>makes one (bad) puzzle game >somehow becomes an icon to /g/ I don't get it. He's done nothing notable. He can't even put out his own language after nearly half a decade.
>>106039775 Braid was cool, but really it was the talks where he intelligently expressed discontents we all felt with the state of video games, the state of software, etc.
Think of him as more of an influencer. A blowhard, even...
>>106040609 >expressed discontents we all felt right down to the >but didn't actually do anything about it but continue to moan & whine in pseudo-intellectual babble Literal worthless biomass easily replaced by AI at this point.
>>106040690 >but didn't actually do anything about it He made games that respected his players the way he wanted games to respect him. He is just finishing devloping a programming language to solve his problem with the existing programming languages. He has given countless talks aimed mainly at other developers/programmers to try to disseminate his ideas where it matters. I don't know what more you want him to do. Become CEO of Microsoft?