Sidney Sime (who signed his works S.H. Sime) was an English artist, and this was an illustration for "Poltarnees, Beholder of Ocean" in Lord Dunsany's A Dreamer's Tales, published in 1910.
A Dreamer's Tales is the fourth book by Irish fantasy writer Lord Dunsany, considered a major influence on the work of J. R. R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Ursula K. Le Guin, and others.
Sidney Sime’s artwork is amazing, thanks for sharing!
Bee Movie is 100% what I expected when I clicked that link, so I chuckled.
If someone is releasing, say, a western XCom clone and expecting Baldur’s Gate 3 level success, they might have another thing coming… Since it would have a niche audience.
Like, obviously I’m not talking about games like Baldur’s Gate 3 here, I assumed that was obvious from context but I may not know what Lamplighter’s League is like!
I was assuming it was more like Hard West, or Wargroove, the Fire Emblem series, Tactics Ogre, Final Fantasy Tactics… there’s a difference between a specific genre and games that are turn-based and require strategy. Hopefully that makes sense.
Also half of the games you listed are pretty old (10+ years). Yeah, it’s a bit niche. But go off weirdo
There’s also the Mario + Rabbids series which is still pretty niche if you’re asking me.
They were advertising it on the Paradox launcher for a while on Cities Skylines and it seemed like kind of a large risk for Paradox but I don’t exactly know why I felt that way.
It seemed like too much advertising for a turn-based tactics game or something. I like turn-based tactics games but it’s certainty a niche genre.
I can find no evidence that this was designed by Sanyo at all. It’s likely a modern rendering of a fake vintage product.
It is!!
Someone might assert that, “All toupees look fake. I've never seen a good toupee.” This is an example of neglecting the base rate because if I had seen good toupees, I wouldn't know it.
Thanks, I love learning names for these things when they come up!
And is most likely correct, since it always seemed the most common pellet guns are pellet/BB air rifles
Not only that, but the insistence on seeing everything as zero-sum is fucking ridiculous.
“Well we didn’t even take down a massive corporation with an install base of hundreds of millions!! Hmph. Why even bother ☹️”
How old are these people? Are they for real? Lol
“Oh come on, it’s DIFFERENT. Thank you for your money.”
Any upgrade is a good upgrade with office chairs, I feel!
Sorry about the temporary downgrade though
I opened it just to see some of the photos, and my browser crashed. The photos aren’t even good, don’t even open the link.
I don’t think I realized Kotaku had gotten this bad. Yikes!
I just want to second saying you’d Google it in the interview if it comes up. I got my first job because of this in software engineering a long time ago.
Interviewer: “If you didn’t know how to solve a technical problem, what’s the first thing you’d do?” Me: “Well… to be honest, I’d probably Google it…” Interviewer: “Oh yeah that’s actually exactly what we want!”
It did feel stupid to say at the time but it made sense after.