Cain on Games - Tim Cain's new YouTube channel

[agris]

 

[Butter]

Looks like we're going viral boys.

Incredibly punchable face (Not Cain's)

How dare you say that about Jim Henson.

 

[Roguey]

Roguey I didn't watch the whole thing either, but it's already at 200k views so it might generate hype for Tim's channel.

Sending a bunch of zoomers his way with their zoomer takes doesn't seem like it'd result in a net positive outcome.

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

I talk about game development caution and how it seems to be affecting newer games.

 

[santino27]

I talk about the tendency for players to hoard items and skills until they are "really needed" but then they go unused, and how game design can encourage players to use their items and skills instead of hoard them.

I feel attacked.

 

[Moink]

Sounds like an insane amount of money was spent on the launch party.

 

[NwNgger]

I want to watch these videos but there's just something about Tim Cain's mannerisms. He's so offputtingly smug and bitchy. Like a lot of poofs who try to emulate bitchy high status women. And he can't tone that down to be informative because like all bum bandits he feels the world simultaneously owes him tolerance just for existing and attacks him for not being straight. It makes him unwatchable for me.

 

[Roguey]

Tim: Fallout was no longer mine.

Also Tim: I have no interest in doing sequels.

A lesson he's probably learned by now, but if you go to a concert, bring ear plugs, seriously.

 

[0sacred]

A lesson he's probably learned by now, but if you go to a concert, bring ear plugs, seriously.

also, bring a Bible to the strip club so you can better resist temptation

 

[Roguey]

also, bring a Bible to the strip club so you can better resist temptation

You can still hear the music just fine through the plugs. You just won't get hearing damage.

 

[Dishonoredbr]

A submissive gay man saying young millennial/zoomer devs are a bunch of pussies.

Built different

 

[Nano]

I want to watch these videos but there's just something about Tim Cain's mannerisms. He's so offputtingly smug and bitchy. Like a lot of poofs who try to emulate bitchy high status women. And he can't tone that down to be informative because like all bum bandits he feels the world simultaneously owes him tolerance just for existing and attacks him for not being straight. It makes him unwatchable for me.

Speaking of smug and bitchy.

 

[Lovely Feather Pillow]

Tim is clearly a cool dude who's easy to get along with as long as you aren't some hack developer incapable of delivering two lines of code is a reasonable timeframe.

 

[Nano]

I wonder if he's in an open relationship.

 

[Naraya]

I talk about game development caution and how it seems to be affecting newer games.

This is spot on.

 

[Butter]

I wonder if he's in an open relationship.

He's gay. What do you think?

 

[santino27]

also, bring a Bible to the strip club so you can better resist temptation

You can still hear the music just fine through the plugs. You just won't get hearing damage.

I've found it tends to flatten the music out too much, but YMMV. My wife uses ear plugs at every concert.

 

[Infinitron]

I talk about game economy and why it is so hard to balance the economy in them.

 

[Trans-Financial-Man]

I want to watch these videos but there's just something about Tim Cain's mannerisms. He's so offputtingly smug and bitchy. Like a lot of poofs who try to emulate bitchy high status women. And he can't tone that down to be informative because like all bum bandits he feels the world simultaneously owes him tolerance just for existing and attacks him for not being straight. It makes him unwatchable for me.

I agree. I've met poofs like him who somehow get positions of power and have a huge grudge against anyone who doesn't think arse buggery is a great pass time. Which manifests as this very petulant bitchy personality that comes out whenever these people feel threatened. Which is all the time. I absolutely get that vibe from some of Tim's videos. Especially when he talks about how people are "allowed" to critique him and his work as if he has any actual power to stop me from saying Outer Worlds was shit that proves Cain was carried by better people.

 

[Diggfinger]

Video game "journalists" now.

What is your book about by the way ?

Post-Apocalyptic Science-Fiction/horror

Canticle of Leibowitz meets Atlas Shrugged - in a heavy Fallout sauce

Leonard Boyarsky, Jason Anderson and Chad Moore have received copies.

Cover and more info

Tofu Brains: Life on Zeeta 21 is a science-fiction/horror novel set in a dystopian future in which the world is torn by war and environmental degradation. The novel explores human behaviour in desperate situations and treats pertinent themes such as class, loneliness, identity, and human’s relation with nature.

Amazon
4.7/5 rating

Goodreads
4.20/5 rating

 

[Roguey]

"Game economy is important" - question asker. No it isn't.

"I don't worry about this too much," - Tim. Nice.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

Right on. I wouldn't mind if they nuked economy as a feature entirely. It almost never works and when it does it still adds nothing.

 

[Roguey]

Right on. I wouldn't mind if they nuked economy as a feature entirely. It almost never works and when it does it still adds nothing.

People like buying (and selling) things. They had to patch in a store into Jagged Alliance 3 because of the demand to buy things.

 

[Butter]

Game economy encompasses more than just buying and selling things. Things like rarity of item drops, crafting recipes, and regularity of health/ammo pickups all fall under the heading of economy. It's actually one of the most important things to get right in a game, as it creates a push and pull with the player. When you have to switch weapons in Doom to better utilize the available ammo, that's economy. When you run through a difficult gauntlet and there's a healing fountain at the end of it, that's economy. It was pretty obvious Tim never cared about economy all the way back in Fallout, but that's not something to be proud of.

 

[IHaveHugeNick]

People like having meaningful progression, plenty of ways to have that without having vendors.