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[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

TELL IT TO THE NAPALM Chapter 4-There Are No Empty Graves In Dallas, Texas

COMPLETE COMIC

Finally posted in full
https://t.co/8Ry6sP1h4A

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

@Howlingmutant0 You have quiet the collection of cartoons.

[Nancy Comics by Ernie Bushmiller @JohnnyCallicutt]

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller
July 03,1947

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

The Jedi Knight games also fall into this category.

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

No more character action.
No more Soulsbornes.

Only clunky late 90s/early 2000s stiff awkward hack n slashes.

[Timeproof Games @timeproofgames]

Finest Hour (Arcade, Namco, 1989)

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

All comics should be nonstop freak vs freak warfare.

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

@TheIndigoGaming His most recent movies are also heavily lifted from previous movies and tv shows. Hateful Eight straight up steals an entire episode of a western show called The Rebel. Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019) lifts many aspects from Hail Caesar! (2016)

[ULTRA🏝️BLAST @ultrakillblast]

35 years ago... TERMINATOR 2

[𝑨𝒓𝒕 🎨 @_ArtMuseum]

Still Life with Oranges, by Rafael Romero Barros (1863)

[Warm Weather Stoatley @MatthewTheStoat]

The strange and grotesque world of Gynoug (also called Wings of Wor) on the sega megadrive.

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

@godfist314 It's mainly because Quake was such a difficult development that it destroyed the original id team.

https://t.co/AAtxcx3w6i

[John Carmack @ID_AA_Carmack]

There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days.

Quake was overly ambitious technically. We could have done all the great multiplayer and modding work inside a Doom++ engine, allowing the designers to work with a more stable base instead of rug-pulling everything out from underneath them a couple times. The follow up game could have then brought in full 6DOF environments and characters.

I pushed everyone too hard. I didn’t appreciate how maturing companies need more slack, and that running people at startup intensity constantly will wear them out. Quake was also where I really had to accept my personal limits. I was working pretty much as hard as humanly possible, and I was still slipping past my goal points.

On all of the founders’ shoulders, our original corporate stock arrangement and buy/sell agreement was a mistake, and resulted in bad incentives. We wanted to ensure that all ownership rested in the hands of people working hard on current projects, but the Silicon Valley standard approach of vesting stock would have worked out better.

One real problem that I don’t accept the blame for is that we were insisting that level designers be not just game designers, but also have strong visual design esthetics. They needed to make things that not only played well, but looked awesome, and it got more challenging as the technology provided a richer palette. Romero covered that well, which set our company expectations early on.

We should have figured out how to pair up artists and designers earlier, but there was infighting among the designers, and the ones that could manage the visuals were happy to disparage the ones that couldn’t.

Sorry, Sandy.

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

Instead of making Quake fully 3D, the id guys now say they should have made Doom++. Wonder if it would look like Duke Nukem 3D, but maybe with 3D models (like Chasm or DN: Zero Hour.)

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

@pockolas Have you ever played Raze's Hell? You could curl up into a ball and roll around and vacuum up the gore from Teletubbie enemies. (Around the two minute mark in this video)

https://t.co/366cIW3zOV

[blackstar @blackstarops]

scans from "KGB alpha team training manual: how the soviets trained for personal combat, assassination, and subversion"

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

Quake but it's Max Payne.

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

F.E.A.R. Developer's Commentary (from 13 years ago!)

https://t.co/t4hp3kPoQh

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

Playing Duke Nukem: Zero Hour with the Original Developers 27 Years Later!

https://t.co/MRCojyNl3q

[Mr. E Macheen @MrEMacheen]

Day 3 of QUAKE 4 weapons:

THE LIGHTNING GUN
The ultimate gibber?

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

@radiodormouse I had Batman Returns McDonald toys

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

@radiodormouse Tim Burton at his most Lynchian.

[Contra Jones @VR1990s]

@radiodormouse My preferred way of seeing reprinted comics is when they take photographs from existing physical comics.