If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years

@datagrok Except the other half would write horrible computer games that nobody wants to play,,,

@deshipu @datagrok and a tenth of those games would be amazing, cult hits just waiting to be discovered

@amsomniac @datagrok There can be only so many games with a cult following at a given time, and that number doesn't grow with the number of games being developed.

@deshipu @amsomniac @datagrok

with respect

> cult following at a given time

IMO misunderstands the full breadth of what 'cult following' can imply -- sometimes it grows over time, much as films these days occasionally flop out of the box office and then 'somehow' find an audience (read: a Hollywood studio wasn't interested in actually marketing it effectively)

so it's entirely possible that as this iteration of games matures, some games will "meh" on release, but get new life down the line