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- [NEWS] DFNN [DFNN 6.35 ▲41.43%] granted PH’s first online casino license, stock soars 41%... the license allows the PAGCOR-approved company to develop and operate online casino games. DFNN said that the online casino would “only available to VIP players who must meet strict eligibility and registration procedures,” and would help in “regenerating revenues for the government”.
- MB: PAGCOR has repeatedly tried to pitch “gaming” generally as the government’s cure to the cash crunch problem caused by its COVID-depressed tax income. I doubt it needed more than three slides in its pitch deck to government to get approval for the new license type. The government aches for income to replace what’s been lost. Investors and traders liked the news, in part because the complete surprise of the announcement allowed there to be a steep gap-up in the price (that’s always fun), but also because the license acts as something of a temporary monopoly for DFNN in terms of online gaming. There’s no word yet whether PAGCOR intends to license other gaming outfits to operate similar online casinos, but I’d bet that Dennis Uy and Enrique Razon are more than a little interested to join in on the fun, considering how poorly their profit puppies have performed through the pandemic. Especially if the license type will expand beyond the initial restriction to domestic bets only.
- [NEWS] PH Resorts [PHR 3.00 ▼0.99%] halted for an hour after issuance of shares to Udenna Corp disclosed... the Dennis Uy-owned integrated casino/resort developer disclosed that it sold 1,686,309,523 common shares from its unissued capital stock to Dennis Uy’s Udenna Corp for P2.8bn (P1.68/share). The PSE halted the stock for one hour under the “additional listing” rule. That lede was buried in a press release that was supposedly about PHR “topping off” the two towers at its Emerald Bay facility.
- MB: The follow-on offering that PHR conducted a month ago sold 450m shares at the same price, but this transaction is significantly larger. When the FOO dropped, Dennis Uy said: “At the offer price, investors will be given a good opportunity to get in early at attractive valuation levels.” He was really talking about himself, and about the private placement sale to Udenna that was to come. This transaction dilutes everyone materially, including the FOO buyers that diluted the previous shareholders.
- [NEWS] Mergermarket reporting Indonesian coffee chain looking for JV partner in PH... Kopi Kenangan is Indonesia’s fastest growing coffee chain, and it’s fresh off of a Sequoia Capital India-led Series B investment round that netted it a US$109m warchest for expansion. The coffee chain reportedly prefers a Philippine “family-led conglomerate”, both for the conglomerate’s deep pockets but also its experience in the domestic retail sector. Kopi Kenangan is looking to co-locate its stores in buildings with a strong BPO presence.
- MB: Looking for a family-led conglomerate with deep pockets is like shooting fish in a barrel in the Philippines. Kopi Kenangan is going to be able to run a beauty pageant to maximize the value of its potential JV. This store concept is not exactly like a convenience store (more like Luckin Coffee, actually), but it does serve some of the low-cost goodies (coffee, milk tea, snacks) that convenience stores like Seven-11 [SEVN 110.70 ▲4.43%], Ministop [RRHI 68.70 ▲0.51%], and Family Mart [PNX 12.74 ▼0.31%] use to lure customers in for repeated visits. That’s not exactly Kopi’s DNA, though, as it’s building its name and brand off of “coffee on demand” that is ordered by an app and either picked up in a small-footprint shop, or delivered direct to consumer. It’s not clear what Kopi Kenangan’s end-goal strategy is, whether it wants to be a stand-alone brand under the Kopi Kenangan flag here in the PH with its own locations, or whether it’s willing to be a branded component of a conglomerate’s overall offering, like “Ministop, with coffee by Kopi Kenangan”; either way, this is an indication that our convenience and coffee store market is heating up.
- [NEWS] Metro Pacific Investments [MPI 4.55 0.00%] buys 20% of Philippine Tank Storage International (PTSI)... the purchase was part of a larger deal that saw Keppel Infrastructure Trust (KIT) and MPI together acquire 100% of PTSI’s stock for US$333.8m. According to Mergermarket, PTSI owns the Philippine Coastal Storage & Pipeline Corporation (PCSPC), which is “the largest petroleum products import storage facility in the Philippines”. KIT and MPI purchased PTSI from the Philippine Investment Alliance for Infrastructure (PINAI). PTSI’s storage capacity includes three “tank farms” and one marine terminal area, all within the Subic Bay Freeport Zone.
- MB: There are no comments from the MPI side of the deal yet, but KIT is on record saying that this is a “strategic” acquisition to strengthen its distributable cash flow (the money that the company uses to declare dividends). KIT says the investment will help it “capture the expected growth in demand for petroleum products in [the Philippines].” I assume MPI’s reasons for entering the deal are substantially similar.
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- [NEWS] Airlines able to resume international flights with non-essential passengers on October 21... but will the demand be there? Non-essential travellers will be able to leave the country, provided they have “negative antigen test results, confirmed plane tickets, and health and travel insurance”. The government originally lifted the ban on Filipinos travelling abroad for non-essential reasons in July, but since only one insurance company could adhere to the IATF’s strict rules on conditions to cover rebooking, accommodation expenses, and hospitalization should a traveler contract COVID-19, the ban was re-implemented, awaiting better coordination. Seems as though the better coordination has arrived, though we are still waiting on confirmation of procedures from the IATF.
- MB: As we discussed last week, domestic airline revenue has been constrained by a lack of demand, not by excessive regulations or travel bans. Philippine Airlines [PAL 5.85 ▲0.86%] and Cebu Pacific [CEB 38.00 ▲1.06%] know as well as any that many countries around the world still have quite strict travel regulations in place that make travelling a huge pain in the ass, aside from whatever hoops the IATF will make Filipinos jump through even before they make the trek to NAIA. The totality of this hassle against the backdrop of a global pandemic has decimated travel demand. The airlines will be in a lot of trouble until the hassle (and the pandemic) disappears.
- [UPDATE] Converge [CNVRG 16.80] IPO oversubscribed with one broker, so, you know... in a talk with Michelle Ong, the President of PNB Securities, Antonio Lisbona, said that the CNVRG IPO was causing his firm “sleepless nights” because PNB Securities’ order book was already “oversubscribed”. He admitted that the CNVRG IPO might look “heavy” (too expensive, not selling quickly), but he reiterated his belief that CNVRG is in “the right business at the right time.”
- MB: The domestic and international demand for CNVRG has not been strong. Remember, CNVRG’s IPO is split 70:30 between foreign investors and local investors, and that CNVRG was forced to lower its price twice by an aggregate of 30% in order to sign a cornerstone investor for the international tranche. After lowering the price, the stock sold out and the company was able to market the international tranche as being “oversubscribed”, but it has not been able to say the same thing for the PH-based tranche, despite a 10x increase in PSE EASy allocations and a white-hot connectivity market ([DITO 6.10 ▼1.45%], [NOW 5.25 unch], [MRC 0.37 ▲1.37%]). Now, PNB Securities is doing a media hit to say that it’s own order book is oversubscribed. It’s obviously trying to hype the market for the stock. We’re one week to IPO, so I expect more limp stories like this to try and juice the local market ahead of the big day.
