Sam Hyde

[cumster]

Let's be real here though, this game was always going to be a self-published vanity project, or at best picked up for distribution after it's already done by some shovelware publisher like 505 games. More likely than not, this is his design document for the game.

we dont know whether it is his design doc, namely because i dont ever recall it being published, but that particular excerpt from the pitch is fine

one thing is for certain though - no publisher would want to associate with sams name (his own doing, really), so finding one willing to publish his stuff is very difficult
if it turned out to be highly successful after launch, then sam would not see the point in signing on with one anyway - why would you give away 30% (or more) of your rev. share to some publisher when all the heavy lifting has been done, and your fanbase & character is the marketing material?!

dont get me wrong - sam would market the game excellently, as for whether itd be a good game or not - thats a whole different question

 

[Americunt]

When he's thinking of something like Skyrim he's not thinking about why that game is good (the combat is whatever, the exploration is the game mechanic that sells the game) it's just one big happy smear of an experience for him.

Exactly, it's astounding to me how shallow his idea of gamedesign is based off of things he's said about it over the years, and that document as a whole. Just write another Jaihoo's Trip to The Future if you want to show the world your gripping cyberpunk worldbuilding, rather than crap out what reads like it would play like every other indie-pixel-art-roguelite-deckbuilder that's on steam.

 

[Tropical_Paradise]

Iirc in the stream he did with destiny about fighting Hasan. Sam said that the video game would be his last project and that he would retire after that.

 

[Noble Redditor]

i see what youre doing - clinging to technicalities like a little bitch and looking for a gotcha moment

No, nigger, I'm not. People started talking about the game, making a bunch of assumptions based off of almost no information so I posted all the information I had about it because it's annoying to read inaccurate and dumb speculation. You said that Sam's been bragging about how good the game is going to be, which is very far from the truth. It seems like the project has been shelved for now so he can focus on WP2, which he actually has bragged about.

 

[cumster]

No, nigger, I'm not. People started talking about the game, making a bunch of assumptions based off of almost no information so I posted all the information I had about it because it's annoying to read inaccurate and dumb speculation. You said that Sam's been bragging about how good the game is going to be, which is very far from the truth. It seems like the project has been shelved for now so he can focus on WP2, which he actually has bragged about.

yeah yeah i get it, the game has no guarantees of being good and people being people will innately know thats the case, wont overhype themselves, and sam isnt banking on that
way to be a disingenuous faggot, i can hear the sound of you bouncing on that thing all the way over here

sry man i dont want to give you the benefit of doubt because any time there is discussion involving sam hyde on here theres too much dicksucking so i dont believe most people are being genuine when trying to "correct the record"

 

[I Will Stop.....in 3 min]

You said that Sam's been bragging about how good the game is going to be, which is very far from the truth.

