Moriarty (mrixrt)

Moriarty (mrixrt)

@reallycool.bsky.social

mrixrt is pronounced Moriarty or you can just call me M, and my YouTube is ReallyCool http://youtube.com/reallycool I am on @crub.org & my Time Capsule is the #3 Gaming History Podcast on Apple DMs are open, sources are kept confidential

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I don't hate Digger. It's a billion times better than Inarritu's last film, Bardo. Bardo is abysmal, self indulgent, pretentious garbage, but Digger's just more-political Wes Anderson. I think people will look on it pretty fondly in 20 years

Thinking about games more critically means being able to recognize when something is good, and when something is entertaining, and how those are two difference axes on the spectrum and not synonyms. But what's really interesting to me is how by cultivating this you inevitably...

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...other game reviewers in a private discord. Sometimes, shockingly, NDAs and embargoes are covertly disregarded and I see games that are coming out soon, and I hear the first reactions of people I would describe as "professional critical thinkers," people for whom this entire...

...industry is *their* industry, and for whom picking nits is literally the job description, and the range of reactions to any new game is almost always "Well, it's pretty bad" or "Well, it's pretty bad, but..."

Thinking about games more critically means being able to recognize when something is good, and when something is entertaining, and how those are two difference axes on the spectrum and not synonyms. But what's really interesting to me is how by cultivating this you inevitably...

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...seem to feel that the industry is made up of "mostly good," either, except the aforementioned toxic reviewers, for whom the rest of us are "downers" or "killing the vibe" and need to just "learn to shut their brain off and enjoy things." This is actually...

...the opposite of critical thought, of course, but hey, that's just me being a downer who's killing the vibe and needs to learn to shut my brain off and enjoy things, I guess. Not much of a point here except that I play a lot of games I'm going to talk about with...

Thinking about games more critically means being able to recognize when something is good, and when something is entertaining, and how those are two difference axes on the spectrum and not synonyms. But what's really interesting to me is how by cultivating this you inevitably...

...end up becoming either jaded or disaffected, with very few people ending anywhere else--and all of those becoming toxic positivity people. Either everything ends up being pretty bad, or you don't *care* that everything ends up being pretty bad. There's not many critics who...

I wondered who would download "an ai that can run your life" if they had literally even googled something and been forced to use AI recently, and "facebook market reseller" actually makes sense

So uhhhhhh… Apparently meta's muse "AI" is just straight up doxxing people to strangers on FB marketplace??? This has the potential to hurt so so many people, and I genuinely wonder how long before they roll out a fix for it.

2XKO is ending development. Did you know that just 19 days after their release, the same algorithm I talk about destroying Highguard is the reason over half the 2XKO staff was laid off? That's because it's the same company running both.

Moriarty (mrixrt)@reallycool.bsky.social

Highguard launched with 97,249 players and was gone 45 days later. I played it before the servers went off; mined the rocks, ran the empty maps, got killed repeatedly by a lightning spear I could not see. New video: where the money actually went, and who was actually paying youtu.be/V4fZCCuMZyk

The part I still think about though? In Highguard's final week, a small crowd of trophy hunters showed up specifically because it was dying. They knew the servers had a countdown, but developers were still shipping content updates. Devs were performing CPR and players came to hold their hand

The scores are the most misunderstood number in this story. Highguard is 63 on Metacritic. That is not the review profile of a disaster; that's the profile of *mediocre.* Concord's problem was that nobody wanted it. Highguard's problem was that fine is fatal when your funding is measured in days.

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Limited Run Games Announces More Physical Game Delays. Seems to Blame Previous CEO Josh Fairhurst for delivery dates "...that were too aggressive."

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Pouring one out for Sonic fans that shelled out a few hundred for this one

Tracker_TD@tracker-td.bsky.social

People have started getting their Limited Run Games Sonic x Shadow Generations CEs after the length delay for ‘essential quality control’, and uh yep, they sure pulled a Limited Run Games (Via x.com/jldrawz/stat... )

Apologies to CJ here, but this made me realize there needs to be a solution for nfluencers like me to get content that I care about without receiving 100+ emails a week Cons like PAX really hyper highlight this as you end up getting 3-500 emails from deserving devs that end up getting ignored

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Have you ever made a trivia show to lie to your friends? Have you done that AND made them hate you as much as @thegoldenbolt.net did, to get this reaction? Play along and understand the pain we felt. Every question is...mostly right, find out what's wrong! youtu.be/HO55IVeROyQ

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Almost a year ago, I started this crazy project. And now, it's finally time to vote on "The Greatest Game of All Time!" 501 entries across all of gaming. Choose your Top 10 and let's see what ends up as the greatest! Voting will remain open until the end of 11/23! forms.gle/Wg234Zt3GWvD...

forms.gleTop 10 Greatest Games of All TimeOver the course of the past year, I've released polls of various categories covering the evolution of video games from the Atari 2600 to the SNES to the Switch 2 along with highlights from PC, Mobile,...
Derrick Bitner@bitnerd.gvg.io

Had an idea for an insane Bluesky project starting next year. “The Greatest Game of All Time.” Every week I’ll provide a list of games from a system and ask for everyone’s Top 10. I’ll then weigh the entries and have a top list from that system.

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perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers they just profited from us

.chantal//RYAN@thoughtrise.bsky.social

I was a member of TGA Future Class 2022 and lemmee tell ya, my skin has been crawling since pretty much every interaction I had with them (few) & story I heard about other members' interactions with them (many) was bad. & by bad I mean, so many shades of being used as photo op tokens & nothing more