oink oink marweas!

I have a habit of occasionally linking to silly Flash animations, so here's another, very game-specific one. Alex 'Marweas' Rodberg at Sierra, who's meant to be a 'community liason' type, wrote a hilarious post to the HomeWorld 2 forums saying:

"Well, I'll be concluding my participation in this forum with this post. Frankly, the effort put into keeping this miniscule community informed is not worth the aggravation or the time....

I look forward to hearing more complaints about how Sierra ignores the community. I'm sure accusing instead of asking, and bitching instead of learning will accomplish your goals admirably."

Then, naturally, Penny Arcade did a strip about it, pointing out it's _his job_ and all that.

But more genius than that, someone called Musashi over at TribalWar.com, a Tribes:Vengeance (also produced by Sierra) fansite, made a Flash animation all about Marweas. Looks like it was made before this current uproar, and there's definitely some in-jokes in there, but basically.. this is the kind of thing that drove the poor man to the edge. Love the use of random photos and much hand-waving for the facial expressions.