All My Old Skool Mocker Pals

[Buffalo Tom]

Well, I got a job offer from Electronic Arts in Los Angeles.

Wish me luck! :)

[Mockery]

Whoah! Nice man, many congrats? So what you going to be doing for them exactly? Design? Coding? Testing?

[Buffalo Tom]

Front-end GUI programmer on 'Goldeneye 2'. :)

I'm still shellshocked. This is my dream job.

[Bennett]

Major Congrats!

Do you have to move? I'm not a big L.A. fan, but to be able to land a job like that, i think, would more than make up for it.

[Buffalo Tom]

Yup. EA will basically pack up my belongings for me (including my car) and move everything down there.

[Comrade Rocket]

thats extremlly cool. Keep us informed and make sure they dont mess it up.

[Karnage]

Awesome! I don't even know you, but good luck. That'll be a cool job.

[Helm]

Good luck with that!

[Buffalo Tom]

Hey, Mock, can you list some good books/tutorials/documentation for Flash?

You and Doopa should apply. EA Los Angeles is on a major hiring craze.

[Protoclown]

Holy shit, John! That's fucking awesome!! Good luck to you and I hope you have a blast out there!

[Mockery]

Hey, Mock, can you list some good books/tutorials/documentation for Flash?

You and Doopa should apply. EA Los Angeles is on a major hiring craze.
What's your AIM name Buffalo? I'll talk to ya all about the Flash stuff. I'd love to work for EA, but I doubt I have anything to offer them other than being a game designer (not graphics, I mean being able to create storylines 'n all that). But yeah, Re could definitely do some killer graphics for EA. Perhaps a texture artist or something along those lines...

That's so cool you're gonna be programming games for them. And no matter how hard it may get man, don't give up. You now have a job that many people would kill for. :o

[sports]

Wow, congrats man. EA is a big video game company, you have to be real good to work for them.

[Helm]

Let's not let this fucking moron spoil the jovial mood. I'm going to try to restrain myself.

Uh... sports. Your statement was a bit on the obvious side. And a tad useless. It's like as if someone told you "I have 23 festering back wounds and they hurt like hell" and you replied "really? that's almost 25!". See? Yes. Bye.

[Buffalo Tom]

Well, now you know someone on the 'inside'.

Thanks to all my old skool Mocker pals. They know who they are.

Check out the listings for the LA studio:

LA JOBS (http://jobs.ea.com/pljb/global_jsp/applicant/SearchAgentMgr/SearchProcess.jsp;jsessionid=CA4AB61A53B84521554A3 5E77E70EFA8?pljbHome=/ElectronicArts/United_States/applicant/index.jsp&searchaction=Search&keyword=&jobType=&jobTitle=&jobLocationRegion=&jobLocation=CA%20-%20Los%20Angeles&orderby=)

[Mockery]

Well, now you know someone on the 'inside'.
Ooooooo, über connections :o

That's good to know though, especially since we want to move out West anyway.

Hope you're ready to let us crash at your place. ;)

[Buffalo Tom]

Heh, you guys will have to fend for yourselves if you crash at my place, because I'm a lazy host.

[Carnivore]

I expect the fact that you will no longer live in Canada will do nothing to curb your taunting me about my beloved Bruins. In any event, congratulations. You rock and you deserve it.

Mock, could we please delete the posts of any non-Old Skool Mockers in this thread?

[AChimp]

Awesome sounding job, BT. Be sure to hide lots of obscene easter eggs. ;)

[bigtimecow]

HOLY SHITE


GRATS MANG

[ArrowX]

Holy SHIT congrats guy!

Whats the pay like and where in LA are youmoving?

Holy Jesus I thought this place was like a bottom of the barrel site with noone of importance. Guess you proved mt wrong!

[HickMan]

DON'T MAKE IT SUCK >:

Good luck, Tom. Even though half of the people who posted in this thread, including me are not old skool :/ good luck anyway

[Drev]

If you were a true I-Mocker, you'd give us all copies of Goldeneye 2 :peerpressure

[eggyolk]

It's all a joke. :lol

:(

[Anonymous]

holy shit!! I am so freakin happy for you! You are awesome and completely deserve it. man, I love to hear great news like this.

