TBH I'm unfamiliar with Fractic, but... this is a joke, right?
If not... well, I still suspect it i. But something about this rang as deeply unserious to me—Fractic's tone, the repetitiveness, and gimmickery made this seem more like attention-seeking than anything else. I'll admit it was a bit difficult for me to get through the entire thing without needle-dropping, but gathering the Traveling Willburys of retro computing, dropping Musk's name, etc, left a lingering smell.
There's an easily-exploitable misconception that one must just summon the Elder Gods of the Golden Age of , throw in some hype and money and project management, and magic will happen. That's not how it works. Just because someone did amazing stuff in the past doesn't mean they'll have the ability or the desire to do it in the future—the relative incentives, market conditions, technological constraints, and just plain interests are completely different than before. It's fun to think one is changing the world and potentially getting rich by pushing the state of the art further than anyone thinks is possible. That's not where these folks are now.
Would love to be wrong, and having cut my teeth on Commodore kit as a kid, spent a career in CE, and having reached an age when I'm generally just annoyed by youtuber fluff and antics, it's entirely possible my biases are getting in the way here. I'm sure this guy has fans who are reading this and seeing nothing but an out-of-touch geezer, and maybe they're right. But I'd have a really hard time forking over any scratch to this guy, and will be astounded if this actually produces more than a curiosity.
TBH I'm unfamiliar with Fractic, but... this is a joke, right?
If not... well, I still suspect it i. But something about this rang as deeply unserious to me—Fractic's tone, the repetitiveness, and gimmickery made this seem more like attention-seeking than anything else. I'll admit it was a bit difficult for me to get through the entire thing without needle-dropping, but gathering the Traveling Willburys of retro computing, dropping Musk's name, etc, left a lingering smell.
There's an easily-exploitable misconception that one must just summon the Elder Gods of the Golden Age of , throw in some hype and money and project management, and magic will happen. That's not how it works. Just because someone did amazing stuff in the past doesn't mean they'll have the ability or the desire to do it in the future—the relative incentives, market conditions, technological constraints, and just plain interests are completely different than before. It's fun to think one is changing the world and potentially getting rich by pushing the state of the art further than anyone thinks is possible. That's not where these folks are now.
Would love to be wrong, and having cut my teeth on Commodore kit as a kid, spent a career in CE, and having reached an age when I'm generally just annoyed by youtuber fluff and antics, it's entirely possible my biases are getting in the way here. I'm sure this guy has fans who are reading this and seeing nothing but an out-of-touch geezer, and maybe they're right. But I'd have a really hard time forking over any scratch to this guy, and will be astounded if this actually produces more than a curiosity.