- [UPDATE] PH Resorts [PHR 2.69 ▲3.46%] prices its follow-on offering at P1.68/share... the Dennis Uy-owned casino resort operator is looking to sell 450m shares at P1.68/share to raise P756m to increase the size of the public float (it’s only 15.89% after the IPO) and help fund completion of its Cebu project. The pricing range had been P1.00 to P2.50. The deal is 100% primary (new shares), and is only available through brokers (not PSE EASy).
- MB: Dennis Uy kills two birds with one stone: he gets cash for his cash-strapped company, and he gets to pull PHR’s head more fully above the PSE’s minimum public float line of 10%. What do you bet DAU uses some of the P756m that he gets in this deal to initiate share buy-backs if PHR continues to tumble? While DAU might not be the best at running a business, DAU is a master at the trading game, so I wouldn’t put it past him.
- *[UPDATE] PSE determines backdoor rules apply to Xurpas [X 0.55 susp] transaction... * The PSE determined that the Wavemaker Group transaction was a backdoor listing, and that X stock will remain suspended until X is able to provide the PSE (and investors) with a comprehensive disclosure to outline the nature of the transaction and the impact that it will have on X’s business going forward.
- MB: The writing was on the wall ever since X sold Yondu back to Globe [GLO 1992.00 ▼0.90%] for a fraction of what it paid. The Wavemaker deal never looked quite right, and to many in the investing community, X was a deadman walking already, so the suspension meant very little. The PSE’s first potential tech unicorn is pretty much dead at this point.
OA319: Your Guide To Impeachment! https://t.co/pQoRBoiAwI https://t.co/FornI1zCgN
Attorney General Barr, whose job is to oversee the US criminal justice system, is billing US taxpayers to fly all over the world asking foreign countries to intervene in our domestic politics by attacking US intelligence findings in order to massage the President’s fragile ego. https://t.co/80KSrk0DLP
'This court should likewise reject DOJ’s attempt to claim for itself the power to declare when an impeachment inquiry is underway in the House.' https://t.co/AxH5QFjaVm https://t.co/ReG4Rna9N9
A GOP congressional aide said there is a sense that things are heading in a bad direction for Trump: “We are entering a phase with a lot of unknowns. People are anxious about what else is out there,” the aide said about growing feeling among Republicans staffers and lawmakers.
NEW Rudy Giuliani @ABC -”I have received a Committee subpoena from 3 Commitees of the House. It raises substantial constitutional and legal issues as well as attorney-client and other privileges. These and other issues must all be considered before a proper decision can be made."
House lawyers just replied to DOJ’s brief opposing the disclosure of Mueller’s grand jury information. They argue that DOJ can’t tell them whether or not they’re in an impeachment inquiry, which is the House’s central claim to Mueller’s grand jury files. https://t.co/US4TOHkHw1
I guess I shouldn't be that surprised that the way she decided to deal with incontrovertible evidence that her sources are deliberately lying was to... dismiss us as rude? sigh man, it's going to be tough to put America back together again post-Trump. https://t.co/CHNA9Etuyb
BREAKING: Rudy Giuliani has been subpoenaed for Ukraine documents. Story TK
Don’t forget that one of the talking points pushed by Russia’s troll farm was that there would be a civil war if Democrats tried to impeach Trump. An interesting coinkydink, right?
From the criminal complaint filed in federal court: https://t.co/yX98qVTLjF https://t.co/1WiVXin6fs https://t.co/W2BF3RWb6x
Amber Guyger is going to get off on castle doctrine when it WASN’T HER CASTLE?
Is the argument here anywhere white people are, they own, even when it’s actually your house.?? https://t.co/l33JAJ5Ps6
Breaking News: President Trump pushed Australia's prime minister to help Attorney General William Barr in an investigation intended to rebut the Mueller inquiry https://t.co/HNFx7TF5aI
New: A federal judge in NY has dismissed a lawsuit filed by NY, CT, MD and NJ challenging the Trump admin's limit on how much people can deduct on their federal taxes for $$ paid in state/local taxes (widely seen as a hit on higher-tax blue states) https://t.co/HWXtzhjMjH https://t.co/FRCb9JuRFJ
NEW: A federal judge in Virginia issued a mixed ruling in a case challenging a series of state laws and regulations re: abortion access.
- Blocked: Licensing regs for 1st trimester abortions and hospital req. for non-surgical early 2nd trimester abortions https://t.co/6gx8146lzu https://t.co/81lJS8I5MC
The White House is appealing a judge's order reinstating journalist Brian Karem's White House credentials, which the admin revoked after Karem's heated Rose Garden encounter with Sebastian Gorka https://t.co/ooKbM2waK4
And here it is: an implication that we secretly photoshopped the 100% obvious evidence that the latest pro-Trump defense is an ouright lie. Of course, we always link the source documents! Here's hoping cognitive dissonance will kick in for poor Barb... https://t.co/xZlw61MXKU https://t.co/M345j3qQWc
In light of the latest story in the Washington Post about AG Barr's meetings with foreign intelligence officials (see: https://t.co/d54fLMnsgx), notable to take another look at what a DOJ spox said last week in response to the release of the record of Trump's Ukraine call: https://t.co/6uz7BSNgjr
Yes, @seanmdav, @MZHemingway & @FDRLST are still peddling the lie that there were "secret changes" to the "whistleblower rules." Let's not pretend this is journalism. https://t.co/AlZMp1IJd8 https://t.co/8C1SSicxU1
Our friend @harrisonjaime might want to point out that his Senate opponent has deliberately & willfully spread a lie to protect a corrupt president. https://t.co/wF7ofm48hv https://t.co/117RHBqY1a
Hey @jordanbpeterson, your toxic rhetoric is being used by people seeking to out a confidential whistleblower -- that is, a person whom the President has implied SHOULD BE KILLED Can you at least disavow this? https://t.co/GpCfE1uUbd
Either (a) no one, or (b) a secret, time-traveling operative of the Deep State with a limited-use time machine set for May 24, 2018. https://t.co/9j5J7eeOAk https://t.co/UovlJyp7UH
If you're hearing the bullshit "the Deep State secretly changed ICWSP Form 401 to allow hearsay" argument, here's 100% proof it's a lie. Screenshot from the May 24, 2018 Form 401 (over a year ago) & full link to that document. https://t.co/Yi2PTOEZom https://t.co/JgHofmyjzo
Okay, listeners: I PROMISE you that we will debunk the incredibly stupid theory (endorsed by our game-show host President, of course) that the ICIG secretly changed the rules to sneak in the whistleblower complaint. They didn't. Not that it would matter if they had.
