[frakkingcylons]

Gabe gave a talk at my college like 12 or 13 years ago. He explicitly called out the unbelievable number of downloads for Doom as a sign that games were going to be huge.

Fun non-sequitur: the other speaker at that talk went on to become the finance minister of Greece.

[elbear]

Yanis Varoufakis?

[frakkingcylons]

Yes he was a visiting professor for like a semester or two.

[icemelt8]

but games are a niche, nobody in my circle or extended circle plays video games.

[croon]

Windows is a niche too.

[devnullbrain]

Your bio says you were formerly a game developer?

[bccdee]

I think you may live in a bubble. By some estimates, the game industry is worth as much as music and film put together