Welcome to the United States, where the rich people get socialism and the poors get prison
Is it opposite day or something? I could swear I literally gave a counterexample in the message you're replying to lol
Biden: I'm going to have Dept of Education forgive half a trillion dollars in student loans
Supreme Court: Excuse me, fuck no
Trump: Hey I'm just gonna direct the awesome power of the US government to do literally whatever I personally want
Supreme Court: Yeah sounds good
This interview is really phenomenal. Among other things, they talk about why it took so many years to release the game.
“We’ve been having fun,” Gibson said. “This whole thing is just a vehicle for our creativity anyway. It’s nice to make fun things.”
The lengthy production wasn’t the result of development challenges or obstacles, they said. They just needed all these years to ensure that Silksong was exactly the game they wanted to make.
“It was never stuck or anything,” Gibson said. “It was always progressing. It’s just the case that we’re a small team, and games take a lot of time. There wasn’t any big controversial moment behind it.”
“I think we’re always underestimating the amount of time and effort it’ll take us to achieve things,” Gibson said. “It’s also that problem where, because we’re having fun doing it, it’s not like, ‘It’s taking longer, this is awful, we really need to get past this phase.’ It’s, ‘This is a very enjoyable space to be in. Let’s perpetuate this with some new ideas.’”
The longer development lasted, the more pressure Gibson and Pellen felt to ensure that everything was as fine-tuned as possible. They’d already spent four years on it — why would they rush now? The more time they spent polishing some parts, the more time they needed to apply it consistently across the rest.
“There’s a level of finish that has to be met throughout the entire game,” Pellen said. “All the way the systems interact, all the hidden work that pops up later on. It’s multiplicative. As you add stuff, the process of tying it all back together just increases.”
Gibson and Pellen say they’re happy that the game is finally coming out — and even happier that they will get to keep working on it, which they still find enjoyable even after seven years. They haven’t burned out or shown any desire to take a break. Instead, they’re already making big plans to add extra content to Silksong in the months and years to come.
This is, of course, what work is supposed to be. But we have lost the way.
Yeah, and I'm only supposed to use this bong for smoking tobacco. It said so very very clearly when I bought it so you know they mean it.
especially regarding linking (ever-so-slightly progressive) climate policy with blue collar jobs
Yeah, the branding of the whole thing was pure amateur-hour. But he spent about a trillion dollars on climate change and blue-collar jobs, which he raised by big corporate tax increases. It's wild that no one knows that, and I'd call it a little bit more than ever-so-slightly.
Like hiding who put in upvotes and downvotes on Lemmy. "It's private! Don't worry! Anyone who looks at the votes is being bad!"
Making a few digits worth of wrong division way down in the not very significant bits of the answer, is way better than encouraging all your users to use an LLM to generate the answers for their quarterly reports / tax forms / do we have enough food for the winter calculations. The Pentium division fuckup was barely worth fixing unless you were doing some kind of numerical analysis or simulation or something, which is why it slipped past all the testing initially. This is astronomically worse of a fuck-up.
It is a good joke but you missed the chance to call back to one of the better gags from Space Quest 3 by writing "Yes / Yes"
"Importance"
"John Brown wears a hangman's noose for a necktie up in Heaven. I asked him about it, and he said, 'Where's yours? Where's yours?'" -Kurt Vonnegut
There is also the tragicomedy of the German communists following instructions from Moscow about how to engage in rebellion against the social democrats of the day, which was a big part of setting the backdrop of political chaos that enabled Hitler to seize power, while Stalin occasionally ratted them out to Hitler's secret police. And then, when it all went tits-up and the ones left alive fled Germany for the USSR where they could finally live with their communist allies, Stalin had them all killed.
The more things change amirite