John Kavanagh @johnkava

NY Joined April 2009

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John Kavanagh @johnkava

6 months ago

@RampCapitalLLC @coookwithchris Recipe please

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Irish Football Pics @irish_pics

7 months ago

Lads, how ESPN Brazil lads felt about the goal Can we get him over on commentary even if we haven’t a scooby what he’s saying 👏🏻

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7 months ago

@historyinmemes He was great in Erin Brockovich

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7 months ago

@Carra23 Stitch up…o

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Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact

9 months ago

This famous 1943 Norman Rockwell painting, which often makes its way around social media as a popular meme template, has an official title: Freedom of Speech

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John Kavanagh @johnkava

a year ago

@greg16676935420

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Andrew Rousso @AndrewRousso

2 years ago

the guy who invented fondue:

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2 years ago

@RampCapitalLLC Bill Bryson - One Summer America, 1927

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2 years ago

@aubreystrobel What can be, unburdened by what has been

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2 years ago

@RampCapitalLLC merlinbirdid.com Explore the world of birds with Merlin Bird ID! - you can use this to identify birds, like a Shazam for birds! 🐦

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John Kavanagh @johnkava

2 years ago

@BPete1970 Thought you’d gone high fashion Pete!! 😂

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2 years ago

@brennytheboss Oh Hampden in the sun….

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2 years ago

@StretfordPaddck Same reason we can’t hold on to the ball!

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2 years ago

@WednesdayErskin @arvonfoundation @NeilODwyer4 might be interested in this

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3 years ago

@brennytheboss And they said he was all hat & no cattle 🤠

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Goldeneye is a great “better to ask for forgiveness than get permission” story. Released in August 1997, the game made $250m on a $2m budget. A major reason was its insanely fun multiplayer mode…which Nintendo didn’t ask for and developers snuck into the game at the last second. Many years later, Steve Ellis — a game developer for Rare — explained what went down: ➡️ “One of the things that always strikes me as crazy in retrospect is that until something like March or April of 1997, there wasn't a multiplayer mode at all. It hadn't even been started. It really was put in at the last minute – something you wouldn't dream of doing these days – and it was done without the knowledge or permission of the management at Rare and Nintendo. The first they knew about it was when we showed it to them working. However – since the game was already late by that time, if we hadn't done it that way, it probably never would have happened.” ⬅️ Rare had a team of only 10 core developers and it took 2.75 years to make the game, which actually came out 18 months after “Goldeneye” the film. Nintendo briefly cancelled the game but then pushed to release it (and expectations were low). Goldeneye was an instant hit with innovative stealth play, remote-control bombs and sniper rifles. Gaming mags (IGN, GamePro) have called it N64’s best multiplayer game, which is wild when you consider the platform also had Mario Kart and Super Smash Bros. Goldeneye became N64’s 3rd best-selling title ever (also impressive because 7 of the top 9 are all original Nintendo IP). 1. Super Mario 64 (12m units) 2. Mario Kart 64 (10m) 🚨3. Goldeneye (9m) 4. Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time (8m) 5. Super Smash Bros (6m) 6. Pokémon Stadium (5m) 7. Donkey Kong 64 (5m) 8. Diddy Kong Racing (5m) 9. Starfox 64 (4m) Most importantly: without the unapproved last-second addition of multi-player, I couldn’t have spent 100s of hours being OddJob and smoking my unsuspecting friends with proximity mines.