michael long
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michael long
@vertexnormal
3D Monkey @ General Motors / Cruise making robot cars. Previously Maxis/EA and Glu Mobile. vertex normal at blusky
nevada county Katılım Mart 2007
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The sheer stupidity of this is very difficult to understand.
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@ILMFlinkenstein the weebs will come at you with pitchforks for that
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setting aside the (justified) tribalism in regards to the 95 movie the newer one is just significantly more pedestrian looking
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The Ghost in the Shell (2026) and Ghost in the Shell (1995)
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@Big_Zam_Vlad Thats the whole point. 96 GiTS transcended anime roots into something traditionally non-anime viewers like. If it wasn't for that movie nobody outside of Japan or anime fans would know or about the new show. We mutually don't give a shit about eachothers opinions, peak twitter.
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@vertexnormal Then why do people even bother watching anime when it's clear they don't care about the identity of this cultural movement. Like, if someone says they like the 95 movie cause it's 'less anime' then their opinion on anime doesn't matter.
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The thing that I hate about people's perception of GitS, and subsequently Patlabor, is this idea that the definitive version has to be the deadpan super serious, theatrical version, because it's deadpan and super serious, leaving no room for different things to be equally as good
ブルー@penpen_iii
The Ghost in the Shell (2026) and Ghost in the Shell (1995)
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@davemcelfatric @Ferdinand98xd You fail with $200m on the line and you die, not sure what other outcome there is in gaming. Doom failed because people don't want to pay AAA prices for that particular thematic rehash, no matter how well it's made.
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@Ferdinand98xd Describing id as a "marginal business" suggests where their interests lie, but as you say if they're in the red they're in the red
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Its hard to disagree with Carmack's view but insinuating that Doom has to match Minecraft's success to exist is like saying Doom has to compete with Lego or Star Wars at this point
Things don't need to be whales to be successful.
John Carmack@ID_AA_Carmack
I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs. My “Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand” statement isn’t aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month. I’m saddened, but I can’t muster anger or outrage over it. I don’t have access to the books, but I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft’s perspective. I believe the reports that Minecraft revenues have been carrying several other studios. To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved. Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal. You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games. Could they have gotten more with a different pricing strategy? Could they have created more things for fans to buy? Could they have cost effectively marketed in a way that reached more players that would have loved and bought the games? Could they have changed the game designs and broadened the appeal to more players without alienating existing ones? Could they have produced the games at a lower cost, faster or cheaper? I really don’t know. The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through.
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@ID_AA_Carmack @mov_axbx I respect that you know and acknowledge your limits, too rare in that space.
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@mov_axbx I'm sure they value the IP at substantially more than my personal net worth, even if it was just sitting on a shelf for potential future use. Regardless, I don't think I am the right person to lead a modern game studio.
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I have been trying to find something meaningful to say about the Id Software layoffs.
My “Microsoft will probably be a good steward of the brand” statement isn’t aging well, and this is certainly going to dampen the mood of the founder reunion at QuakeCon next month.
I’m saddened, but I can’t muster anger or outrage over it. I don’t have access to the books, but I suspect that Id Software was a marginal business from Microsoft’s perspective. I believe the reports that Minecraft revenues have been carrying several other studios.
To continue being produced long term, games need to succeed, not just be beloved.
Games are competing with every other option for spending your leisure time and money, and the competition is brutal.
You can’t rule out the possibility that executives are idiots, but that shouldn’t be your default belief. I don’t think there is any obvious path that would have doubled the revenue from Id games.
Could they have gotten more with a different pricing strategy?
Could they have created more things for fans to buy?
Could they have cost effectively marketed in a way that reached more players that would have loved and bought the games?
Could they have changed the game designs and broadened the appeal to more players without alienating existing ones?
Could they have produced the games at a lower cost, faster or cheaper?
I really don’t know.
The game isn’t over yet, and I hope the studio rallies through.
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@YorchTorchGames Unreal became standard because it democratized game development by building better tools. It was an engine first, a game second.
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A question for all the smart players out there...
Quake 3's engine dominated the early 00s.
Why is Unreal Engine the industry standard today instead of id Tech?
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@Grummz If you buy a franchise or have a hit you tend to support that franchise even to the point of making shit, sunk cost fallacy. Corporate gaming is dying under this model while smaller indie games can approach it holistically - is this a good game?
