The good news is we now know exactly how many words in a row games executives are capable of absorbing: exactly seven. They read exactly the first seven words of the meme

All those things are true, but I also remember my mother telling me how she watched police attack protestors in Grant Park in 1968, then watched news reports about how protestors had attacked the police. Or you can go even further back to Haymarket. It's a very old playbook.

every successful game has at least one fullscreen render buffer doing nothing that the render team completely forgot about until either right before or right after ship

I don't post that much, but hello!

Also Sailor Moon’s mom is 36.

This article from the 2019 NYT does a pretty good job of discussing the issues with the 2024 NYT! I think a big part of the frustration is seeing the paper adopt a rhetorical mode that it once looked askance on, at the same time the Republican Party ramped up attacks www.nytimes.com/2019/02/07/o...

all of this for donald fucking trump of all people

they can put all the poor people to work building the 50-100 nuclear power plants this is going to require!

the people still out of work can get started on the couple hundred state-of-the-art silicon fabs that they will also need

I read a different article but about halfway through it said "this is a project on the scale of the US ramping up for WWII but I think it will happen"

I... have a different forecast here

Very notable that this is just two years after the Justice Department formally sunsetted the Paramount Decree

Bonus and this one is 100%, if you’re playing a game and think “this cutscene is so cool, I wish it was gameplay” — I guarantee it originally was but something went wrong.

The answer to “why didn’t they” is pretty much always “we tried that, but”.

About 5% of the time it’s “it wasn’t obvious we needed to do that until we finished this version, and we hit the deadline.”