He wasn't kidding bdw, he really was a part of Valve's journey and even wrote "The Final Hours of Half-Life" while he was a sophomore.
Happy 30th anniversary to @valvesoftware.
Donald Trump’s spiral continues. The failed president, pocketing billions as he drives up prices, is afraid to lose the midterms. So he will reheat debunked election conspiracy theories and tell bizarre new lies to deny his 2020 defeat and attack voting rights. This is a disaster for Trump puppet Mike Collins. Already mired in scandal, Mike will now have to double down on conspiracy theories toxic in the General Election. From the start, Trump’s obsession with Georgia elections revealed his fury that Black voters were instrumental to his defeat. I'm asking concerned citizens nationwide to join me and support our voter protection efforts in Georgia.
Reminder Obsidian took just 18 months - from concept to completion - to recycle a game engine, build a whole wasteland in it with recycled assets, add a full coherent Reputation system to it, massively improve the skills and perks system, add traits, and still had time to write a narratively deeper base game and 4 narratively deeper DLCs and with some of the best-written stories and characters in the entire genre, thus creating what is widely regarded as the best entry in the entire series.
The lesson?
RPG players couldn’t give a shit if the engine is brand new and got “Way Twacing” and all the bell and whistles or not, so long as it’s immersive, maximises choice, and feels faithful to the IP. And that doesn’t take 15 fucking years.