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david goldfarb

@locust9.bsky.social

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founder and studio creative director at The Outsiders. New Yorker. Made some games, wrote some games. Battlefield Bad Company 1/2, BF3, Killzone 2, Mirror’s Edge, Payday 2, Metal Hellsinger, others. Making (redacted) : a new game.

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 13h

this dude needs to catch a train to nowheresville asap

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 15h

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

He describes the plot of Watchmen, a 1986 graphic novel involving superheroes grappling with moral questions about humanity against the backdrop of impending nuclear war:

The antihero Ozymandias, the antichrist-type figure, is sort of an early-modern person. He believes this will be a timeless and eternal solution – eternal world peace. Moore is sort of a late-modern. In early modernity, you have ideal solutions, ‘perfect’ solutions to calculus. In late modernity, things are sort of probabilistic. And at some point, he asks Dr Manhattan whether the world government is going to last. And he says that ‘nothing lasts forever.’ So you embrace the antichrist and it still doesn’t work.

Thiel later finds biblical meaning in the manga One Piece, discussing how he believes it represents a future where an antichrist-like one-world government has repressed science. He believes that the hero, Monkey D Luffy, represents a Christlike figure.

In One Piece, you are set in a fantasy world, again sort of an alternate earth, but it’s 800 years into the reign of this one-world state. Which, as the story unfolds, gradually gets darker and darker. You sort of realize, in my interpretation, who runs the world and it’s something like the antichrist. There’s Luffy, a pirate who wears a red straw hat, sort of like Christ’s crown of thorns. And then towards the end of the story, transforms into a figure who resembles Christ in Revelation.

Thiel, along with a researcher and writer at Thiel Capital, explored these ideas at greater length in an essay for the religious journal First Things earlier this month.

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 14h

the publisher is here

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · 3d

If you care about my family, don't make me feel like I'm alone. We're hungry.

If you're browsing, please leave a dot. It's just a dot. We need more people donating

Its ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social · Sep 6

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 20h

good summary 😔

Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 6d

Once again, make a hit game loved by many... and you still get hit by a truck.

The industry is pretty sick right now.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 6d

Once again, make a hit game loved by many... and you still get hit by a truck.

The industry is pretty sick right now.

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 4d

end of one road, start of another

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 4d

to be fair they are so dumb they probably thought it was soil or possibly humans

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 4d

please god kill it

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 4d

*stares hard at this*

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 5d

me too, man, me too

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 6d

that’s because it is

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 6d

❤️

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 6d

will do!

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 6d

the outsiders game studio is closing after 10 years because of funcom layoffs

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 7d

was it peg

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 7d

this is hot

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 8d

later this week fo sho

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 8d

this is a weird thread as someone that designed the original skills system in pd2

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Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 8d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 8d

will do buddy, thanks. we are trying to figure out some angles, so all talk helps

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 8d

sure man, every little bit

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 8d

i think we are moving toward a real matrix, where a large part of the population willingly accepts their nothingness to allow themselves to create a fantasy in which they matter, rather than a life in which maybe they don’t

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 8d

i should check ou tv sword of the sea

david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 8d

only if there is a spare bag of cash or someone you know who doesn’t suck who has one

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david goldfarb @locust9.bsky.social · 8d

we will fight till the end

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