According to Massively, I’m a celebrity now.
NO.
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omg it’s LUM!!
Will you autograph my man-boobs?!
It’s only funny when it happens to someone else …
It’s all fun and games until someone becomes a celebrity.
Well, you are actually pretty awesome) You have an interesting writing style, you write interesting and insightful stuff, sometimes full of teh lulz. Oh, and you have crosslinks to your blog from the sites of Raph Koster, Brian Green and other interesting persons… That pretty much qualifies you for a position of a gamedev celebrity.^^
Deep down, you knew it was going to happen as soon as that photographer realized you look good in a tie.
Well, you know, you’ve had a Wikipedia entry for awhile. You might as well wake up and smell the coffee that you’re well-known enough for at least a minor celebrity status. That what separates a celebrity from a normal Joe is a whole lot of mass delusion is hardly your fault.
Sorry but you don’t get to say a word about it.
You are now officially public property.
It can’t be THAT bad … I guess … So when does the sex tape comes out?
I’m looking forward to the celebrity reality TV show, hope you get Angelina Jolie on your desert island, bud.
At long last, NOW is the time to put my autographed copy of “Massively Multiplayer Games for Dummies” on eBay!
@Stabs – I would watch the CRAP out of a reality show that took various luminaries from the MMO industry and locked them all on an island until they successfully developed a new game. It would be the most violent thing in the history of television.
Of course you’re a celebrity silly! Why else would I have all those photos of you in my candle-lit basement shrine? Oh and you should really change your shampoo, I noticed a little dandruff on last night’s hair clipping. It’s because I CARE about you!!
Well hell, I follow you and I hate mumorpergers. Is that not celebrity status?
Wow, my first celebrity Steam buddy.
Now that you’re some kind of big shot celebrity you should release a game!
This is what happens when you wear a tie in public….
To this day you’re still on my top-10 list of “famous” people I’d like to meet who may not qualify as your typical “famous”. Most are video game industry types.
Already crossed of Nolan Bushnell, and Wil Wright.
As I recall Lum the Mad was number 3 behind… God I forget, I wrote the list in like 1998.
Protest all you like, you know it’s true. You’re almost as famous as Prokofy Neva.
I predicted this back when I found good advice on some Daggerfall website.
Man, I thought my comment was mean…
You are not gonna put a spacesuit and go off the planet, do you?
techincally they called you a “commentators that later move into an official capacity” but you will always be a celebrity to me!
I’ve always felt you underestimate your popularity within the online gaming sphere, but that link is probably a quick marketing tactic by massively to promote your recent articles.
…that I write for a competitor.
FIENDISH of them!
Time to break out the sex scandal, and then you can publish the memoir about your rise and fall!
Sorry, except not.
Lum will lead us to the promised MMO. Have no doubt.
Doesn’t he have to do a stint in some sort of rehab before the memoir?
Celebrity isn’t something you obtain… it’s something you’re given!
Maybe he could team up with Yahtzee Croshaw to defeat a common enemy, like in the comics!
@Toastrider I think first we’ll want to reboot the series, maybe with a modified origin sequence for Lum that retcons all the kebabs
And to think that all of this started with a simple bagel.
I thought the fact that Richard Bartle used an old article of mine as a reading assignment for one of his classes was cool. This is pretty nifty, simply because you really deserve some recognition as an all-around excellent person.
If I didn’t know that was you I would think they used stock photography. That photo looks totally like something from Corbis.
Keywords: Smiling, Businessman
I see something more along the lines of a hilariously gruesome vehicular accident. Like running down the entire EA board of directors in a plane that he somehow didn’t get off the ground. Shouting the entire time… well… you know…
(yes I know all about what happened with the disturbed man and the IRS building in Austin recently, the joke was too good to give up)
It’s hard for me to tell the difference between mmo-based news websites when I’m posting at the speed of light. I have important things to do and not enough time to make posts! But now that leaves me more confused.
Maybe the guy saw your articles and went “well hmm now I need to make an article, let’s see, maybe I’ll just mention that guy and go ‘what do you guys think?’ hell yeah I’m a genius”
Is it time to come out of the wood work and claim i’m having your child?
Nurse! Two litres of mental bleach, STAT!
Or maybe I think Scott Jennings has an entertaining personality and doesn’t inspire the sort of bile-spewing vitriol that, say, Bill Roper’s picture would generate.
Just thinking out loud here.
Hey, try and remember all the little people that helped you get to where you are today.
I wonder how many people who read that article will think that’s a picture of Richard Garriott, since hes the only person mentioned by name in the text of the article.
Does this means its all hookers and blow from here on out?
Well the definetion of “celebrity” is “famous.” And you are fairly famous among MMO geeks.
This shouldnt be a surprise.
If you don’t like the idea of being a celebrity, see how it feels when people stop calling you one.
Been there, done that.
Richard
GASP! I’ve talked over beers with a celebrity!?
I HAD NO IDEA!
Anyway, yeah, I guess you’re fairly well known among certain crowds.
You’re looking at this all wrong. I mean, where else can you find yourself in a tag list with Richard Garriott and Brad Pitt? I think your boss should make you a community manager for this (I mean, who can argue with an MMO star?)
Now that Lum is a household name, he just needs to find an MMORPG being made about Russian tractors and he is set.
“Scott Jennings’s Tractortopia”
Hell, now that I think about it, he could shill his name out for all kinds of shit.
“Scott Jennings’s Aftershave”
“Scott Jennings’s World Of Pets”
“Scott Jennings’s Deus Ex 3″
Of course Lum’s a celebrity. He even had a comic about him a while back.
Whatever… Have all of you forgotten Wirehead?
No one will ever replace Wirehead.
Oh look an Internet celeb. / scampers off!
Does this mean you are now peers with Derek Smart, who is also a noted industry “personality”?
Congratulations, sort of.
Bring back old school ltm!!!! This site was better when it had your ultima online avatar In the logo!!!! Sellout!!!!
It wont be long until I can sell this lock of your hair…
Lum is the Julia Allison of MMOs.
Grats on your ding!