It would be so funny if pissy gamers harrassing Phil into canceling Fez 2 leads to him unleashing incredible ecoterrorist violence 10 years down the line.
How in the world is that Malthusian? He's antisocial and has misanthropic episodes, but he's not advocating for spreading diseases in slums to genocide the poor, he's closer to being an antinatalist (when he's in a bad mood, otherwise he's seemingly an armchair adventurist, which is also not great but a bit better).
planet’s going to be fine, though. i find peace in that. eventually all of human history will be nothing but one aberrant little blip. just a freaky little cancer that ate itself real quick.
I hate this shit, we're going to take out most if not all advanced life with us.
People tell themselves it will just be humans but we are starting to see that no it is going to be a Venus greenhouse situation at the rate we are going. Especially with governments like that of the US looking into solar engineering to artificially cool the climate while they continue to approve increased fossil fuel drilling. A suicidal plan because all solar engineering requires never ending maintenance and if the sulfur dioxide or white paint ever stops being produced at global economy scale then suddenly all that global warming that has been artificially hidden comes crashing back with a vengeance. The liberal mind like to believe economies continue growing forever and human civilization doesn't periodically collapse to various extents, that global industrial scale solar engineering material production won't have to cease at some point due to economic or political reasons.
Everyone ignored how the ocean factored into various tipping points and how once the domino start to fall earth ends up with the carbon cycle just stopping due to dead acidic oceans. We are already seeing regions of the ocean and inland seas turning into dead zones. Then there is the fact that evaporated water is one of the stronger green house gases and once that final domino tips earth ends up permanently locked in as another Venus.
Venus used to be atmospherically like earth but now has surface temperatures peaking at 900 degrees due to runaway green house gas. We are talking not humans or even animals gone but all life, including single celled, forever.
Careful, talk like that around here can get you labeled a nihilistic doomer or even irresponsible alarmist by the pedants.
undefined> when i think about humanity spreading to the stars i shudder. nothing could be worst for the universe. no, this baby is dying in the crib. as well it should.
the fuckn narcissism and misanthropy is the worst i hate this shit
He should make a Fez 2 to blow up and get international visibility again then use the platform to spew this shit.
Oh and give all the money from the game to a revolutionary party.
Phil Fish redemption arc? Did he get stoned and kill that massive ego?
I mean, a big part of the destruction of his public image was him being on the right side of gamergate...
I don't really know anything about that, he was just a smug dick to a degree that really rubbed me the wrong way.
From reading some of the stuff he wrote, Fish is still an insufferable misanthropic shithead. The only credit I could give him is he at least made g*mers really really really mad.
He's annoying, it just got really blown out of proportion by the vitriol against him
i think it's fine to have a massive ego. people want sincere artistic production without an ego and they're just setting themselves up for diappointment
Okay he worked on one pretty good indie game that spent 5 years in development hell because he was impossible to work with, and he's got an ego that makes Quentin Tarantino look modest. Rewatched indie game the movie and he was a massive prick. Unsurprised that he was such a target for ire.
I guess he's grown, I kinda wrote him off as a racist dipshit.
CW: Racism, the dumbest takes you've ever heard about the state of western and japanese videogames circa 2012
I don't know about racism but that was shockingly rude. I haven't played many recent Japanese games (I don't count the MGS series, mega man games, first three fatal frames or first three silent hill games as recent) outside of the 'souls' series, so I don't know how accurate the excessive tutorials comment is, but there had to be a more civilized way of conveying that idea. You'd think these people had never talked to real human beings before (then again, this is how people talk on chat threads. I wouldn't be surprised if he was talking like this because he maybe isn't very socialized and talks more to people on the internet than face to face).
He names Darksouls specifically as handholdy and low-tech, when the big video games in the west had been 90% grey and black/cover shooters for 5 years, and was just getting into everything needs to be an open world with repetitive content.
My brain cannot even get past that to process the rudeness and racism.
i hate to um actually ☝ 🤓 but A: it wasn't phil fish making that particular comment and B: they were using dark souls as an example of something that wasn't handholdy
Dark “here’s a broken sword now go fight an Asylum Demon in the first five minutes” Souls is handholdy? The fuck?
Activision had to tell FROM specifically to put tutorials in Sekiro because they hadn’t done it in their games up to that point.
tbf the intended new-player answer to that encounter is to fucking run and come back with a real weapon. DS1 is more about mind games and intimidation than actual difficult (though kalameet is kind of fucked)
Nah, he was completely full of shit even back then. The main issue is that all of their criticisms applied as much to Western games as Japanese ones. They're both equally handholdy, and it's obvious why they do that. It's to attract a wide audience who aren't no-lifers with 20000 hours of experience playing videogames. We're talking about entire games like COD with the whole single player is just a tutorial for the multiplayer lmao
he's the perfect combination of cool and absolutely insufferably which compels me to stan
Huh....I thought he was one of those indie devs who stuck to tiny little quarters of the internet that also usually were filled with the worst reactionaries.
seeing how well disco elysium did he might get more mileage out of a game with these new wacky themes he seems to be posting about
I’ve actually been thinking that a game might be a creative medium for providing instructions on how to do stuff.
Like, one of those “mystery of the druids” type games except the puzzle you’re solving is how to make explosives and gamers love “realism” so why not use an actual recipe?
Bad idea? Probably.
Would it be funny? Yes
Fixed it, deleted because I couldn’t find phrasing I liked and upon review seemed kinda dumb.
Feel free to order an accusation of promoting adventurism as the starter, chefs special.
My most sincere thanks to Malm and everyone who actually got Pipeline turned into a movie and distributed
He's a game dev again then? Or was Mastodon around before he decided to quit?
he quit way before mastodon. i don't think he's announced any projects
Oh he's back? I remember he got frustrated and deleted everything years ago. Never got a Fez 2.
