I like how his reaction to a "crisis of conscience" is to continue to lie to the person, fraudulently take home all this super valuable technology, and then somehow use this bit of immoral bullshit to actually make something decent. It's like a microcosm of his whole character/career.
I like how his reaction to failure at game dev was to pivot to beans.
He is like a reformed jack and the Beanstalk, except this time he was immoral
make something decent
But importantly, not what was asked for/promised.
Faked it till he kinda made it
Fake it til you bake it (beans, that is)
Waiting for the movie.
So we're going back to posts about beans now?
Lemmy taketh, Lemmy giveth
Beans are a natural source of protein -Brak
feel free to post your own content. also what do you mean?
A couple of months ago there was a period in which there were plenty of posts about beans. The posts and the comments built up the idea that the Lemmy identity was tied to beans. I guess that died down a bit.
It was a running joke about shitposting, hence posting beans (fuel for shitposting).
I'm not a fan of lame ass memes and puns so I blocked all those communities. No beans for me.
What a beankill. Err, buzzkill.
Your indignation at someone calling out the beanery of your post is somehow even funnier than the serendipitous inclusion of beans in the post. All around A+, bravo.
you're absolutely welcome!
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A long and storied career in running cons. He obviously went to Amiga first.
honestly the only thing that makes sense
Why is it that everything that happens on Lemmy revolves around Star Trek and beans?
i had no idea about the beans, it's been a confusing education and i won't do it again 😬
edit: perhaps it's bean a confusing education, i don't even know anymore
molyneux is one of the weirdest names in game development. that boy makes lots of promises about how epic his new game is, and it always feels like the mcdonald’s happy meal toy version of whatever big thing he claimed it was.
Black&White 1/2 are the biggest examples of this. was proclaimed as some huge advancement of ai in games, and it was just “if you pet this giant cow every time it either eats its own poop or throws poop at your villagers, it will eat and throw its poop like crazy, desperate for more validation from you. meanwhile you keep using your giant literal hand of god to pick individual people up and throw them into the ocean because you’re god in this game” and then two hours in you’re bored and stop playing.
Black and white was a huge advancement in ai in games.
That's the wild thing about Molyneux. He doesn't come anywhere near what he promised and still makes a revolutionary game.
Hey that’s the guy that made Godus.
Wish they finished the game because it was pretty fun.
Wish they finished the game because it was pretty fun.
Were we playing the same game?? When I played it in 2013 it was a tedious, RSI-inducing cow-clicker with lootboxes and "premium" gems, and according to Steam I played for less than an hour before abandoning it.
I played the hell out of Populous and Populous II back in the day... Including a fair bit of multiplayer too - running a link cable between Amigas in our flat.
I wonder if I'd enjoy an upscaled port today as much as I did then.
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After his first game venture failed, Peter Molyneux started a baked bean export business. Commodore International mistakenly offered him ten free Amiga systems . . . .
Molyneux's fate like, Get over here!
I just want a new Fable game already... Even if he doesn't own the IP anymore.
They announced one and it made everyone angry..
Usual reason. Protagonist was shown as a non white woman not wearing bikini
Shit like this is why I believe in fate.
Honestly I have never heard of this guy and suddenly today he is filling up my feed.
yeah I didn't know who he was so I looked it up. that paragraph just struck me as the weirdest origin story so I shared it.
trying to keep Lemmy interesting for the people
You should've seen the articles in gaming magazines about him and his games. B&W and Fable mostly. Always these grandiose claims of whatever new tech was being built in then they'd release and be, well, none of that. Innovative sometimes, sure, but nowhere near what was promised. He was treated like a god and always got massive articles to build up hype. I wish I still had my old Maximum PC collection.
Bullfrog was my all time favorite game company, they made:
After EA bought Bullfrog he moved to Lionhead and did the games people are criticizing on this thread. They are probably younger, and didn't see his games when he was at his peak
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