GEE Zachary Terwilliger! https://t.co/eE9IfPNYqq
In the fight over the Trump admin's attempt to block pregnant, undocumented teens from getting abortions, the govt is exploring options for a new policy about notifying parents, per court filing today — the parties have asked to delay litigation over that https://t.co/HcXx40yRTd https://t.co/fRT9AteZo2
'The Nixon Tapes of Stupid Watergate (ft. Andrew Torrez)' by Mueller, She Wrote https://t.co/aTX77ftcFi
@MuellerSheWrote @tweetjaleesa @jordansconfused @patorrezlaw @openargs
BREAKING: New York Republican Chris Collins has just resigned https://t.co/rtsB6uBXwy
State Dept. announces new sanctions on 4 entities and 7 individuals related to Russian election interference https://t.co/eDn7NJlSKT
Being freed from the Republican Party has been pretty liberating for Justin Amash: https://t.co/MxHMwjqfBx
Kevin McCarthy again displays his unique brand of incompetence and dishonesty. https://t.co/KAijpPMk6R
I can only imagine that Biden and all the Dems would pay Rudy's salary to be on camera full time. He's just so bad at all of this. https://t.co/sEQFZVOGGr
Great piece by @AshaRangappa_ breaking down the twisty turny corrupty crazy events & Special Agent Fruity G (aka Rudy) bizarro role in the mess 🤦🏻♀️ https://t.co/YwD8QYDFDQ
- Whistleblower laws are intended to protect the identity of those who bravely come forward to identify fraud & abuse in government. Investigating their information doesn't require their identity be revealed, unless a criminal case is going to trial. https://t.co/4uwdksVkxA
Thread👇 https://t.co/Pv7seVePrX
@KevinMKruse Fun fact: if you unscramble “Earl Landgrebe” you get “Lindsey Graham.”
"You have your non-answer" -- watch Chris Wallace grill Stephen Miller about why Trump thought it was appropriate to use his private attorney to dig up dirt on Biden -- and not let Miller get away with obfuscating. https://t.co/wKr1fpIX5Z
If people are really sick of @LindseyGrahamSC please please please give money and support to @harrisonjaime. Please. Losing is the only way to make Graham stop.
After Rep. Jim Jordan launches a barrage of accusations about the Bidens, @JakeTapper fact-checks, and adds, "I would think somebody who's been accused of things in the last year or two would be more sensitive about throwing out wild allegations against people." https://t.co/BKIg5VGSaT
But it's worth pointing out that the "no collusion" narrative and the Barr "summary" and everything else related to Mueller was, objectively speaking, exactly as stupid as the "it's hearsay!"-type arguments being raised regarding Ukraine. And yet the former worked. https://t.co/eZtcs5wUdH
@jaketapper really deserves props. He has been doing great work. https://t.co/KcizEpbK3b
There is a wonderful irony in the fact that Trump probably destroyed his presidency in an effort to destroy Biden’s candidacy, who most likely won’t be the candidate
But this is also the same guy who bankrupted a casino
Tom Bossert is Donald Trump's former Homeland Security Advisor, FYI. https://t.co/cQ1ikN9BAB
"I mean, I'm kind of busy wrecking the Consumer Fraud Protection Bureau at the moment!" -Mick Mulvaney, probably https://t.co/2L5qog3cQq
Just a reminder that history suggests there will be a Biden resurgence/boomlet in the polls after what has been a pretty solid two-month negative trajectory. (Also, are these the first polls showing Steyer at 3+%?) https://t.co/cahawngTEa
This is such an odd take. Obviously the stuff in the Mueller report was super duper bad - objectively, WAY worse than leaning on Zelenskyy. The question Nate (and others) should be asking is: "how did we fail at explaining the former?" My explanation is: people don't read. /1 https://t.co/lYTi18ubEc
If @chrislhayes uses the phrase "bananas in pajamas" next, then we'll have pretty conclusive confirmation he's a show listener. https://t.co/oKHQfDidct
These GOP defenses of Trump's actions on Ukraine are very thin, and it's hard to see how they convince everyone except for Trump True Believers. https://t.co/ZWLVPtp1pC
Reup, bc y'all are still RTing that AP article that is useless as far as news goes.
Bill Barr's (Claimed) Surprise about Being in the Zelensky Transcript Is Irrelevant To His (Non) Recusal
https://t.co/LU4cXhZIGt
"...I mean, not angry enough to have said anything about it in public six weeks ago when Acting DNI Maguire forwarded me the whistleblower complaint or anything," he did not add. https://t.co/VQ7ooU3hAh
Speaking of motivated reasoning: It's certainly possible that Dems are making a political mistake by moving forward with an impeachment inquiry. But most of the supposed anti-Trump people I see saying this are conservatives, which makes it look like concern trolling 1/
I mean, we told you this back in April... but I guess it's a good thing that someone else has noticed? https://t.co/b7F1CaRZMw
Jamal Khashoggi’s death made MBS a pariah. Trump has helped rehabilitate him on the world stage. https://t.co/ktCf6egfrj Proud to write this story with @John_Hudson, @kfahim, and @SarahDadouch, and of all the work @washingtonpost has done to tell the truth of Jamal’s killing.
After denial and anger comes bargaining. Then prison. https://t.co/xVBdbhVJTK
Blockstream is funded by big banks, for example, AXA.
https://blockstream.com/2016/02/02/blockstream-new-investors-55-million-series-a.html
is funded by big banks, for example, AXAAXA is a French multinational insurance firm.
But I guess we shouldn't expect much from someone who thinks miners unilatterally control bitcoin.
Mining is how you vote for rule changes. Greg's comments on BU revealed he has no idea how Bitcoin works. He thought "honest" meant "plays by Core rules." [But] there is no "honesty" involved. There is only the assumption that the majority of miners are INTELLIGENTLY PROFIT-SEEKING. - ForkiusMaximushttps://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/5zxl2l/mining_is_how_you_vote_for_rule_changes_gregs/
Adam Back & Greg Maxwell are experts in mathematics and engineering, but not in markets and economics. They should not be in charge of "central planning" for things like "max blocksize". They're desperately attempting to prevent the market from deciding on this. But it will, despite their efforts.https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/46052e/adam_back_greg_maxwell_are_experts_in_mathematics/)
Gregory Maxwell nullc has evidently never heard of terms like "the 1%", "TPTB", "oligarchy", or "plutocracy", revealing a childlike naïveté when he says: "‘Majority sets the rules regardless of what some minority thinks’ is the governing principle behind the fiats of major democracies."https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/44qr31/gregory_maxwell_unullc_has_evidently_never_heard/
People are starting to realize how toxic Gregory Maxwell is to Bitcoin, saying there are plenty of other coders who could do crypto and networking, and "he drives away more talent than he can attract." Plus, he has a 10-year record of damaging open-source projects, going back to Wikipedia in 2006.https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/4klqtg/people_are_starting_to_realize_how_toxic_gregory/
Who owns the world? (1) Barclays, (2) AXA, (3) State Street Bank. (Infographic in German - but you can understand it without knowing much German: "Wem gehört die Welt?" = "Who owns the world?") AXA is the #2 company with the most economic poweconnections in the world. And AXA owns Blockstream.https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/5btu02/who_owns_the_world_1_barclays_2_axa_3_state/
Blockstream is now controlled by the Bilderberg Group - seriously! AXA Strategic Ventures, co-lead investor for Blockstream's $55 million financing round, is the investment arm of French insurance giant AXA Group - whose CEO Henri de Castries has been chairman of the Bilderberg Group since 2012.https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/47zfzt/blockstream_is_now_controlled_by_the_bilderberg/
Greg Maxwell used to have intelligent, nuanced opinions about "max blocksize", until he started getting paid by AXA, whose CEO is head of the Bilderberg Group - the legacy financial elite which Bitcoin aims to disintermediate. Greg always refuses to address this massive conflict of interest. Why?https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/4mlo0z/greg_maxwell_used_to_have_intelligent_nuanced/
Previously, Greg Maxwell u/nullc (CTO of Blockstream), Adam Back u/adam3us (CEO of Blockstream), and u/theymos (owner of r\bitcoin) all said that bigger blocks would be fine. Now they prefer to risk splitting the community & the network, instead of upgrading to bigger blocks. What happened to them?https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/5dtfld/previously_greg_maxwell_unullc_cto_of_blockstream/
"Even a year ago I said I though we could probably survive 2MB" - nullchttps://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/43mond/even_a_year_ago_i_said_i_though_we_could_probably/
Falling Giant: A Case Study Of AIGhttp://www.investopedia.com/articles/economics/09/american-investment-group-aig-bailout.asp
What was once the unthinkable occurred on September 16, 2008. On that date, the federal government gave the American International Group - better known as AIG (NYSE:AIG) - a bailout of $85 billion. In exchange, the U.S. government received nearly 80% of the firm's equity. For decades, AIG was the world's biggest insurer, a company known around the world for providing protection for individuals, companies and others. But in September, the company would have gone under if it were not for government assistance.
