Pouchmouse

@pouchmouse.com

Indie gamedev and Moby Dick stan account. Spyro the Dragon, Ratchet and Clank, and more recently Edmus - the world’s largest one-finger MMO. #gamedev #indie

I think this will be true in the future, about our own time too. Stories about tech oligarchs will have them saying "yes AI is bullshit but we need to fool the masses." Future audiences won't accept that these guys genuinely believed we stood on the precipice of Microsoft Clippy's apotheosis

Andrew Reeves@andrewsshi.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My pet peeve is dialogue like: "Father, why must we sit through this boring ritual?" "Well, my son the prince, you and I know that it's bullshit and that all that matters is the exercise of power..." No! That's the opposite of a medieval mentality! It's not Brutally Accurate!

Maybe the real moral of Marathon Steve is that the game industry has been so poisoned by the live service model we can't even conceive of someone enjoying a hundred hours of a single-player experience.

Tesla bumper sticker that says "Yes I made a mistake but we're all living through extreme economic precarity; there's no way I can buy another car, especially since no one will buy this one off me."

every screen, pop-up or button i have to see after clicking "cancel subscription" and before i see "your subscription has been canceled" should cost the company ten million dollars