MDickies Wrestling Empire 2008 goes freeware.

[Skittle]

Theres two versions of the game, a career one and one where you manage a promotion.

Career:
http://www.mdickie.com/downloads/wm2008ce/wm2008ce_fullgame.exe

Managemant Edition:

http://www.mdickie.com/downloads/wm2008 ... llgame.exe

Also MDickie has the biggest ego in the world, check out his page of self-quotes on his website - http://www.mdickie.com/feat_quotes.htm

He even has his own book with his own face on the cover - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1441414983


Shine on you crazy narcissistic fuck.

[Skittle]

On a side note, MDickie is hilariously mental.

It's not easy being a man of integrity. Like some sort of superhero, you have to be prepared to do battle with injustice wherever you see it. This particular adventure begins with the unlikely scenario of me embarking on an acting class - for no other reason than I enjoyed it at school and felt it might be a skill worth exploring as games and movies grow closer together. Hey, if you know you're capable of anything, why not? However, I had forgotten what it's like to sit before an insecure teacher and their flock of servile sheep. This one had the knives out for me from the start - beginning, rather predictably, with a stab at my name. She found the name "Dickie" objectionable and implied that I might like to change it for the sake of my career. "Not a chance", I retorted, pointing out that it was unique and memorable (a journalist I haven't had contact with in over 5 years instantly remembered who I was for that very reason). Besides, I wear it as a battle scar that states you can give me the most ridiculous name possible and I'll still make people respect it. She should have been paying ME for this wisdom! Realizing that my mind wasn't up for grabs, she then moved onto the physical and demanded to know why I was sitting in a "confrontational manner". This, I discovered, meant having good posture and holding your head high. I cautioned her that it was a side effect of being fit and confident, and refused to apologize for it. "Why is physical strength important to you?", she pressed, "Were you bullied at school?". "No, I bully bullies", I offered, "That's why I'm standing up to you". We could have made a movie right there with such classic lines! She wasn't impressed though, and pointed out that of all the people in the class I was the only one that had a problem with her. Trying to make MDickie feel bad about being "the odd one out"? The poor bitch didn't know that I could write a book on why that's a GOOD thing! I submitted that I was the only one with the courage and honesty to say what I was really thinking, and again refused to apologize for it. On the contrary, I took it as an enormous compliment. Any fool can sit there nodding their head and smiling politely if it gets them through the next 10 minutes without incident. Clutching at straws, the poor woman then claimed that "I need her more than she needs me". Again, I had to disagree and asserted that I don't need anyone for anything. She misunderstood my words spectacularly, as weak opponents often do, and dismissed me as a soulless robot who doesn't HAVE anyone or anything. I countered that divorcing yourself from "need" is actually the height of humanity and elevates you to a place of CHOICE - where you can in fact "have" anything you want. Since psychoanalysis was the order of the day, I then submitted that her thoughts turned to a "robot" because she wished I was one - and was rather annoyed that I had too much character to be controlled by her! And with that I stormed out of her pitiful class, which hadn't touched upon "acting" in its entire 3-hour length. It seems that skill, like every other, is one that I'll have to master on my own - free from the clutches of embittered has-beens who don't know what they're talking about...

[Merk]

This reads like a grammatically incorrect, autoerotic self help guide. I had never before realised that MDickie was such an idiot. Although I did enjoy reading his list of 'Classic Quotes' , which seems to be comprised almost entirely out of poorly constructed tautologies. I did find his self-deluded psuedo-intellectual persona amusing, though. He clearly thinks himself something of a polymath, whilst managing to retain only the shadow of the particular point he wishes to make in his writing. This makes him infinitely more hideous than Adam Ryland - a goal that I thought it never possible to achieve:

Your life can't go in any one direction without your consent...[sic: unrequired ellipsis]
[Dickie, M., 'Classic Quotes', MDickie.com (http://www.mdickie.com/feat_quotes.htm)]

This one is fantastic. It sounds like it was lifted straight from the pages of a revolting NLP guide.

"If you fret over your weaknesses, you have no faith in your strengths...[sic: unrequired ellipsis]"
[Ibid.]

This is one of the many cases of a self defeating argument that can be sourced from the same page. Dickie fails to notice that fretting over weaknesses has very little to do with faith in one's strengths. His advice to desist with the former would make preemptively dispensing weaknesses impossible. Did people really subscribe to this utter garbage?

[Skittle]

More MDickie Madness...