Bernanke did say he believed an AIG failure would be "catastrophic," and that the heavy use of derivatives made the AIG problem potentially more explosive.http://fortune.com/2010/09/02/why-the-fed-saved-aig-and-not-lehman/
An AIG failure, thanks to the firm's size and its vast web of trading partners, "would have triggered an intensification of the general run on international banking institutions," Bernanke said.
The insurance company with the biggest exposure to the 1.2 quadrillion dollar (ie, 1200 TRILLION dollar) derivatives casino is AXA. Yeah, that AXA, the company whose CEO is head of the Bilderberg Group, and whose "venture capital" arm bought out Bitcoin development by "investing" in Blockstream.https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/4k1r7v/the_insurance_company_with_the_biggest_exposure/
If Bitcoin becomes a major currency, then tens of trillions of dollars on the "legacy ledger of fantasy fiat" will evaporate, destroying AXA, whose CEO is head of the Bilderbergers. This is the real reason why AXA bought Blockstream: to artificially suppress Bitcoin volume and price with 1MB blocks.https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/4r2pw5/if_bitcoin_becomes_a_major_currency_then_tens_of/
This trader's price & volume graph / model predicted that we should be over $10,000 USD/BTC by now. The model broke in late 2014 - when AXA-funded Blockstream was founded, and started spreading propaganda and crippleware, centrally imposing artificially tiny blocksize to suppress the volume & price.https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/5obe2m/this_traders_price_volume_graph_model_predicted/
"I'm angry about AXA scraping some counterfeit money out of their fraudulent empire to pay autistic lunatics millions of dollars to stall the biggest sociotechnological phenomenon since the internet and then blame me and people like me for being upset about it." ~ u/dresden_khttps://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/5xjkof/im_angry_about_axa_scraping_some_counterfeit/
Bitcoin can go to 10,000 USD with 4 MB blocks, so it will go to 10,000 USD with 4 MB blocks. All the censorship & shilling on r\bitcoin & fantasy fiat from AXA can't stop that. BitcoinCORE might STALL at 1,000 USD and 1 MB blocks, but BITCOIN will SCALE to 10,000 USD and 4 MB blocks - and beyondhttps://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/5jgkxv/bitcoin_can_go_to_10000_usd_with_4_mb_blocks_so/
AXA/Blockstream are suppressing Bitcoin price at 1000 bits = 1 USD. If 1 bit = 1 USD, then Bitcoin's market cap would be 15 trillion USD - close to the 82 trillion USD of "money" in the world. With Bitcoin Unlimited, we can get to 1 bit = 1 USD on-chain with 32MB blocksize ("Million-Dollar Bitcoin")https://www.reddit.com/btc/comments/5u72va/axablockstream_are_suppressing_bitcoin_price_at/
Greg Maxwell has now publicly confessed that he is engaging in deliberate market manipulation to artificially suppress Bitcoin adoption and price. He could be doing this so that he and his associates can continue to accumulate while the price is still low (1 BTC = $570, ie 1 USD can buy 1750 "bits")https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/4wgq48/greg_maxwell_has_now_publicly_confessed_that_he/
Why did Blockstream CTO u/nullc Greg Maxwell risk being exposed as a fraud, by lying about basic math? He tried to convince people that Bitcoin does not obey Metcalfe's Law (claiming that Bitcoin price & volume are not correlated, when they obviously are). Why is this lie so precious to him?https://www.reddit.com/btc/comments/57dsgz/why_did_blockstream_cto_unullc_greg_maxwell_risk/
Bitcoin Original: Reinstate Satoshi's original 32MB max blocksize. If actual blocks grow 54% per year (and price grows 1.542 = 2.37x per year - Metcalfe's Law), then in 8 years we'd have 32MB blocks, 100 txns/sec, 1 BTC = 1 million USD - 100% on-chain P2P cash, without SegWit/Lightning or Unlimitedhttps://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/5uljaf/bitcoin_original_reinstate_satoshis_original_32mb/
The debate is not "SHOULD THE BLOCKSIZE BE 1MB VERSUS 1.7MB?". The debate is: "WHO SHOULD DECIDE THE BLOCKSIZE?" (1) Should an obsolete temporary anti-spam hack freeze blocks at 1MB? (2) Should a centralized dev team soft-fork the blocksize to 1.7MB? (3) OR SHOULD THE MARKET DECIDE THE BLOCKSIZE?https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/5pcpec/the_debate_is_not_should_the_blocksize_be_1mb/
Core/Blockstream are now in the Kübler-Ross "Bargaining" phase - talking about "compromise". Sorry, but markets don't do "compromise". Markets do COMPETITION. Markets do winner-takes-all. The whitepaper doesn't talk about "compromise" - it says that 51% of the hashpower determines WHAT IS BITCOIN.https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/5y9qtg/coreblockstream_are_now_in_the_k%C3%BCblerross/
Clearing up Some Widespread Confusions about BUhttps://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/602vsy/clearing_up_some_widespread_confusions_about_bu/
Core deliberately provides software with a blocksize policy pre-baked in.
The ONLY thing BU-style software changes is that baking in. It refuses to bundle controversial blocksize policy in with the rest of the code it is offering. It unties the blocksize settings from the dev teams, so that you don't have to shop for both as a packaged unit.
The idea is that you can now have Core software security without having to submit to Core blocksize policy.
Running Core is like buying a Sony TV that only lets you watch Fox, because the other channels are locked away and you have to know how to solder a circuit board to see them. To change the channel, you as a layman would have to switch to a different TV made by some other manufacturer, who you may not think makes as reliable of TVs.
