Benwick

@DaveOshry Nooooooo i loved seeing your hyped indie game posts

With the birth of my daughter and the New Blood socials in good hands, it's time for me to say goodbye to Twitter Maybe I'll be more active on Discord, maybe I'll stream, maybe I'll start a blog, maybe I'll do none of the above One thing's for sure, I'll see y'all down the road

@RiderofWolves If you sat a woman down with herself a year later she would argue for hours and leave muttering "that stupid b#tch"

Even if there was a manual on females, you guys wouldn't read it.

@ReverendNutria @SandyofCthulhu I feel like I'm trying to read dialog in an Ultima game

@SandyofCthulhu They talk in such a roundabout way. From “Prisoner of Zenda” “My sister in law, with a want of logic that must have been peculiar to her (since we are no longer allowed to lay it to the charge of her sex)”

The main difference is that British English is used to misdirect and conceal your intentions and American English is used to telegraph your intentions. Examples: British: "I'm not best pleased." American: "I'm going to mess you up."

@SandyofCthulhu Roger Ebert is a scientifically verified, certified moron

Ebert’s reasons given for saying computer games weren’t art: 1) you can win a computer game. (To me, a non-sequitur.) 2) computer games are built by a team. (While movies only have a single person in the credits?) 3) Roger Ebert himself didn’t play video games. (Actual reason given.) Penny Arcade famously debunked this by saying, “If a hundred artists create art for 2 years, how is the end result NOT ART?”

@dhh Lan party gaming WAS socializing. Internet gaming is mostly player controlled NPCs. You will never interact with them outside and most games don't even have voice chat, some don't even have TEXT chat.

Some of my greatest childhood memories came from dragging a tower like that around, along with a heavy CRT monitor, to LAN parties. Quake, Starcraft, Unreal, Warcraft. Formative years!

@dhh Kids today have no idea how better it was to play games with people in the room. Even if you lost you had fun sharing cool moments and talked about highlights afterward while eating pizza. You didnt have to be "globally good" against no lifers, just better than locals.

@hedondev @wongler_mode Twitter really is designed to be shit (like charging you to edit/fix your posts)

@wongler_mode @_benwick Yeah, gotta' compress it to fit the word count limit

Gamedev now is making games for a bunch of people who don't play games to call you out on social media for either being a Luddite and not wanting to use generative AI or trying to cancel you because doing a bilinear filter resize in Photoshop is basically just like using AI

@CankleMonitor @RAZ0RFIST Me speccing into lockpicking like a moron because i wanted to see what was behind doors and chests

@_benwick @RAZ0RFIST Yeah but each level basically makes you godly if you are speccing right.

No. There is another.

@SandyofCthulhu Fun fact. In the 90s a shareware company made a Gauntlet inspired RPG called Gladiator. It was tons of fun

My friend worked at Origin Systems. Now, my friend loved loved loved Gauntlet. To the point that he would often talk in Gauntlet-speak. For example, he'd stand up from his cubicle to go to lunch and announce it, "Fred needs food badly." Or when a co-worker gave him something he needed, he'd say, "I've not seen such bravery." Or if the co-worker had bungled something, he'd say, "Exit the room please." If a deadline was coming up, he'd say "Your life force is running out." That sort of thing. Anyway one day a new worker, an experienced coder who'd been in the industry, came to Origin Systems, and settled into the cubicle right next to my friend. Seemed like a nice guy, if a little quiet. Anyway, Fred continued his Gauntlet-speak hijinks for a few weeks. Then, one day Fred spilled his coffee or something and said, "Someone shot the food!" and the new guy cracked. He stood up in his cubic and started violently denouncing Fred, ranting about how Fred was constantly mocking him and he wasn't going to sit down for it any more and Fred better watch himself in the parking lot and and and ... During the rant, Fred came to realize that the new guy was ONE OF THE ORIGINAL PROGRAMMERS OF GAUNTLET! He though Fred was making fun of his game! Fred managed to calm him down, and convinced him that he, Fred, practically worshiped the guy and had no idea he'd been on the game. If he had he would have been quizzing him non-stop about his tasks, buying him coffee, etc. So they became friends. This kind of thing happened more often than you might think in the gaming world back in the day. There weren't that many professional developers so we'd see each other at conventions, or when we switched jobs. And there was usually no more than two degrees of separation. For instance, I only met Lord British himself once, but I knew two men pretty closely who later on went to work for Origins Systems and became top guys there (Fred mentioned above and Andy Hollis). Ask me anything.

@SandyofCthulhu We played A TON of the 3d arcade/gamecube version. "YELLOW RANGER IS WAITING TO EXIT"

@MithNeuro @blacknredtext @Epicartworks It feels like ya'll expected "Fallout 3 in space" but you actually got Fallout 1 in space.

@blacknredtext @Epicartworks What I expected: A great RPG system from the early Fallout games, but in FPS style, and an engaging story with charismatic characters. What I got: The Big Bang Theory The Game: Bazinga Edition Rick & Morty Deluxe.

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@MithNeuro @blacknredtext @Epicartworks Hot take: I actually enjoyed Tim Cain's writing in Outer Worlds 1. You could play a no INT run. You could buddy up to the bad guys AND that was the only way the evil president would let her guard down, AND THEN kill her. Straight being good, she'd know to keep her guard up.

@waterphage44617 @blacknredtext @Epicartworks Whatttt? Really? I haven't bought it yet but I assumed it was at LEAST as feature complete as the original

@blacknredtext @Epicartworks Dwarf Fortress Steam release: - No random tiles, degraded tile effects, degraded tile system relative to TWBT, forced 32x32 resolution, nuked TWBT. - No adventure mode from start - Messed up interface and degraded controls, that somehow made building mode having less features.

@perseverare1776 Honestly, this is like a mid to easy level for the Japanese Mario levels =D

Today’s kids can’t comprehend what we went through as teenagers!! Mario Brothers…next level😱😱

@wt701 @perseverare1776 Mario Maker came out... 11 years ago. I'm sorry man. We're old.

@perseverare1776 No you didn’t you dumb bot this is Mario maker

@perseverare1776 Honestly, for real, you're my hero.

I mastered this as a teenager and I’m still reveling in the glory 😂😂

@pcgamer THEY TOLD US IT "actually its fast, morons" FOR YEARS. Now they're bragging about fixing the problem they told us didn't exist???

Microsoft might actually make Windows 11 good as the company promises to roll back AI features and improve performance pcgamer.com/software/windo…

@djinn_the @FirstOrderPixie @ChristianityOn I was in mechanical engineering / Mechatronics but once out of college I ended up pivoting to IT and general programming. So I only get to play with robotics stuff on rare occasion now. One student I knew was researching tracking people with wifi and lo and behold its here now.

@_benwick @FirstOrderPixie @ChristianityOn Thats awesome. Do you still work in robotics. Im a machine learning cnc guy

You understand how that is worse though, right?

@djinn_the @FirstOrderPixie @ChristianityOn Yeah kinda a "swing and a miss"--though I imagine SOME are really resentful. I but got Christ, let God have it. I was super successful in college. I went from taking a robotics course, to being the TA for it the next semester and my prof was like "be. my. grad student."

@FirstOrderPixie @_benwick @ChristianityOn Lol, this happens in my 30s as a business owner lol. What are you talking about lolm if anything nobody had a problem with it in grade school because I had straight As all the way through.