Meet the Fallout 3 devs - Ricardo Gonzalez Ricardo E . Gonzalez is a programmer Bethesda Softworks and is in charge of coding the user interface . On Bethesda Game Studios Forums he uses the nickname " Socrates200X " . The following are some of Ricardo ' s posts from the Meet the Devs threads on Bethesda forums : " As a UI coder , I live in that murky middle - ground that somehow connects the player to various parts of the engine at any given moment . Because of this need to interconnect with everything , there are a slew of special cases that muck up my otherwise perfect code . ( " Make sure Menu X does Y here . Except when the player is jumping , then do this . Or if the player is just entering a door but before Menu Z has loaded , do this , unless the door is locked , is which case . . . etc . " ) Also , small things that most people take for granted , like the amount of pixels between letters and the natural motion of a scrollbar , take on exaggerated importance , often putting me at a disadvantage when comparing battle scars with my workmates . ( " Man , I just spent a week debugging AI timing bugs . " " That ' s nothing ! I just spent 10 hours straight on button highlights ! " " Oh . . . well . . . that ' s rough , I guess ? " ) " " I ' m kept far , far away from the gameplay code , so no worries " " I personally haven ' t found a good example of a game that ' s able to support multiple viewpoints without making things overly complex or overly simplified " " I ' m replaying FO1 as we speak " " If we have any motivation going into FO3 ( other than making a game worthy of the originals ) , it ' s correcting our mistakes . " " My Internet went out the other day . For 3 whole hours . Near the end , I was more animal than man . " " Man , I haven ' t gotten this many " I love you ' s " since I switched from chloroform to Rohypnol . . . " " Cookie Day FTW ! " " Todd ' s tenacious like a mudcrab " " Fallout was as good as I remember , although I forgot how much " swish - swish - swish - swish - hit ! - swish - swish " combat entailed . I need to tag Small Guns or something . . " " Most of our tough game design decisions are decided using our handy - dandy Jump to Conclusions mat . " " Speak for yourself . My character ' s flippin ' awesome ! He ' s all like , " Whoa ! " and , " Wha - cha ! " , and the monsters are all , " Oh , noes ! " " " The 50 , 000th person to say " Oblivion with guns " will receive a Collector ' s Edition copy of Oblivion with Guns , complete with a strategy guide and a replica of a Daedric SMG . Everyone else will receive Fallout 3 . " " In order to get the true Fallout feel , we ' re only allowed to code using hardware we build ourselves from junkyard parts . My " debugger " is a jury - rigged soldering iron made of a rusted bicycle spoke and a Bic lighter . " " Why doesn ' t Bethesda crack down on the flames here , so that this forum is a more enjoyable place to discuss ? pV = nRT . It ' s the law ! " " Last night , after surfing the web until around 3 , I had my first ( and probably not my last ) dream in which reading the Fallout forums was a semi - major dream plot device . Disturbing and true ! " " I ' ve always wanted to fall from a great height , land with a large THUD ! , get up unscathed , brush myself off , say , " Some weather we ' re having , huh ? " to any bystanders , and be on my way . " " Squeal " Tickle Monster ! Gitchy - gitchy - goo ! " as I proceed to give the mutie the tickling of his life . ( Note : My Luck is Heroic . ) " " I hear that if you post a postive review of Oblivion on a gaming site , Marketing comes to you in your sleep . It ' s how they recruit new members . " " The whole " sleeping - with - one - lady - forever " bit was a tough pill to swallow . Not that they were beating down my door to begin with . . . Overcome ? Math helped . When I work out the probability of finding someone else with the same awesomeness quotient ( AQ ) and ability to put up with me , it rapidly approaches 0 . Of course , I phrased it a little more romantically on V - Day , but the sentiment ' s the same . " " What do I think of the nuclear catapult idea ? I have the same concerns most do about it being an uber - weapon , but I ' m fairly sure the designers won ' t be decorating the wastes with nuke ammo or keeping the rad count dialed down to debug levels . I definitely want my character to turn to ash within a certain distance , and catch a baaad case of radiation poisoning at anything farther . Concerning its lack of " realism " , I play the fiction card . Concerning its lack of " verisimilitude " , I think it fits just fine , although that opinion comes from the personal benefit of seeing it in context as opposed to in a screenshot . " " I can ' t tell the number of funks I ' ve been brought out of at the eating of a chocolate chip cookie , or the anticipation of such an event . In the interest of productivity , every office should a Cookie Day . " Desk : From left to right : Books ( The Onion ' s Finest News Reporting , Knuth Art of Computer Programming Vol . 4 are examples ) , V - Day cards from the missus , Lego model of Slave I , Dell box , Nerf USB missile launcher , crossword puzzles book , monitor , clock / pen holder , whiteboard , autographed pictures of Q , me , and Vault Boy . Hm , pretty sparse , I guess . For wallpaper , a doctored Animal Crossing screenshot with Tom Nook saying , " Where ' s my money , man ? ! Is Tom Nook going to have to slap a b * tch ? " Socrates200X : I think you ' re underselling Fizzbang ' s terrifying raider ensemble . Key pieces not highlighted by the photos are his tetanus - inducing workman ' s gloves with rusty nails and screws affixed to the back and his gas mask codpiece . Trust me , if you haven ' t stood next to a 6 ' 2 " game designer with spiked fists and a gas mask codpiece before , you haven ' t been properly terrified . ( on his casting in the fictitious Bethesda : The Movie ) : - When asked that question , I often tell the ladies that it ' s because I ' m the man of their dreams , but according to said ladies , this is rarely , if ever , the case . I ' ve also gotten Jeff Goldblum on occasion . Hopefully , people mean before he turned into The Fly . - I ' ll be the disbelieving scientist - type who , upon hearing the Hero explain the Villain ' s big plans , whips off his glasses dramatically and says , " My God . . . "