Hanneth

 
 
Quotes from the Ultima Online Team

"Rick's in there hacking at roofs."

- Raph

"That's BACKSLASH, Unix boy!"

- Jim Greer, seeing Raph trying to type a DOS pathname.

"I didn't touch your tree!"

-  Kristen

"It would look like:  WHACK, WHACK-WHACK, WHACK, WHACK-WHACK, WHACK."

-Andrew

"Oh!  What are you working on now -- reproduction?"

- Raph

"I'm gonna go make some ham for the wolves to eat."

- Raph

"I like the dirty rectangle."

- Scott

"No problem.  For the server, we'll just slap on a couple more gigs."

- Scott

"So, does Scott come before Edmond or Rick?"

- Kristen

"This sucks!  Who wrote this piece of sh*t?"

- Edmond to Andrew, knowing full well who wrote the piece of...

"Just don't water my snake."

- Rick

"You ain't gonna like this woman with his arms on her."

- Micael

"We're striving for your magic, and I'm going  to come and rub your head everyday until we get it."

- Andrew to Scott, who wasn't having trouble getting things to work.

"You could try rubbing network cables."

- Rick to Andrew, in response to above.

"If it's easier to get it up without going through the paperdoll...."

- Jeff

"I made a penguin once."

- Scott

"Add some... splotches of cool texture stuff."

- Scott

"Now you're playing with bars again."

- Scott

"Eeeewwww, he bit the duck's butt off!"

- Raph and Kristen

"No!  I bit the duck's head off -- far less gross!  Well, less gross."

- Andrew

"Oh, there's the better corpse."

- Raph

"I'm sorry, Marsh, I didn't mean to hit you in the privies with Raph's shaft."

- Andrew

"I like destroying pictures."

- Scott

"I look at that and I don't see Lord British... I see a cool guy."

- Scott

"I am Greenhead of the Buck Naked tribe."

- Marshall

"We saw Todd's corpse with his legs wrapped around a lamppost... it looked all weird...."

- Kristen

"Hang on a second -- I need to look at this pair of breasts first."

- Andrew

"There's a fifty-fifty chance if there's enough meat you can assemble a baker out of it."

- Raph

"This looks like Doom."

- Todd, upon viewing Duke Nukem for the first time.

"Yes, but this one has nekkid chicks."

- Marshall

"Don't love it -- you could get it sticky."

- Raph

"Just think -- a marble bear is better than a marble mongbat."

- Todd

"In addition to this, they are spending money to be dead."

- Kristen, on why ghosts shouldn't have to be bored.

"She licked it all over and stuck it on there."

- David

"Oh, could I have a pet waitress?"

- Scott

"Let them eat tables."

- Mark R.

"I don't like units on girls."

- Starr

"I, too, used to be someone women respected."

- Kevin

"I'm wearing trolls."

- Scott

"There's a chicken running rampant through Nujel'm right now."

- Todd

"You've got a little ding-ding that goes off."

- Kevin

"I was heartbroken for three days after I accidentally mowed over my Chewbacca."

- Scott

"I'm just gonna have you rebuild the world after this meeting."

- Starr

"Marsh hurt his hand in a CLAPPING accident??"

- the rest of the team, when Marsh showed up with a bandage on his hand

"So we make man-eating apple trees and the apples will show up?"

- Joye

"I guess I was hoping there wouldn't BE any bugs."

- Ragnar

"This game is like, perfect for multiplayer stuff."

- Gary Scott Smith

After Ragnar ate some dried mealworms with spice:
"No thanks, I'm at a sociological stage of development where I don't NEED to eat bugs anymore."

- Dan

After Mark admitted to eating two as well:
"It' a good thing they're not alive."

- Kevin

"Yeah, they'd breed in your stomach."

- Brian

"I'll only be having one piece of this delicious looking cake that someone very kindly left in my office, (along with a great deal of glitter which I will not eat). Have some cake, it's better than mealworms!"

- Brian on his birthday.

"I will not compare Ultima Online to Diablo."

- Scott, on the team whiteboard in the hallway.

"I will not go work at Ion Storm."

