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John Henderson

@misterpedantic.bsky.social
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Ask me things about Austin game development. Knows people. Austin Game Dev Beer Night, Yellow Card Services, et al.

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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 47m
I agree. My overall point is that there's no bad publicity, except no publicity. No publicity means absolutely no one will care. Stunts only go so far, after all, and 75 games go up on Steam every day. Good news is, most of those are not made with an audience in mind, which is not AK's problem.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 1h
1. I wouldn't have heard about the game had it not been banned. 2. I'm reasonably sure that was true for at least a few hundred thousand more people. 3. 30,000 of those people bought the game. 4. I was not trying to be obtuse. I thought the point was clear.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 1h
YES.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 2h
Hey, remember when this crazy Fellini movie game got banned from Steam? www.gamedeveloper.com/business/hor...
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Horses begins recouping dev costs after selling 30,000 copies
Santa Ragione has earned $8,000 from those sales after paying back the title's private investors and director Andrea Lucco Borlera.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 2h
EGS is mostly useful as a Fortnite Delivery Device. Beyond that, I don't think it's a good idea doing business with Epic right now until senior leadership pulls head from ass.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 6h
There was a period where stuff like this would never see the light of day, because executives knew better than to talk to journalists about it, but of course, this was on a PODCAST run by the founder of Stripe, so any media training goes out the window in favor of casual fellow banter.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 7h
Just because someone thought it would be nifty to try an AI-driven business, doesn't mean it makes economic sense. One among many reasons this whole enterprise was a dud from the jump.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 7h
This is why Texas R candidates refuse to debate. Better chance of this happening than getting the kind of attention they actually want.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 23h
RIP Levelord.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Ha Gayy Community
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
It's kind of like me being from Kansas. I meet people all the time who say they've been to Kansas City. Ultima Online barely counts as having "played an Ultima." Yeah, it needed U5-7 as a basis for how it looked and played, but it's not a single-player quest-driven obtuse RPG. It's not Kansas.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Every little boy wanna pick up the mic And try to run with the big boys and live up to the real hype
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Careless Whisper 【Trombone Champ】
YouTube video by 東哥
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
The most obvious bit was why WBD wanted it buried.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Richard's best role was as rich uncle. Chris Roberts and Warren Spector learned directly from him. I'm not sure if any of them know that's their best role, still.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Sounds like what was going on at Origin in its final years. It's a good reminder, however, that those representing the studio locally have really got to be solid after an acquisition, or everything you love will be carried away.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It's another reminder that spikes are more likely to be useless as data points except as momentary curiosities, unless it leads to a higher plateau, which they almost never do.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I mean, Mythic had been a scrappy MUD-era developer that made the deal with EA to make Warhammer Online possible ... and then became a mobile game studio. I'm not in a place to say when the snakebite happened, but it was snakebit nonetheless.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BUT OH WAIT HOLD ON. www.pcgamer.com/games/sim/it...
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It looks like Wing Commander 3 is getting a remaster, after EA producer discovers the original FMV source tapes in the company's archives
Plans for a 30th Anniversary Edition of the classic space sim were revealed at Portland Gaming Expo.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
EA/Mythic tried to remake U4 as a mobile game back in 2013 with crippling item degradation and hellish amounts of microtransactions. It sucked and was forgotten. www.forbes.com/sites/games/...
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'Ultima Forever' Review: The Folly Of Lady British
Video  Electronic Arts’ free-to-play mobile MMORPG Ultima Forever: Quest for the Avatar has arrived on iOS.  On the surface, Ultima Forever appears to be a shining example of the mobile game coming in...
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
It also matters a whole lot who can actually do work on video games and property rights would want to work with him, if he thinks he can do a whole new game by himself and how important he thinks his input was in any game with his name on it.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
The money: it's the same process that Gary K Wolf was able to use to get Roger Rabbit back, and Bill Willingham to keep Fables as a DC-only property (which of course would have been ridiculous, as it's a retelling of some copyright-lapsed stories.) What this means for Ultima Online, I wonder.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A burrito that would have had to travel through time.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I watched the video. It isn't too well researched, though it did point out that little kids in the 1800s were severely malnourished, given opium for every malady and worked in coal mines as early as 5 years old. And processed food hadn't been invented yet. So the author called it a tossup. 🤷‍♂️
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
The actual story. It was a UT-Austin student and the driver was a recent immigrant from the Congo. www.today.com/parents/fami...
