The closure of Monolith Productions, an innovative video game developer, shows what’s wrong with an industry in which game publishers have the ultimate power to shut down projects and fire workers.
The closure of Monolith Productions, an innovative video game developer, shows what’s wrong with an industry in which game publishers have the ultimate power to shut down projects and fire workers.
Based on his previous comments when he’s brought this up - he appears way, way more outraged than seems to make sense for what happened. From something 30 years ago.
Bro that’s just one incident in three decades of madness
I’m not lying when I tell you I was at the top top bro
I changed the world with my technology
And when you know what’s what, you are sick to your stomach
That’s why I refuse to buy anything, I pick things out of dumpsters, I’m friends with homeless people, I go at 3:00 a.m. and bring them soup, I connect to my community, I volunteer, I serve, I fix electronics, I do what I want every day that makes me happy, I don’t need any illusion anymore
But I would be absolutely thrilled to shatter the bubble of anybody that wants to talk about what they think they know about games
I choose my words very deliberately here and I am intentionally portraying hostility so that anybody with two clues to rub together can see where it’s going to go if they start. I want people to know that you’re dealing with a dragon … if you want to know - I’ll tell you.
I’m a nice dragon but I’ve had it with people who want to talk to me about what they think they know about this realm
I have done anyone reading these comments the courtesy of knowing that it’s not going to go the way they think if they whisper word one to me about games okay, that’s a kindness I’m doing you all in advance lol
And in a way I’m saying don’t fucking ask me, I’ve been dealing with these dumb conversations for 30 years on the internet, if you think you have a single thing to say to me in opposition to what has been said here so far, don’t message me, in fact block me right now on Lemmy
Anybody want to take a shot? Let me begin the conversation so you get a flavor: every single gamer is a gullible magical-thinking rube, an infant in their emotional core. These individuals will spend countless hours performing micro tasks which are puzzle-based in nature, but accomplish nothing, simply to satisfy some primitive emotional logic. These people are the equivalent of children that think magic is real, then they want the magician to explain the trick, then they get upset when they learn that it’s a trick and they want to tell the magician no, magic’s actually real. If you like gaming, I hate you. Because I am a gamer but I know what games are and you don’t.
I’m not sure why you feel the need to make such a statement and try to be rude to me when I have meticulously explained, to anybody who with an intelligent mind, specifically why I don’t want to talk about this but you need to push
So how about this, I’ll save the bother and just block you :)
You are literally the type of person that I want to avoid in these kind of conversations, that’s why I go at it things the way I do, but you’re too emotionally confused to get it
Look in the mirror, and realize you haven’t added a single thing here
But the crux of the issue, is that I don’t give a fuck what you think and you CAN’T understand that. IT’S TOO HARD FOR YOU TO ACCEPT THAT I DON’T GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK
Truthfully, no. I was a really top level fucker in the industry and let me tell you man… It’s a vicious game, and even thinking about things that happened 30 years ago are causing my hairs to stand on end right now even though I’m sitting with a nice warm espresso in a sunbeam smoking a joint.
I’m going to copy and paste from a previous answer. Please do me the courtesy of not asking any questions about my history in the game industry, because I will go off like a f’king neutron bomb. It will be real but it will be ugly. I mean ask if you want, but you’ll get the fuck beaten out of you and you won’t like it and it’ll disabuse you of, in a most vicious way, your incorrect thoughts, perspective, and fee fees RE anything to do with games. If you want to look behind the curtain man we’re going to look but you won’t like what you see, I can absolutely promise you that, and I will not protect feelings. So before you do, think about it for a little bit, then don’t please.
“They were contracted to design the (edit: low-level coin op hardware, etc) API for our new Internet-enabled touchscreen gaming network kiosks (world first at the time) and they were fucking useless. And then had the gall to present the piece of shit at the CGDG 1997, as a half-finished completely non-functional, but presented it like it was their own product and not a massive NDA violation. Presented like their own product which could be generically extended to other platforms. Fuck you Matt. Fuck you Monolith you fucking cunts.”
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Care to elaborate?
