Pratchett was much less interested in following Oblivion’s story than in finding mods that made the world more immersive, and the amount of detail and time modders sunk into their work continuously impressed him. Pratchett enjoyed making cheese and boots and running a little vineyard, complete with seven employees who his character would pay at the end of each in-game week.
He was also on the old Thief fan forums and would play the fanmade games. I still remember seeing his name appear on the Circle in comments. It was a wildly happy moment for me. And I still use the mods he helped write.
“Prior to adoption of the Constitution, Andorra paid in odd-numbered years a tribute of approximately $460 to the French ruler, while on even-numbered years, it paid a tribute of approximately $12 to the Spanish bishop, plus six hams, six cheeses, and six live chickens. This medieval custom was subsequently abandoned in 1993.”
If I was the Bishop of Urgell before 1993, I would have been *so stoked* for my biennial tribute of cheeses and pet chickens.
only ‘90s kids will remember the biannual tribute from Andorra
so i was talking to my grandmother about old-school video games
and she was all
“y’know there was one game i used to play, and it had like a maze, and it was underground, and there was a guy in first person and he had a weapon”
so knowing her penchant for puzzle games, i started guessing like myst, or legend of grimrock
so we start hunting through these 90’s-era games featuring dungeon crawls.
turns out. it was not a puzzle game. it was nothing close to a puzzle game. apparently, in the mid-90s, my grandmother would sit down and play fucking Wolfenstein 3D and listen to AC/DC for like hours on end.
Au contraire, the puzzle was “how to kill Nazis” and the answer was “use gun”
why does david cage think that 20 years in the future, paper will be replaced with disposable ipads
like, legitimately, that’s what the game is depicting. all of the crack addict’s mail is ipads. his bills are ipads. his sports magazines are ipads. everything is a touchscreen ipad because evidently cage believes that 20 years in the future we’ll stop using paper and we’ll just be fucking mailing paper-thin single-purpose ipads instead
david cage doesn’t fucking know what emails are i’m losing my goddamn mind here
david cage legitimately thinks we’ll start mailing ipads instead of using paper mail or fucking emails 20 years in the future
i’m in fucking awe here
it’s been less than an hour and david cage has already displayed such blinding idiocy in his worldbuilding that i’m at a loss for words
he thinks we’ll physically mail ipads to eachother for bills instead of using paper or using normal email
i keep restating this fact hoping that it’ll baffle me less the more i repeat it but it keeps hitting me as hard as it did the first time every time i say it
he think we’ll stop using paper and emails and will instead physically use snail mail to ship ipads to each other for mundane things like bills and job applications.
i just. i feel like my grip on reality is slipping, here. this can’t be real. a man this blindingly stupid can’t be this influential in the tech industry. he just can’t. there’s no way someone this stupid is considered a talent by Sony. Sony buries sexual harassment allegations on this man’s behalf because they think he’s important enough to protect. i’m at a loss. this is so awful.
Mooncustafer 