Were Lorne and Sherry always romantically involved?

[moxco]

According the Sherry's facebook they are, which I had never heard of before. Was it always this way? Did they found Oddworld as a couple?

[kjjcarpenter]

Yes.

[Gunnr]

Still a far better love story than Twilight



(So we're actually talking about this?)

[kjjcarpenter]

Still a far better love story than Twilight

I laughed.

(So we're actually talking about this?)

I'd rather not. Seems inappropriate, especially considering their relatively low profile.

[Gunnr]

^Agree
I always respected that of em

[moxco]

lol what, it's hardly an intrusive question. I'm not asking for details of their private lives, I'm only asking about the context of the founding of OWI.

[kjjcarpenter]

lol what, it's hardly an intrusive question. I'm not asking for details of their private lives, I'm only asking about the context of the founding of OWI.

And I answered.

Yes.

To elaborate: Yes, they have been in a romantic relationship for an indeterminate amount of time, and this likely influenced Sherry McKenna's decision in forming Oddworld Inhabitants.

[Gunnr]

^Okay, best love story of all TIME <3


(at least in the last 20 some odd years :/)

[Xorlidyr]

They are having a non-binary veganism-induced antiindustrialist quasiromantic asexual relationship.

[Nate]

They are having a non-binary veganism-induced antiindustrialist quasiromantic asexual relationship.

I've seen Lorne eat chicken, you know.

[Xavier]

I'm not going to tell you guys what you should and shouldn't discuss.

Just note that you are talking about people's private lives here, so please remember that and stay classy.

[Xorlidyr]

I've seen Lorne eat chicken, you know.

Blasphemy!

[moxco]

All I'm asking is am I naïve for thinking the relationship between the Oddworld cofounders was anything other than professional? Is it common knowledge that OWI was started as sort of a family venture? kjj seems to certainly think so, so this can't be too private.

Furthermore why did the mods ignore my question, is there some conspiracy they're trying to conceal?

[Xavier]

Nah, not realy.

It's just that I don't know and I don't think it's very relevant.

[Vlam]

Kevin is right:

He found this in longtime business and romantic partner, Sherry McKenna, who has been the Leia to his Solo since the formation of Oddworld Inhabitants. “It’s more of a classic entertainment relationship,” explains Lanning, “rather than a classic Silicon Valley relationship. Infinity Ward would be more than two programmers or three programmers and a designer, people with specific hands-on skills starting to build a company. The entertainment business is more like producer-director teams. Sherry’s a lifelong producer, and when we talk about how Oddworld’s a co-creation, we can split it up like this: Content is largely my creation. The company and the culture is largely Sherry’s creation. When you look at producing and directing in the entertainment business, that’s a marriage. The best directors and the best producers, they all have the people that they like working with the most at that marriage level. I always saw that the smartest creatives got really strong producers around them. Because we tend to be flaky, we tend to be more artistic in nature. Whereas good producing tends to be more absolutely on top of things, every T is crossed. So I think in our relationship, it started off as a producer-director class relationship that naturally evolved into a production company.”

“And then for our personal relationship,” adds McKenna, “I had been married. And if you’re in the entertainment industry or the game industry, it’s called, ‘How many hours do you work 24/7?’ And I just found it’s almost easier to be with someone who understood why I had to break a very important engagement at the last moment. If you’re married to someone who doesn’t get that at all, they’re very offended, and they’re not happy; they don’t understand why you have to be gone every weekend. So it just evolved into a natural thing where we were working 24/7 together anyway, and like I said, after my experience of being married, I realized, ‘Wow, this is the only way it can work.’ So for the last 15 years, it’s been working really well.”

https://www.gamestm.co.uk/features/gamestm-issue-99/

[Havoc]

More than 20 years and I never knew this. Huh.

[STM]

How fucking dare you ask such a personal question on here, the Oddworld Forums of all places, Moxco. How could you?

Tbh I didn't know Sherry and Lorne were married until a few years ago so I think it's a fair question to ask.

[Fuzzle Guy]

Working in the entertainment industry, fewer things bother me more than this kind of gossip from the comfort of anonymity - if you've got a question, they've both got social media...

[STM]

Please tell me the outrage from certain parties here isn't genuine?

Moxco asked if Sherry and Lorne were in a relationship. The answer is yes. It's a simple question. It's not malevolent or snide, it's just a basic question.

Christ guys.

[Xavier]

No outrage on my part. I just didn't want to see more posts like that one:

They are having a non-binary veganism-induced antiindustrialist quasiromantic asexual relationship.

[STM]

Fair enough, but that's just Gishy being typically edgy.

[Crashpunk]

I've never really given it much thought. I just always assumed they were married. Even before OWI was founded.

Cool I guess?

[Vlam]

Is this the "Odd Piece of the Week"?

[kjjcarpenter]

Please tell me the outrage from certain parties here isn't genuine?

Who are you talking about? If you're referring to me, I really didn't think the question was relevant, nor did it need expounding. Several others agreed. The fact that their relationship status has flourished happily under the radar of the common Odd Fan is proof of its irrelevance.

There's really nothing else to say on the matter.

[Nate]

The fact that their relationship status has flourished happily under the radar of the common Odd Fan is proof of its irrelevance.

This. I think that one of the reasons why a bunch of the older members are reacting the way they are is because we didn't know for most of the last 20 years. Lorne and Sherry chose to be discreet about it, so we figure they must have had their reasons and we respect that.

[moxco]

This. I think that one of the reasons why a bunch of the older members are reacting the way they are is because we didn't know for most of the last 20 years. Lorne and Sherry chose to be discreet about it, so we figure they must have had their reasons and we respect that.

Is it discretion though? It's not like their relationship (marriage?) is relevant to any interviews they have given, and there are old magazines that acknowledge it. I did not create this thread thinking I'd stumbled upon some dark secret. I thought Lorne and Sherry being nothing but business partners might have been a misconception I alone held.

[Nate]

Is it discretion though? It's not like their relationship (marriage?) is relevant to any interviews they have given, and there are old magazines that acknowledge it. I did not create this thread thinking I'd stumbled upon some dark secret. I thought Lorne and Sherry being nothing but business partners might have been a misconception I alone held.

I've never seen any old magazines mentioning it beyond the ambiguous term 'partner', which we always assumed meant business partners.

[FennecFyre]

I didn't know they were together either. I guess you could say they make an

Odd couple.

...I'll go now.

Lorry is OTP

[Nepsotic]

I'm not going to tell you guys what you should and shouldn't discuss.

Just note that you are talking about people's private lives here, so please remember that and stay classy.

Except, they're public figures. You pretty much waive your right to privacy when you become that.

[kjjcarpenter]

Except, they're public figures. You pretty much waive your right to privacy when you become that.

It's this kind of parochial thinking that fuels scandalous media like TMZ. Everyone has a right to privacy, regardless of your public life—especially if you employ an effort to segregate the two.