This is both biting and empowering. It is bizarre for me to hear people flaunt about their opportunities and work and then say, “Woe is me.”
Industrial exceptionalism (which can also be a kind of fatalism similar to heterofatalism) goes beyond the usual self-deprecation I make as part of my ongoing affection for game production. I think that’s just some weird shit or, as you put it, “AAA trauma”. We’re trying to make games and write stories here, not reiterate on DJ Khaled’s hit song, “Suffering From Success”.
And I appreciate the digs at how academia has finally investigated how gamemakers make shit or how journalism is getting a bit loose with BDS. This is fantastic stuff.