Rargarr

@FantasyWorldW1 I think he knows that his final book will never live up to expectations so he just doesn’t wanna do it

Does anyone else think George Martin is just lazy?

@regularaugust All of Beastars

“Was it the author’s fetish or did it serve a purpose” the answer is usually both and people get really uncomfortable trying to wrap their heads around this

@DoctorLemma Why does nobody mention the part where he brought the game back as an Amazon fire stick exclusive rendering the entire story sussy bacca?

In 2014, a programmer in Vietnam deleted the most downloaded game on earth because he said it was ruining his life. He was making $50,000 a day when he did it. Dong Nguyen grew up in a village near Hanoi. He discovered video games through Super Mario Bros as a kid and started coding his own at 16. He built Flappy Bird in two to three days using a bird character from a game he’d already cancelled. The gameplay was inspired by bouncing a ping pong ball on a paddle for as long as you can. He thought existing mobile games were too complicated and wanted something anyone could play on the move. He released it quietly in May 2013. Nobody noticed. For five months, nothing happened. Then a well-known YouTuber reviewed it. Downloads surged. By the end of January 2014, Flappy Bird was the most downloaded free app on the planet with over 50 million downloads. Nguyen, who had been working alone from Hanoi, was suddenly earning $50,000 a day from in-app adverts. Then it turned. Parents complained the game was ruining their children’s lives. Players sent him messages blaming him for their broken phones and lost jobs. Paparazzi camped outside his house. He stopped sleeping. On 8 February 2014, he tweeted: “I can call Flappy Bird a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.” Twenty-two hours later, he deleted it from every app store. Phones with the game still installed were listed online for thousands of dollars. The internet assumed it was a publicity stunt. It wasn’t. In an interview shortly after, he sat chain-smoking and said the game was designed to be played for a few relaxed minutes. “But it happened to become an addictive product. I think it has become a problem. To solve that problem, it’s best to take down Flappy Bird. It’s gone forever.” He still lives in Hanoi. He still makes games through his small studio, dotGears, which has six employees. He stays out of public life. In 2024, a company acquired the Flappy Bird trademark and announced a reboot. Nguyen said he has no connection to it.

@emmma_camp_ The curb your enthusiasm episode featuring a toilet paper hoarder is my favourite thing that wouldn’t have existed without Covid. Probly not what you’re looking for but that’s the level I’m at

Question for the group: has there been any great art about Covid? Any incredible literary novels or films? I can't think of anything off the top of my head but my cultural knowledge is not limitless.

@SirBadOpinions And yet many people are still obsessed with undertale

Nobody “forgot” about it. It’s a single player game and it doesn’t stay in discourse the same way a live service game does. Same goes for most single player games.

@policylaila You’re right. If they took energy back into public ownership they wouldn’t have to pay them to not overload the grid 👍

The only industry that profits whether it works or not. Wind farms get guaranteed prices through subsidies. Then get compensated when they’re told to switch off. Meanwhile we have some of the highest energy bills in the world. It’s a racket. Who’s getting rich off our bills?”

@grantkirkhope It all goes to candy crush microtransactions

jeez .... we keep hearing that the games' industry makes more money than movie and tv combined, how come there seems to be constant layoffs going on?

@Mothstreamx @alorazei I would run out of jobs to apply for after 1 day

@alorazei That's only about 2 applications a day. If you're unemployed you should be treating job applications like a full time job. I was doing probably 20-30 a day for 3 months before I found my job. It was soul crushing hell.

you can’t even say “get a job” to people anymore because the market is so bad they’ll be like i have applied to 400 jobs over the past six months

@DutchButters They already did this it’s called lower decks

I’ve got an idea. A new Star Trek show set shortly after the TNG /DS9 era with a new crew, New ship and exploring a new quadrant of space. Written and ran by creators who are familiar with, understand and respect the lore of the show that came before.

@WilsonCleveland These kinds of criticisms are bizarre. We’re obviously not supposed to think oz is doing a good thing here

Maybe I’m glad the Buffy reboot was canceled after all. I got to enjoy seven seasons of the original the first time around in a world without social media and the most generationally irritating group of people.

@TomK_Brit1993 @RupertLowe10 @V1kt0r_b0u7 Lowe only scores so high because nobody knows who he is

@RupertLowe10 @V1kt0r_b0u7 Remember when Farage said Restore Britain were an irrelevance? That little creep is going to eat his words.

I am increasingly confident that Restore Britain will win the next general election.

@RupertLowe10 You won’t win but I am in full support of you because you might take enough of the votes away from reform to prevent them winning 👍

@TweetHearts72 @Blueelectron4 Okay but where I live birth rates are low enough that we’re risking population collapse

@Blueelectron4 Yes. You do sacrifice and suffer. Dont have kids. You don’t deserve them and the club doesn’t want you. Use birth control.

My controversial opinion is a main cause of declining birth rates is the social norm that parents must suffer like prisoners with an 18 year hard labor sentence or else be viewed by society as guilty of neglect and child abuse. Your grandparents didn't live like this.

@BasedMikeLee If they chose to stop charging extortionate rents without any need for regulations I’d be LIVID

@BasedMikeLee Capitalists should respond to this by voluntarily increasing our pay and selling everything at cost. It would make borderline commies like me so mad

Socialism relies on the poor To justify its existence So it perpetuates poverty

The only reason everyone’s dunking on this is because they hate Tom Harwood for unrelated reasons

@gamray If I said it I would say zed but I call them zoomies

I’m sorry is he claiming we call it Gen Zed in the UK?

@ThonyThony28 @movie_tvshows_ That sounds like mental torture

@movie_tvshows_ He remember have a Friend only he can't remember his name or face

@Bradninchfellow @Strombolli4 @GeoffNorcott And yet your pfp is of a man who is famously an excellent French speaker

@Strombolli4 @GeoffNorcott Replying with a 20 year old joke that doesn’t even work as I’m not French. You are just proving my point.

If anyone knows how to make these subjects genuinely funny to a broad audience in a prime-time comedy ents slot I’ll personally pay a grand a day.

@bobasfk Then Vance will take over and we’ll all go “oh fuck”

im telling you now if he dies during his presidency there will be widespread global celebrations im talking about champagne popping street dancing days long binge drinking and love making WWII ending celebrations will pale in comparison and you cant guilt us over it fuck Trump, fuck Kirk, fuck the tech oligarchs, fuck the nazis and the right wingers and the incels and fuck you too