I remember buying machinarium on a CD from a cheap bookstore that smelled like wood glue and old paper.
It's been so long... The world that made machinarium 1 no longer exists.
I'm fluent in DHHese. Let me translate:
"the benchmark I posted was completely fucked up. I tried arguing it's measuring agent performance instead of language performance but these duckers found out I spent more time on the rust version. stop calling me out on it. how about some free labour to fix the shittiest benchmark on earth? but also realise you are still wrong and I'm right, although it's hard to say what I'm right about exactly - I've run out of lies and misdirections a while ago"
Aphex has a lot more variety and completeness, he had a KEWL logo, was great at branding and leaving cryptic messages and making cool MVs. He's in a league of his own. But SP is innately obtuse, angular, dragging you into strange places. It's more challenging. Different level of zoning out
Even the Braun studio setup embodied its design language. These people were totally dialed in, completely immersed in their own conviction of aesthetics. It's hard to not feel pessimistic about design, this kind of abstract intellect is extinct. We don't have it in us anymore.