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[@TheCartelDel](/creator/twitter/TheCartelDel)
"People talk about FF16 being absolutely OP with the combos. But god forbid you were a random 1997 Bandit in Chivalrous Heroes X. You were gonna get the BUSINESS"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1962729193114083669) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-09-02T04:08Z 29.7K followers, 822.4K engagements


"When Autodesk killed this program Softimage XSI it gutted a core part of Japans game dev DNA. Studios had entire pipelines scripts & animation workflows around it. Its death forced costly retraining migration to Maya and years of lost efficiency in exchange for standardization. All Japanese documentation on it became obsolete overnight. It's in-part why Japanese videogame domination dissolved in the 2010s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1975407767709249882) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-07T03:48Z 29.7K followers, 732.1K engagements


"It was the main software for Valve SEGA Konami Capcom PlatinumGames and Namco. Not only games but Jurassic ParkTerminator 2Titanic The Fifth Element and The Matrix all used that shit. Autodesk basically bought the software only to destroy it wiping out its competitor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1975408937358008425) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-07T03:52Z 29.7K followers, 46.6K engagements


"Wait so Bambi just saw milk spilling out his mama's neck"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1977050115790737445) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-11T16:34Z 29.7K followers, 5700 engagements


"@ThunderBrush Exactly. The tech is undeniable and we should respect it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1978507610870477248) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-15T17:05Z 29.7K followers, 114.9K engagements


"@DanielOlimac This is so interesting because I remember being in Shanghai some years ago and hearing that the Tron ride in Disneyland was always busy. Now none of that exposure seems to have transferred into tickets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1979552212159475777) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-18T14:16Z 29.7K followers, XXX engagements


"@KeepsitSimple89 It is currently not really profitable to make fighting games outside of Street Fighter because they cost too much to make and can't find enough players to buy them. What's your solution to grow the audience"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1979559858249896224) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-18T14:47Z 29.7K followers, 6367 engagements


"@Tmay2912 @panik1881 Let's discuss. What studio has Playstation bought that they have shutdown despite them making good games"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1979960205778796888) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-19T17:17Z 29.7K followers, XXX engagements


"Just learned that Drew Struzan can no longer paint anymore as his Alzheimer's has progressed. What an incredible legacy that captured every generation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1930133371642098136) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-06-04T05:23Z 29.7K followers, 14.2M engagements


"I wonder how many billions Tron Ares would have sold at the box office if they had signed Keanu or Nicholas Cage instead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1975550510775333150) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-07T13:15Z 29.7K followers, 3383 engagements


"The danger of showing early game footage is getting stuck with it. Mass Effect Andromeda spent X years on procedural planets before scrapping them. Cyberpunk 2077 and Alien Isolation were both 3rd-person games in early development. Imagine those design decisions were promised"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1976782688842625271) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-10T22:51Z 29.7K followers, 27.6K engagements


"RIP to the best that ever did it. Drew Struzan; 1947 - 2025"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1978159173855523164) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-14T18:01Z 29.7K followers, 25.5K engagements


"@Thr33Fish lol relax. I do NOT promote Twitter and have a recorded history of calling it a hellhole. I am just saying that I wish I ALSO never promoted Bluesky because of the extreme bullying I see"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1980020592184377397) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-19T21:17Z 29.7K followers, 1009 engagements


"@Tayler_SF . I still don't think that is MOST gamers when there's almost XXX million active steam users That's not even accounting for console users. No disrespect but "Most gamers do not own game pass" is an objective truth man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1980029474319311304) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-19T21:53Z 29.7K followers, 1264 engagements


"I'm now at a point in my career where I feel I've done everything I want to in regards to franchises. I've been a Junior Senior Lead and Principal and contributed to numerous character teams over XX years. Thank you to every peer and game fan; Life update soon"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1752776997728817590) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2024-01-31T19:32Z 29.7K followers, 777.9K engagements


