Judgment day has come for the three remaining members of Left Behind Games' board of directors. After accepting the resignation of senior vice president Jeffrey Frichner, CEO Troy Lyndon has called for the
souls resignations of the rest of his board.
Two months ago, LB Games posted a $4.1 million loss for its fiscal quarter; though at the time Lyndon claimed sales of the company's apocalyptic RTS
Left Behind and an imminent sequel ('cause the world's end can always be spun into an
unending cash cow) would drive the company into prosperity. It's unclear if Lyndon's new demands are the result of continued financial woes or just the will of the divine. With conversion no longer an option, will the board simply kneel before Lyndon and accept damnation?
Gamasutra reports that Michael Knox, who worked with Lyndon at developer Park Place Productions, and Leslie Bocskor, of advisory firm Lennox Hill Parnters, have agreed to serve as interim board co-chairs while the current board members are exercised. "I am excited about the company's future as it extends its presence as a leader in
the family values," said Bocskor.
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Robert @ Apr 30th 2007 3:00PM
lol, souls
sheppy @ Apr 30th 2007 3:08PM
Maybe the company wandered to closely to a rock and roller and lost all their spiritual energy....
Jack of No Trades @ Apr 30th 2007 3:13PM
Religion + Video Games = N/A
Jon @ Apr 30th 2007 3:17PM
Good riddance. Next: the rest of the company.
joe matt @ Apr 30th 2007 3:17PM
Family values? Like portraying any non-christians as not being saved, nor any chance of them being saved? Yeah, those family values. Hey kids, remember, if it's in the bible, it's ok!
Shagittarius @ Apr 30th 2007 3:22PM
May they burn in EDD.
Jack of No Trades @ Apr 30th 2007 3:25PM
Watch the Mission to Mars movie.
It would be funny if the "Holy" creator in the bible was just a Highly Evolved human being that came from another galaxy.
I would point to all the religious people a laugh at their manifested fear of death and false belief.
Eric @ Apr 30th 2007 3:30PM
Ya reap what ya sow
Jack of No Trades @ Apr 30th 2007 3:34PM
I better watch what I type. If people get offened about the Wii no telling what will happen if I talk religion.
*zipped up mouth*
samfish @ Apr 30th 2007 3:35PM
This is what I believe:
http://www.fullmoon.nu/articles/art.php?id=tal
OR DO I?!
samfish @ Apr 30th 2007 3:36PM
You best would be hopin' God isn't a Nintendo fanboy Jack, or you're pretty much fucked...
Poisoned Al @ Apr 30th 2007 3:37PM
Religion and video games can mix Jack! Take Medieval Total War II. If you don't kiss the pope's ass he'll inquisition the fuck out of you! And there's crusades where you kill people because God said so. It's fun!
Jack of No Trades @ Apr 30th 2007 3:39PM
I'll just say a few hail mary's and I will be fine. lol
Jonathan Tran @ Apr 30th 2007 3:42PM
Jack of No Trades,
I'm not going to pretend I think this game is any good but:
1. Don't spoil movies
2. That wouldn't prove anything either way
Love,
Jon
Jack of No Trades @ Apr 30th 2007 3:50PM
Jon
Yes, I know. You can counter any claim with "what made that then" or "if that created this then what that" blah blah blah. Its never ending.
There are so many scientific facts that disclaim 90% of stuff in the bible. Some people are weak minded and need something to fall back on when they are scared or alone. Few people are strong enough to accept that there is more to life than a made-up deity that worked for six days to create the universe.
4ham @ Apr 30th 2007 3:55PM
So will CEO Troy Lyndon be the one who is LEFT BEHIND?! Dunn-Dun-Dunnnnnn!
Rubang B @ Apr 30th 2007 3:56PM
What Jack of No Trades doesn't realize is that G-d is dead. He got hit by a car after he made the Virtual Boy. He WAS on Nintendo's side, and without him Nintendo was lost for a while. So they hired Iwata and Reggie, Satanic priests who signed an unholy pact with Lucifer for the eternal success of the DS and the Wii. Watch out Jack, the DS and the Wii will be so successful there will be NO NEW SYSTEMS EVER.
pablo @ Apr 30th 2007 3:57PM
Jack-
I would have to say that there are probably not "so many scientific facts that disclaim 90% of stuff in the bible." You do realize that believing in science takes just as much (sometimes more) faith as believing in a religion, right? I'm sure you haven't witnessed much of this "science" first hand, so why believe it over anything else? I'd also have a hard time believing that you understand what 90% of the Bible is talking about, let alone refuting it with science...
