onlooker

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[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago (3 children)

What, no Microsoft Word?

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Nah, I didn't forget. It's just that Pitchford's list of screw-ups is so extensive that if I wanted to list of each and every one, we'd be here all day.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 26 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Good. I hope that sleaze Pitchford loses a mountainload of money on this. I absolutely hate the guy, he's a liar and a thief. And arguably, depending how you look at it, a pedophile.

As a short reminder: Borderlands was originally meant to look like this. Then, at the MTV Asia Awards 2006, an artist by the name of Ben Hibon premiered a neat-looking animated short by the name of Codehunters. You can see it here. Witchford saw this and wanted to use the artstlye for his new game. He and Ben had a back-and-forth for a while and then, radio silence.

2009 comes around and Pitchfork's new game Borderlands is released. And to say that it looked familiar to Codehunters would be an understatement. Kitschford, being an upstanding and virtuous citizen that he is, straight-up aped Codehunter's style. No discussions or agreements were made with Ben and as such, despite Borderlands becoming hugely profitable, Ben didn't see a cent. And that is why I will always hope for the Borderlands IP to crash and burn. Or, at the very least, for someone to actually pay Ben Hibon for (unknowingly) creating the game's artstyle. Anyway, rant over, thanks for coming to my TED talk.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

omg, you're right! The "hand" on the left looks like a foot.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 4 points 3 months ago

Ah, enough said. Thanks.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Wasn't this debunked as fake ages ago?

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I'm out of the loop. What did HF do to make you not take them seriously?

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 months ago

Check out mister Mainstream over here. The rest of us snooty OS connoisseurs use Collapse OS.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Ugh. Then I guess it's time to reconsider my registrar again.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 months ago

Customers, am I right? When will those selfish assholes realise that yachts and cocktail parties don't pay for themselves? Just no empathy whatsoever.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I'm on PorkBun now, but I've used Njalla for a few years and had no issues with them. The reason I switched was simply because I wanted to own the domain, because with Njalla the domain isn't actually yours, it's registered to Njalla. Note that this is by design, in the sense that when someone looks up the domain, they won't get your info, but Njalla's instead. After a while, I've gotten less comfortable with the idea of someone else owning the domain I paid for, so I switched.

[–] onlooker@lemmy.ml 12 points 3 months ago

Okay yeah, true enough. Maybe it would be more accurate to say that people are now much less likely to go see a mediocre to bad superhero movies. To give an example, the first two Thors and Iron Man 3 weren't great, but they were still box office hits. I have to wonder if it would pan out the same way if they were released today.

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