How do you kill what's already dead?

IMHO they’re a scam and should be made illegal

I work at another multinational (non-games) giant, and our exec line runs the same crap at us. It’s all cloud this, live service that; meanwhile my product, which supports infrastructure that keeps a good portion of the company afloat, is struggling to backfill expertise at even a 1:2 ratio. The tech industry is about…

NFT’s need to die fast and hard.

Same age group as you (or close enough for horseshoes and hand grenades), and, yeah, truth. The idealized version of the decade that is presented in fictional works like Stranger Things necessarily elides some of the nastier parts of that time period—to include the fact that arcade culture, while absolutely something…

as a kid growing up arcades were horrible. I would try to go as often as possible, but arcade owners seemed to have distain for kids, and teenagers would shove me around all the time and act like assholes. Fights broke out, A LOT. The arcade resurgence now is amazing because it’s an idealized version of what we all…