"I just looked up hers and Angel Reese's salary - $80k a year How are they earning less than a Target store manager Tf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1947453016824524813) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-07-22T00:25Z 29.7K followers, 46.4M engagements


"I personally dont think fans should pressure the @Tekken devs to change Miary Zus skin tone - its THEIR artistic vision at the end of the day and she looks good. What could improve though is her subsurface scattering (SSS). Instead of the natural bronze sheen seen in tanned Malagasy women her skin looks overly matte likely because the SSS color profile in Unreal is too bright and strong. This seems like an art-direction oversight especially since the male characters SSS looks correct. Brown skin generally has less subsurface scattering than lighter tones and has more specular response. So a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1978228590971162934) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-14T22:37Z 29.7K followers, 183.8K engagements


"@SylvieSoftJP @TEKKEN You're free to stay quiet. I am free to take Harada's invitation for respectful feedback. He asks for it so I give it. Our individual opinions can coexist"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1978287420471709864) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-15T02:30Z 29.7K followers, 3123 engagements


"11 years later and Assassins Creed Unitys Crowd Bulk System is still the best crowd system I've ever seen. NPCs near the player had XXX animation bonesacted independently and reacted in full detail while distant ones had XX bones and moved in simplified groups that followed shared rules. They would blend up and down as you got closer. This sorcery along with AI scaling kept THOUSANDS of characters moving semi-naturally creating the illusion of living crowds without giving us garbage performance. What I would give to see this tech in more modern games Final Fantasy towns especially"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1978500174252274040) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-15T16:36Z 29.7K followers, 4.5M engagements


"They really had it figured out in 2014 man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1978500923614773475) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-15T16:39Z 29.7K followers, 169.6K engagements


"@Harada_TEKKEN Whoa. So young The creator of Dead or Alive and "Mister leather jacket". So sorry for your loss. What a legacy. Both of you definitely helped push each other and create great games for us. My condolences 🙏🏽"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1978759925447729578) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-16T09:48Z 29.7K followers, 34.4K engagements


"As someone who joined the Batman Arkham team to create Suicide Squad then The Last of Us X team to attempt TLOU online. Making a world class single player game and making a LIVE service game are as different from each other as building a Cathedral and running a Theme Park"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1978821448442495338) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-16T13:52Z 29.7K followers, 91.3K engagements


"To summarize this BS. Jeryce is a very well known 3D Artist who has worked on HUGE games. He also has a passion for researching & creating African artwork. He was even headhunted for the Black Panther game because of his deep knowledge. Netease copied & ripped off a ton of his personal artwork for Marvel Rivals and when he said "ok at least credit me" they ghosted him"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1979385655596920884) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-18T03:14Z 29.7K followers, 303.8K engagements


"DoubleFine (Psychonauts devs) launched Keeper their new title yesterday. I'm hearing it's a X star game. Unfortunately Xbox has decided for some reason that they aren't going to promote it at all so less than XXX people on steam are playing it. Most haven't even heard of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1979914390938792051) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-19T14:15Z 29.7K followers, 982.5K engagements


"@ThunderBrush A giant videogame umbrella with this 2020 Phil Spencer quote holding it up :("  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1979923840638861635) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-19T14:53Z 29.7K followers, 20.1K engagements


"A few odd replies are either claiming that steam numbers don't matter or that game pass is the only thing that counts. Please focus. This post is about how one of the most beloved ex-indie studios released a game and almost nobody knew about it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1979933157303448061) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-19T15:30Z 29.7K followers, 30.9K engagements


"I regret very little but I do wish I never promoted bluesky so heavily AKA Tone Police HQ"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1979965455147438351) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-19T17:38Z 29.7K followers, 33.4K engagements


"@RonWillemsen7 That's fair but it's the only metric i could find to show tbh at few even know it exists. Hi-Rush was also gamepass but had 6k out the gate for example"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1979983783865864225) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-19T18:51Z 29.7K followers, 6074 engagements