Spoiler: long transcript of the video

the ultimate goal is to self fund a video game that's going to cost like 15 million dollar and I'm going to spend 10 years making it and I don't care if it's a bomb I'm going to just put pack it with all the lore and weird jokes that I've been accumulating and writing for the past 10 years along along with you guys yeah it's like Mondo Mondo writing is a tangential to it um it's also like a jy's tangential to it but everything interesting every time I've had an interesting thought or um just in my free time for the past 10 years literally I've been chipping away at the um the writing for Joy Ride and so right now it's still just a collection of documents what I need to do I want to do I want to have a writing session uh like in the woods somewhere like rent a cabin on Airbnb or something for like a month and I want to link up with Jay Dyer Jonathan pjo um Sean Carol who is this who is the science adviser for the video game whether he knows it or not I did a Skype call with him and got him to agree I paid him 15 I don't think he remembers me but I I paid him and got him to sign paperwork on it so Sean Carroll the many worlds guy is a science adviser on the game which I think he's he's going to be happy when it comes out with all this racist [ __ ] in it um Sean Caroll and uh is um I don't know if Roger Penrose is able to travel or if he's even still he's 92 years old but yeah I want to get him up in a cabin in New Hampshire and pick his brain we got to get him I think we should I think I think we should get him on the podcast actually if that's if he's traveling if he's up and about I should ask uh I should say say something to trevan about that right now actually we got uh Hunter McDaniel with 25 bucks hey Sam I'm a new fan and love your content I want to ask though do you live life for a better today or do you live life or do you live today for a better tomorrow sorry if that was a [ __ ] question thank you for the laughs and wisdom uh cashmere I'm entirely focused on the future I'm not at all focused on today although I do I do try my best to appreciate um to have like a moment of gratitude every day and be be present and like uh uh remembering to remember um [ __ ] but I'm definitely uh a low time preference person I mean I get I [ __ ] um basically basically uh tanked my career for integrity and I've been working for working on the outskirts to sort as sort of an outsider like intentionally for um you know since like 2007 I'm very much focused on the end result and not the not the immediate surroundings my man what's next for the MD Cinematic Universe um two World piece John Trev Chris World piece two two through five uh World piece 2 world piece 3 um fish tank seasons 3 through 10 Etc the ultimate goal is to self fund a video game that's going to cost like 15 million dollar and I'm going to spend 10 years making it and I don't care if it's a bomb I'm going to just put pack it with all the lore and weird jokes that I've been accumulating and writing for the past 10 years along along with you guys yeah it's like Mondo Mondo writing is a tangential to it um it's also like a jy's tangential to it but everything interesting every time I've had an interesting thought or um just in my free time for the past 10 years literally I've been chipping away at the um the writing for Joy Ride and so right now it's still just a collection of documents what I need to do I want to do I want to have a writing session uh like in the woods somewhere like rent a cabin on Airbnb or something for like a month and I want to link up with Jay Dyer Jonathan pjo um Sean Carol who is this who is the science adviser for the video game whether he knows it or not I did a Skype call with him and got him to agree I paid him 15 I don't think he remembers me but I I paid him and got him to sign paperwork on it so Sean Carroll the many worlds guy is a science adviser on the game which I think he's he's going to be happy when it comes out with all this racist [ __ ] in it um Sean Caroll and uh is um I don't know if Roger Penrose is able to travel or if he's even still he's 92 years old but yeah I want to get him up in a cabin in New Hampshire and pick his brain we got to get him I think we should I think I think we should get him on the podcast actually if that's if he's traveling if he's up and about I should ask uh I should say say something to trevan about that right now actually we got uh Hunter McDaniel with 25 bucks hey Sam I'm a new fan and love your content I want to ask though do you live life for a better today or do you live life or do you live today for a better tomorrow sorry if that was a [ __ ] question thank you for the laughs and wisdom uh cashmere I'm entirely focused on the future I'm not at all focused on today although I do I do try my best to appreciate um to have like a moment of gratitude every day and be be present and like uh uh remembering to remember um [ __ ] but I'm definitely uh a low time preference person I mean I get I [ __ ] um basically basically uh tanked my career for integrity and I've been working for working on the outskirts to sort as sort of an outsider like intentionally for um you know since like 2007 I'm very much focused on the end result and not the not the immediate surroundings my man

 

[Noble Redditor]

the ultimate goal is to self fund a video game that's going to cost like 15 million dollar and I'm going to spend 10 years making it and I don't care if it's a bomb I'm going to just put pack it with all the lore and weird jokes that I've been accumulating and writing for the past 10 years

The braggadocio is worse than I could have ever imagined.

 

[Uncle Ted's Cabin]

I don't know if any of you guys were around for the MDE subreddit probably not but Sam has been talking about making a video game for nearly a decade and has made basically zero progress. It's never coming out. It was originally called Com98 if I remember correctly then that got changed to Joyride. Even back then Sam was asking his own audience for ideas and artwork instead of coming up with them on his own.

I was. Com98 is/was the name of his LLC that he uses for producing most new content these days as far as I'm aware. I believe he originally created it to facilitate development for Joyride though. I remember when he did the poll for naming it, which I think was back when the subreddit was still up. Sam definitely has some weird "perfectionist" personality quirk that gets in the way of him finishing stuff. I think he nitpicks a lot and allows perfect to be the enemy of good.

Regarding whether the game will actually be released and whether it will be good or not, who knows. It's clear to me that Sam considers it to be some kind of magnum opus with that timeline, but it also seems like he's making it for himself rather than for other people. I will say that Sam is pretty effective at organizing people, so I think that he could get some kind of game released with the right team. I also think his aforementioned perfectionism could easily thwart all effort on his part to finish it.

 

[the_great_b]

Sam definitely has some weird "perfectionist" personality quirk that gets in the way of him finishing stuff. I think he nitpicks a lot and allows perfect to be the enemy of good.

Joyride is clearly an ego-driven vanity project for him and it has all the trappings of such a thing. If Sam's vision for this extended beyond his arrogant self. he'd stick to his strengths and finish up the script/concept art, and scout out a talented game studio to commission his idea (assuming he really has the millions to burn on such a project). He could then be the publisher instead of the other way around. And at least it would result in something. But alas in that situation he wouldn't be able to take full and complete credit for it (despite, you know, a game needing many people to make and not just him regardless)

 

[Sicko Hunter]

I was. Com98 is/was the name of his LLC that he uses for producing most new content these days as far as I'm aware. I believe he originally created it to facilitate development for Joyride though. I remember when he did the poll for naming it, which I think was back when the subreddit was still up. Sam definitely has some weird "perfectionist" personality quirk that gets in the way of him finishing stuff. I think he nitpicks a lot and allows perfect to be the enemy of good.

