Aprav

Self-taught game dev · Built & sold 2 games (incl. one to a major AUS studio) · Blogging what won’t fit in tweets ·

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

If you are really good at what you do.

You don't have to be professional on this app.

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

Companies wanting 5 rounds of interviews for a junior associate role is just so HR ladies can feel important and justify their jobs

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

@IterIntellectus I can already see dum dums posting this tweet trying to make fun whenever you run into a slight hiccup in this journey and try to talk about it in the future

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

As a lifelong pc gamer I hated when they took physical discs away from us. It was such a nice core memory from my childhood going out with dad & buying those games.

Asking parents for a 100$ to rent a game that'll not be playable in 3 years just doesn't hit the same.

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

@dadnameless @mommysorry2901 @iamsum80 Casting of a movie is the first thing that people notice & they can't even get something as basic as that right.
Especially when everyone's already tired of the woke agenda being pushed down their throats.

Copy pasted insult which was completely unnecessary. Do better.

[Raz Burgundy: Rising @BurgundyStriker]

that 4chan post about how low IQ people can't understand conditional hypotheticals or second-order thinking seemed silly but so many people are unironically saying "this doesn't effect me so why does it matter"

no capacity for second-order thinking. they're genuinely this dumb!

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

@mommysorry2901 @iamsum80 They could have been fans in the future, if this was done right. Now we'll never know.

Knowing everything about it was never the pre-requisite.

[Lazgar Lockman; artificer, blacksmith, goofball @Lazgar_lockman]

Investors are, by far, the worst thing to happen to video games ever. Every shitty decision can be traced back to 'shareholder value"

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

They basically said most of you losers don't have the willpower to stick to your principles & will go crawling back to them as soon as you a streamer or your neighbour say he's playing the new game.

[GamesNosh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @GamesNosh]

I'm talking to people - Sony is currently being inundated with emails and messages behind the scenes from smaller publishers and devs voicing their displeasure over the end of physical games.

I'm actually kinda shocked just how much internal backlash there has been to this.

Doubt it'll make a difference, this was apparently a decision made by the money men within the last two months, is 100% influenced by component costs & manufacturing (AI ruining everything again)

They know nobody will buy a $1000+ PS6

They have calculated that the only way the PS6 makes business sense for them right now in terms of margins is to kill both the retail and resale market. Furthermore, they figure people are invested enough in the ecosystem that they're locked-in for life.

They fully expected a huge backlash and took it into account, but they think the anger won't amount to much in terms of real financial losses and are willing to take the PR hit.

Of the 15% of the current PlayStation audience that buy physical, they expect only 2-3% of people not to move over to fully-digital upon being forced.

The money saved by getting rid of the retailer cut, and lost on the reseller market eclipses that 2-3% and makes up for their miniscule profit expected per PS6 sold. (they will not sell it at a loss, but are willing to only make as little as $50 per unit sold)

The only way they'd ever reverse this decision is if the 2-3% of physical audience they expect to lose is instead around 8-10%+

As much as i'd love to see everyone come together and somehow force their hand with a mass boycott, I doubt it will happen.

They have been wanting to kill physical since around 2020, the AI RAMpocalypse has forced their hand.

[Helena @SpiderKnightART]

REMEMBER PEOPLE

BULLYING CORPORATIONS IS ALWAYS CORRECT

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

And the list keeps growing

Attorney general needs to resign too

[PIB India @PIB_India]

Clarification regarding media reports on the proceedings before the Supreme Court in the BPCL’s Special Leave Petition on Ethanol allocation matter

The Office of the Attorney General for India has noticed certain media reports published on 30 June 2026 which have incorrectly reported the submissions made by the learned Attorney General before the Supreme Court in the proceedings arising out of the Special Leave Petition filed by the Oil Marketing Companies (BPCL) in ethanol allocation matter.

The reports state that the Government's 20% Ethanol Blended Petrol (E20) Programme is "still an ongoing experiment" and that "the impact of the policy would become clearer by next year." These reports are completely false and do not reflect anything even close to the actual submissions made before the Court.

Read here: https://t.co/XR6eIFXH5R

@MLJ_GoI

[Mauthe Doog 👁️ @mauthe_doog]

cancelled game = fire staff
failed game = fire staff
successful game = fire staff
different company restructures = fire staff
great industry guys

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

Games like cs never die & at the same time, updates like this which majority of people dont like & just accept. They do kill the game in a few player's mind.

That number adds up eventually

[ً @Poloolpp]

Remember when Valve dropped the ammo update and people said it was the death of Counter-Strike

[spor @sporadica]

can someone at Spotify explain to me what in the hell they are doing with 45 hundred production deploys a day

the website that doesn’t change at all until once a year they give you some basic ass crappy data about the songs you listened to???

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

What crime did I commit to be stuck in this timeline !!??

[Stop Killing Games Official @StopKilingGames]

ESA doubled down on community servers being illegal.

In a statement to @pcgamer, @theESA wrote:

"Private servers infringe on the intellectual property (IP) rights of game publishers. Publishers reserve the right to exercise their rights against them."

https://t.co/p9nEzZNtWx

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

Is there a dating app where you just send each other funny things you find online?

No bios. No selling yourself with photos of expensive restaurants, vacations, or height. Just sharing memes, jokes, and random posts until you realize, "I actually like talking to this person."

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

I can't stop watching these cows that think they need to jump over the white line! 🐮😂

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

@iamcrystalmar That was so horribly played on the comedian's part she had to offer to pay their bill, just to not seem like a complete asshole.

Maybe this is what happens when you come on the stage with too much hate inside yourself.
You squander a great setup with not funny jokes.

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

Suddenly I don't feel bad about teasing brazilians with "7-1 never forget" while on sports streaming site chatrooms

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

Brazil’s Matheus Cunha COOKING Japanese player Kento Shiogai after the game:

“5 WORLD CUPS… YOU SMALL!" https://t.co/15WHqFxLwD

[NikTek @NikTek]

Shareholders are the worst thing that ever happened to gaming

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

Just another way for them to control you.
With a sword hanging over your head you're not going to revolt against them. This is just another one of those swords.

[The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes]

Unmarried couples may get right to share of assets after break-up https://t.co/K5rPsE3iCN

[Aprav @Aprovoked]

@FanAkko NO