Holy shit everyone's old.
Holy shit everyone's old.
Man, what good are kids for if you can't dress them up for your amusement?
It's a step back for them, but they do give you free and discounted games on top of the subscription service, so I'm okay with it.
*Waits for the announcement that Vonderhaar has cancelled his next game*
This isn't about the expectations we set for people. This is about what a developer can expect from us, the public.
Yes, except Fish is a public figure. He puts himself out there as the face of his game. There are plenty of other developers who stay out of the spotlight and let their work do the talking. Those developers usually do not get shit on by the public. Phil Fish puts himself out there very publicly and therefore he has to…
And you seem to have zero clue as to how the real world works. When you are a public figure, especially one who is very... I'll be nice and say "opinionated", you are going to be subjected to all sorts of fair and unfair criticism. If something some random guy says to you causes you to melt down enough to cancel your…
I ran a podcast for six years, currently host a local radio show which just got picked up for national syndication, and I just released my first comic book yesterday. I've been criticized a time or two...
Except no one is fucking beating Phil Fish up. Some random guy talked shit about him to a bunch of random other guys. This didn't take place in his social circle, and if you think Fish hasn't done or said similar things about people in the past you are fucking insane.
I just did put up with it. So there.
Doesn't make it right, just makes it, you know, the truth...
Any time you do anything in the public eye you ARE subjected to brutal criticism. You can not stop it, you can only deal with it. If you can't, then you shouldn't be doing things in the public eye. It sucks, but it's true.
Honestly? If he can't take that sort of heat, he shouldn't be developing games in the first place.
Sheeeeesh...
It's always fun when people tell me who I know and who I don't know.
This one is for anyone who would like to answer: What's the biggest animal you could kill while naked with your bare hands?
Besides if it was "like" players stretching out their muscles before going to play, why wouldn't they just, you know, stretch out the muscles in their fingers, wrists, and forearms with an actual stretch and not whatever it is they're doing.