Rubang B @ Apr 30th 2007 4:07PM
I'm sorry pablo, Jack is being a dick for no reason, and I know you want to argue with him, but it doesn't take faith to believe in science, because it's intentionally falsifiable. Everything can be tested and proven or even disproven and then revised at any moment. That's exactly what makes it so trustworthy. You do believe in science don't you? Science gave us this series of tubes!
Jack of No Trades @ Apr 30th 2007 4:07PM
pablo
Science says when water is heated up to certain degrees it evaporates. Do I need faith to believe that? No, I go boil water. I can test that theory (which is fact) myself. Religion is completely different. Its all based off of a book someone wrote. People have been writing books/stories for ages. The bible is really just a collaboration of randomness. Everything in that book should be dismissed except for the Ten Commandments)
AirIntake @ Apr 30th 2007 4:09PM
"You do realize that believing in science takes just as much (sometimes more) faith as believing in a religion, right?" - pablo
That is not correct pablo. You should invest in a decent post-secondary education.
Rubang B @ Apr 30th 2007 4:16PM
Hell Jack, I don't even think the Ten Commandments make any sense. You seen this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CitfTtMIx8
Jack of No Trades @ Apr 30th 2007 4:21PM
Rubang
Hell Yea! I love George Carlin. He speaks the truth.
Aaron @ Apr 30th 2007 4:22PM
Oh good, samfish is here, he's always good for an unbiased view of the issue. So tell me, would you actually consider an intellectual argument on this topic, or are us Christians too undeserving of the wealth of knowledge that is your intellect?
sheppy @ Apr 30th 2007 4:22PM
Truth be told, a Christian game does have potential. It's just so many developers get into the mindset that their core audience is christians instead of their core audience being gamers. That's the mistake. Seriously, The Bible Game. Look it up and tell me a Bible Trivia quiz show sounds "fun."
And to everyone else, this is Jack.
http://media.urbandictionary.com/image/large/nerd-46422.jpg
Jack is amused when people respond to his bait. Don't be a fish, ignore the bait.
Jack of No Trades @ Apr 30th 2007 4:26PM
sheppy
You found my good picture.
This is you
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/~mcknight/nerd.jpg
pablo @ Apr 30th 2007 4:32PM
Ok guys... So you can all go test out everything that is passed off as science? I mean, I understand that water boils. I also understand that this fact in no way contradicts anything in the Bible. (Red herring)
Rubang, you said yourself that science can, and is, updated and refined regularly. I'm not rejecting all of science ever, I'm just saying think critically. Anyone who blindly accepts "science said it, so it must be true" is just as bad as someone who does the same with religion. We all take 95% of the science we believe as a matter of authority. We choose which scientists we believe and which we don't. You have faith that these guys are accurately conducting tests and reporting the results. I mean, surely no one has ever flubbed the outcome just to get another grant or keep their funding, right?
sheppy @ Apr 30th 2007 4:32PM
Close, Jack... I wear contacts.
Mr Khan @ Apr 30th 2007 4:36PM
The whole problem is that they made a "game for evangelicals" instead of a "Evangelical game"
See the difference?
Rubang B @ Apr 30th 2007 4:40PM
Yes, some scientists are greedy liars, but that's why we have a peer review system where every other scientist on the planet immediately tries to recreate their same results to find out if they're lying or not. When religion has a peer review system in which every religion prays the same way to test out each other's faiths instead of blowing each other up, let's chat. I'll have some questions.
Khan, nice one. Now give me your Wii code.
samfish @ Apr 30th 2007 5:16PM
"Oh good, samfish is here, he's always good for an unbiased view of the issue. So tell me, would you actually consider an intellectual argument on this topic, or are us Christians too undeserving of the wealth of knowledge that is your intellect"
Not with that kind of attitude, no. You didn't even say please!
I also won't show you my penis so you can know what a real one looks like.
Oh, wait. You're one of those reich-wing proto-Nazis, aren't you? Go back to dragging your knuckles on your cave floor, you icky Bush voter, you.
PostScript @ Apr 30th 2007 5:48PM
It’s funny how many "science" proponents state that science is falsifiable and thus inherently more correct than any other potential solution. Specifically, I believe Pablo is referring to cosmology in which it is predominantly theoretical science. There is no way you can falsify or test (at least at this point) any explanation for the creation of the universe. This does not necessarily mean that a God was necessary for the universe to exist, but frankly there is more evidence for a deity creating the universe than any of the major scientific explanations I have indulged (I am looking at you string theory proponents)-- despite what Mr. Dawkins would have you believe. Frankly there is no way in any of our life times that we will know whether a God created the universe or some other "Scientific" explanation is in order. Thus in either case faith is required in order to accept any explanation for the universe. Hence, Pablo is correct in stating that believing in science over a deity requires just as much faith.
