If there's very little text before the internet, what would scaling up look like?

Every time I hear people talk this way I can't help but feel like they're projecting.

Do you have a source for that?

I always got the impression it's been mostly Blow and a partner working on Jai and this new game.

there's plenty of comments here referencing other designers on the project.

I'm having the same feeling, reading these comments, hah!

I thought the witness had amazing puzzles.

What do you mean by that?

Sean has been on Jon's stream, and there's a good video where briefly Sean states that he have Jon some syntax advice for Jon's language Jai.

I assumed they were friends as there are several videos of them conversing. The parent comment pointed out that Sean agree's with the negatives about Jon, which could not mean much, but the fact that Jon's negative as described in the Dreknek are really bad indicates to me that Sean likely doesn't view Jon as a good friend anymore. This is surprising to me because I really did enjoy one of their videos where they try and solve a problem together.

The fact that Sean agrees with this critical take of Jon is further evidence of how much Jon has changed since the pandemic.

STB Is the intial's for Sean T Barrett, who also created a software library with the same name.

Frankly STB is a bit of a lefty nutjob, those types are known for excommunicating good friends over minor political schisms... Talking from experience.

Ah I honestly don't know about STB aside from his header libraries and his tech talks, what makes you think he's a lefty nutjob? Briefly looking over his website and X profile, he seems like he's on the left side of the political spectrum, but what inparticular gives you the impression he's a nutjob?

It's interesting to me how Blow seems to ruffle so many feathers.

I don't really get it.

He's made two well received games, now a third one and an entire programming language, and anytime I tune in to his content he seems like a competent programmer with the kinds of opinions you'd expect from any kind of craftsman: sharp and borne out of their own personal experience. I never hear anything that strikes me as inflammatory.

What's there to fuss about? If you disagree with one of those opinions, great!

Maybe this is just what experiencing the world solely through the internet does to people. Makes them prickly and uncalibrated.

He ruffles the very sensitive Internet dwellers who have all correct beliefs.

Many years ago, during the peak growth of internet cancel culture, Jon made the mistake of saying an uncontroversial truth about occupational interests heavily correlating with gender.

They took that and twisted it into “he thinks women are inferior.”

Since then, they look for any reason to hate on him. It’s political tribe brain rot as usual.

Check out The Witness subreddit. For a game those people claim to love, they seemed to have absorbed absolutely none of the narrative philosophy.

Apparently he's always had a pretty intense and acerbic personality. There's an article in The Atlantic from 2012 called The Most Dangerous Gamer that goes a bit into his character and history.

As far as politics go, in the past he mostly seemed kind of small business owner libertarian (which, fair enough, he's sunk a lot of his personal wealth into running a game studio). He's seemingly been getting increasingly grouchy about the e.g. state of software development and society in general for some time, and over the past year or so he's started expressing explicit Trump support/appreciation. Possibly exacerbated by the development of this game and Jai dragging on, apparently getting burned by what he considers bad hires (bet he's not easy to work for tho...), and such. Though I would say it feels like it's mostly hot takes on streams or X, not necessarily very coherent politics.

But the indie game scene and many of his former associates are very left wing, and with the political climate, esp. in the US, also being what it is he's quite the pariah in many places now.

He mentioned in a recent interview the trailer ended up getting rushed due to complexities working with the companies who edited it and the conference timeline, and that he is also somewhat unhappy with it.

> This will never happen because the business of thinking is enjoyable and the humans whose thinking matters most will continue to be intrinsically motivated to do it.

What world do you live in, where you get paid doing the things that are enjoyable to you, because they're enjoyable?

Humans draw, but humans have been edged out of the business of drawing long ago.

There are cameras in schools for the same reasons there are cameras anywhere, to try to maximize accountability.

Kids are already not allowed to have guns.