Just testing my alt account.

I’m interested enough in this game to pick it up when it comes out, but I have to admit that I didn’t finish the first one. I liked it well enough, but my interest in it just petered out over time, and at some point, I just never came back to it. I hope that “i” will be a little more compelling. Either that, or I hope my attention span has increased over the last ten years!

It’s interesting that Dave mentioned education as a possible market for these. I thought kids were learning Javascript on their school-issued Chromebooks these days. It would be nice to teach students about the concepts of computer hardware architecture… but the Commander’s architecture is kinda weird, being a hodgepodge of ancient (6502) and modern (FPGA), with bank-switched memory and the desire for backwards compatibility with Commodore peripherals hanging off of it like a lamprey. Sure, students could learn about computer architecture on it, but it’s hard to see how it’s better than other, cheaper options. Big money awaits if they can pull it off though.

You could make the argument that all his previous outrageous behaviors were desperate attempts to squeeze more money out of a business he didn’t understand. But this… this is unhinged. It’s so bafflingly pointless and dumb it’s become clear that what was once a reliable dopamine delivery system could, without warning or reason, just… disappear one day. Even the people who rely on Twitter like addicts are starting to come up with exit strategies.

Me, TF.

…or surgeons who perform surgery in their free time.

I suspect surgeons doing surgery in their off hours wouldn’t be just weird, but also very creepy.