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Dan Magaha
@dgackey.bsky.social
THEN: I used to make vidyagames.
NOW: Certified Powerpoint Engineer™️, professional curmudgeon
Simultaneously one of my favorite (stylistically and story-wise) and most frustrating games. Even towards the end, it's super easy to get one-shotted by non-boss mobs. Many rage quits from this one.
December 26, 2025 at 2:43 PM
About as accurate as "we voted for this" 🤷‍♂️
December 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
The word "we" is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that article title.
December 25, 2025 at 8:55 PM
"Cheese on a Plane" is the Samuel L Jackson spinoff we didn't know we needed.
December 25, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Holy shit! He was one of the ones from our generation that "made it" and did so at a time when all the big publishers had decided that developers getting rich alongside publishers was no longer going to be tolerated.

Like you, I never met the guy, but admired what he built.

R.I.P.
December 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
Saw this constantly with youth sports. There's a lot of money to be made convincing wealthy parents that their kids are "elite."

The humbling thing you start to realize is that even small differences in performance on a given play or event become massive over a long enough season/career.
December 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I remember that column. Legendarily bad, even for him. Was Epstein really his +1 at that time? Incredible.
December 18, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This. And so few people who have not gone through it have any concept of how hard simply shipping ~anything~ is.
December 18, 2025 at 5:02 PM
This industry is never beating the incel allegations...
December 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
I had NO idea this game was in development and literally just happened to see it show up in my Steam "other games you might like" after buying Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 on sale. I am so glad I did! This rocks!
December 8, 2025 at 3:32 AM
One of the best 3D films ever released to home video.
December 6, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Can't disagree with your list much, except I would forcefully include Andor at #4 even though it's an episodic and not a feature.
November 24, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Given how susceptible machine learning models are to maliciously injected bad data, one wonders how many adversaries are trying to make Digital Jesus say questionable things.
November 15, 2025 at 5:00 AM
I was told that actors and athletes were supposed to just do their jobs and "leave politics out of it."

Has something changed? 🤔
November 14, 2025 at 6:06 PM