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Barking Dog Honker (Rob)

@fishwithlasers.bsky.social

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Yes. The mind probe! Rob. Writes and writes about videogames. Ex remakes person, ex legend. Grumbles, watches tat films, does some doodling and stuff. Disabled, depressed, tired. Terfs and bigots shit off elsewhere. He/Him http://www.robf.me

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Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · Oct 18

Sorry.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 4h

I really hope you get a visit from someone made of turnips or something. And they can fix roofs.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 5h

I think that broke something. I may not recover.

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innes @innes.bsky.social · 6h

"Nature's Labubu"

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Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 7h

bonkers

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 7h

It was not controversial, it was people telling you using AI was a shit idea and it would cost you more, not save money.

Something, it turned out, was absolutely one hundred percent the case. Turning round and giving it “no, it’s going to be fine, leave me alone” is not keeping a game relevant.

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Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 7h

Like, nothing against Cecil or whatever but fucking hell, the most videogames response possible.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 7h

Well, not so much missing as skipped over in most hilarious way possible.

Yes, people told me it was a shit idea and I refused to believe them but having costly shit ideas you can easily avoid is, in fact, a good thing really. Very important, even.

"I made statements that were said in good faith at the time, and that caused a lot of controversy. And I think that actually if you are taking a game that is 30 years old and you are reforging it, you're enhancing it, actually having a little bit of controversy is not a bad thing, because it makes it feel relevant, it makes it feel contemporary."

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 7h

it’s funny how that bit is missing, really. ah well videogames again. nobody could have possibly known.

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Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 8h

Remembering when everyone was like “Charles, you’ll just end up having to redo it” but nooooo.

www.gamesindustry.biz/ai-was-an-ex...

"AI was an expensive mistake": Charles Cecil on innovation, insolvency, and Broken Sword

Plus, why Revolution Software needs to innovate for Broken Sword 6 – and why it might be a long way off

www.gamesindustry.biz

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Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 19h

(And yet, still not as much as I hate graphs)

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 19h

I hate this site.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 19h

Sorry mates, should have made this three years ago before it would have ruined everything. You’re going to have to sit it out now. Sorry.

Maybe in a few years when some games stop working or businesses close, we might have some room again but until then, sorry. No can do.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 19h

Just tell, them straight up if they keep on like this, it’s unsustainable. Make sure they know just what they’re doing, ruining things for other people. Let them know it’s them especially at fault and fuck if, ask them how could they when they know things are this bad too. Really go for it.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 19h

Maybe the solution here is before the next demo bonanza that Steam run, like a few weeks before if or something, you do a search on here and the other hellsite to see who is making a demo for it and ask them to just not do that please because there’s already enough and that should do it.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 20h

What do you expect people to do here? Fuck me.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 20h

Yes. That’s right. People made more games. And demos.

I know, I know, you’d think they’d have just stopped out of politeness or something but no, they just carry on making things,,, rudely.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 20h

Imagine being able to go a week without someone getting a graph out and giving it “wow, there’s a lot of games here”

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 1d

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Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 1d

Tears Starmer, more like.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 1d

Fancy a popular post on a videogame community on the internet claiming a game is dead and people agree with it.

Literally unheard of.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 1d

are they, like, just discovering the internet this week or something? were Nintendo doomed for nothing?

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 1d

“And it's not just me that thinks this is the end. The most popular post in the Destiny subreddit from the past month is a bleakly-titled "I think this game is finally dying" dispatch that sees the community at large complaining about Bungie's way of managing the title over the past year-plus. ”

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 1d

“Is this it? Are Eurogamer finally closing?”

You’d feel like fucking shit, so maybe don’t.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 1d

Gonna start writing headlines like this about their jobs, treat an IGN takeover as sports and see how that goes because I saw a graph over the weekend once.

Barking Dog Honker (Rob) @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 1d

what the fuck is going on over on that site and can they just stop it, whatever it is

The last time Destiny 2’s player numbers looked this bad, Bungie was one month away from shutting up shop - so it this, finally, the end?