John Kavanagh

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@RampCapitalLLC @coookwithchris Recipe please

[Irish Football Pics @irish_pics]

Lads, how ESPN Brazil lads felt about the goal

Can we get him over on commentary even if we haven’t a scooby what he’s saying 👏🏻

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@historyinmemes He was great in Erin Brockovich

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@Carra23 Stitch up…o

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

This famous 1943 Norman Rockwell painting, which often makes its way around social media as a popular meme template, has an official title:

Freedom of Speech

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@greg16676935420

[Andrew Rousso @AndrewRousso]

the guy who invented fondue:

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@RampCapitalLLC Bill Bryson - One Summer America, 1927

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@aubreystrobel What can be, unburdened by what has been

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@RampCapitalLLC https://t.co/QKlC1HBTES Explore the world of birds with Merlin Bird ID! - you can use this to identify birds, like a Shazam for birds! 🐦

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@BPete1970 Thought you’d gone high fashion Pete!! 😂

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@brennytheboss Oh Hampden in the sun….

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@StretfordPaddck Same reason we can’t hold on to the ball!

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@WednesdayErskin @arvonfoundation @NeilODwyer4 might be interested in this

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@brennytheboss And they said he was all hat & no cattle 🤠

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Goldeneye is a great “better to ask for forgiveness than get permission” story.

Released in August 1997, the game made $250m on a $2m budget.

A major reason was its insanely fun multiplayer mode…which Nintendo didn’t ask for and developers snuck into the game at the last second.

Many years later, Steve Ellis — a game developer for Rare — explained what went down:

➡️ “One of the things that always strikes me as crazy in retrospect is that until something like March or April of 1997, there wasn't a multiplayer mode at all. It hadn't even been started. It really was put in at the last minute – something you wouldn't dream of doing these days – and it was done without the knowledge or permission of the management at Rare and Nintendo. The first they knew about it was when we showed it to them working. However – since the game was already late by that time, if we hadn't done it that way, it probably never would have happened.” ⬅️

Rare had a team of only 10 core developers and it took 2.75 years to make the game, which actually came out 18 months after “Goldeneye” the film.

Nintendo briefly cancelled the game but then pushed to release it (and expectations were low).

Goldeneye was an instant hit with innovative stealth play, remote-control bombs and sniper rifles.

Gaming mags (IGN, GamePro) have called it N64’s best multiplayer game, which is wild when you consider the platform also had Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros.

Goldeneye became N64’s 3rd best-selling title ever (also impressive because 7 of the top 9 are all original Nintendo IP).

1. Super Mario 64 (12m units)
2. Mario Kart 64 (10m)
🚨3. Goldeneye (9m)
4. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (8m)
5. Super Smash Bros (6m)
6. Pokémon Stadium (5m)
7. Donkey Kong 64 (5m)
8. Diddy Kong Racing (5m)
9. Starfox 64 (4m)

Most importantly: without the unapproved last-second addition of multi-player, I couldn’t have spent 100s of hours being OddJob and smoking my unsuspecting friends with proximity mines.

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@rbr07 Do they come back if it’s a 3pm Robbie? Hwang & Lemina travelled a long way, needing to sub them off the difference? 😉😂

[John Kavanagh @johnkava]

@paddy_dempsey Sorry for your loss Paddy, RIP

[gfodor.id @gfodor]

We literally just turned sand into intelligence Steven. Maybe sit this one out.