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Collin Dion Agata retweeted
“In a culture where narcissism reigns, and where even pre-eminent athletes feel compelled to advertise their greatness in glossy Instagram screeds, Harry Kane is striking a blow for humility and understatement.”
@oliverbrown_tel praises the England captain's poise following his Ballon d’Or triumph ⤵️
telegraph.co.uk/football/202…
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
Me to every rival fan that called Harry Kane a “one season wonder” back in 2015
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
🚨Harry Kane told Jose Mourinho he wanted to be at the level of Messi and Ronaldo in 2019
He’s just won the Ballon d’Or
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Harry Kane: "I want to thank Tottenham Hotspur. I was there since I was 11 years old. You allowed me to live my dream. Without Tottenham, without that journey, I wouldn't experience this moment."
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
Happy Anniversary to Xenogears 🎂🥳🎉
Released in North America on this day in 1998 for the PlayStation 1, this masterpiece from Square pushed storytelling, philosophy, and music to new heights. It’s still one of the most unforgettable RPGs ever made!
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
No sham contracts, no concealed accounts, and no lack of cooperation, just straight shite.
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
Fabrizio Romano has still not posted the 114 guilty verdict. He of coruse posted Rodri's quotes, amplifying City's defence & not aggregating the news. The selective silence & PR machine rolls on.
David Ornstein broke the biggest story of the decade, while Romano won't even acknowledge that it has happened. The stark difference between them couldn't be any clearer than it is now.
A coward & a lackey, only confirming suspicions about him & City held by many for years.
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
El momento que todos temíamos ha llegado
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
I've been replaying the original FF7 and at some points the game does not tell you where to go next at all to push you to explore around, but then you'll easily find a lone house in your travel with an NPC that is relevant to your destination. The progression was all natural.
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Collin Dion Agata retweeted
JUST IN: Traffic to top U.S. news websites is collapsing as AI replaces traditional search, plunging roughly 30% from its 2024 peak.
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
Our employees have been begging us to try a four-day workweek.
I'm open-minded, so we ran a pilot.
Monday through Thursday.
Same salary.
Same workload.
Productivity actually increased.
People were happier.
Turnover dropped.
It was one of the most successful HR experiments we've ever conducted.
So naturally we ended it.
If they can get five days of work done in four days, imagine how much they can get done in five.
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
Masahiro Sakurai says originality in video games doesn’t always lead to sales but an industry without originality will die a slow death.
“I am going to say something pretty harsh, but originality doesn’t really have much of an impact on sales. I actually think it ranks pretty low on the priority list. Everyone likely feels the same way, right? For example, with convenience store drinks, there probably aren't many people who go out and try every single new drink that comes out.
The more accustomed people become to something, the closer it gets towards being a standard, or rather, I think people tend to want a taste that matches their preferences and meets their expectations.
However, an industry that loses its originality will ultimately just die a slow death. I believe the industry exists today because of the people who pioneered new inventions and created new forms of enjoyment.
The Game Designers Award” will come to an end, but I hope you will continue to look out for novelty, originality, and the unique qualities that set a game apart. Thank you very much for everything.”
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
As someone who runs a mobile game studio and is also heavily in AI, it makes me laugh when someone thinks they can just solo vibe-code a $41m/mo game.
It is 20% about the core gameplay and the rest is live ops and experience tuning for retention.
These game studios are more like quants or psychologists than devs.
FTUE, D1/D7/D30, Churn, Cohort analysis, winback, progression, cosmetics vs power, ARPPU, CAC/CPI, ROAS.
Everything is carefully measured and quantified over months and everything gets AB tested. Not only ads but small features in game.
To make a game as financially successful as this is more about heavy data analysis and an insane analytics + live ops backend.
You can vibecode in a single prompt a gameplay MVP, not the hundreds of overlapping systems and have them balanced and calibrated for profitability.
This would take years solo.
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
“Fix the Wayback Machine!”
We’ve heard you. The @waybackmachine has been dealing with waves of high-volume automated traffic. @markgraham, director of the Wayback Machine, explains what’s happening and what we’re doing about it.
➡️ blog.archive.org/2026/09/15/…
ALT Internet Archive Wayback Machine logo.
