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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • What this article suggests to me is that the big companies went wrong mainly in recruiting, probably by offering good salaries and work life balance to people used to impressing generic authority figures.

    The idea that non-game software doesn’t involve creativity or spit balling or iteration is ridiculous. But from what I’ve seen it does involve a lot more waiting for consensus and thinking too far down the road, which are political activities aimed at being right (as measured by vice presidents) rather than productive activities aimed at getting something done or making something cool (as measured by your own name in credits of a completed work offered to the public).

    I’m not sure why big company engineers don’t just start coding while their bosses are dithering about, but they don’t, and my pop psych guess is that they’ve selected for people who want to know what’s going to be on the exam. As long as the product is never really done and almost never seen or applauded outside the company, this kind of makes sense.

    As some big game studios seem to be moving to legacy products and rolling delivery to more and more captive audience, I wonder if the differences in culture will shrink. Maybe we will always depend on cash-strapped studios of slightly desperate iconoclasts for the big leaps.




  • You know, when I used to go to stores that sell various fancy imported olive oils-- in bottles, I haven’t tried the bulk bring-your-own-container ones-- I so often found the oil already rancid that I’ve just stopped going and wondered how they do business. But, now I wonder if it’s like so many things where some people are just less sensitive to the flavor. I have to say, in oils it it’s never so bad to me that I refuse to cook with it, but to drizzle it on salad or bread ‘raw’ would be gross. In nuts, it can really put me off, though, especially if the nuts seem stale in other ways. I’m also not a big fan of nuts generally, though. Rancid butter is another thing and I’ll just throw it away. Happens at my parents’ all the time because they don’t refrigerate it and they live in a warm climate. My mom doesn’t care about rancid butter but will complain all night about rancid olive oil if you put it on her salad. So I guess it’s complicated. Or just kind of on the edge of being yucky, so other factors can take precedence.