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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 4404916" data-attributes="member: 5143">[OFF TOPIC]Ironically, I know the guy who came up with the name Gleemax.  He was my boss for a while.  It was meant to be ironic and mocking of WOTC, but they adopted it as their mascot a LONG time ago.For those people who didn't hear the story, though it is slightly off topic, the deal was that way back in the day there was a discussion about R&D for Magic at WOTC.  Someone was irate that R&D wasn't showing up at major tournaments to see what cards were winning and what strategies were useful.  The person asked if there was actually a brain in charge of Magic.The response was:"Yes, there is. It's kept in a large jar of formeldahyde in one of theunused sections of the WotC office complex. Every so often, according totradition, new members of the WotC R&D team are brought before Gleemax(as the brain is called) and have their thoughts assimilated into thehive mind.I could be wrong though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> "And thus was born the name Gleemax.  Some people from WOTC saw the post and thought the idea that there was a brain secretly controlling R&D to be the funniest thing ever, they took him as a mascot and got artists to draw pictures of him to post on cubicle walls.  Memos were apparently sent around blaming Gleemax for things that went wrong.  I've heard stories that one of the high ups in R&D would go into their software for tracking cards they were working on and put in comments like "GLEEMAX DISLIKES THIS CARD".[/OFF TOPIC]As for the site.  I liked the concept.  For those people who don't know, Gleemax was supposed to be a social networking site for gamers in general.  The idea was that each person could make a profile, have their own blog, and be able to easily search for other gamers.  You'd search for people in your area who liked the same games as you, form gaming groups and use the built in blogging features to post information about your campaign for all your players to read.  You'd have all of your players post their characters so you can easily see everyone's stats.  All your players could make in character posts about the game.  You could control access to the information to just your group or make it public if you want the rest of your friends to be able to read about the campaign.The point was to have a one stop shop for everything gaming for all games.I do have it on good authority that a bunch of those features will make their way into DDI, but instead of being free and generic for all games, they will instead cost a monthly fee and be only for WOTC games.</blockquote>

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