Hello, everyone from r.a.s.!
It certainly has been a while since I posted here on the newsgroup.
I've been extremely busy here at Papyrus, to say the least. Anyone
heard of the corporate phrase, "employee at will"? Believe me, that's
what happened after I started here.
To update you about me in the six months since I've posted (in case any
of you remember who I am). My big project right now is overhauling
Papyrus' Web content on the Sierra Web site. By now you've seen the new
Sierra site and will agree with me that the improvements made are
tremendous, especially since now you can find Papyrus a whole lot easier
<G>. Well, I guess putting my SimRacing Online experience on my resume
sparked something, because I now answer to the title "Papyrus Webmaster"
in addition to my original responsibilities.
The first "new design" mini-site will debut on the SODA Off-Road page,
and hopefully this new content will be out sometime in the next couple
of weeks (once I finish it, it still has to go through Sierra before
being put onsite). I hope you all enjoy it once it's up. It's the
first in what I hope to be a comprehensive renovation of our content.
Let me address a few other points that have come to my attention in
recent weeks. I understand a lot of speculation has been flying about
Papyrus and its future. Remember, I spent a couple years on r.a.s. as
one of those *** theorists before coming to work here. Without
going into specifics, let me just say that to assume that Papyrus is
working on vaporware, that Papyrus is dwindling away to nothingness, is
inaccurate (to put it mildly). We're working on some EXTREMELY exciting
stuff here. Sierra Corporate and everyone here want to devote as much
time as possible to these projects to get them done right.
I've also heard about comments regarding people leaving Papyrus. With
all due respect, let me just say -- "Hello!" People leave companies all
the time for a myriad of reasons. I just read that Mr. St. John, the
DirectX guru at Microsoft, is no longer employed there. Yet Microsoft
will continue on with equally talented and devoted people to continue
the work. People like Ed Martin and Jim Sokoloff contributed incredible
amounts of time and effort to their projects here at Papyrus, and their
mark on the company is indelible. But to say that Papyrus will not
continue forth without them not only isn't true; it really
underestimates the drive and devotion that those of us who are still
here have. Someone said that people who are being hired in their stead
don't have the same dedication to sim racing as those who left. Well, I
can promise you that if they DON'T have those qualities, we make dead
sure that they DO within a week of hiring <G>. I am personally making
almost evangelical efforts to win every single person in this company
over to "True Racing Fanaticism(tm)" each day.
Ladies and gentlemen, if ever I contributed anything to sim racing, if
IWCCCARS and SimRacing Online ever proved to be of worth, believe me on
this issue. Papyrus is here for the long run. I certainly would not
want to be anywhere else when it comes to sim racing, even if EA is
spending megabucks on marketing to convince you that they are the
end-all be-all of racing games. I am solidly convinced that the TRUE
test of sim racing games for the PC is sitting down and playing them.
When you sit down and play our existing and future games, you will
realize that Papyrus is far from dead.
Sorry to have been out of the loop for so long. I will make a concerted
will forward tech support mail to Sierra (it's their job, anyway) and
some questions regarding future products cannot be answered yet. And
I'll try to keep up with r.a.s. more frequently.
Thanks,
Tony
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Papyrus Design Group, Inc.
The views expressed are mine alone and
do not represent Papyrus in any official capacity.
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Not only do we not remeber you.. We dont carfe who you are now....
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My big project right now is overhauling
Big Deal...
re games, you will
Mega corporate clone bullchips deleted
So now the evil Ken is sending in his clone employees
What a crock of crap.....
Welcome back Tony!!!
It's good to see you around here again.
I hope you didn't miss all the Ymenard stuff that went on here while you
were gone. pretty funny stuff.
Would you be interested in overthrowing our fearless leader YMenard and
takeing over his self inflicted leadership? (Where is our leader anyway
dammit??)
Mike Lewis
You know, it's people like you with posts like yours that REALLy make
visiting here so entertaining! It's like watching a chimpanzee play with a
typewriter!
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Bruce
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"To be or not to be? Well, I'd rather 'be', if you don't mind!"
Finely, a sane voice rises up from the sea of shit )
welcome back Tony.
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John
> Hello, everyone from r.a.s.!
> It certainly has been a while since I posted here on the newsgroup.
> I've been extremely busy here at Papyrus, to say the least. Anyone
> heard of the corporate phrase, "employee at will"? Believe me, that's
> what happened after I started here.
> I'll try to keep up with r.a.s. more frequently.
SNIP
> Thanks,
> Tony
> --
> Papyrus Design Group, Inc.
> The views expressed are mine alone and
> do not represent Papyrus in any official capacity.
>Not only do we not remeber you.. We dont carfe who you are now....
Who the hell are you to presume to speak on my behalf? YOU may not
care, others (those who have a clue) think rather differently. What
have YOU ever done for this newsgroup? If it's even a quarter of what
Tony has done I will be astounded.
"Oh mommy, the big corporate world is against me!!!!". Wake up.
John
Hey ever learnt to spell properly?
You really are not a nice person are you.
Welcome back Tony.
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Glenn Beaumaris
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"I Believe in God-After All Helen Hunt exists"
HELEN HUNT:
COOL "The day I got to hand over my tank top to the stunt woman on
Twister."
UNCOOL "Any TV series that has a Very Special Episode."
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With idiots like Farfel posting flames like the one above,
it's no wonder "inside people" stay away from USENET.
Also, when you're planning on posting something for the
world to see, at least check to see if it makes you appear
to be a moron. It does...
> I
> >To update you about me in the six months since I've posted (in case
> any
> >of you remember who I am)
> Not only do we not remeber you.. We dont carfe who you are now....
Many of us remember him, and don't care who YOU are...so get off it.
Tony made a lot of contributions to Sim Racing (remember the name of
this newsgroup?) before you even learned how to boot Mom's PC.
It looks like his positive contribution got him a great job with Papy.
I don't recall what YOUR positive contribution to this group was...
I wish Tony the best of luck, and if an "ex-RASer" can give us the
inside line on what's going on at our fave software development house,
then great!
Now, you go tell Mommy that the PC isn't talking nice to you...
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Neil Yeatman
Ajax, Ontario, CANADA
My REAL email address is:
ICQ# 1315725
