• TachyonTele@lemm.ee
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    5 个月前

    Morrowind was thier hail mary to stay in buisness.

    Then they gave the series to Howard and his crew…

    It’s like the super bowl champs giving the next decade to the Bears.

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      5 个月前

      Morrowind: An oral history on Polygon is a wonderful read.

      All the little stories Kirkbride tells are great. My favourite is him designing progressively weird shit to dupe Howard with. He’d be like “Hey Todd, can we put this in the game?” and after he knowingly got knocked back he’d present him something more palatable.

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          5 个月前

          Yeah, I’ve heard of writers on shows like the Animaniacs doing it, insisting heavily on a more outrageous joke having to go in knowing it’ll get knocked back as a Trojan horse to slip the real jokes they want in.

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      5 个月前

      It’s like the super bowl champs giving the next decade to the Bears.

      nowhere is safe 😫