Sweet, merciful tunnel vision

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While ladling city-builders into the Maw's feeding trough this week, I remarked that being a worm must really suck. Then came the closure of BioWare , layoffs across other EA studios , further depressing genAI revelations , allegations of antisemitism at indie gaming events , a big Capcom data breach , and yet more worrying tidyings about Arkane .

I rescind my earlier observation: I would like to be a worm. A happy little worm, tunnelling after golden apples in the moist and forgiving earth, where there are no emails or press releases at all. The only thing I have to worry about down here is my butt growing so big I get stuck behind it. And also getting chopped in half by sliding doors, but it turns out this may actually help with the first problem.…