Talk:Larry Hryb

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Contents 1 Name Spelling 2 Criticisms 3 GGW Picture?! 4 New Pic 5 Podcast episode numbering 6 GameDaily 7 Page Redesign

[edit] Name Spelling

Anyone know the proper way to spell his name? From the Major Nelson blog, they have it as Hryb, but the article here is peppered with it being Hyrb, and also Hryb is a redirect. -- Hellmark 07:44, 6 July 2006 (UTC), my company worked with him when he worked for WKSS radio in Hartford, CT (last stop before Microsoft). His name looks like a typo, Hryb is pronounced "Herb" --Patryanvb 18:02, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

Switched places on the content now. Hyrb is now being redirected to Hryb. Adn the content on Hyrb is now of course on Hryb instead.--SWEblogger 14:59, 11 August 2006 CET

[edit] Criticisms

• Some commentators on his blog accuse Larry Hryb of being a shill for Microsoft; as some people have expressed in the comment sections on his blog. However, Larry does not hide his association with Microsoft, and openly admits to being a fan of the portable game systems Nintendo DS and the Sony PSP. [1] Even so, the blog is undoubtedly Microsoft and Xbox-centric. Such a focus could be expected, given his position. He does include a disclaimer: "Everything in life has a disclaimer, so here is mine: Even though I work for Microsoft, not everything accurately reflects the views of my employer, my management, my co-workers, or is even true. So, little I say here is "Microsoft policy". The postings on this site are provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights."[2]

• The work Larry Hryb has been doing in his blog, has led to some nasty results. He has received death threats when demos haven't been released as promised amongst other things. One of the most known incidents is the so called "Prey incident", when a demo for the game Prey was supposed to be released on a particular day, but instead was delayed, which caused much frustration among some of Larry Hryb's readers/listeners.

• He has several times tried to explain the process of software engineering, why some things sometimes are delayed, as noted in the post Where is (insert title here)???, which was written in the midst of the heat from the before mentioned "Prey incident".

The first paragraph is weasely ("some commentators") and seems to be here solely to provide a way to use the word "shill". The man works for Microsoft - it's retarded to call him a "shill" for cryin' out loud.

The second para tries to feed on the first; I don't have a problem with the whole "Prey incident" but it needs to be reworded and not presented as "criticism", because that it is not.

And the third one is just so "please throw me away" that I won't even bother. --klaus

[edit] GGW Picture?!

What's up with the Girls Gone Wild picture? It was just recently added and has no copyright info or releases. I think I'll delete it. Kmillard92 05:29, 26 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] New Pic

Hyrb sent me a better, more portrait-like image which I think is more appropriate for a Wiki entry. JAF1970 02:25, 7 May 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Podcast episode numbering

I've changed the episode count from 200 in November '06 to 100. He started his episode numbering scheme at 100 (although the first couple of episodes are still named by date and not number), and for whatever reason, Larry himself hasn't made this entirely obvious, referring to his '200th show' numerous times. Eventually, he admitted that he really only did ~100 distinct, full shows by that time, although I can't track down the specific place where this admission was made (perhaps it was in episode 201). As a reference point, one of his earliest shows dates back to January 2005, leaving not enough time for 200 weekly episodes by November 2006. Jschuur 18:44, 14 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] GameDaily

Major won Readers Choice Award for Person of the Year, should this be added? Check it out here —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.195.68.56 (talk) 02:59, 20 December 2007 (UTC)

I don't see why not. Gamedaily may not be the most reputable source, but it is notable in relation to Larry. --Magus05 ^(talk) 08:50, 11 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Page Redesign

I added some biographical info in the first paragraph and under his photo while breaking up the page a little bit. I separated the podcast/blog information from his other media outlets. I added the section of Major's Minute and added information from a Reuters article. Hopefully I didn't step on anyone's toes as this is my first edit. Thanks! Flint3125 13:12 15 April 2008 (UTC)