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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@SandyofCthulhu Type of game they play at the Flanders’ household
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@SandyofCthulhu A management game about Noah's Ark could be so good. Could have been Zoo Tycoon on a boat. A shooter simply doesn't fit.
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@SandyofCthulhu In the 80s, I used to belong to a very large, very diverse RPG club in a major city, and one of my regular players was a born-again Christian, converted by Billy Graham himself, and he was creating his own Christian RPG, which was a lot of fun TBH
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id Software sold the Wolfenstein engine for the Super-Nintendo to a small Christian company.
The company made a Noah's Ark game in which you shot food at animals to "subdue" them while you tried to collect two of each kind. Just like it says in the Bible.
I had to play every
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Hey Grok…
Based on my profile and past posts which B movie actor would I be?
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Also “controversial” is a red flag. Because if it was REALLY controversial they would talk about the controversy itself. But they don’t.
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@SandyofCthulhu You can include: “scientists say”, “studies show”, and “experts agree”.
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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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Hey @grok…
Based on my profile and past posts, what B movie actor would I be?
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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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@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.
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To be fair the other artists were really good. They just had that “fine art” virus.
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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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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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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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Against accounts of the same size
15 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. ordinary reach for its size, stronger reaction than most.
Median views2 873this account924median for 10K–100K
Reach, %3.14%this account3.62%median for 10K–100K
Engagement, %4.03%this account1.52%median for 10K–100K
| Metric | This account | Median for 10K–100K | Ratio |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median views per post | 2 873 | 924 | 3.11× |
| Reach (views ÷ followers) | 3.14% | 3.62% | 0.87× |
| Engagement rate | 4.03% | 1.52% | 2.65× |
Others in this range → Compare with another account → How these benchmarks are built →
Growth & engagement
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.
Views per post
2.9K9 Sep
3.1K
2.5K
813
10.1K
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392
1.2K
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35.2K12 Sep
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
4.07%9 Sep
3.28%
3.37%
1.60%
4.21%
0.13%
12.00%
9.44%
5.54%
0.39%
4.03%12 Sep
2.66%
5.79%
5.41%
Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.52%.
What the audience does
Likes87.4%3 789 in total
Reposts3.1%134 in total
Replies4.3%186 in total
Quotes0.2%8 in total
Bookmarks5.1%220 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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