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Holy poo poo that's kinda hard to read "I used the money to get an apartment, hoping I'd figure out how to make this all work in the 8 months it gave me" oh man I'd personally have hit the "this is a doomed project, time to move on" point long ago
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Jan 20, 2016 17:36
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Mister Sinewave posted:Holy poo poo that's kinda hard to read do you remember the guy who locked himself in a room for a hundred days because nintendo wouldn't give him a dev kit this is the same man
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Jan 20, 2016 17:38
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kickstarter gave this man a hundred grand
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Jan 20, 2016 17:38
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i think you mean 10 grand https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bobsgame/bobs-game/description but even so  is too much
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Jan 20, 2016 17:43
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jfc I thought that post was awkward to read, I looked it up and the wikipedia summary is even worse.
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Jan 20, 2016 17:55
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remember when he posted a lovely 3d render of a console and said it would become a thing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDOoAw_YajU watch all the way through
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Jan 20, 2016 18:00
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ayn rand hand job posted:do you remember the guy who locked himself in a room for a hundred days because nintendo wouldn't give him a dev kit lol
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Jan 20, 2016 18:06
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Suspicious Dish posted:remember when he posted a lovely 3d render of a console and said it would become a thing e: lol at the website http://www.the-nd.com/ anthonypants fucked around with this message at 18:29 on Jan 20, 2016 |
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Jan 20, 2016 18:27
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that man is every gamer trope plus mental illness rolled into a big turd burrito
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Jan 20, 2016 18:30
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lancemantis posted:plus mental illness you already said "every gamer trope"
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Jan 20, 2016 18:55
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lancemantis posted:that man is every gamer trope plus mental illness rolled into a big turd burrito he got further into actually making the game than 95% of them even if it was all fake screenshots that's still better than the people who have THE GREATEST GAME IDEA EVER!!!! but you have to sign an NDA before you're allowed to look at their dog-eared notebook full of anime doodles and gun statistics
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Jan 20, 2016 19:00
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Sweevo posted:he got further into actually making the game than 95% of them
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Jan 20, 2016 19:02
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anthonypants posted:i still believe in barkley 2 haha
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Jan 20, 2016 19:16
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ayn rand hand job posted:do you remember the guy who locked himself in a room for a hundred days because nintendo wouldn't give him a dev kit that "trole" was worn out by day 5
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Jan 20, 2016 20:20
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http://kotaku.com/mobile-games-website-uses-patreon-things-get-messy-1754108495 TouchArcade started using Patreon for funding when ad revenue dried up A mobile game developer gave them a $1000/mo sponsorship TouchArcade gives one of their games a 3.5/5 review developer melts down on TouchArcade's forum and pulls $1000/mo sponsorship
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Jan 20, 2016 22:58
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really weird seeing "iOS games thread fishmech" turn into a semi legitimate journalist like the yos geeky version of boniface
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Jan 20, 2016 23:06
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Luigi Thirty posted:http://kotaku.com/mobile-games-website-uses-patreon-things-get-messy-1754108495 that's journalistic integrity for you
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Jan 20, 2016 23:10
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JawnV6 posted:really weird seeing "iOS games thread fishmech" turn into a semi legitimate journalist really enjoyed his initial debut of trolling yosposters for an entire thread until one by one they caught on
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Jan 20, 2016 23:25
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qntm posted:that's journalistic integrity for you
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Jan 21, 2016 01:27
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Suspicious Dish posted:remember when he posted a lovely 3d render of a console and said it would become a thing give him some credit, he put out an SDK for it an archive containing SDL and a main.cpp setting up a 320x240 window
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Jan 21, 2016 03:02
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anthonypants posted:toucharcade is actually a pretty good site for being run by a goon that's cool. I wasn't actually being sarcastic or anything, giving one of your most significant direct sponsors' games a mediocre review is pretty neat ethics in games journalism
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Jan 21, 2016 13:06
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qntm posted:that's cool. I wasn't actually being sarcastic or anything, giving one of your most significant direct sponsors' games a mediocre review is pretty neat game reviews have such goddamn inflated scores, including that one
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Jan 21, 2016 13:59
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touch arcade is one of the extremely few mobile focused sites that isn't shady as gently caress and exist only to take money from devs in exchange for reviews. that whole market sucks and touch arcade is good
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Jan 21, 2016 14:26
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Sham bam bamina! posted:the thing is that 3.5/5 isnt even mediocre, 2.5 is if you got a 70 on a test in school you'd be barely above failing, so 3.5/5 is mediocre as hell why should we consider something still passable if it can't even get half of things right (2.5/5)?