- anonymous, on the team whiteboard, after several folks DID

"Can we change the perspective?"

- marketing guy, mere weeks from beta

"'Twas the day before beta,
And all through the code
Not a damn thing was working...
Not even god mode."

- several programmers, improvising at lunch

"No more demos!"

- Starr, lying thru his teeth

"What kind of meat do human corpses produce?" -- "No seriously, this is a serious gameplay issue!"

- Starr to Gary

"The rest of my scheduled tasks are meaningless."

- Gary Scott Smith

"Quality takes time."

- Mr. Mike.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah."

- Richard Garriott

"Well, you pulled it out and handed it to her!"

- Chucky Z. to Ragnar

"And she initialed it!"

- Ragnar in response

"My actual title is Reverend Mother."

- Mark F.

"You should spell that 'mutha.'"

- Micael

"I must take this opportunity to state that I have recently noticed some people in this production group, who shall remain nameless, using the word "insure" to mean "ensure".  The couth Originite correctly identifies the word "insure" as a verb meaning "to give insurance to" and the word "ensure" as a verb meaning "to make sure".  The next time you use the phrase "I will insure that this work gets done on time" in my presence, I shall consider this a legal and binding insurance contract and will demand payment when the work is not, in fact, completed on time."

- Jeff Wofford, being pedantic.

"Jennifer went home--she was laying eggs around the building all morning."

- Raph, after Jen did Easter activities all day

"We should get sponsored by Dr. Pepper."

- Rick

"I will not have my baby three weeks early."

- appeared on the whiteboard after Joye did, severely messing up the schedules

"50,000 cigarettes were smoked in the making of Ultima Online."

- our best guess

"You shouldn't give a marketing guy the controls."

- Alex Carloss, VP of Marketing, discussing demos

"It was society's ills that made me place these tiles wrong! It's not my fault!"

- Kevin

"If we don't think there are enough dragons in the mix we just tweak the dragon generator dial on our server side and more dragons appear in the game."

- Starr Long - Gamespot Interview

"How come I haven't seen the Dragon Generator Dial yet?"

- Chuck Crist

"You haven't made the art for it yet? Oh no! The whole system is gonna break down!!"

- Raph

"The resource system works a little too well. There was this huge mob of female bards clumped around me. And I ran, and they all followed me! Naked chicks, mind you! So I had to kill them all."

- Scott

"It's such a happy song to butcher people by."

- Chuck Crist

"There's horses raining from the sky! What do we do about it?"

- Mike McShaffry

"You know, that code makes absolutely no sense to me."

- Todd, watching over Rick's shoulder

"Right now, it's not making much sense to me either. And I just got done writing it fifteen minutes ago."

- Rick (after several all-nighters at work)

"I think there's a bug. I was fighting a dragon, when suddenly he turned around, flew away, turned into an air elemental, and exploded."

- Rick

"Oooo, I want to put on a dress!"
- Scott Phillips

"That'll be $17.08. Two pizzas and breadsticks hey that's an Ultima Online shirt do you know anything about it can yougetmeintothebetawhenisitcomingout I've read ALL about it do you guys workforOriginthatmustbeacooljob!"

- the pizza delivery guy at Raph's door

"I need nothing in particular."

- an NPC when asked what they would like

"If you bring me some nothing in particular, that'd be nice."

- the same NPC, asked a little bit later

"Top 10 things cut from the 3D animations that
would have made the game SO MUCH more fun:
10) Human animation: the Macarena frames
9)  The dancing pig frames.
8)  Human Animation: Running with lantern,
    tripping, bursting into flames frames.
7)  Sheep use animation (baaad avatar)
6)  The Alien <tm> creature out of chest frames
5)  The invisible stalker frames (and JUST the
    frames)
4)  The flaming fish of way way better than doom <tm>
    frames
3)  the bending over 'I just got my bill for hourly time
    on UO' frames.
2)  Dragon Animation: spitting up giant sized hairball
    frames
1)  Polar bear idle frames: Cracking and drinking a coke"

- Todd

"Dammit, I don't think I've got a quote yet. I've got to say something funny soon."

- Jason