This is because Sony believes people should only ever watch Fox "because there are dangerous channels out there" or "because since everyone needs to watch the same channel, it is our job to decide what that channel is."
So the community is stuck with either watching Fox on their nice, reliable Sony TVs, or switching to all watching ABC on some more questionable TVs made by some new maker (like, in 2015 the XT team was the new maker and BIP101 was ABC).
BU (and now Classic and BitcoinEC) shatters that whole bizarre paradigm. BU is a TV that lets you tune to any channel you want, at your own risk.
The community is free to converge on any channel it wants to, and since everyone in this analogy wants to watch the same channel they will coordinate to find one.
Adjustable blocksize cap (ABC) is dangerous? The blocksize cap has always been user-adjustable. Core just has a really shitty inferface for it.https://np.reddit.com/btc/comments/617gf9/adjustable_blocksize_cap_abc_is_dangerous_the/
What does it tell you that Core and its supporters are up in arms about a change that merely makes something more convenient for users and couldn't be prevented from happening anyway? Attacking the adjustable blocksize feature in BU and Classic as "dangerous" is a kind of trap, as it is an implicit admission that Bitcoin was being protected only by a small barrier of inconvenience, and a completely temporary one at that. If this was such a "danger" or such a vector for an "attack," how come we never heard about it before?
Even if we accept the improbable premise that inconvenience is the great bastion holding Bitcoin together and the paternalistic premise that stakeholders need to be fed consensus using a spoon of inconvenience, we still must ask, who shall do the spoonfeeding?
Core accepts these two amazing premises and further declares that Core alone shall be allowed to do the spoonfeeding. Or rather, if you really want to you can be spoonfed by other implementation clients like libbitcoin and btcd as long as they are all feeding you the same stances on controversial consensus settings as Core does.
It is high time the community see central planning and abuse of power for what it is, and reject both:
- Throw off central planning by removing petty "inconvenience walls" (such as baked-in, dev-recommended blocksize caps) that interfere with stakeholders coordinating choices amongst themselves on controversial matters ...
- Make such abuse of power impossible by encouraging many competing implementations to grow and blossom
| Questions | Answers |
|---|---|
| Any chance of a modernized Rampage game? It's been far too long since a Rampage game has been released. | I was an Employee of Bally Midway when I conceived RAMPAGE and as such, don't have the rights. It's out of my hands unless WB taps me on the shoulder... (hint) |
| Why not make a rampage flavored game with new characters? | For me, the fun of Game Design is bringing new things to the table... |
| As I've mentioned elsewhere, I did RAMPAGE as an employee, and 10 years later did RAMPAGE WORLD TOUR as Game Refuge. When we were asked to do another one, we presented Midway with a very cool, completely redesigned , 3D re-invention of the Game, but Midway told us that they would rather that we simply keep doing the same game over and over. Where's the fun in that? | |
| So we politely said, "Thanks, but no Thanks." | |
| What games do you play now these days? | Kind of embarrassing, but when you spend all day every day making games, you tend to shy away from doing it in your spare time. I love watching my kids play UNCHARTED and DEAD SPACE 2 from a reclining position on a nearby couch, however. |
| What are you thoughts on emulators such as Mame, which enable people to play old arcade games which are otherwise nearly impossible to find? | It's great, as far as it goes... Unfortunately, Arcade Games were often designed to NOT use controls that were easily duplicated by home systems, so games like DISCS OF TRON or ZWACKERY which used a spinning, spring-loaded knob and an 8-way Gorf Handle with a Trigger and Thumb button, have no hope of being played or evaluated properly. |
| I love Rampage, it truly brought me closer to my family. Nothing quite like a cooperative romp through a city. Do you game with your family? If so, which games do/did you enjoy the most? | My time with my family is spent mostly in the real world, camping, swimming, hiking laying around the back yard. We had an arcade in the basement, but I kicked the kids outside as often as possible. Actually, one of the single biggest Game Titles that we all played "as a Family" was HALF LIFE, oddly enough. |
| What is your favorite game you have designed so far? | Depends on how you mean it... I'm proudest of RAMPAGE, I love playing PIGSKIN head-to-head as an Arcade game here in the office, but for group fun... gotta be ARCTIC STUD POKER RUN as a Cash based LAN contest. |
| Awesome! Are there any games you created that you were disappointed with after they were released? | The definitive answer here is ZWACKERY, a fun sword and sorcery exploration game that tested very well. But at the last minute, the management decided to try to justify the cost of a new, very expensive, hardware they were developing by having ZWACKERY use it; even though it was not developed for its capabilities. The high cost of the final game earned it the distinction of being the lowest selling game in history, only about 175 Cabinets were sold. Bummer. |
| Hey, at least it was a record breaker on way or the other :D. | :) |
| What is the funniest or weirdest thing that's ever happened in the studio? | Most of our fun stuff happens outside the office on a sunny day, "you can do that when you work at a game company". But the best was when we were at paramount studios one time, sneaking around the back lot while working on STAR TREK VOYAGER when we were accosted by a cigar-chomping Levar Burton, who demanded to know what we were doing on his closed set. I was speechless and terrified, but the animator with me was a huge trekkie and immediately started spouting his favorite STV episodes... all of which were directed by, you guessed it, Lavar Burton. Problem solved. |
| I love Rampage. Playing World Tour when I was young taught me a good bit of geography. Question: which monster is your favorite? Ralph's my boy. | I'd like to say George, because it was my photograph as a human, but since the human photograph for Lizzie was Rae, my wife, I think I better say that. |
| Rampage, General Chaos, Xenophobe and the such have a very similar, striking art style. Was this a symptom of the limitations, or truly how you intended these games to look? | Yes and Yes! My cartoon style is my cartoon style, and I can't help what that looks like. But, I took great pride in the fact that I was able to deliver a great deal of expression in my characters faces despite my extreme limitations of 16 available colors. |
| Do you do the game programming? Which langauge/s do you use? What is your computer setup/equipment? | I do not do game programming, my background is art and animation. But our setup in the studio now is mostly Windows PCs and we currently use the Unity Game Engine and the C# language to program our games. In the past we have used the Torque engine to make games such as ARCTIC STUD POKER RUN and THE KOMATSU CHALLENGE, and every Arcade game had its own proprietary hardware to adapt to... |
| I Loved General Chaos, Rampage, and Xenophobe. I must say, I was not happy with the way Kansas City was depicted in Rampage- Cows and Silos? Really? My kids still play rampage on Wii. | Forgive me, but the game is meant to depict the soul of the place as perceived by the rest of the world, not as it is. Games ain't reality. Cows and Silos are Fun. |
| Ah, how the truth hurts. Have you developed much for Android? | Not yet! Talk to me in 3 months... |