Regarding whether the game will actually be released and whether it will be good or not, who knows. It's clear to me that Sam considers it to be some kind of magnum opus with that timeline, but it also seems like he's making it for himself rather than for other people. I will say that Sam is pretty effective at organizing people, so I think that he could get some kind of game released with the right team. I also think his aforementioned perfectionism could easily thwart all effort on his part to finish it.

/r/milliondollarextreme was so fun man. I miss it. No other community is or will ever be like it. A perfect mixture of schizoids, genuinely funny people and racism. I'll never forget the time we managed to get a video of Charls drumming to the front page of reddit by using a thread title "Hey reddit this is my autistic son Charles can we get him to the front page??"

 

[Uncle Ted's Cabin]

/r/milliondollarextreme was so fun man. I miss it. No other community is or will ever be like it. A perfect mixture of schizoids, genuinely funny people and racism. I'll never forget the time we managed to get a video of Charls drumming to the front page of reddit by using a thread title "Hey reddit this is my autistic son Charles can we get him to the front page??"

It was! I miss it a lot also. That little community was pretty tight. I felt close (for the internet) to a number of people there and tried to keep up with some of them on splinter sites for a bit. Every once in a while, I still wonder what became of some of those guys.

 

[cumster]

i miss 2012-2016 era MDE humor
ideas man, college cunts, WP1 were, and still are, great and i seriously doubt WP2 will be on the same level
sams humor seems to have devolved into "aggressive = funny", but when repeated often it turns stale much faster than anything edgy, and in general he feels like a one trick pony these days

 

[Sicko Hunter]

i miss 2012-2016 era MDE humor
ideas man, college cunts, WP1 were, and still are, great and i seriously doubt WP2 will be on the same level
sams humor seems to have devolved into "aggressive = funny", but when repeated often it turns stale much faster than anything edgy, and in general he feels like a one trick pony these days

Some of my favorite videos from that era are the Williamsburg street fashion ones. Posing as a fashion show interviewer just to mock hipsters relentlessly to their faces is so fucking good.

 

[cumster]

Some of my favorite videos from that era are the Williamsburg street fashion ones. Posing as a fashion show interviewer just to mock hipsters relentlessly to their faces is so fucking good.

the cum hat never gets old

 

[I Will Stop.....in 3 min]

sams humor seems to have devolved into "aggressive = funny"

Yeah, i think the main difference between his stuff pre and post Idubbz(maybe post Fishtank?) is that before, during WP1, TedTalk, Power of Yellow, Bern sensation ! even the phone videos in his mom house (that is my favorite stuff, just him alone or with his mom, talking to the phone) is that the humor is centered in "trolling", in saying stuff in a funny way that some people might not get what he's talking about; Theres no way that he'd do something like Three B of businesses during World Peace (even tho he used to kick the fans and stuff).
Yeah actually i think i said stuff that i dont 100% agree with, but i do too miss the 2012-2016 MDE stuff.

 

[raisinlove]

It was! I miss it a lot also. That little community was pretty tight. I felt close (for the internet) to a number of people there and tried to keep up with some of them on splinter sites for a bit. Every once in a while, I still wonder what became of some of those guys.

r/MDE was great because it introduced a lot of young minds to scientific anti-Semitism and things like the kalergi plan and Lavon affair. People are reading “The Culture of Critique” by Dr. Kevin McDonald

 

[Oriental Trading Company]

Trying to find the video of Sam, Charls and Nick breaking into a crack house. Can't seem to find it on YouTube though. Anyone?

 

[RedditorsAreFags]

Trying to find the video of Sam, Charls and Nick breaking into a crack house. Can't seem to find it on YouTube though. Anyone?

 

[Noble Redditor]

r/MDE was great because it introduced a lot of young minds to scientific anti-Semitism and things like the kalergi plan and Lavon affair. People are reading “The Culture of Critique” by Dr. Kevin McDonald

Seriously. It was the absolute perfect mix of everything that has ever been good about the internet. I loved that sub.

 

[Sicko Hunter]

On the topic of the /r/mde sub I was always amazed at how Reddit let it stay up for so long considering how fucking gay the moderation is. The last two years or so it existed it was basically just a reddit version of /pol/. The only thing that got removed was outright illegal stuff. I remember it getting so out of control near the end even Sam heavily considered implementing a no politics rule. Such a fun time. There will never be a place like that on reddit ever again. The moderation is so strict now that's never coming back.