Interview David Gaider Interview

Tags: BioWare; David Gaider

The tireless work - when it comes to spreading the word about the pristine awesomeness of Dragon Age - of the Grey Wardens over at greywardens.com finally payed off. They scored an <a href="http://greywardens.com/2010/04/exclusive-interview-with-biowares-david-gaider-part-1/">interview</a> with Dave Gaider - the lore keeper of the Dragon Age universe - himself.
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Light the place on fire? You sound a bit angry Dave. You should consider to announce a Sprechverbot at work, which basically means that no one is allowed to talk to you unless he's addressed first. Works very well for me. Another possibility would be to have everyone address you with *Your Highness* or *Grandmaster*.
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Spotted at: <A HREF="http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/97431-david-gaider-interview-part-one.html">GB</A>

There are days you hate everyone you work with, and are tempted to light the place on fire because that’s really the only way the unclean spirits will ever be driven out.

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So, underneath all that hair, a piece of his soul still remains, screaming in agony.

So I came in for the interview. In the end, despite how interesting it sounded, I declined the job offer – I was working as a hotel manager at the time and the starting wage for a game writer was a little low. Interesting or not, the entire organization seemed a little fly-by-night, like it could just up and vanish at any moment. So the following Monday I went back to work and discovered my boss, the district manager, had unexpectedly flown in – which was odd. He informed me that the management company had been bought out and they were bringing in their own managers to run the hotels. I was let go, given severance and walked off the property

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So a hotel manager is doing writing for Bioware...

Raghar said:

So I came in for the interview. In the end, despite how interesting it sounded, I declined the job offer – I was working as a hotel manager at the time and the starting wage for a game writer was a little low. Interesting or not, the entire organization seemed a little fly-by-night, like it could just up and vanish at any moment. So the following Monday I went back to work and discovered my boss, the district manager, had unexpectedly flown in – which was odd. He informed me that the management company had been bought out and they were bringing in their own managers to run the hotels. I was let go, given severance and walked off the property

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So a hotel manager is doing writing for Bioware...

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It would explain a few things.

Then there are days when you turn to the others sharing your office and have an amusing chat about the more disturbing aspects of Sailor Moon, and they’re right there with you – not a single beat where they stare at you in bewilderment like you just stepped off the last flight from Mars –

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The key to understanding Bioware.

ScottishMartialArts said:

Raghar said:

So I came in for the interview. In the end, despite how interesting it sounded, I declined the job offer – I was working as a hotel manager at the time and the starting wage for a game writer was a little low. Interesting or not, the entire organization seemed a little fly-by-night, like it could just up and vanish at any moment. So the following Monday I went back to work and discovered my boss, the district manager, had unexpectedly flown in – which was odd. He informed me that the management company had been bought out and they were bringing in their own managers to run the hotels. I was let go, given severance and walked off the property

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So a hotel manager is doing writing for Bioware...

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It would explain a few things.

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That hotel managers like to save the world?*

He probably used to hear the guests' dirty talk through the walls, and now turns it into hot romances for Bio games.

I think he heard the dirty talk and the starkness of how dirty real people can become made him sick, so that's why Bio romances feel so sickeningly forced, cheesy and teeny as a means of escapism. And honestly, he always gave me the impression of one of those premature grown ups, forever stuck in their teenager years in emotional and mental facilities and accordingly have a fixation on experiencing the wasted years of teenager period the way it was supposed to be, fantasized to be. A neverending cycle of peer-approved coming of age epic with all the cool and edginess every aspiring teenager dreamed of having (eg. nearly every hollywood movie ever made).

Clockwork Knight said:

He probably used to hear the guests' dirty talk through the walls, and now turns it into hot romances for Bio games.

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He's probably that sort of a guy who puts hidden cameras in bathrooms.