| As a big fan of the retro age of video games, and as someone who is aspiring to make games in the future, what advice would you give me in this current market? | Link to www.youtube.com |
| This link has great advice, some of it from me, and even though the Documentary is a bit dated, the advice is still the same. | |
| Since it seems most of your catalog is in the arcade business. How difficult was it for you when Arcades fell to the wayside? | Actually, fewer than half of my games are Arcade Games. But really, we've been pretty lucky... manufacturers/publishers still tap us on the shoulder and we turn our attention to whatever is at hand... That's part of the Creative Challenge that keeps things interesting for me as a designer. |
| How did you come up with the idea for General Chaos? Was it always intended to be a Genesis title or was it something you'd wanted to make for a while? | Looking backwards from General Chaos at my previous arcade work, the progression of squad based gameplay (controlling multiple characters) is pretty clear… our last arcade game for Midway, Pigskin 621, allowed players to control a six-man team of sword-wielding rugby enthusiasts. It’s predecessor, Arch Rivals was the first game to let players use real basketball strategies because they were controlling a two-man basketball team instead of a single character, and even Sarge let players pretend to be a one-man army by jumping back and forth between a tank and a helicopter. One of the first games I got excited about after getting into the industry was a game called ANT RAID, in which two players controlled entire angry hives of marauding ants fighting over food. |
| Loved that game on my old Mega Drive growing up. Me and my dad used to play it for hours! :D. | In the end, General Chaos was just a natural extension of the little kid with army men in the sandbox saying “you go here, you go over there, and you... you guard this dump truck with your LIFE!” |
| I love Rampage. But I've always wondered: why include a giant werewolf? I mean, I get the big ape (King Kong) and the big lizard (Godzilla). But why a werewolf, which isn't typically associated with towering size, rather than one of the more archetypical giant monsters (such as robot, insect, blob, etc.)? | Efficiency, for one thing... I wanted to re-use George's Body animation sprites, so he had to be furry, and the Players had to be able to tell at a glance who was who, so a Grey Wolf with Pointy Ears seemed ideal. Jeff liked the onomatopoeia of the name RALPH, which sounded like a canine growl... and the rest is history. |
| If you had to explain who you were to a stranger, but you couldn't use words, you could only play one song for them, what song would you choose? | Heart of Saturday Night by Tom Waits... ... the innate optimism trumps the melancholy... |
| My questions are, have you considered making a Pigskin-esque game for modern consoles/computers? Why do you think there are so few "pseudo-sport" games historically? Also, was Pigskin considered a commercial success? | Link to www.gamerefuge.com |
| Rampage was one of my favorite games as a kid! I've always wondered two things about the original. First, what was the inspiration for Ralph? I know where the idea of Lizzie and George came from but Ralph doesn't seem to be inspired by anything. Also, how did you all decide on the three names of the monsters? Thanks, I'm a huge fan of the series! | I wanted to re-use George's Body animation sprites, so he had to be furry, and the Player's had to be able to tell at a glance who was who, so a Grey Wolf with Pointy Ears seemed ideal. Jeff liked the onomatopoeia of the name RALPH, which sounded like a canine growl... and the rest is history. |
| "George" looked like a George (Of Mice and Men), and Lizzy was a nice, gender appropriate pun. | |
| If you had to eat only one thing for the rest of your life, what would it be? How about for drinking? | I can't answer that in a forum where children may be present. Michelob Ultra. |
| What infuriates you the most when designing? Rigging? Modeling? | Everything having to do with game creation is ultimately satisfying, regardless of the myriad problems, snafus and general insanity that pervades every aspect of the process. |
| "Infuriating" is a word I reserve for the business side of things. | |
| How did you come up with the idea for Rampage? How big was the team that worked on it back then? | I was discussing the limitations of the current hardware with co-workers Sharon Perry (nee Barr), Jim Belt, Jeff Nauman and Mikey Bartlow, when it occurred to me that the annoying rectangular constraints were ideally suited for only one thing: a building collapsing upon itself. It was only a small step from there to giant monsters smashing buildings, which was enough of a hook to convince us to start drafting a game proposal. Middle management, however, was less than receptive to something that was so far outside the norm, and the unusual idea seemed slated for oblivion. So I went directly to the office of the new President of Bally/Midway, Maury Ferchen who, needless to say, loved the unique concept. The game went on to break all previous earnings records. Here is a shot of the Original Team. (That's me in the towel). |
| Link to www.facebook.com | |
| What are you working on next? | Currently beta testing an ambitious "Flirtual Reality" Facebook Game for TrulySocial and an iOS Mobile game that I can't really mention yet. In our spare time we're working on something that we're very excited about, a sequel to the cult classic Genesis game GENERAL CHAOS, GC2: SONS OF CHAOS. We're currently putting the Kickstarter together for it now, for launch on September 9! |
| You haven't played any of the newer versions of Rampage? | Nope. But to be fair, I still have the original Arcade games in my Office. Besides, when you make games for a living, you don't spend as much time playing games as people think. |
| Socks on or socks off? | Socks off baby!!! |
| Given RAMPAGE was an arcade classic, was is your take on how arcades are going today? Last I went into a Gameworks it felt more like a casino that arcade, what with 80% or more of the machines more or less gambling for tickets. What do you think of this trend and do you see it changing ever back towards what it once was? | Yeah, as a nation we seem to be bringing our kids to mini gambling establishments rather than to a place that engages them on a social, skill or intellectual level. Some of the finest Arcades around use the Free-To-Play model, and these places seem do be doing very well. |
| How would you bring Rampage into the modern era if you were able to? Would it be an HD remake? Would it be a 3D world? Would you give a sharp cel-shading and keep the same addictive formula? | Wow. Thank you for sharing that with me. You have no idea how great it feels to hear a story like that. |
| Xenophobe - I liked this game as a kid, but was it even beatable?? | It had a finite number of Levels, Yes, but the last couple were pretty near impossible to complete. And, NO, there was no ultimate reward screen or Final resolution. |
| What is your favorite sandwich to eat and what sandwich would you be for the rest of your life? | To eat...? Portillo's Beef and Sausage Combo, dipped; no question. (Chicagoans know what I'm talking about...) |
| To be...? I guess that would have to be a Hero Sandwich. (I'm a legend in my own mind) | |
| What would you say is the most career defining game you've released? | But on a personal, professional level, it would have to be GENERAL CHAOS, because the story of Game Refuge and the story of how General Chaos came to be are really one and the same. An EA producer contacted me out of the blue one day and asked if I’d consider coming to work for them. The thought of doing games for EA was very appealing, but I wasn’t really interested in relocating to California. I was working out of my home two-three days a week at that time, and I was pretty happy with the flexibility in my current situation. After several weeks of exchanging employment options & possibilities, they made me a very attractive offer: IF I started my own company, they would do whatever game I wanted to do, sight unseen! As great as that sounds, it was still quite a big risk. since I couldn’t sign any papers, discuss any terms or even talk about what the first game might be until after I left Williams-Bally/Midway. |