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When He Had No One in the ER, His Uber Driver Stayed. How 1 Act of Kindness Changed Their Lives Forever
How a simple act of compassion changed the direction of one man's life.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Because working for The Mouse left Dana Terrace with a lot of stuff to work through. This show is going to be hard freaky dystopian scifi noir.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is unfortunately unknown to a whole lot of indie game devs, who aren't even curious enough about this subject to suspect that there is active promotion going on for something other than what they're making. But yes, Mixtape had a publisher. There was work done. Hit games are never accidental.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
This is unfortunately unknown to a whole lot of indie game devs, who aren't even curious enough about this subject to suspect that there is active promotion going on for something other than what they're making.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
chipper chipotle
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
In the pursuit of solving the problem of humanity with more software, tech fetishists have disregarded wonder and delight as reasons to live that are worth pursuing.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Correction: Self-absorbed people, who also tend to be rich af, want to put themselves into movies.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It wasn't a franchise so much as Richard Donner making one great film, then getting railroaded by producers so badly in the second that he begged off entirely and went to make The Goonies instead. It was also the 80s, so cocaine was likely a factor, and, well, Richard Pryor's in 3.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Clearly predates current Youtube standards.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
It's drinking.
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Superman Superman3
ALT: Superman Superman3
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Spotify managed to annoy me enough to never use it in the first place. Never even created a login.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Annie Ross as Vera Webster. www.youtube.com/watch?v=fpTH...
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YouTube
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Humanity is a problem begging to be solved with better software, and some of us are begging harder to be engulfed and erased by superior technology.
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Superman III: Superman Transforms into Robot
ALT: Superman III: Superman Transforms into Robot
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbgc...
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That was an understated idea behind the original Xbox, but it got forgotten pdq. It was easier to develop for than the market leader at the time, the PS2, which was a pig.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
And, maybe not a superhero, but how about a comic book adaptation with a Black gunslinger and a Mexican folk hero? deadline.com/2026/04/djan...
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Sony Taps Brian Helgeland To Script ‘Django/Zorro’ Film From Quentin Tarantino-Matt Wagner Comic
Sony Taps Brian Helgeland To Script 'Django/Zorro' Film From Quentin Tarantino-Matt Wagner Comic
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
More like, the team isn't Paxton's, and it's out of his control. bsky.app/profile/head...
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If you go to resale shops, you'll find that there are already a lot of licensed console hardwares on the market, and a lot that are really old, sometimes have questionable respect for copyright and can play multiple console cartridges, AND do HDMI upscaling.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Art requires honesty to work. Honesty can impart soul. Entertainment is about how honest you can afford to be as you present art as basis for a product. And sometimes, people want to be lied to, for the sake of their entertainment. They just don't like it when they find out they've been had.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
A good list. Includes one about Jimmy Fallon and why The Tonight Show is only worth watching for the music numbers, and everything else about it is about trying to avoid dealing with the reality that could define culture. Active, desperate avoidance.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Related: bsky.app/profile/tani...
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Only real loose end: a big open grave in the small-town cemetery, with Hal Jordan's open casket. Minor things, along with who pays for the storage unit and takes care of Earl?
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As of July: theplaylist.net/mr-terrific-...
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‘Mr. Terrific’ Series In Active Development At DC Studios With ‘The Sandman’ Writer Allan Heinberg
DC Studios is developing a ‘Mr. Terrific’ series centered on Edi Gathegi’s ‘Superman’ character, from ‘The Sandman’ writer Allan Heinberg
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm not in a position to tell you to read the room, Damion, but making a case for AI as a solution for team bloat because you vibe-coded a Python script isn't the own you think it is.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The teams got large because the money men decided they wanted hire/fire control over everyone instead of continuing the trend for more outsourced and contracted development that stopped right as the pandemic caused an artificial spike in consumer behavior, and that they could afford consolidation.
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John Henderson @misterpedantic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
This one might be the real bit, but it's only the 45 seconds that play during the movie. www.youtube.com/shorts/0rFhY...
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Nobody Speak - DJ Shadow & Run The Jewels (Coyote vs. ACME Version)
YouTube video by DNMouse
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