Comments on: Bill Laimbeer: Usability Pioneer?

By: Emaciated

Emaciated — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

We are not so far from 2030, when a 73 year old Bill Laimbeer will rule the NBA. We are even closer to 2015, when flying cars will be powered by garbage and our Hoverboards will still not be able to cross a small pond.

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I don’t think that all cars would necessarily be powered by garbage. I always thought Herr Fusion was just a convenient and environmentally friendly way for Doc to generate the 1,21 jigawatts of electricity necessary for time travel. Also, I assure you I will own a quality hoverboard. And by 2030, the 73-year-old Bill Laimbeer will be dominated the integrated WNBA as the player-coach for the Detroit Shock.

By: John

John — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Bill Laimbeer’s Combat WNBA. Like “Dead or Alive”, but with basketball. I think you’re really on to something. I’m not fucking joking, either. Figure out which of the WNBA players people would most want to see the clothes ripped off of, get them to model for 3D motion capture naked, and remake BLCB for the XBox, Again? or the Playstation 3. Help market the WNBA and sell a video game people will love. Holy crap. I think this would be brilliant.

By: shawn

shawn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hey, I’m not the software tycoon here, so the burden isn’t on me to create such a game. And I think you’re missing the point. Nudity and the WNBA should not mix. Ever. And a game with naked WNBA players would never sell. We must learn from the lesson of GTA: San Andreas. Sex and nudity will cause a game to get an AO rating and pulled from the shelves of the important mall video game retailers. The bastards at GameStop wouldn’t buy back my copy of San Andreas. However, violence towards women is perfectly acceptable. Thus, any video game update of Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball should naturally involve an aged Bill Laimbeer just beating the living shit out of WNBA stars. And the WNBA will have to go along with it because, quite frankly, they need the money. I will say that this is the type of moment where I wish that I were capable of learning and applying useful real world skills, so I could use that XNA thing to create all sorts of wacky games for my Xbox, Again?. But sadly, the useful parts of my brain turned to mush with the advent of high speed internet connections. I guess the world will never see any of my brilliant video game ideas, like Bill Laimbeer’s Combat Basketball: Xtreme Bitchslap Edition, Cereal Rapist, Super Morrissey Brothers, and Vin Diesel’s xXxtreme Kart Racing.