Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓

@SandyofCthulhu · Utah · joined 24 Oct 2012

Game Designer and Father of Lovecraftian gaming. CEO of Petersen Games. Also Doom, Age of Empires, etc. Subscribe for exclusive game insights & history!

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Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

Hey Grok… Based on my profile and past posts which B movie actor would I be? 5.4K views · 16 likes · 0 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →

Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

Also “controversial” is a red flag. Because if it was REALLY controversial they would talk about the controversy itself. But they don’t. 1.2K views · 64 likes · 0 reposts · 2 replies Open on X →

Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

@SandyofCthulhu You can include: “scientists say”, “studies show”, and “experts agree”. 392 views · 36 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

Handy Time Saver: When you read a news article or a review that uses the words "nuanced", "dated", or "problematic" you can stop reading immediately and go to somethign else, because the writer just told you his entire piece is complete bullshit. https://t.co/lQqsPmcG9F

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Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

Hey @grok… Based on my profile and past posts, what B movie actor would I be? 8.5K views · 8 likes · 0 reposts · 3 replies Open on X →

Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

Would we be super-advanced if the Roman Empire had survived? Maybe. I'd like to believe it. But there is a strong counterargument, based on the book "Rise and Fall of the Great Powers" by Paul Kennedy, which is about world politics from about 1500 to 1990. In 1500, the world ht

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Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

@SandyofCthulhu Reminds me of how a lot of early youtubers saw that only as a temp lowbrow gig, until they start their REAL careers in TV or film. 813 views · 12 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

To be fair the other artists were really good. They just had that “fine art” virus. 2.5K views · 84 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

Modern devs have entirely different sets of problems. I only ever encountered the anti-game artists at MicroProse. By the time of id Software and Ensemble Studios, all our artists were firmly game-lovers. The lesson here is that it's not just talent that makes a great https://t

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Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

There were other cases, but instead of whining I want to sing the praises of Max Remington (his real name). He was every designer's favorite artist. We of course called him "Maximum" for short. He didn't fit in with the other artists. He absolutely friggin' LOVED games, while h

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Sandy Petersen 🪔 ✓@SandyofCthulhu9 Sep

At MicroProse, some of the artists treated game design as a hobby that kept interrupting their Fine Art. The art department as a whole ad a "fine arts" culture. The attitude was that while gaming was all very well, a real artist needed to do real art. About once a game, your ht

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11 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.

Median views3 136this account1 038median for 10K–100K

Reach, %3.44%this account3.64%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %3.37%this account1.69%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	3 136	1 038	3.02×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	3.44%	3.64%	0.94×
Engagement rate	3.37%	1.69%	2.00×

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How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

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Engagement rate per post

1.32%9 Sep

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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.69%.

What the audience does

Likes87.5%2 324 in total

Reposts3.3%88 in total

Replies3.8%102 in total

Bookmarks5.3%142 in total

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