Based on his previous comments when he’s brought this up - he appears way, way more outraged than seems to make sense for what happened. From something 30 years ago.
Bro that’s just one incident in three decades of madness
I’m not lying when I tell you I was at the top top bro
I changed the world with my technology
And when you know what’s what, you are sick to your stomach
That’s why I refuse to buy anything, I pick things out of dumpsters, I’m friends with homeless people, I go at 3:00 a.m. and bring them soup, I connect to my community, I volunteer, I serve, I fix electronics, I do what I want every day that makes me happy, I don’t need any illusion anymore
But I would be absolutely thrilled to shatter the bubble of anybody that wants to talk about what they think they know about games
I choose my words very deliberately here and I am intentionally portraying hostility so that anybody with two clues to rub together can see where it’s going to go if they start. I want people to know that you’re dealing with a dragon … if you want to know - I’ll tell you.
I’m a nice dragon but I’ve had it with people who want to talk to me about what they think they know about this realm
I have done anyone reading these comments the courtesy of knowing that it’s not going to go the way they think if they whisper word one to me about games okay, that’s a kindness I’m doing you all in advance lol
And in a way I’m saying don’t fucking ask me, I’ve been dealing with these dumb conversations for 30 years on the internet, if you think you have a single thing to say to me in opposition to what has been said here so far, don’t message me, in fact block me right now on Lemmy
Anybody want to take a shot? Let me begin the conversation so you get a flavor: every single gamer is a gullible magical-thinking rube, an infant in their emotional core. These individuals will spend countless hours performing micro tasks which are puzzle-based in nature, but accomplish nothing, simply to satisfy some primitive emotional logic. These people are the equivalent of children that think magic is real, then they want the magician to explain the trick, then they get upset when they learn that it’s a trick and they want to tell the magician no, magic’s actually real. If you like gaming, I hate you. Because I am a gamer but I know what games are and you don’t.
You dont sound healthy.
I’m not sure why you feel the need to make such a statement and try to be rude to me when I have meticulously explained, to anybody who with an intelligent mind, specifically why I don’t want to talk about this but you need to push
So how about this, I’ll save the bother and just block you :)
You are literally the type of person that I want to avoid in these kind of conversations, that’s why I go at it things the way I do, but you’re too emotionally confused to get it
Look in the mirror, and realize you haven’t added a single thing here
But the crux of the issue, is that I don’t give a fuck what you think and you CAN’T understand that. IT’S TOO HARD FOR YOU TO ACCEPT THAT I DON’T GIVE A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK
Bye-bye blocked
It wasn’t an insult, you genuinely seem very ill and I hope you get better.
You also clearly do care
Do consume other media like books, TV, or movies?
Why post on a games forums when you have such open disdain for the medium and gamers?
They are mentally ill, unfortunately. I hope they get help soon.
Truthfully, no. I was a really top level fucker in the industry and let me tell you man… It’s a vicious game, and even thinking about things that happened 30 years ago are causing my hairs to stand on end right now even though I’m sitting with a nice warm espresso in a sunbeam smoking a joint.
I’m going to copy and paste from a previous answer. Please do me the courtesy of not asking any questions about my history in the game industry, because I will go off like a f’king neutron bomb. It will be real but it will be ugly. I mean ask if you want, but you’ll get the fuck beaten out of you and you won’t like it and it’ll disabuse you of, in a most vicious way, your incorrect thoughts, perspective, and fee fees RE anything to do with games. If you want to look behind the curtain man we’re going to look but you won’t like what you see, I can absolutely promise you that, and I will not protect feelings. So before you do, think about it for a little bit, then don’t please.
“They were contracted to design the (edit: low-level coin op hardware, etc) API for our new Internet-enabled touchscreen gaming network kiosks (world first at the time) and they were fucking useless. And then had the gall to present the piece of shit at the CGDG 1997, as a half-finished completely non-functional, but presented it like it was their own product and not a massive NDA violation. Presented like their own product which could be generically extended to other platforms. Fuck you Matt. Fuck you Monolith you fucking cunts.”