Video Interview with Aaron Hall

[Captain Kwok]

Here's a SFI vodcast that has Aaron Hall wedged in the middle. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

View it here:
http://www.strategyfirst.ca/downloads/vodcast/SFI_Vodcast_2006_10_QT_Condensed_Final.mov

Aaron pronounces Malfador Machinations different than I do. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/tongue.gif

[AgentZero]

Huh. So that's what Aaron looks like. Good to know. But am I the only one who spent most of his interview trying to figure out what games were on the shelf behind him?

[Will]

Mal-FAY-der? Hmmm.....

I think it's gonna be hard to break the 8+ year habit of pronouncing it MAL-fah-dor.

And yeah, I was trying to figure out the bookshelf contents as well.

[Suicide Junkie]

I'm one of the Mal'fah'dor -ians too.

Are there any other common pronunciations? Might be interesting to take a poll.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Fah-la-la-la-la.

[AgentZero]

Not only does he say Mal-fay-der, but he also says Mash-in-ations, whereas I'd always gone with Mack-in-ations. My whole world is askew!

[Fyron]

The ch is definitely a k sound, not sh. Malfaydor disheartens me; long live Malfahdor!

[Combat Wombat]

Well a very short part with Aaron in it and it was filled with lots of old news lol. I am quite sure that Aaron pronounced Malfador wrong http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif I can't accept that I have been saying it wrong for over 5 years.

[Ed Kolis]

Hey, he put my "Whoa, I can post blogs!" blog in there! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
Guess it pays to have a catchy title! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif
Aaron looked very... well, "tired" is a good way of putting it nicely - I guess Warmaster really was all over him those past few weeks http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

[tmcc]

I was frankly much more impressed with Jasmine.

But seriously, I think Aaaron made one telling comment and that was about Modders. He clearly expects that they will provide the meat of the game while his job is to build the skeleton.

[Azselendor]

Malfaydor Mashinations? Uhmm.. I think I'm with the Malfador Machinations too.

[Moriarty]

So we've all concluded he can't pronounce the name of his own company then?
http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

Machinations is pronounced:
Mak - in- ations

The ch is pronounced like the C in Cat.

Or so says my Dictionary. Of course, there's no accounting for the way you Yanks mangle English. ;-)

[AAshbery76]

Looks like the typical modern American.

[Blade W]

Now I know why Aaron gone to SF1. The PR coordinator Jasmine, for example http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif

[narf poit chez BOOM]

I always pronounced it 'Mash-in-ayshuns'.

[Fyron]

"Mash" is a common mispronounciation, but the real thing is "mak."

[Caduceus]

I'm okay with Machinations. Its just pulling back the curtain to find out it is Malfaydor after all this time is bugging me.

Kind of like Magneato versus Magnetto, which sounds *way* cooler.

[Ragnarok]

Imperator Fyron said:
"Mash" is a common mispronounciation, but the real thing is "mak."



My grandfather always says "mash". I chuckle every time he does it.

I am a Mal'fah'dorian as well. Is anyone going to let Aaron know he can't even pronounce his own company name? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif

[Captain Kwok]

In one of my recent e-mails I told Aaron that his pronunciation of Mal-fay-der has left the community in shock - so much so that we forgot about all the bugs in SE:V.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Magnetto sounds kinda like a tool.

[AgentZero]

narf poit chez BOOM said:
Magnetto sounds kinda like a tool.



But with Magneato one can at least pretend his name doesn't come from the fact that he's just a big magnet. Otherwise it's like, "Hey I'm a giant magnet, and my name is Magnet... O".

[Baron Munchausen]

A 'magneto' (mag-NEET-oh) is actually a 'tool' of sorts. It's part of an electronic ignition system. Look it up. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

[AgentZero]

The mouse knows all!

[narf poit chez BOOM]

Yep, met him. Nice guy, All.

Of course, Mag-Neat-O sounds kind of silly.

[TurinTurambar]

But it IS pronounced Maag-NEE-toh. Just ask any card-carrying Marvel-geek.

/me raises hand