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Bobbins

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I have 13 progressively harder levels. Try me if you dare.

Rob. The real Peter Molyneux 2017/2018. Writes and writes about video games. Watches tat films. Touched a computer once, sorry.

If you’ve got a blacklist, I want to be on it. Disabled and tired.

#videogames #films #grumpiness #gamedev #games

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Kids today just won't know what it's like to get shouted at by random people on the internet because your game is 11MB thus breaking the holy covenant.

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Seeing talk of controller complexity reminds me that there's people out there who don't continually press the wrong button out of the two weirdly labelled ones to get to the map/inventory/quest log/options feature they need.

What must that be like?

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    Bobbins,
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    @psychicparrot42 Thousand wishlists a day? Piece of piss. I can do quadruple that in my sleep.

    Bobbins,
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    @psychicparrot42 Given the opportunity, I would totally flush marketing boy’s head down the toilet. He’s on a mailing list I’m on now and just posts shit like “yes, indies should be doing this and I wrote about it on my blog here” and he’s about two posts away from me raising a complaint.

    Bobbins, to random
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    I’m surprised no-one has thought of doing Doom but in a medieval world before.

    Bobbins, to random
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    Look At This: Grid Ranger (Pixeljam/Datasette)

    Bit of a videogame power duo thing going on with Datasette and Pixeljam working together on vector styled new arcade games and dear me, just look at how it’s all turning out! It’s beautiful!

    This is Grid Ranger then and it looks wonderful. Here’s the Steam page. Give the video a watch because it looks even better in motion.

    https://punchingrobots.com/look-at-this-grid-ranger-pixeljam-datasette/

    sinbad, to random
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    Thinking about subscribing to Edge again. I did for years and years, then I switched to an iPad sub for a while which was kind of cool but I let it lapse a while back. I’d probably go physical again despite the clutter, my iPad is an ancient potato now and I don’t feel like buying another

    Is Edge still good? I’m getting old-man nostalgia about when games writing was good and people got paid properly and didn’t have to do weird Internet shite to live and then get laid off by IGN

    Bobbins,
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    @ALWyvern @sinbad Best it’s ever been, imo.

    Bobbins,
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    @ALWyvern @sinbad If you don’t mind digital, libraries often have a Press Reader login for customers and that has Edge each month effectively for nowt. I use a Readly sub for mine so I can huff everything (except the ones I won’t read on principal, also pictured ahem), if you’re not arsed about owning things, obv.

    Bobbins, to random
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    On IGN acquiring RPS, Eurogamer, etc…

    Grim news. I’ve taken this extremely personally because RPS and Eurogamer basically ensured I didn’t just write a game and get lost in the milieu over and over again. Whether that’s writing about my stuff, writing for them, sitting on panels or having my work on show, they’ve been a consistent force for good. I’m proud to have bylines on Gamer Network.

    https://punchingrobots.com/on-ign-acquiring-rps-eurogamer-etc/

    Bobbins, to random
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    I’ve taken this extremely personally because RPS and Eurogamer basically ensured I didn’t just write a game and get lost in the milieu over and over again. Whether that’s writing about my stuff, writing for them, sitting on panels or having my work on show, they’ve been a consistent force for good.

    I’m proud to have bylines on Gamer Network. I’m grateful to everyone who helped lift me up. I’m just one of many they helped raise and what IGN have done is a travesty.

    Bobbins,
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    The staff over at GI dot biz have bust a gut over the years to turn the place around from a complete shitshow to the best in class, doing the work of business posting for other businesses whilst keeping a beady eye on the human costs that come with people existing in videogames and holding games companies to account with their own words and actions.

    Bobbins,
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    This shit shouldn’t be as rare as it is but it is and the work folks have put in, year in, year out is a testament to them.

    Brilliant people who deserve better than this.

    Bobbins,
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    Everyone in videogames is worse off for this. Every good person we lose has been a champion for someone else. They’ve brought eyeballs to games and situations that would struggle to find any. Games is a lesser place with every callous sacking and a little bit of hope and magic disappears alongside.

    Bobbins, to random
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    They made copy and paste pay to win. Amazing.

    https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/21/24161778/windows-powertoys-advanced-ai-copy-paste

    Bobbins, to random
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    My brain absolutely hates that thing game news sites are doing where they embed random videos of a completely different game midway through the article. It throws me for a loop every single time.

    Bobbins, to random
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    If you finish up before you get to The Devil You Know, Humble’s BPRD bundle is an incredible amount of very good comics for about twenty quid.

    https://www.humblebundle.com/books/mike-mignolas-bprd-dark-horse-books

    Mind, I need to stop wondering once a year whether Devil You Know is as bad as I remember it because it always is.

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    I think Jon Blow complaining about not being able to find Braid on PSN without scrolling to the bottom of the list of new releases and having to be told to stop sorting by best selling and it goes to the top will give me strength for years to come.

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    Super Destronaut: Landed X Loaded

    It’s always a treat to get a new Super Destronaut game to play around with, they’re some of my fave new arcade games. They’re rarely difficult or especially punishing, preferring instead to focus on the simple pleasures of shooting chunky pixel enemies and watching them explode in a violent sea of colour. In other words, absolutely perfect for me, the person who likes nothing more than shooting chunky pixel enemies and watching them…

    https://punchingrobots.com/super-destronaut-landed-x-loaded/

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    OH YES

    Bobbins,
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    I don’t think I should have huffed both Who eps in one as soon as they dropped because that’s left me all too excited for this time of the morning.

    Criminy.

    Bobbins, to random
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    Really enjoyed Rend & Tear With Tooth & Claw in the recent 2000ad issues. Dredd vs massive bear? Oh yes. Go on then.

    Bobbins,
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    @craiggrannell I didn’t mind it too much, felt like it was missing a page to me though.

    Bobbins,
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    @craiggrannell Yeah, I can appreciate that. I think I’ve huffed enough survivor films in recent months that the despondent ending was something I was expecting from the moment they drew attention to the cadet.

    For me, with only half a page given over to Dredd wandering off, I don’t think it quite had the space to pull off the sort of widescreen despair to really make the sacrifice work. Cramming so much onto that one page left no room to take it in and breathe.

    Bobbins, to random
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    Your dad got kicked out of bee club for being honey on main again.

    Bobbins, to random
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    Which of you buggers have a videogame related blog, channel or site I can link to from mine? Gimme those sweet, sweet URLs.

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