Ed Von Kastner

Getting this shit out of first gear

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

fuck x n fuck you

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

13 TBs of shit that's just going to rot on in my backlog more like.

[Sharklett @SharklettVT]

its uhh.. like the majority of steam from an old exploit that allowed you to download any archive without owning it (the same one that let people visually play games before release)

theres uhh... every game on steam* on here from back then inc developer depots...

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

I mean, does your cortisol spiking make your heart rate go up? Just please shut the fuck up, stop trying to revise history about them, they made millions of bucks and got relentlessly shit on, JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP

[The Mighty Dud Bolt @mightydudbolt]

I'm not one of those guys who likes to argue now that Nickelback is actually a GREAT band (though the memetic hate for them was obviously overblown), but imagine you're at a Nickelback concert for some reason, they break this one out, and tell me you don't suddenly feel your blood pumping.

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

The common problem I see with stuff like this is the lack of real teeth. Criticize from your perspective and it mostly feels masturbatory, criticize from their prospective and you can really bleed them.

[Rock Solid @ShitpostRock]

>new netflix 'cartoon' called ''Lesbian Space Princess''
>the villains are called ''straight white maliens''

Something you would see as a meme in 2016 into a reality

[Accursed Farms @accursedfarms]

New Freeman's Mind! This episode took longer than usual.
https://t.co/Nll6CCtfns

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

@JesseFPV @DanFriedman81 I disagree, the point of Rick's character is how hard it is to be a shitty person even IF you are the smartest person in the universe. The therapist doesn't have to be smarter than Rick to have more insight into himself, no matter how smart you are you'll always be biased in that

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

only robots are nice anymorw

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

I'll never understand the argument that piracy "kills gaming" when the industry has become an oversaturated behemoth for more than a decade now.

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

See, now this is some advice that has actual merit and isn't embarrassing to seriously pass along.

[kato ✧ʕ̢̣̣̣̣̩̩̩̩·͡˔·ོɁ̡̣̣̣̣̩̩̩̩✧ @ghostiekato]

to this day this is some of the best advice i’ve ever heard

[ぴろぴと @PiroPito]

ホラゲー制作配信その193!!!(((0v0)))
https://t.co/YRn7SdMnlT
・No Generative AI/生成AI無し
・No Third-party Game Assets/ゲーム用アセット不使用
・Everything is Created By Me/ぜんぶ手作りでつくる!!!

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

creatives with talent or artistic passion wouldn't even survive in modern AAA gaming dev environments, what the fuck are you talking about? It's entirely about making a Product and has been for decades.

[Sando @Sandosaur]

Genuinely baffling to me that devs are just making games like theyre fucking subway sandwiches and not like theyre creatives with talent or artistic passion

[Bro Team Pill @BroTeamPills]

Here's a more in-depth report on Video Games Journalism

[駕籠真太郎@うんこ映画祭9/6・9/18 @shintarokago]

イタリアのコミック誌LA FINE DEL MONDOの連載、今回は戦場もの。

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

I'd complain that the only Vanillaware game coming to PC is about the easiest one to emulate, but I'll take what I can get.

[Wario64 @Wario64]

Muramasa: Revenant Blades also confirmed for Steam https://t.co/mCLYWEZJEV

a vanillaware title on PC...

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

Stuff like this is the entire reason for the VGA's to exist though. He DESERVES it.

[Gene Park @GenePark]

sorry to keep the geoff keighley glaze party going but he really kept it together and moving during this rude and potentially dangerous situation. he puts up with so much horseshit, we’re forced to see it sometimes. a real showman.

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

Also none of these whining zoomies watched MadTV. They just won't GET it

[Aaron Sparrow™, Blocked But Never Forgotten @Aaron_Sparrow]

Here’s a truth about Debra Wilson.

She gets hired because she cares about her performance, and she’s easy to work with.

This doesn’t explain why so many characters she plays are modeled after her (how many Troy Baker characters are made to look like him?) but the fact of the matter is, she’s cast because she’s got good relationships with casting directors, behaves professionally through and through and gives 100%.

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

God of War was always kind of dumb and boring to me and I'm glad that you all will now feel the same way as me.

[Daniel Friedman @DanFriedman81]

The original God of War trilogy is a heavy metal edgelord series about a guy who fights and screws and is filled with bottomless rage that requires him to tear down the heavens in a series of increasingly badass set pieces that result in the total destruction of everything including himself. God of War 3 ends with Kratos stomping on the face of Zeus as the sky falls and the earth around him crumbles into the sea.

God of War 2018 was created by many of the same creatives, a decade or so later, in which they revisit the concept at a different point in their lives. Kratos is now older, wiser and less angry, and he has a son he must protect and instruct in the ways of being a godkilling badass. But then, some very dumb new gods show up and start messing with him. That game ends with Kratos choking the life out of the Norse God Baldur as Baldur’s mother Freya begs him not to.

Between 2018 and 2022’s God of War: Ragnarok, there was major turnover in the team. Lead creative Cory Barlog took a step back from this one, and the team that took over was much more concerned with “modern audience” appeal.

Ragnarok is a game in which Kratos renounces everything the God of War franchise has been about up to that point while Atreus somehow manages to find himself a black girlfriend in the forests of Viking Norway. Freya’s vow to hunt Kratos and Atreus to the gates of hell for killing Baldur is abandoned almost immediately.

Whatever this is doesn’t look like God of War anymore. I am all for a franchise growing and changing with its (aging) audience, which I thought 2018 did successfully, maturing the frat-house early 2000s Greek trilogy into a game for and about dads while still revisiting and remaining true to the original game’s themes.

But who is this prequel about Kratos’s dead wife for? Does Santa Monica Studios think the heavily male audience who played God of War 2018 are going to buy this girlboss slop? How do you look at the audience for this series and conclude that Alanah Pearce is who should be writing a story to sell to that market?

The AAA gaming industry has spent the last decade focused on diversity — on hiring people who don’t like games or the people who play them to make games for people who won’t buy them, and that’s why their products are all failing and big studios are laying off thousands of employees as indy games created by creatives that studios like Santa Monica won’t hire sell millions of copies.

[Adam Carolla @adamcarolla]

I didn’t know this guy was a dope. I make 300 times what I made on a construction site and I don’t work nearly as hard

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

You're forgetting father christmas of PCland

[Academia dos Gamers Oficial @academiadgamers]

"Por que os jogadores do PC nunca reclamam do preço dos jogos?"

Jogadores do PC:

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

Does Tomodachi Life have a fail state?

[Rino🚀 @RinoTheBouncer]

Discuss! Be honest🚀

[Ed Von Kastner @edgerkastner]

Reds are cowards. I bet you put your seatbelt on every time you get in a car, I bet you stay on the trail, I bet you walk past the dark alley on your way home

[Jack @depression2019]

It is actually disturbing how dumb the average person is

Red gives you a 100% chance of living, you literally get nothing beneficial out of choosing blue