Liam Thomas

i think a lot about Vince Gilligan saying "hard work is hard to hate" and how much that informs who the audience sympathizes with

there's two wolves inside me

one which says "hell yeah" to this and one which saw people get confused and leave after attempting to play my game

They should have announced this in a Nintendo Direct as the “one more thing”.

i miss cohost

it's like, i think people are way too quick to jump on mods/devs in the modern age because it's easy to see someone in a "position of power" and blame them for everything

but then one of them posts something idiotic and it's like yeah good luck getting anyone to defend you

I don't think live games are the problem, honestly. I think the problem is investor and managerial insanity, where the people making those high-level decisions don't understand the business they're in and keep changing their mind about the risk profile of their business plan

"please subscribe to my saas" who do you think you are, the king of hyrule

I made a crossword

Greg Davies: Great task, well done. Didn‘t eat a thing.

Persephone: Thank you.

Alex Horne: Ah. Well. Let’s take another look at that pomegranate.

Logistics is woke. Supply is woke. End-state planning is woke. Force protection? Believe it or not, woke

we appear to have four competing fascist movements jockeying for control: blood & soil nazism under miller and hegseth, darwinian ecofascism from rfk, technofascism under vance and musk, and one Big Wet Hitler who understands the true animating core of the american volk is a deep love for shopping

that's

that's certainly a choice

Sheesh, that's a harsh dropoff. Anything in particular cause that?

sir i am afraid i must refuse all illegal orders

This bit in the From Russia With Love game made me laugh out loud. You've got a fairly grounded, low key fight based on the one in the movie, then the most video game looking fucker of all time slides into frame.

dude we HAVE to get a better bit than "title card font but the words are different"

two men: the blowjob brothers
three men: tonight on top gear
four men: weezer

the lack of wind resistance would mess with my head

The finale of Iconoclasts

The reveal of the villain in Fortune 499

they didn't think they could knock america out of the war with one attack, it was intended to be a big, deadly attack on the american navy but not even the IJN was hubristic enough to think it would knock america out of the war

if you ship pocket deadlock and mina deadlock together i think i do not understand you. the two would make eachother profoundly miserable. and not in a fun way

thanks for the chat, it was fun

i make strategy games with the expectation that optimization is fun. if optimization isn't fun, what's the point of trying

if players always knew what the most fun way to play my game was, i wouldn't need to make it. they'd already be able to achieve the same enjoyment without me. a game's goal is not to make some fun state theoretically achievable, if it was, the ultimate game would be a new project file

players aren't static components, but they are system components. You can allow players to play a game wrong while not encouraging them to do so, and win and loss states are strong ways of encouraging and directing gameplay.

games are not toys or sandboxes, what you encourage your players to do matters

why do strategy games with permadeath result in players generally playing very slow, safe styles? because the game encourages them to. they would have more fun playing aggressively but because of how punishing aggressive play is, they do not

none of your favorite games are fun. i will stake myself to this hill. a system's purpose is what it does, a game's gameplay is how people play it. if people play it "wrong" then the game is encouraging people to play it wrong.

Video games often have floating platforms, but they don’t explain why the platforms are floating. That’s where game writers come in, to say that platforms are kept aloft by “ghostium” an invisible fog created by the souls of every dead person

gee I wonder