It's Christmas 1998, and you're deep into CRPGs and AD&D. You pop in the first of Baldur's Gate's five discs and are greeted by an epic autorun that'll whisk you to Forgotten Realms like you've never seen them before. That was my Xmas 1998 with my first Win 95 PC. I was so excited to play it. 💜

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Like, I remember when Rare had layoffs a yearish ago? (living situation has fucked my perception of time) one employee most people didnt recognize the name of got hit my the layoffs.. and not only had he been there since the 80s, he was the guy responsible for all Cranky Kongs iconic lines

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As a literal academic, it is very glass houses type behaviour for me to say anyone else reads too much theory but...yeah

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Oh a more serious note: what a mess

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Whereas a lot of left wing people seem to want industrial policy to fix regional inequality by employing low skilled people who can’t get a good job in professional services and that isn’t possible. Manufacturing is a job for Cambridge Engineering PHDs now.

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