Rocket Science Has Been Mythologized All Out

Everybody's Saturated With The Marketing Hype Of Next-generation Consoles. They Are Wonderful, But The Truth Is That They Are As Powerful As A High End Pc Is Right Now.

I Really Think, If Anything, There Is More Evidence To Show That The Violent Games Reduce Aggression And Violence. There Have Actually Been Some Studies About That, That It's Cathartic. If You Go To Quakecon And You Walk By And You See The People There [and Compare That To] A Random Cross Section Of A College Campus, You're Probably Going To Find A More Peaceful Crowd Of People At The Gaming Convention. I Think It’s At Worst Neutral And Potentially Positive.

Some Cynical People Think That Every Activity Must Revolve Around The Mighty Dollar, And That Anyone Saying Otherwise Is Just Attempting To Delude The Public. I Will Probably Never Be Able To Convice Them That That Isn't Always The Case, But I Do Have The Satisfaction Of Knowing That I Live In A Less Dingy World Than They Do.

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.

Sharing The Code Just Seems Like The Right Thing To Do. It Costs Us Rather Little, But It Benefits A Lot Of People In Sometimes Very Significant Ways. There Are Many University Research Projects, Proof Of Concept Publisher Demos, And New Platform Test Beds That Have Leveraged The Code. Free Software That People Value Adds Wealth To The World.