Like a lot of gamers, I was unusually shy as a child. I still have my quiet moments to this day, but rather more by choice. Ever since I formed a perfect triangle between mind, body, and soul at the age of 21, I've forgotten what insecurity feels like! In case any of you have your anti-social moments, I thought I might offer some words of wisdom on the timeless war between extroverts and introverts. Lest we forget, the extrovert would have you believe that he's somehow "better" than you. You know the type. He bursts into a room with meaningless words spilling out of his manic face, before looking at you with despair - as if to say, "don't you wish you were as lively as me?". If you look at it scientifically, you certainly SHOULDN'T be wishing you were like him! It's thought that the extrovert mind is incapable of taking in stimuli from the outside world (they're literally "ignorant"!). In order to compensate, they have to turn the volume up on what little information they take in - and possibly even create dramas out thin air. Meanwhile, the introvert mind is clocking everything in the room like a 3.0gHz processor and may actually be overdosing on stimuli. In order to cope, they have to tone down the volume and withdraw from any more sources of drama. Neither extreme is particularly desirable, but you can take faith in the fact that quiet people are actually too intelligent for their own good! Indeed, some Native American cultures consider the quiet man to be the greatest of all men - because he judges himself infinitely and not once does he judge others. You can trust him because he never lies, and he's thought to be strong because he doesn't burden others with his problems. The Buddha offered similar sentiments about still rivers running deep, and rocks enduring the wind and rain with a steady stance. The next time you lock horns with a boisterous oppressor, strike a glass and hear the wisdom - the emptiest vessels make the most noise...

He also has another book out - http://www.amazon.com/Sportuality-Mat-Dickie/dp/0956160913/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1261487656&sr=8-4

[Skittle]

MDickie.Fucking Pioneer.

After giving it some serious thought over the past couple of years, I've finally decided to reduce the role that making games plays in my life. As anyone who has spent more than 5 minutes at this site will know, game development transcended "entertainment" in my hands and became an all-encompassing philosophy that occupied my every waking hour. That level of commitment and sacrifice enabled me to achieve some extraordinary things in this field. I've pioneered the most productive work ethic the games industry has ever known, unleashed it on some concepts we never thought we'd see, and basked in the kind of media attention that most mainstream studios can only dream of. But alas, after almost a decade, the wheels are coming off the machine and the fuel it consumes can no longer be justified. The amount of work that goes into this site and my games has always been ever so slightly out of synch with the rewards. At this level - as in all independent endeavours - there's very little money to be made (if any), and the only thing that made it worthwhile was the approval of an audience. Now even that can't be banked on, as the Internet evolves into an increasingly sinister place where entertainment has no value. Although it gives a lot of things life (myself included), the web also deals out plenty of death - creating a sea of mediocrity in which games, music, books, TV shows, and movies all find themselves being acquired for nothing and consumed with abandon. Heaven for you as a consumer; hell for anybody that would dare to devote their lives to mastering an art form. For all the millions of people surfing the net in search of entertainment, very few of them end up on the shores of independent gaming - and fewer still appreciate what they're looking at. Meanwhile, advances in technology lay waste to those that have roots in the past. It's bad enough that an independent game developer has to compete with the flawless visuals of the PS3 and the innovative control methods of the Nintendo Wii. The fact that Windows Vista has practically HALVED the number of people that can use PC programs without incident does nothing to strengthen the platform upon which so many independents rely. Throw in the stresses of running your own business and you've got a profession that has long since ceased to be "fun". All of which leaves me staring at the prospect of working inhumanly hard for very little reward - either personal or financial - and that's simply not a game I'm willing to play anymore. Although I'll probably always make games in the same way an artist paints and a musician plays, we can expect them to be downgraded to a rare treat rather than a conveyor belt of produce. Who knows? Maybe that'll bring back the carefree creativity that made me so popular in the first place! Until then, the MDickie you've come to know over the past 10 years must take time out to reinvent himself for the next decade. I don't regret the time I've spent here. It has been a unique and interesting life experience - the likes of which most people die having never tasted. I've felt the highs of being praised by hundreds of thousands of people, I've felt the lows of suffering their criticism - and I've emerged at the other side as a strong character that's able to handle both. Along the way, I've fulfilled a few childhood dreams and given you all something to ponder with regards to human potential and the creative spirit. That's my 20's in the history book. The 30's promise to be a very different chapter indeed...

[jp]

Astounding. May I please reproduce a brief bit from your article on the PWSE, maybe the links to the freeware, and then provide credit and a link back here? And if so, what credit and other info do you want? I'm going to have to add this and TEW into a post about them both becoming freeware, oh the pace of news.

[Merk]

Astounding. May I please reproduce a brief bit from your article on the PWSE, maybe the links to the freeware, and then provide credit and a link back here? And if so, what credit and other info do you want? I'm going to have to add this and TEW into a post about them both becoming freeware, oh the pace of news.

Please do! Perhaps a small illumination of the Reunion Partay! forum would be in order, if only to allow those who wish to join in an adequate opportunity to do so.

[Skittle]

You can do whatever you want JPie.

[LordHart]

I remember when me, Ravenfusion and Woz ran the first modding team for his games. I think it was for Federation Booker, the last of the 2D games he made. We were featured in the game and all because we were some of his most devoted fans and at this point he wasn't an insane egomaniac who thought he was his own gift to games development.

"The first to criticize are the last to contribute..."

It's funny that we were the first to contribute to making his works more entertaining, yet when someone made up a lie about us spreading his commercial game, he was the first to criticize. What an ass.

"I'd rather fail as an innovator than succeed as an imitator..."

Pretty sure he essentially imitated the Fire Pro series with his 2D games, and No Mercy with his 3D ones. FAIL.

[Merk]

LordHart > MDickie.