Oliver Fries

@realfries.bsky.social

Coming from classical development career it is hard for me to accept the evolutionary spaghetti code in #gamedev. Does anyone have any coping mechanisms to accept that? I always feel the urge to keep it clean and write automated tests. But I mostly make them irrelevant in the next iteration anyway

Also, Bilbo betrays Thorin by giving away the Arkenstone. Why? Because preventing a war matters more than protecting one man’s claim to property. Sometimes doing the right thing means questioning who gets to say: “This belongs to me.” Who should we also stand up against?

#Thorin says the treasure belongs to the dwarves. Bard says Lake-town burned because of their quest. And in the end it was Thorins doom. The Hobbit asks a very modern question about who should take the cost for private wealth and greed. And in the end they shared the treasure 🤷‍♂️

In the Hobbit it gets even better. #Smaug has more wealth than he could ever use. He doesn’t create anything. He doesn’t share anything. He just sits on it while everyone around him lives in poverty. The Hobbit accidentally invented the billionaire dragon. But besides #Musk he looks like a peasant

The one Ring isn’t dangerous because the wrong person might use it. It’s dangerous because nobody can safely wield that much power. Even Gandalf refuses it. That’s an anti-authoritarian idea. Good intentions don’t make concentrated power good. Project that on whatever you want.