drowntoge

> Again - not for the first time - I marvel at the structural similarities of end-stage Soviet industry and our own late-stage financier capitalism.

Concerning.

Another World (or its alternative title, Out of This World)

As a kid, I was amazed with its simplistic yet engaging gameplay and fantastic storytelling.

It also happens to be an utterly brilliant piece of software: https://fabiensanglard.net/another_world_polygons/

The tutorial looks neat. It asks me to start a $5 subscription to get past Chapter 2 though.

Same. I actually resisted switching to Chrome for a while because I didn't want to lose functionality that I had accustomed to in Firefox which was lacking in Chrome back then, (mostly in the form of extensions like Firebug) but the difference in speed and resource usage between the two had become undeniably apparent at some point and that's when I decided to switch and learn to live without the features that I'd leave behind.

This particular incidence doesn't in any way disprove the argument that just a few flashy features is sometimes what it takes to get a lot of users to flip to a new -and in some cases, inferior- product though. As software history repeatedly acknowledges, that is fundamentally true.