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Xbox was supporting vanity projects that pursued art and fluff awards instead of games gamers wanted.
There was zero obligation (or smarts) to support this. Working for a company is not social welfare or an art grant.
But current AAA game devs have gotten too soft. This causes failed games.
JayWood2010@JayWood2010
Its actually crazy that Asha Sharma had to step in and redirect Obsidian from Avowed 2, to prioritize a new Fallout game. Do these studios just not listen to what fans actually want?
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@ashinokoyubi41 Themes aside, western audiences love noir, and the 96 film was possibly the best neo noir ever done. A western detective story, and a good one, bolted on to Japanese animation. The reason why it's successful is the way that it moves past it's roots, not because of those roots.
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押井守版の草薙素子は唯一の娯楽が死ぬかもしれない潜水でした。
戦闘でも常に最前線に立ち自らの命を危険に晒す事でしか生を実感できない人間を描いています。
そんな生きる意味を失っていた女性が、人形使いと融合して生きる喜びを見つける物語でした。
原作士郎正宗の草薙素子は、セックスもし、休暇を望み、給料を気にする普通の人間です。
完全義体でも人間は欲望からは自由になれない。
だからこそ生きる意味があるのだと。
そんな普通の人間、草薙素子が人形使いと融合して別次元の人類へと進化する。
押井守版は草薙素子個人が生きる意味を見出す再生の物語ですが
士郎正宗は新しい人類、2001年宇宙の旅でモノリスを触ったヒトザルが人類に進化した様に、ネットから生まれた自我との融合で人類が新しい進化を手に入れる過程を描いています。
Merry the Smol Milk Coffee loving Dream Demon@MerryXcafe
>People really complain that "New Ghost in the Shell ruins Motoko". >The anime is faithful to the original manga. These tourists literally scream that they never actually read Masamune Shirow's manga. That's how Motoko is. Go cry about it. #攻殻機動隊 #theghostintheshell
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@kiaran_ritchie Doom has turned into corporate slop. It's not the devs fault, the whole franchise is just milked out. Nobody wants to drop $80 to find out what happened next in the exciting well developed story of Doom Guy.
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I must admit I am really out of touch with this industry.
Players don't show up for DOOM, but flock to friend slop on Roblox.
"Gamers" are a dying breed while "gaming" has never been bigger. What a strange fate.
Jacob Navok@JNavok
Based on the Doom launch figures, doesn't feel like there were enough fans that the ones remaining fathoming the situation matters. Put another way, the cuts now seem justified. The team was left to cook, they cooked, the audience didn't appear at numbers high enough to justify the salaries (the dlc yesterday hit a 13k peak on steam), and so it goes. It makes the MS choices decidedly rational.
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@RealEmirHan should have spent some of that time in acting classes
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Bradley Cooper was completely unrecognizable in American Sniper.
He gained about 40 pounds in roughly 10–12 weeks. He ate 6,000 calories per day, trained 4 hours daily with heavy weightlifting
“After each take, the only thing I would ask anybody, ‘Hey man, am I too big?’
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@realgarrisong @theliamnissan "If" is literally carrying the weight of the rest of Earth because this is horseshit.
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@theliamnissan Not sure what you are laughing about, he’s correct.
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@mankrip It's joyfully on it's way to drop some lurms on some fools.
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The too hot summer weather always means I crack open my DCC tools and start making trouble.
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@dmgurei The cutesy shit just killed it for me. GiTS is anything but cute. The story is serious, the ideas are serious, and the new one treats it with the same gravity as a livestream of 12 year old playing fortnite and making stupid voices and culture references.
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Kinda conflicted on The Ghost In The Shell. Obviously one episode is too early to say anything definitively — but, at least to me, a lot of the dreamy tone and atmosphere and technoanxiety that I love in 1995/SAC just… isn’t really there at all.
Will definitely keep watching!
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@lunar_britney As someone who worked there for 15 years it's been pretty shitty to watch as well.
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Insane video of a Ukrainian naval drone hitting a massive Russian oil tanker in the Black Sea being desperately shot at by the crew.
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@DashRetroTV @St1ka Yeah fuck all those people with their jobs and families.
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@St1ka God I hope so. Let indies rule for a few years until the big players can remember how to do business.
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@St1ka Since those laid off are also now competing with the 30%+ of the industry that have been laid off previously, yes.. absolutely.
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