without two asses

20:05 < sigtau> i'm mining titcoins from now on

00:31 < oldlaptop> Drunken antisocial educated freezing hicks with good Internet == Finland stereotype

11:46 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has joined #hard-light
11:50 < achtung> Surely you've heard of DVDA
11:50 < achtung> Double Vaginal Double ANal
11:51 < Kobrar> ...
11:51 <-INFO > Kobrar [[email protected]] has left #hard-light []
 

Offline Thaeris

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition Software
Reply #2 on: April 28, 2011, 05:17:52 pm
Now, we must ask ourselves...

...How can the SCP get Mr. Kulas to join the project.

:nervous:
"trolls are clearly social rejects and therefore should be isolated from society, or perhaps impaled."

-Nuke



"Look on the bright side, how many release dates have been given for Doomsday, and it still isn't out yet.

It's the Duke Nukem Forever of prophecies..."


"Jesus saves.

Everyone else takes normal damage."

-Flipside

"pirating software is a lesser evil than stealing but its still evil. but since i pride myself for being evil, almost anything is fair game."


"i never understood why women get the creeps so ****ing easily. i mean most serial killers act perfectly normal, until they kill you."

-Nuke
 

Offline sigtau

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #3 on: April 28, 2011, 07:17:28 pm


Everyone must move on in life at some point...
Who uses forum signatures anymore?
 

Offline Nuclear1

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #4 on: April 28, 2011, 07:43:27 pm
Good luck to Mike, with whatever he chooses to do. 
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Axem -  I don't know what I'll do with my life now. Maybe I'll become a Nun, or take up Macrame. But where ever I go... I will remember you!
Axem - Sorry to post again when I said I was leaving for good, but something was nagging me. I don't want to say it in a way that shames the campaign but I think we can all agree it is actually.. incomplete. It is missing... Voice Acting.
Quanto - I for one would love to lend my beautiful singing voice into this wholesome project.
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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #5 on: April 28, 2011, 07:50:23 pm
Damn, sad to see him go. Bye, Mike!
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Offline Kie99

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #6 on: April 28, 2011, 08:02:16 pm
"You shot me in the bollocks, Tim"
"Like I said, no hard feelings"
 

Offline Jadehawk

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #7 on: April 28, 2011, 09:12:51 pm
Having him join us for doing  FreeSpace 3 to complete the saga would be.....totally cool in my book! I can dream cant I? :)
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Offline Destiny

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #8 on: April 29, 2011, 03:32:45 am
Quote from: Thaeris on April 28, 2011, 05:17:52 pm
Now, we must ask ourselves...

...How can the SCP get Mr. Kulas to join the project.

:nervous:
Show him the GTF Kulas?
 

Offline Ypoknons

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #9 on: April 29, 2011, 03:35:22 am
15 years is a long time. Congrats.
Long time ago, you see, there was this thing called the VBB and... oh, nevermind.
 

Offline Deadly in a Shadow

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #10 on: April 29, 2011, 05:12:39 am
Congratulations Mr. Kulas. I hope you will join the SCP soon.^^
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Offline Thaeris

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #11 on: April 29, 2011, 09:02:44 am
Quote from: Destiny on April 29, 2011, 03:32:45 am
Quote from: Thaeris on April 28, 2011, 05:17:52 pm
Now, we must ask ourselves...

...How can the SCP get Mr. Kulas to join the project.

:nervous:
Show him the GTF Kulas?

...Only after the model is HTL'ed...

:nervous:
"trolls are clearly social rejects and therefore should be isolated from society, or perhaps impaled."

-Nuke



"Look on the bright side, how many release dates have been given for Doomsday, and it still isn't out yet.

It's the Duke Nukem Forever of prophecies..."


"Jesus saves.

Everyone else takes normal damage."

-Flipside

"pirating software is a lesser evil than stealing but its still evil. but since i pride myself for being evil, almost anything is fair game."


"i never understood why women get the creeps so ****ing easily. i mean most serial killers act perfectly normal, until they kill you."

-Nuke
 

Offline Infamus

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #12 on: April 29, 2011, 07:32:39 pm
*Salute*


I hope he does some stuff for the SCP team, that would be fukken awsm.
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Offline Enzo03

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #13 on: April 29, 2011, 08:41:56 pm
<o/
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21:20:26   Spoon: I'd hit it like the fist of steiner

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Offline Vespene

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #14 on: April 30, 2011, 01:56:09 am
Mike was not only the founder of Volition, but also the lead programer for FS1 and 2, the latter being his final programing job before assuming full responsibilities as CEO.  This man didn't just give the community the source code, he IS the source code.   

/salute
 

Offline rscaper1070

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #15 on: April 30, 2011, 02:14:26 am
I can see it. He'll do the retirement thing for awhile then start to get bored and get an itch to work on something. Why wouldn't he find his way here and work on one of his greatest games? How much golf can you take? :p
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Offline Snail

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #16 on: April 30, 2011, 05:20:57 am
Let me say that he has shaped my life and I wish him good luck for the future and stuff because he is an excellent man
 

Offline JCDNWarrior

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #17 on: April 30, 2011, 07:16:09 am
Hope to see more of him soon, and I definitely agree that I'd like him to be part of the SCP team here at Hard-Light. It is his home. ;)
I'm all about getting the most out of games, so whenever I discover something very strange or push the limits, I upload them here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/JCDentonCZ

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Offline The E

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #18 on: April 30, 2011, 07:22:36 am
You do know that that is, like, completely unlikely right?
If I'm just aching this can't go on
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There must be changes, miss to feel strong
I really need lifе to touch me
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Offline JCDNWarrior

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Re: Mike Kulas retires from Volition
Reply #19 on: April 30, 2011, 07:38:10 am
Of course it's unlikely, but crazier things have happened. We just shouldnt forget to send a message his way in a few months or so. ^^
I'm all about getting the most out of games, so whenever I discover something very strange or push the limits, I upload them here:

http://www.youtube.com/user/JCDentonCZ

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"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress to more pain."
- George Orwell
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