| How did you go about designing the monsters from RAMPAGE? | I started with the faces, figuring that the humor was only possible if I could get the expressions right. |
| The animations started with the fist, my fist, which would show up in ARCH RIVALS and PIGSKIN in later years. | |
| Do you still play any of the games you designed? I know I do :D. | Nice to hear, thanks. I play all of the Arcades I still own, and spend hours on long winter's evenings playing the Touch Screen Countertop games in my basement Barcade (TouchTunes Playportt & Merit Megatouch) with a cold beer in one hand. |
| Brian, I was obsessed with Rampage as a kid. I got the game genie one Christmas and a friend and I spent a day or whatever to beat the game. If I remember correctly all it says when you beat the game is "congratulations" and then it starts all over again. I remember that moment as one of the biggest letdowns of my life! WTF?? | Sorry Raaa...andy, |
| But you have to realize that those early ports were simply quickly knocked-off copies of the Arcade Game... and folks tend to forget that in the Arcade, a multiplayer game meant that people could join the action at any given moment, so even if someone was already playing for hours, a total stranger could "buy in" and pick up the game at level 10, or level 150! | |
| So it didn't make any sense to "End" the game, since at any given moment people may have just started playing... Hence no Cinematic ending or Finale on any of my early games... since they were not designed to be played anywhere but the arcade. | |
| Once I realized that having an Hit in the Arcade meant that it would end up as a home game too, I started putting in a Huge reward sequence for completing the game. | |
| The ending on RAMPAGE WORLD TOUR was infamous, even banned on some systems for being too Risque... | |
| Wow thank you for creating most of my favorite childhood games I am so excited for a remake of general chaos me and my friends still play it occasionally. My question is what is your favorite game you have created and why? | Depends on how you mean it... I'm proudest of RAMPAGE, I love playing PIGSKIN head-to-head as an Arcade game here in the office, but for group fun... gotta be ARCTIC STUD POKER RUN as a Cash based LAN contest. |
| But actually, the game that has been the most FUN for me personally was an Advergame that I created for the CON EXPO tradeshows from 2005 through 2011, THE KOMATSU CHALLENGE. It was a Racing Game on a 100 foot wide six player stage set that thousands of people would play while I watched from the wings. VERY gratifying. | |
| Link to www.gamerefuge.com | |
| Rampage was the first game I received for the nes! What are you currently working on? | Link to www.reddit.com |
| How do you feel about sloths? | Sloth? Three toed or two toed? |
| As one of the seven deadly sins... I prefer Lust. Tho I look like I prefer Gluttony. | |
| Grew up playing with my friends in General Chaos. Used to love the Grenade (I think) guy because he looked like Chuck Norris. Thanks for the entertainment. My question is about the sequel. Will bazooka man still be op? | All of the original Grunts will be included, (i.e., the CHUCKER, the LAUNCHER, the BLASTER, the SCORCHER and the GUNNER), and quite a few new ones as well. |
| Link to www.facebook.com | |
| , I would like to not only thank you for this AMA, but thank you as well for believing in freshly graduated students to work under your wing. I'm friends, and was in the same graduating class, with one of your employees and I remember him telling me that he loves working there. | Advice: Have fun. Balance Creativity with Common Sense. Problems are challenges, and each one is an opportunity to become a better designer. |
| I am a high school student looking into getting into game design. What are your suggestions to students like me? | Do whatever you can with the tools available... don't NOT do something because you're worried about it looking less than perfect. Its more important to get the creative-problem-solving experience than it is to wait for that perfect idea. |
| Link to www.youtube.com | |
| Is that your family in that picture? | It's actually my work family. |
| In your opinion, what has been the most significant change(s) to triple AAA game development since the old console days? | Thats easy. Hundreds of People & Millions of dollars per title. |
| Oh, you also made me popular because I had pigskin and other kids didn't! | You're not alone, the time it took to use the DPad to move the Cursor to the desired spot cost a lot of soldiers their lives! Which is why we're hoping to remake the game with Touchscreen capabilities in the very near future. Look for information about our upcoming GENERAL CHAOS II Kickstarter on our Facebook page... Link to www.facebook.com |
| I have always been a fan of Rampage in particular, although I'm sure you're hearing that a lot, and am excited for this AMA! What are your opinions on the newer Rampages, like World Tour and Total Destruction? Or have you not even really bothered to pay them much heed? | I did World Tour as well, so I paid a great deal of attention to that one. I never paid too much attention to any of the subsequent ones, however. |
| Here's a link to last night of the Creation of RAMPAGE WORLD TOUR... Link to www.youtube.com | |
| I'm a big fan of the original rampage. If I can ever find a machine locally, I'd buy it in a second and put it in my game room. What early 80's arcade game (that you didn't have a part in) is your favorite? | Battlezone. |
| So when you were working on 1982, did you think " in the future there will be high tech computers affordavle for everyone and consoles 1000x more powerful than current gen? | No way. My first 40 MB hard drive was as big as a Portable Dishwasher. (No exaggeration!) |
| I don't predict technology with much accuracy. I predicted BETA over VHS, asserted that no one would PAY for cable TV and I was convinced that the Internet was a fad. | |
| What movie would you like to make into a video game? | Hmmm... CLOCKWORK ORANGE would be fun, lots of opportunities for Squad based Mayhem. |
| Though Woody Allen's interpretation of EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT SEX could offer some entertaining possibilities as well. | |
| If you weren't a game developer what would you have become? | Short Order cook was always a favorite gig. I won international awards as an animated filmmaker, so maybe I'd have ended up there. |
| How did I miss this AMA?!?!?!?! :-( When I was in grade 5, we were told to give a presentation on our greatest achievements. I told my classmates I got the top score on Xenophobe, and was published in Nintendo Power. I "forgot" to bring the magazine to class that day... | Was this a thinly veiled confession? ...Or do I have to have our editorial staff pour though all of the old issues of Nintendo Power to find out who you really are? |
| Rampage was my childhood. That game was just too fun! In fact, i still play it whenever I have time. Who came up with the ideas of monsters destroying cities? Genius! | That would be me; though, for the record: I am not a genius. Just a legend in my own mind. |
| How many games have you worked on? | The following are games that I worked on, more or less in chronological order. Of the 80 games listed, I served as an artist/animator on all... a contributing designer on about three quarters of them... and was principal designeteam lead on at least half of them. 30 of them were my original concepts as well. |
