Comments on: #oneaday Day 850: Fuck the Oliver Twins

By: RetroTim

RetroTim — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:58:49 +0000

"I'm pretty sure a name as well-known and once-respected as the Oliver Twins would have been able to run a successful £100,000 Kickstarter without a problem." No chance. They tried back in 2017 with only £25,620 pledged against a £350,000 goal for an attempt to do a new Dizzy on Kickstarter. (Dizzy Returns). Clearly, nobody was really that interested. Now they've got all GenAI they're now outcasts.

By: Alex Connolly ▞

Alex Connolly ▞ — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 21:23:27 +0000

Hand-crafted, home-made, 100% organic chef's kiss. Particularly that concluding word.

By: Pete Davison

Pete Davison — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:18:42 +0000

In reply to m68ken. Never meet your heroes and all that.

By: m68ken

m68ken — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 18:12:04 +0000

TIL that also Richard Garriott is pro-GenAI. Goddammit.

By: Niko

Niko — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 17:20:30 +0000

Wow "we don't run the AI companies so we can't do anything about their plagiarism" sure is a take...

By: Pete Davison

Pete Davison — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:17:14 +0000

In reply to Chris Allcock. Yeah. I knew where things were going the moment I saw that video and he started banging on about "we've always been on the cutting edge of technology!" Disappointing. Not entirely unexpected, given their recent track record, but disappointing.

By: Chris Allcock

Chris Allcock — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 16:11:54 +0000

It was so demoralising watching Phillip Oliver dance around 'new technologies' in the announce video and then add, as a little denouement: "By the way, we're also CRUNCHING!" Even David Darling would be hard-pressed to call anything about this situation Absolutely Brilliant.