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SATIRE: How a cancelled Tomb Raider mobile game predicted 2020
- Thread starter lucebuce
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Kind of confused by the assertion that TR is a mobile juggernaut that's making "millions in microtransaction outfits".
Checking the App Store at current, Lara Croft GO (not free to play) is ranked #87 In the puzzle category (so way lower overall), while the Tomb Raider Temple Run knock off doesn't even rank at all. Neither of which have ever been hugely popular (GO is awesome tho!).
Edit: Nevermind....
So
:/
the end is just a pun on doomscrolling and none of it is actually real? Disappointing, I thought the concept for that game actually sounded really cool.
:/
...yeah tbh that's what tipped me off
Cute thread though, I'll take it over doomscrolling.
This is obviously viral marketing for Hypnospace Outlaw, which is fine in itself, but probably shouldn't be presented at face value here.
Fuck that was good.
Notta gonna lie - I kinda wanna see that game - as dark as it is.
/yes I know the game and thread was made up
Notta gonna lie - I kinda wanna see that game - as dark as it is.
/yes I know the game and thread was made up
It's really not. Nelson has posted these kinds of threads since before Hypnospace even existed and usually at the end promos whatever he's been working on.
Also it's not supposed to be "ha ha" funny necessarily. The point is wasting your time with a story that ends up being fake and a crappy pun as the crappy cherry on top. Not that anyone should LIKE being tortured in this way, but that's his deal.
This kind of thing is ancient; indeed, it has been a thing for centuries.
I think the biggest sin of the thread (besides eye-searing overuse of CAPITAL LETTERS and one-line. Sentences. For. Emphasis) is that the most "interesting" thing about it would be how the game predicted 2020 shit. But of course, it's made up, so it didn't predict anything. If the story was at least more interesting otherwise, it could be a decent creepypasta, but as it stands it's just an actual waste of time rather than at least a chuckle.
Sort of off topic, but I will NEVER understand how people consider long tweet threads acceptable. For the love of god, can't twitter implement a slideshow version of chained tweets where I can just click the same spot for the next in the chain instead of having to scroll-stop-read-scroll-stop-read?
That was the most annoying tweet thread I've ever read... like get to the point, don't wait till tweet 45
Been a while since I read a shaggy dog story on Twitter. This was great.
Jay, you're on Era?! Loved Dropsy, need to get around to Hypnospace Outlaw!