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
YOURE NOT GONNA BELIEVE THIS WE GOT MALAYSIA GAME FEATURED IN NINTENDO DIRECT
@MetronomikIncEN and @BandaiNamcoSEA revealed trailer for Ondeh Ondeh Kaya's Tasty Tale on Nintendo Direct 2026.
Ondeh Ondeh Kaya's Tasty Talewill be coming soon on 2027 on Nintendo Switch 2.
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Nike's market cap hit a peak of $280B in November 2021. It's now down to $57B (a $223B drop) and will be delisted from S&P 100.
Former Nike branding exec Massimo Giunco wrote a viral post in 2024 laying it all out. He blamed CEO John Donahoe (2020-2024) for going all in on direct-to-consumer (DTC)...with a cameo from McKinsey:
▫️ELIMINATE CATEGORIES: McKinsey advised Nike to get rid of categories (running, basketball, soccer) and re-classify everything into “Women”, “Men” and “Kids”.
The logic was that Nike was duplicating resources and a pivot to DTC would provide enough customer data to inform product decisions instead of relying on the category experts (eg. a basketball vet that spent 20+ years at Nike). A lot of these experts were fired and Nike lost their insights.
This was a clear L because Nike quietly brought back categories at end 2023.
▫️END WHOLESALE LEADERSHIP: Nike ended hundreds of relationships with wholesales partners and prioritized Nike's website over retail.
The change looked genius during COVID but as customers returned to brick ‘n mortar, Nike’s product were nowhere to be found. It had burnt bridges with partners, who were happy to give shelf space to upstarts (this wasn’t covered but I think On and Hoka took advantage of this for running)
There was also a lack of feedback from retailers, which led to inventory issues (the “data-driven” insights from online sales proved to not be a panacea).
▫️PRIORITIZE DIGITAL MARKETING: Nike changed its marketing budget to focus on driving users to Nike digital properties and membership platforms.
For decades, Nike spent 10% of sales on brand advertising to create an aspirational halo. The prioritization of programmatic ad spend meant Nike went from “create demand” (new customers) to “serve and retain demand” (re-targeting existing ones).
The result was a slowdown in sales.
“Because of that,” writes Massimo Giunco (who spent 21 years at the company), “Nike invested a material amount of dollars (billions) into something that was less effective but easier to be measured vs something that was more effective but less easy to be measured. In conclusion: an impressive waste of money.”
The quality of advertising was also...not great.
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The focus on DTC is not surprising. Donahue was formerly CEO of B2B SAAS firm ServiceNow.
Nike’s DTC business peaked at 44% of sales in 2024 (vs. under 30% before the strategy change).
The digital focus seems to have commoditized the product, impacted Nike’s brand perception and created an opening for competitors.
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Original post: linkedin.com/pulse/nike-epic…
BREAKING: After falling -80% from its record high, Nike, $NKE, will be removed from the S&P 100 at the end of this month, ending a near 18-year run in the index.
The stock has now erased -$230 billion in market cap since its all time high.
A collapse for the history books.
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
How to destroy a beloved brand.
Step 1: Put a soulless, data-driven consultant who has never even seen a basketball court or a running track up close in charge.
Step 2: He goes direct! And increase profits while destroying the retail distribution system and betraying a multitude of 20-year-long partnerships.
Step 3: Motivated and innovative competitors like On Running and Hoka rush to fill the distribution gap Nike left by abandoning its trusted partners.
Step 4: Not satisfied, he fires all the stupid creative people who can't prove any of their ideas work with hard data. What could they possibly know?
Step 5: Celebrate when milking the brand for every last cent works for about 18 months, even though the data quickly show a disaster is looming.
Step 6: OMG? Wut?
Step 7: Fire the old CEO and bring in a new one who's been with the brand since day one. He tries his best, but just too much damage was done.
Step 8: Get delisted... Go down in history as the greatest example of data-driven idiots destroying one of the most successful creative brands of all time.
The end.
Collin Dion Agata retweeted
『FINAL FANTASY VII REVELATION』
紹介映像｜ゲームプレイ バトル＆探索
バトルと探索に焦点を当てた一連のゲームプレイで本作で体験できる要素を紹介⚔️🗺️
広大なオープンワールドがあなたを待っています🌎✈
#FF7R #FF7リベレーション