| DISCS OF TRON. | |
| KOZMIK KROOZ'R. | |
| ANT RAID* | |
| SPYHUNTER. | |
| DEMOLITION DERBY. | |
| SARGE. | |
| P’TOOIE LOUIE* | |
| RAMPAGE. | |
| ZWACKERY. | |
| XENOPHOBE. | |
| SHOOT THE BULL JUMPSHOT. | |
| MIDWAY’S PRO TOUR* | |
| MAX RPM. | |
| SPY HUNTER II. | |
| THE SPECTRE FILES* | |
| BLASTED. | |
| ARCH RIVALS. | |
| JET PAC* PORKIES. | |
| MASH KICKMAN. | |
| PIGSKIN 621 AD. | |
| THE UGLY STICK* | |
| GENERAL CHAOS. | |
| MAJOR SNAFU* | |
| PLUNDER* | |
| RC SQUARED* | |
| RAMPAGE WORLD TOUR. | |
| BODY COUNT* | |
| PUCK SHOT. | |
| TENNIS ACE. | |
| AIR SHOT. | |
| GOOOAL. | |
| TOON FIGHTER* | |
| THE MUNSTERS. | |
| THE HONEYMOONERS. | |
| FIVE CARD INSTANT BINGO. | |
| TAILGATE PARTY. | |
| DICKCLARKS TV CENSORED BLOOPERS. | |
| MONEY STORM. | |
| DEEP POCKETS. | |
| STAR TREK VOYAGER:THE ARCADE GAME. | |
| THE MATCH GAME. | |
| THE GREAT CHEESE CAPER. | |
| MONOPLY - GRAND HOTEL. | |
| MONOPOLY - OWN IT ALL. | |
| WILD PITCH* | |
| ICDM POKER** | |
| THE KOMATSU CHALLENGE. | |
| THE KOMATSU CHALLENGE 2008. | |
| THE KOMATSU CHALLENGE 2011. | |
| RESCUE RIDERS. | |
| DELIVERANCE. | |
| LOTTO BINGO** | |
| ARCTIC STUD POKER RUN. | |
| COW TIPPING. | |
| LINE EM UP. | |
| MATCH IT. | |
| COUNT DOWN. | |
| SPACE GOBLINZ. | |
| BAG TOSS. | |
| BALL BOBBLERS. | |
| BOBBLEHEAD BASEBALL. | |
| CAP'N ZACK. | |
| ELECTRIC FOOTBALL TRIVIA. | |
| UNCOVERGIRLS. | |
| MOTOCROSS COUNTRY. | |
| SHUFF O BOWL. | |
| BOCCE BALL. | |
| SUNDAE SCHOOL. | |
| CAVE BAM. | |
| DEADLIEST CATCH. | |
| FLIRT PLANET 3D** | |
| GENERAL CHAOS II - SONS OF CHAOS** | |
| = Never released, ** = Still in development | |
| Holy hell. That's a lot of games. | And if you want to know the more about the development of any of these titles, you can find more details in my Personal Development History at... |
| Link to www.gamerefuge.com | |
| What exactly is Advergaming? Does that feel like making normal games for you? How does that make you feel? | An Advergame is simply a game made for a client who is trying to promote something.., Believe it or not, if the client understands that the game has to be FUn to get the message across, they can be evry bit a satisfying as a mainstream game joy to create! |
| Link to www.gamerefuge.com | |
| How did you get in the video game industry? | I really backed into it. I was an animated filmmaker working as a "roving cartoonist" ... doing Ads for local Taverns & Restaurants. I answered an Help wanted Ad at the Bally Midway company... I thought I was answering an Ad to paint pinball back-glass art. |
| When they said they wanted me to do art for video games I was kinda disappointed, the screen art was still at the PAC MAN level... Still, they were willing to pay me real money, as opposed to the free beer and popcorn arrangement I was used to. | |
| When I got the job, I thought that childhood was officially over. | |
| I was wrong... ;) | |
| You can get more details here: Link to www.youtube.com | |
| If i were to ask you for an address so i can send some of my Classic NES Consoles (such as Rampage) for an autograph, would you be up for it? i would pay postage both ways, and provide pre-addressed boxes for you to just pop the signed stuff in and send her back. :) | Sure, pyro; I'd be delighted. Believe it or not, we talked about offering that as one of our "Rewards Tiers" in our first Game Refuge Kickstarter, (launching next week) but we decided against it... sounded a bit too full of ourselves. Send an email to [email protected] and tell her "Brian sent you" |
| Why can't I play pigskin anywhere? Are we talking about the mid-late 90's arcade game? That game was awesome! | Yep. PIGSKIN 621AD was our No Rules" follow-up to ARCH RIVALS. Its still the Arcade Game I play most often here at the Game Refuge offices. It gets a lot of serious, non-stop play at Christmas parties every year, too, for some reason. |
| Are there any King of Kong style high score competitions with your games? | Loved Wreck it Ralph... Felt like they made it just for me. The whole office took me out to see it for my Birthday. |
| What did you think of WreckIt Ralph? | Link to www.facebook.com |
| Rampage was one of the few games I ever remember playing with my mom, great times. Loved Xenophobe as well. You're directly responsible for me parting with so many quarters. Question: I quit my job and became a mobile game designer this past year. Are you as excited as I am about the resurgence of classic 2D games for mobile platforms? | Hard to say, since I can only Guess what your level of excitement is... But I think the transparency and democracy of independents developing for Mobile Platforms will be bringing a much needed shot of passion and creativity into the industry! The direct access to the player means that the game, not the marketing buzzword(s), will determine it's success. |
| What cool stuff do you have leftover from your days at ballymidway? any proto stuff? | Sure. A couple of my Games are cobbled-together prototypes, and I tried to snag as many Headers (Game Marquees) and Vinyl side art panels as I could. Lots of Memorabilia, Trade show stuff, stickers, flyers etc... |
| If you ever have time, you should take some pics and share that type of thing with the internet. Who knows what long lost cool swag you have. It'd be cool to document it. | We're starting to do just that on our Game Refuge Facebook Page; adding photos of some of our one-of-a-kind cabinets and assorted memorabilia. |
| Visit us, or better yet LIKE us on Facebook at Link to www.facebook.com | |
| I LOVED Rampage as a child. Who was your favorite monster to play as? I always liked Lizzy. | George...no question! I am George and George is me. |
| Which do you prefer designing... the older, simpler games or the newer, much more involved games? | Both, actually. |
| I love creating games that start with a simple, intuitive, game-play mechanic, which can then be wrapped in tons of nuance. Simple for the player who wants simple, but more involved for the player who wants to discover more. | |
| Sometimes I'm guilty of going over the top with the amount of "nuance" I pile into a game, as evidenced by a recent full contact FPS/Racing/Poker game I did called ARCTIC STUD POKER RUN... which can be downloaded for free at www.arcticstud.com ... Link to www.gamerefuge.com | |
| General Chaos was an amazing game, I can't thank you enough for the numerous memories ! Why did you make it so hard ? :D. | Lol! I know exactly what you're taking about; using the DPad to move that cursor wasn't ideal, a lot of blood could be lost in the few seconds it took for the Cursor to get from one place to another! |
| That's exactly why we're going to use a TouchScreen control interface in the new one! All you'll have to do is tap the guy you want and tap the spot you want him to go to! Let the CHAOS begin... | |
| Holy shit! General Chaos was amazing, what platforms are you planning on for General Chaos II? | PC first; Touchscreen &/or Mouse controls, Multiplayer across LAN/Internet. |
| Touchpads next, naturally... After that, we'll have to wait and see what the response is... We'd love to hit XBOX & PS too, of course. | |
| If Rampage was to be made into a film, how would you want it to be done? | I heard it was supposed to be made into a film, offered my services to the producers, and even asked Stan Lee to play me if the producers wanted me in a cameo role. Never heard back. |
| I grew up not around actual arcade units (I'm 22, those are rare these days) but playing MAME. Rampage and Xenophobe are top 2 of my favorite games. Not here to ask, but to thank, for making such damn good games! | My pleasure; literally. |
| EDIT: what's your hobbies? | Hobbies: Outdoors - Camping, Hiking, Canoeing, Swimming Indoors - Reading, Painting Miniatures & Resin Figures. |
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