The Stochastic Game

Ramblings of General Geekery

Video games studios: <are risk adverse and want to lay-off people willy-nilly, so use contractors for 80% of their production>

Video games press: “THIS GAME WAS MADE WITH A VERY SMALL CORE TEAM!”

The Donnie Darko meme:

- "We shipped this game with only 50 people"
- "What about contractors?"
- "OK, 50 people and 250 contractors"

That popular post about renaming vibe-coding into “cuck-coding” is funny, but my wife tells me it should really be “porn-coding” because you give some vague instructions before watching someone else do it. 😅


A couple times, lately, when walking the good fluffy boy (pictured) in the forest, I hear someone playing the flute, and the first thing that comes to mind is “No, I am NOT going to get dragged into some bullshit satyr-themed urban fantasy or folk horror story, not today!”