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Mad genius, comedian, actor, and freelance voiceover artist broadcasting from the distant shores of Lake Erie (he/him)

Broadview Heights, Ohio
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Joined August 2009

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    1. Sarah Brown - I love Lusi  🇵🇹‏ @GoatSarah 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @GoatSarah @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      And not in a good way. They were making a huge thing about the prowess of their graphics hardware in the N64. This little tech demo was much cheaper and used no hardware acceleration, could run off AA batteries and was better than their N64.

      1 reply 4 retweets 19 likes
    2. Sarah Brown - I love Lusi  🇵🇹‏ @GoatSarah 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @GoatSarah @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy

      So they killed the project and we figured that was that. Except 18 months later, it suddenly reappeared as the GBA, only without the 3D graphics library stuff we’d shown them. I guess they decided to use what we’d build after all, but over a year later & nerfed. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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    3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      Yeah that's the Nintendo philosophy for ya

      1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
    4. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      This cyberpunk idea of the Evil Tech Corporation that has *control* as their one overriding value Quality comes second, sometimes they'll make better products if that gives them control, just as often they'll deliberately make worse ones

      2 replies 2 retweets 19 likes
    5. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      It applies to many companies in history, sure - Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, all of them, it's the failure state of tech capitalism But I really believe it describes Nintendo most of all

      1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
    6. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      I think it goes beyond what you'd call "rational self interest" Like I think it's top down, it's because Mr. Yamauchi was never really a tech guy at heart, didn't really understand or like that world

      1 reply 1 retweet 8 likes
    7. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      Nintendo started as a toy company when they got into this business, and kind of stumbled by fits and starts into making "computerized toys" and then just "computers", as an accidental side effect of the Great Video Game Crash of 1983 "opening up the space"

      1 reply 1 retweet 11 likes
    8. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      (Kind of like Nintendo shoving Sony into making video games as a side effect of them being a leader in making CD players) And so like their "computers" ("Famicom" meant "family computer") were the least hackable computers yet made in the 80s It was a self-contained product

      2 replies 1 retweet 8 likes
    9. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      I do wanna say that although the difference between a "home video game system" and a "microcomputer" existed before Nintendo, they really put up this impermeable wall between them, they established the modern idea of a "console" and made it a selling point you can't fuck with it

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
    10. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      The console landscape as it is today is a result of of Mr Yamauchi's personal aversion to tech, this culture he created of differentiating his stuff from the shit the computer geeks from California were doing by making it shiny and slick and unhackably opaque

      1 reply 1 retweet 9 likes
      Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
      Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

      And, well, it succeeded in creating a massive industry and making him one of the richest men in Japan Whether it was good or bad for the world is up for debate (I'm guessing that as an emulation and ROMhack enthusiast @Nymphomachy is not a fan)

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        2. penitent admirer‏ @loudpenitent 17 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

          Honestly I will say making consoles did make video games a lot more accessible to folks like me growing up, at least.

          1 reply 1 retweet 7 likes
        3. Wildfire Darkstar‏ @FieryDarkstar 17 Sep 2020
          Replying to @loudpenitent @arthur_affect and

          That's not really anything to do with Nintendo's philosophy of control. Plenty of comparatively open and standardized computer platforms existed throughout the 1980s. The idea that computer games were weird and inaccessible is more of a specific issue with the IBM PC ecosystem.

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        2. Vapor Weyve‏ @Nymphomachy 17 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah

          I'm a fan of living my life in a way he would sneer at

          1 reply 0 retweets 4 likes
        3. Arthur Chu‏Verified account @arthur_affect 17 Sep 2020
          Replying to @Nymphomachy @GoatSarah

          Well, I mean, he himself was rumored to be a frequent patron of the love hotels before they went out of business, so he may have mostly been a hypocrite

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        1. Aus Wrestling's Worst Case Scenario‏ @MassiveQ 17 Sep 2020
          Replying to @arthur_affect @GoatSarah @Nymphomachy

          Sega should have won, if only they'd curbed their "new shiny" obsession a little and had the Japanese and American sides working together better, they could have won. I wrote a thing on it ages ago, really bummed me out how much they screwed up

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