"Currently reviewing job applicants and sterile biographical details and XX Em dashes seems to be in style on half of the cover letters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1980611590534697272) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-21T12:26Z 29.7K followers, 11.3K engagements


"@K__Med People are so much dumber than I assume they are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/TheCartelDel/status/1980836061178941449) [@TheCartelDel](/creator/x/TheCartelDel) 2025-10-22T03:18Z 29.7K followers, XXX engagements

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@TheCartelDel "People talk about FF16 being absolutely OP with the combos. But god forbid you were a random 1997 Bandit in Chivalrous Heroes X. You were gonna get the BUSINESS"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-09-02T04:08Z 29.7K followers, 822.4K engagements

"When Autodesk killed this program Softimage XSI it gutted a core part of Japans game dev DNA. Studios had entire pipelines scripts & animation workflows around it. Its death forced costly retraining migration to Maya and years of lost efficiency in exchange for standardization. All Japanese documentation on it became obsolete overnight. It's in-part why Japanese videogame domination dissolved in the 2010s"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-07T03:48Z 29.7K followers, 732.1K engagements

"It was the main software for Valve SEGA Konami Capcom PlatinumGames and Namco. Not only games but Jurassic ParkTerminator 2Titanic The Fifth Element and The Matrix all used that shit. Autodesk basically bought the software only to destroy it wiping out its competitor"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-07T03:52Z 29.7K followers, 46.6K engagements

"Wait so Bambi just saw milk spilling out his mama's neck"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-11T16:34Z 29.7K followers, 5700 engagements

"@ThunderBrush Exactly. The tech is undeniable and we should respect it"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-15T17:05Z 29.7K followers, 114.9K engagements

"@DanielOlimac This is so interesting because I remember being in Shanghai some years ago and hearing that the Tron ride in Disneyland was always busy. Now none of that exposure seems to have transferred into tickets"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-18T14:16Z 29.7K followers, XXX engagements

"@KeepsitSimple89 It is currently not really profitable to make fighting games outside of Street Fighter because they cost too much to make and can't find enough players to buy them. What's your solution to grow the audience"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-18T14:47Z 29.7K followers, 6367 engagements

"@Tmay2912 @panik1881 Let's discuss. What studio has Playstation bought that they have shutdown despite them making good games"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-19T17:17Z 29.7K followers, XXX engagements

"Just learned that Drew Struzan can no longer paint anymore as his Alzheimer's has progressed. What an incredible legacy that captured every generation"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-06-04T05:23Z 29.7K followers, 14.2M engagements

"I wonder how many billions Tron Ares would have sold at the box office if they had signed Keanu or Nicholas Cage instead"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-07T13:15Z 29.7K followers, 3383 engagements

"The danger of showing early game footage is getting stuck with it. Mass Effect Andromeda spent X years on procedural planets before scrapping them. Cyberpunk 2077 and Alien Isolation were both 3rd-person games in early development. Imagine those design decisions were promised"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-10T22:51Z 29.7K followers, 27.6K engagements

"RIP to the best that ever did it. Drew Struzan; 1947 - 2025"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-14T18:01Z 29.7K followers, 25.5K engagements

"@Thr33Fish lol relax. I do NOT promote Twitter and have a recorded history of calling it a hellhole. I am just saying that I wish I ALSO never promoted Bluesky because of the extreme bullying I see"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-19T21:17Z 29.7K followers, 1009 engagements

"@Tayler_SF . I still don't think that is MOST gamers when there's almost XXX million active steam users That's not even accounting for console users. No disrespect but "Most gamers do not own game pass" is an objective truth man"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-19T21:53Z 29.7K followers, 1264 engagements

"I'm now at a point in my career where I feel I've done everything I want to in regards to franchises. I've been a Junior Senior Lead and Principal and contributed to numerous character teams over XX years. Thank you to every peer and game fan; Life update soon"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2024-01-31T19:32Z 29.7K followers, 777.9K engagements

