I’ll admit I was a bit taken in by the image his PR people created, a few years back before he decided he didn’t need them. I think I wanted to believe in the benevolent billionaire bullshit, that maybe a rich person wanted to do some good in the world. Dumb fuckin me, won’t be making that mistake again.

Yeah I’m looking forward to it. Currently playing through the old ones, they hold up surprisingly well.

I bought the old homeworld games. I remember really enjoying them way back when, and the third game finally comes out in 24 so I thought I’d give them a play through to catch up. Still good.

Doesn’t seem fair that some people get paid so well for fucking up so badly.

Yeah, old games often get overlooked but they kind of laid the foundations for much of what we had today. I remember spending a lot of time on elite, back in the 80s. It seemed so impressive back then, and really it was an achievement considering the hardware was BBC micro computers.

Homeworld. Really effective soundtrack, heightened tension and the feeling of being out in empty space.

Yeah, it’s a shit-ridden ad hole.

I know it kinda sounds like a broken record when people say this but it’s still true - the problem is capitalism.

Yeah, but when individual awareness isn’t enough, how can we stop it?

I think maybe it requires legislation or a change in systems. It’s not really feasible to rely on millions of individual customers coming together to punish bad companies, it just doesn’t seem to happen effectively or make a significant impact.