The "player felt a negative emotion for a moment in a playtest, that's now a Pri 1 problem" instinct in AAA prod is a huge tarpit for our industry

yes, phones are distracting. the only thing you can do about that is try to be more interesting than the phone. if you make your shit less interesting so that people can follow it while multitasking people will pay even less attention! obviously!

you just want a game to hop in and blast some dudes for a while. we have that!! in better form now!! more accessible!! yet you play the insanely worse, more complicated, unethical version!! you are a more boring version of yourself from 25 years ago!!

"okay, that happened, but can you say how many more times it has happened? Haha, i thought not."

My phone has full optical character recognition of 47,000 photos. I can search individual words.

I cannot search three words in quotes.

Computers used to be powerful. That power meant something. It was power for making your life better in sovereignty to your own interests.

And now we have this.

Computers were a skill. They were taught in classrooms as a skill. Skills give you power over your tools because you work them as an expert and that is leverage to multiply externally.

And then computers became an A/B tested telemetry-based advertising conduit to brains for SaaS recurring revenue.