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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Really makes you wonder how much we've potentially missed out on over the years by not having an exclamation mark in every game title. And why stop at one? Why not "Into the Dead!!!!"?

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Making software that can't do illegal hacking is easy. What OpenAI et al are doing is trying to make software that CAN do illegal hacking, but chooses not to because they asked it nicely. If that sounds like a stupid idea, it might be because it is.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Alt headline: "Company founded entirely on the pursuit of safe AI lays out the conditions under which it will prioritise safety."

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Leaps great distances? Ditto. Able to take an amount of damage that would easily kill anyone else? That's fairly unique, but not obviously appealing as a game character. Curiously, Spider-Man ticks most of those boxes too, and many more-interesting ones.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Here's the weird thing about Wolverine as a character - he's something of a famous bad-ass, but I don't know that there's anything about him that's particularly unique for a videogame. Rapid healing? Lots of game characters have that, even human ones. Able to defeat dozens of enemies? Ditto...

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Tetris probably, and like.... 95% of other games.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

There's a bit of magical thinking here, as if the only reason any big tech problems haven't been solved is that the right government official hasn't demanded it yet, rather than because they're technically or conceptually intractable.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Some of the interface and movement issues of VR might be solved in a holodeck, but you might introduce a bunch of new issues, some of which Kinect struggled with - e.g. that 1:1 interaction isn't actually ideal for a lot of purposes. Abstraction is often a feature, not a bug.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Just going full Ready Player One now are we?

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

People continue to want ~15 hour narrative-driven single-player games 😊

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Breaking News: World Cup winning country happy at result. World Cup runner up country unhappy at result. World Cup runner up country also unhappy at officiating. Rerun this episode every four years.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Three days after it happened, I get a random notification claiming to be "Breaking news". Hey google, how are you still so bad at this?

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

I hope a 97% in @simogo.com's excellent Lorelei and the Laser Eyes means I'm almost ready for my own laser eye surgery.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

In this weeks episode of "AI maker fails to read the room"...

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I don't really understand what it would mean for MS to "spread too thin", but I can imagine many of their studios feeling spread pretty thin once all these layoffs are done.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I suspect that many will not be able to pay for it all, but do we actually know that they "pinky promised", or is that speculation? If it's the RAM makers rigging the prices, what's preventing the hyperscalers from just saying no?

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Oh for sure - any legal argument that starts with "Assuming perfect competition..." is likely to be a loser. It doesn't even have to be a lie though - just a theoretical concept unlikely to exist in practice.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

That's a fair point, though unlike most markets the big players here all want more supply than is available (and to prevent the others from having it), and can afford to lose tens of billions on it, so they're bidding each other up rather than bidding the suppliers down.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Of course, though as the link suggests, that could take years and is only worth doing if you think this increased demand will persist. So not having done it yet is not proof of illegal conspiracy.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Aren't they selling every bit of RAM they can make though? If so, this looks like a problem of oligopsony to me - a few buyers that can outprice the rest of the market combined.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

OK, but like.... how far behind? Are we talking inches or miles?

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Kinda crazy to see these headlines basically back to back. The idea of any game, even a new GTA, being a massive system-seller in this market just feels like wishful thinking to me.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

XBOX talking about rising component prices:

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Our nutritional Soylent Green? Also people.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

If we can't agree on whether billionaires are a policy failure, can we at least agree that something is awry if there are trillionaires?

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

I'm curious if anyone can make an argument for new Xbox/PlayStation consoles in the near future other than "They already committed to some of the R&D".

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Please don't mistake my cynicism for a desire for this not to work, or an attack on those excited about it. I hope they make something great 🫠

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

A fair point, though every game needs an art style, and a unique art style is a big selling point. The ability to run on a console that only a few dedicated collectors still have is perhaps less obviously beneficial.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

I never suggested otherwise. I take it you just want to win an internet argument, and I'm not really here for that.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The key phrase there is "limits of the time", not "limits of 40 years earlier". Hundreds of other teams worked with those limitations and most failed to create anything so lasting, so I'm not sure there's much of a correlation there. If it were that simple, everyone would be doing it.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

When it comes to design, I often agree with that. When it comes to programming though, limitations can certainly lead to more interesting optimizations, but it's a bit more speculative that it will lead to some kind of experience that you wouldn't have had without those limitations.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

That wouldn't surprise me at all, but "We have someone who wants to do this" isn't a business model, right? Compare it with something like Mina the Hollower, which is more "This is how you remember games like this", without the restrictions of actually having to work on decades-old consoles.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

That just seems like a lot of work for very little practical gain? See also the recent [unsuccessful] mega drive game kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/107...

kickstarter.com

POPCORN DUEL + SPINNER (SEGA Genesis / Mega Drive) (Canceled)

Featuring a Brand-New Dedicated Controller: The PopCorn Spinner by Frédérick Raynal

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Does it even count as hacking if you can just ask for access and get it?

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Curious what marketing department thinks gamers in 2026 want "AI Plus" in their devices, particularly when they know AI is what's making them so expensive.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

The surprising part of this is just that anyone would find it surprising. They're large language models, not large knowledge models, or even truthiness models.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

Summer Games Fest is going to be really interesting this year since there's only one more big game coming out in 2026. I'm kidding of course, but I don't know how much I'm kidding yet.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

If what you say about Google is right, and they will be able to send 'higher value' traffic to websites, how long before they start asking for a cut of any sales in exchange for providing that traffic?

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

PSP - Did Crush walk so Fez could run?

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Raising prices for consumers isn't illegal, even if some of the events that lead to it were. I don't see how anyone makes a serious case of this.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

"This serves as a warning" says man who ignored the previous 300 warnings 😁

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

How many game developers on earth have that kind of consistency? #ForzaHorizon6

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

"Disable it" would be a safe prediction. 😜

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

“my plans cannot be thwarted” said the man whose plans appear to have been decidedly thwarted.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

From the limited details released on this, it really sounds like they started development of a game by deciding how many players it would have and how much revenue it would generate, and tried to work backwards from there. Weirdly, great art wasn't the result of that process.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

I'm gonna start promoting LooksJustAboveAvveraging. It's cheaper, easier and you don't need to watch any videos on it because you're probably already doing it.

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I thought I did, until I played this demo. Now I suspect that I think in 2.5D

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Rob Greensky @robgreennz.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Fake it till you make it [to retirement]

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