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Oh Jesus, that is depressing by The Happiness Engine 07/24/2011, 1:40pm PDT
Tarn consumed “maybe one glass” of water in the last three months, hydrating with soft drinks instead.
He took a celebratory swig of Dr. Pepper and rocked back and forth.
Zach, who worked after graduation in an Amazon.com warehouse and as a stevedore, was “going through some stuff.” Zach, who alluded to past problems with alcohol (he no longer drinks), told me his marriage of two years had collapsed; neither brother wished to comment further.
They watch crime procedurals at their parents’ house and follow a one-meal-a-day rule (most local restaurants are open for just a few hours after Tarn wakes up), which can mean Quiznos, a turkey sandwich from the supermarket or root-beer popsicles and handfuls of dry Crispix (Tarn is lactose intolerant).

Tarn has been single since graduate school, when he dated a Cisco systems administrator for a short time. I asked him whether he wanted children. “I don’t mind the idea of never having kids,” he said. “I want to stay focused on the game, and if I had kids, I’d wind up paying attention to them instead.”

He expressed similar ambivalence about finding a romantic partner. “If I were in the supermarket one day and someone came on really strong and it was a mutual thing, I’d probably get pushed along, but it’s not something I’m anticipating,” he said. His interest has dwindled. “It’s easier not to care about that stuff when you’re in your 30s.”
Still, in the only moment I heard him speak with anything like bitterness, Tarn called Minecraft a “depressing distillation of our own stuff.” He paused, adding more magnanimously that the game “has its own things going for it.” The problem, he concluded, “isn’t with Minecraft so much as it’s with society.”
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NY Times article on Dwarf Fortress and its creators. by Mr. Kool 07/23/2011, 4:14pm PDT NEW
    Oh Jesus, that is depressing by The Happiness Engine 07/24/2011, 1:40pm PDT NEW
        Meanwhile, Terraria is 1000x more fun and took < 6 months to code in XNA NT by FoK 07/24/2011, 5:22pm PDT NEW
        What a fucking yuppie. by WITTGENSTEIN 07/24/2011, 5:43pm PDT NEW
            Except Minecraft is awful and in a better society we'd all love Dwarf Fortress. NT by Worm 07/24/2011, 6:13pm PDT NEW
            Re: What a fucking yuppie. by col.schickn 07/24/2011, 9:41pm PDT NEW
            You think he’s bemoaning lost fans in that quote? by Arbit 07/25/2011, 10:59am PDT NEW
                The revenue stream will dry up in less than 10 NT by WITTGENSTEIN 07/25/2011, 12:24pm PDT NEW
                    Only 10 years? FAILURE by Arbit 07/25/2011, 1:17pm PDT NEW
                        That article will hopefully not drive any reasonable person to try the game. NT by Fullofkittens 07/25/2011, 1:49pm PDT NEW
 
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