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Jan 21, 2016 16:11
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fishmech posted:if you got a 70 on a test in school you'd be barely above failing, so 3.5/5 is mediocre as hell our whole system of grading and rating is screwed up and we try to reduce complex judgements and subjective views to a single arbitrary metric?
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Jan 21, 2016 16:28
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fishmech posted:if you got a 70 on a test in school you'd be barely above failing, so 3.5/5 is mediocre as hell lol i agree, it makes perfect sense to compare two scales that have nothing to do with each other, one of which is entirely arbitrary, the other of which is video games
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Jan 21, 2016 16:44
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Sham bam bamina! posted:the thing is that 3.5/5 isnt even mediocre, 2.5 is who cares like, why do we want them to use the entire spectrum, it's fine
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Jan 21, 2016 16:59
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theflyingorc posted:who cares publishers need them to use the entire spectrum because they pay developers based on metacritic ratings
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Jan 21, 2016 17:09
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wgaf about video game ratings? you needed them in magazines and poo poo but now I can watch a sponsored middle schooler play it for four hours a pop. like I'm gonna stick twenty hours of my life minimum into this poo poo and I need a number for it to make a decision? like disregarding the entire article because I need my hot pockets chewed up for me and spit into my waiting gullet
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Jan 21, 2016 17:10
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some people itt use the entire spectrum if you get my drift
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Jan 21, 2016 17:11
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theflyingexecutive posted:wgaf about video game ratings? you needed them in magazines and poo poo but now I can watch a sponsored middle schooler play it for four hours a pop. like I'm gonna stick twenty hours of my life minimum into this poo poo and I need a number for it to make a decision? like disregarding the entire article because I need my hot pockets chewed up for me and spit into my waiting gullet Let's plays are still baffling to me
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Jan 21, 2016 17:11
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Cocoa Crispies posted:publishers need them to use the entire spectrum because they pay developers based on metacritic ratings everyone would have to switch over tomorrow or ninety hours Neal isn't getting his half day vacation ever
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Jan 21, 2016 17:11
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keyboard vomit posted:Let's plays are still baffling to me just be like some younger child thing where they had to watch their older sibling play all the time and it just stuck
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Jan 21, 2016 17:12
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but now you have twitch and you can combine your love of the vee gees with your unrealized lust for that 30x30pixel woman in the corner
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Jan 21, 2016 17:14
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I was looking for a kentucky route 0 trailer to show a friend the art style and it was buried under two pages of lets plays Why would you watch some nerd play kr0 of all things, its an adventure game where the whole point is seeing all the different dialog things the characters have
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Jan 21, 2016 17:14
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because youre stupid
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Jan 21, 2016 17:17
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Sham bam bamina! posted:because youre stupid i work at a veegee games company and you just would not believe the incredibly boring things some of my coworkers are into hey come watch this guy play a video game blindfolded, he could have used this time to become a concert pianist but instead he's gonna beat bubble bobble relatively quickly
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Jan 21, 2016 17:22
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theflyingorc posted:i work at a veegee games company and you just would not believe the incredibly boring things some of my coworkers are into I'm a gamer and need to only do gamer things. My hobby is my whole life I'm a grown up
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i like having background noise while i'm pretending to create value for my fast company, and let's plays fill the bill pretty nicely
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