I wonder if it was something as simple as thinking, “My project was done by 97, so everyone was done, right?”

It was a conversation that happened 20 years ago about an event that happened 10-15 years before that. I’m sure one or both of our memories are faulty.

But a lot of major Y2K work did happen in the 80s and early 90s, so maybe the percentage is wrong, but the sentiment feels right.

That second part is almost an art form. Usually the picks are just baffling, but sometimes they’re so insane that you can get people who know they’re bait to respond with complete and utter rage.

Part of the problem with Y2K is that the fix was so good, even people who worked on it downplay it.

One of my grad school professors around 2007ish worked in Y2K compliance and he said 90% of the fixes were complete by 97. If that’s right, Y2K wasn’t a problem by the time the public heard about it.

OK, less confused now. This was a complete reorganization of all the sites under the Paste banner.

Paste got music and The AV Club got everything else…

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What leak? The pictures were released by Nintendo themselves.

The “Level 3” commercial isn’t old. It came out when I was just… oh, no.

But that new one is embarrassing on an entirely different level.

I think this is a big part of it.

Whatever you think of him, Bill Gates (eventually) wanted MS to be making games. He believed it was important for the company.

But Nadella doesn’t and I don’t think he wants to be making games at all. But he also can’t just close the Xbox division, so here we are.

Her feet were weird once? What in the everloving crap is…

You know what, forget it, there are some sewers I’m not interested in.

😮 It was a 47-second video. No one wants that.

But I watched it, and it feels like a very quick recap of @hotcyder.bsky.social’s recent video and his Forza Horizon theory.

It wasn’t offered nationwide, but they’ve done a Resident Evil event before.

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The Game Awards is basically structured like Golden Globes or the People’s Choice Awards. There’s nothing fundamentally wrong with those shows, but they’re not the Oscars or the BAFTAs (who do their own GOTY awards).

The Game Awards shouldn’t exist on some kind of pedestal.

There’s lots of different voting structures for awards shows, so excluding developers isn’t wrong on its face.

But because they exclude the people who actually do the work of MAKING GAMES, the Games Awards can’t ever be the Oscars of games and the media needs to stop treating them as such.