Disclaimer:
Just in case anyone would like to contend with my statements, I would like to note that I am an M.A. candidate in a PhD program (this is not to say my opinion carries more weight than anyone else's, rather that science is a large part of my daily life). I consider myself a scientist but that does not mean that I do not believe in God. Each person should pursue the truth and not rely on what one man of science or one man of faith has to say. Instead unbiased critical analysis is necessary.
PS Sorry for my ramblings... but I find it extremely grating when ignorant individuals (disguised by the anonymity of the internet) proclaim they have the truth because they have read it somewhere on the internet or in a pop-culture piece of literature.
Jared @ Apr 30th 2007 6:21PM
Maybe they all found out that the Rapture (the event, not the band) isn't even in the bible at all. Silly evangelicals.
Cheezeman3000 @ Apr 30th 2007 7:09PM
Trying to disprove Christianity is impossible because it is a religion that heavily relies on personal experience. Try telling a Christian that what they experience daily is actually false, and they will chuckle inside.
The proof comes from the experience. An argument based on logical facts has never converted anyone to Christianity, because the religion itself defies all (scientific) logic. When you come to a point in your life in which you start to wonder why you exist, or when huge tragedy hits, you may just turn to Christianity for an answer.
Until then, please don't bash it. Sure, some Christians take it to the extremes (as shown in this game), but in a world this big, there will be rotten apples in the orchard. Christianity is based around love, and if a "Christian" isn't showing love, then they've got some soul-searching to do.
Rubang B @ Apr 30th 2007 8:41PM
@PostScript, but isn't the whole point of theoretical science to come up with conclusions and results and then work backwards through the data we can collect to try to make sense of it? I know it's not perfect, but at least they're making progress forming new theories and debating the merits of them.
@Jared, are you implying that the Rapture (the band) is in the Bible?
@Cheezeman3000, people shouldn't just turn to Christianity (or any religion) as a crutch when tragedy strikes. If you believe that life on this planet is more important than what may or may not happen after you die, you don't just convert when you get scared or lonely or lose somebody you loved. You think all the Jews got closer to G-d during the holocaust? No, they usually just figured there was no G-d and became atheists before they died.
Sorry about the obligatory holocaust reference, but this is the internet.
PostScript @ May 1st 2007 11:59AM
Rubang B, you are correct, and to that end theoretical science serves its purpose. However, my point was that faith is still required, as it cannot be tested in an experimental manner. Therefore, regardless your explanation for the universe (God or science) faith is still a requirement.
Sarge @ May 1st 2007 1:29PM
Indeed, I have tried to make this point many times, in that those that believe in the various theories for creation of the world and those that believe in God are still asking the SAME question. Where did God come from? Where did that matter for the big bang come from? Where did that unicellular organism that "evolved" come from? We don't know. We can't prove or disprove it. Anyone who says otherwise currently is deluding themselves.
While I'm not working on a Ph.D. in these fields, I've taken a LOT of both science-based courses and studies, as well as Biblical ones, and the one thing that jumps out at me is that neither have proven themselves. I believe that with the current evidence, evolution and it's ilk may be able to be disproven, but only with circumstantial evidence, which is tenuous at best. But the circumstantial evidence is why I am a Christian. To assert that becoming a Christian defies all logic is an equally absurd argument, as some, including myself, have looked at all the surrounding evidence, and have chosen based on the logic from that evidence.
Jeremiah Wood @ May 1st 2007 4:42PM
What's really funny is that people talk about Christianity and science like they're polar opposites, but nothing could be further from the truth. Actually, take a look at a lot of the most distinguished scientists that ever lived: Some where Christian, while others had a reason to believe in a higher being (that is, God) through the things that they study.
Also, as a science fanatic, I have yet to find a conflict between the Bible and science (keep in mind, I'm a Christian theology junkie also). If those of you that try and say that 90% of what's in the Bible is wrong, I'd suggest that you do a little research on this topic that you obviously know little or nothing about! I'd love to see your supposed "evidence" in this area. Can somebody be persuaded through arguing? Actually, I would have to say no. I can't argue with any of you to believe that there is a God, and you can't argue with me to believe that there is no God.
Because of my understanding of science, I have a better understanding of God. After all, even the Bible itself says:
"The heavens declare the glory of God;
And the firmament shows His handiwork."
(Psalm 19:1; NKJV)
If that's the case, I think that's a case for science, not against it.