[Buffalo Tom]

Thanks everybody. :)

I don't forget friends, so everybody I've met in person here who has aspirations to get into the video game industry, consider me your 'inside' source.

[executioneer]

i wish i counted as an old skool mocker pal :(

[ziggytrix]

+cool points for West Coast Mockers :P

[Dole]

"Front-end GUI programmer on 'Goldeneye 2'.

I'm still shellshocked. This is my dream job."

-fookin ell!! Thats amazing....sincere congratulations dude, not only do you get to work for a cool games company, but goldeneye 2!

[executioneer]

yeah seriously :(

[da blob]

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

great.

[Geggy]

it's great that you got the job at EA and all but my question is, will you be keeping us posted on the upcoming batman film in the movie forum?

will you? :(

[Mockery]

He am Batman. :o

[mburbank]

Well done, sir. I couldn't be happier for you. Well, I could, buit only if you were me. When you touch down and are settled let me know. A friend of mine is a stand up out there and I think you might enjoy his rawther off beat style.

[glowbelly]

hip hip hooray!

so happy for you, bt. although i am a little upset that there won't be any more spur of the moment concert goings with you around these parts.

you deserve this...and i'd like to extend to you an early welcome into the united states. please make sure you register to vote.

are you going to keep your canadian citizenship? are you going to be a dual kinda guy? can i come visit? don't you just love eggs?

[Buffalo Tom]

are you going to keep your canadian citizenship? are you going to be a dual kinda guy? can i come visit? don't you just love eggs?

I'm going to keep my citizenship because, like the commercial says, I am Canadian. And a democratic socialist. I can't forget that. :posh

I'm going to get some doo-hickey visa thing from EA. Their relocation department is going to take care of that.

Of course you can visit, dearie! I expect you to!

Yes, I love eggs. I made a delicious omelette last night! :)

[sspadowsky]

BT! Cheers, dude! Congratulations. I hope it works out great for you.

John.... you ah the mahn. Remembah that.

[Anonymous]

Congratulations :> Most game GUIs are terrible (actually, most GUIs in general are terrible), so here's to hoping you build on that Canadian spark of success initally set off by Chris Benoit. ;<

DON'T FORGET ME WHEN YOU'RE OUT THERE, THOUGH. I'M THAT GUY YOU SAW ONCE IN NEW YORK AND WHO DIDN'T TALK MUCH, BUT I'LL BE GOD DAMNED IF YOU SPURN ME NOW ;<

[Buffalo Tom]

I'd tell you that you'd be welcome to visit, Sspad, but I know how much you want to LA to sink into the ocean. ;)

[AChimp]

I'm going to get some doo-hickey visa thing from EA. Their relocation department is going to take care of that.
HOORAY FOR GREEN CARDS! :picklehat

Just think, BT, you'll be able to support all of your extended family with the US dollars that you can send back home. Landing this job was like winning the lottery. :tear

[ArrowX]

How much are you getting paid?

[glowbelly]

now there's a not so personal and completely acceptable question to ask a person you don't even know.l

[Hobo Renee]

Ah, you're moving to the Golden State just as I'm leaving. Well, don't forget to Bring.Your.Own.Oxygen. Besides that you should be just fine. When I'm famous and living in LA as all celebrities do we shall hang out all the time, until then good luck.

[Comrade Rocket]

Need more west coast mockers anyways.

[McClain]

Good for you BT. You da' feckin' man! We'll have to get together and spend some of your hard earned money on dinner now that you're close. That is, of course, if they ever let you out the programming dungeon. I've heard stories about these cats.

[Buffalo Tom]

Good for you BT. You da' feckin' man! We'll have to get together and spend some of your hard earned money on dinner now that you're close. That is, of course, if they ever let you out the programming dungeon. I've heard stories about these cats.

Yup, those stories are true, though for a dungeon, the EA studio is pretty swanky.

We'll get together for a beer some time. My uncle is a retired chief of operations for the Navy who lives in San Diego, and I will be visiting him every so often.