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It's nice to have a game that sells a million copies.

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This is a bit more expensive than my previous turbo-Ferrari habit, but not too bad.

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Note to self: Pasty-skinned programmers ought not stand in the Mojave desert for multiple hours.

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Story in a game is like a story in a porn movie. It's expected to be there, but it's not that important.

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The Xbox 360 is the first console that I've ever worked with that actually has development tools that are better for games than what we've had on PC.

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A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in.

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But realistically, we don't have that many problems at QuakeCon. If it was a football convention or something, there would probably be a lot more incidents.

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At its best, entertainment is going to be a subjective thing that can't win for everyone, while at worst, a particular game just becomes a random symbol for petty tribal behavior.

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Because of the nature of Moore's law, anything that an extremely clever graphics programmer can do at one point can be replicated by a merely competent programmer some number of years later.

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