"I just looked up hers and Angel Reese's salary - $80k a year How are they earning less than a Target store manager Tf"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-07-22T00:25Z 29.7K followers, 46.4M engagements

"I personally dont think fans should pressure the @Tekken devs to change Miary Zus skin tone - its THEIR artistic vision at the end of the day and she looks good. What could improve though is her subsurface scattering (SSS). Instead of the natural bronze sheen seen in tanned Malagasy women her skin looks overly matte likely because the SSS color profile in Unreal is too bright and strong. This seems like an art-direction oversight especially since the male characters SSS looks correct. Brown skin generally has less subsurface scattering than lighter tones and has more specular response. So a"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-14T22:37Z 29.7K followers, 183.8K engagements

"@SylvieSoftJP @TEKKEN You're free to stay quiet. I am free to take Harada's invitation for respectful feedback. He asks for it so I give it. Our individual opinions can coexist"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-15T02:30Z 29.7K followers, 3123 engagements

"11 years later and Assassins Creed Unitys Crowd Bulk System is still the best crowd system I've ever seen. NPCs near the player had XXX animation bonesacted independently and reacted in full detail while distant ones had XX bones and moved in simplified groups that followed shared rules. They would blend up and down as you got closer. This sorcery along with AI scaling kept THOUSANDS of characters moving semi-naturally creating the illusion of living crowds without giving us garbage performance. What I would give to see this tech in more modern games Final Fantasy towns especially"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-15T16:36Z 29.7K followers, 4.5M engagements

"They really had it figured out in 2014 man"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-15T16:39Z 29.7K followers, 169.6K engagements

"@Harada_TEKKEN Whoa. So young The creator of Dead or Alive and "Mister leather jacket". So sorry for your loss. What a legacy. Both of you definitely helped push each other and create great games for us. My condolences 🙏🏽"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-16T09:48Z 29.7K followers, 34.4K engagements

"As someone who joined the Batman Arkham team to create Suicide Squad then The Last of Us X team to attempt TLOU online. Making a world class single player game and making a LIVE service game are as different from each other as building a Cathedral and running a Theme Park"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-16T13:52Z 29.7K followers, 91.3K engagements

"To summarize this BS. Jeryce is a very well known 3D Artist who has worked on HUGE games. He also has a passion for researching & creating African artwork. He was even headhunted for the Black Panther game because of his deep knowledge. Netease copied & ripped off a ton of his personal artwork for Marvel Rivals and when he said "ok at least credit me" they ghosted him"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-18T03:14Z 29.7K followers, 303.8K engagements

"DoubleFine (Psychonauts devs) launched Keeper their new title yesterday. I'm hearing it's a X star game. Unfortunately Xbox has decided for some reason that they aren't going to promote it at all so less than XXX people on steam are playing it. Most haven't even heard of it"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-19T14:15Z 29.7K followers, 982.5K engagements

"@ThunderBrush A giant videogame umbrella with this 2020 Phil Spencer quote holding it up :("
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-19T14:53Z 29.7K followers, 20.1K engagements

"A few odd replies are either claiming that steam numbers don't matter or that game pass is the only thing that counts. Please focus. This post is about how one of the most beloved ex-indie studios released a game and almost nobody knew about it"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-19T15:30Z 29.7K followers, 30.9K engagements

"I regret very little but I do wish I never promoted bluesky so heavily AKA Tone Police HQ"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-19T17:38Z 29.7K followers, 33.4K engagements

"@RonWillemsen7 That's fair but it's the only metric i could find to show tbh at few even know it exists. Hi-Rush was also gamepass but had 6k out the gate for example"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-19T18:51Z 29.7K followers, 6074 engagements

"Currently reviewing job applicants and sterile biographical details and XX Em dashes seems to be in style on half of the cover letters"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-21T12:26Z 29.7K followers, 11.3K engagements

"@K__Med People are so much dumber than I assume they are"
X Link @TheCartelDel 2025-10-22T03:18Z 29.7K followers, XXX engagements

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