Alexander McClelland

I used to write stuff on here but now I mostly don't. He/Him.

[Alexander McClelland @12SecondHorror]

I don't think I've posted a non-reply tweet in years, but I made a game a while ago: https://t.co/VPPXEXRH8a

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@unormal https://t.co/Iv1t7MJkuG

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@PatBlanchfield @cd_hooks Surely THIS time the weapon will be so horrifying that nobody would dare use it

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@BretDevereaux I feel like spirit ashes were their attempt to try to make the bosses more complex without being overwhelming and they don't really intend for people to fight without them. You CAN, because they knew people would want to try, but it's like disabling the palico in Monster Hunter

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@BretDevereaux This is a thing I always found interesting about Malenia - people always joke about her being a Sekiro boss they put in Elden Ring by mistake, but in Sekiro she wouldn't even be that hard of a boss because you have the tools to deal with her attacks in that game.

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@BretDevereaux Like people meme about "see that mountain? You can go there" but that is basically the entire appeal of Bethesda's games. Starfield doesn't have that because it has to split everything up. Looking at a big map of planets to visit just doesn't have the same effect.

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@BretDevereaux I feel like the thing about Starfield is that the inherent design means it can't capitalize on Bethesda's core strength, which is being able to create that one moment of stepping out of the tutorial zone and seeing the whole world stretched out before you.

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@JennyENicholson @Mariacustardo Also like, the place shut down. Clearly the problems were not just something that only affected an insignificant number of people. You didn't kill the place, you just wrote its obituary.

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@deathbybadger Especially considering the classic labyrinth looks like this, which isn't even a "maze", it's just a single line that's twisted up on itself a lot. Although this specific one does have an inaccessible section in the middle so yeah, that part's probably pretty hard to escape

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@Pentadact Really feels like the category "Batman and parenting" is a threat

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@IwriteOK Trek has always been very clear that in order to achieve that specific vision of the future, capitalism has to go

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@jesawyer Have you seen Noah Caldwell-Gervais' Fallout road trip videos?

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Feeling pretty good right now, just got back from court and the jury found me so not guilty that the judge gave me credit against a future crime of my choice. My lawyer told me "that almost never happens"

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@unormal You think these guys ever consider how much money this guy who "totally owned you" by promoting your game has made you?

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@bombsfall Maybe they're doing half-assed nests on purpose to mock other birds.

"Oooh look at me I'm building a nest, look at me putting in all this effort. Just lay an egg, coward"

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@IwriteOK Careful, I'm pretty sure this is how the war of 1812 started

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@IwriteOK No way, writing is obviously an objective spectrum from "good" to "bad" where writers are distributed randomly along it in a bell curve. Cultural impact? Since when does art have anything to do with culture!

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@IwriteOK Many of those seniors are now retiring and there's nobody to replace them because all those contractors get overworked and burnt out and tend to drop out of the industry entirely within a few years

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@IwriteOK This is already an issue in the video game industry (though nothing to do with AI); most of the senior developers are people who came up in the industry in the 90s, via a path that no longer exists because all the people doing those junior roles now are contractors

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@JuliaLepetit Plane? This is clearly a package delivery via ICBM

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@bombsfall I never thought it was weird at the time but in retrospect, how weird was it that people would write letters to newspapers complaining about not getting the joke of a comic. It's not like it was a one-off either, apparently people were writing to papers about comics all the time!