Yep, you’re totally right.

leading to a deeply uncomfortable moment where Jared Huckaby, content director on the game, leans behind Hull and says: “We’re at time—it’s your show, wrap it up.”

Doing this to someone in public is something a dickhead would do. When someone tells you who they are, believe them the first time.

Yep! I saw and rewatched tons of movies this way as a kid. We had two VCRs and my stepdad copied most of what we watched for a handful of years, but I can’t remember when exactly it started. We had Road House on a copied tape, so it was likely in the early 90s.

He also had some copied Betamax tapes from the 80s too, so he was a pretty early adopter of piracy. I first saw Labyrinth on Betamax!

I thought this was literally the strategy? DRM for the first few months until sales slow down.

Then they remove the DRM in the hopes of getting another sales boost.

Removing the DRM is essentially free advertising.

To me it almost sounds like early 2000s Peter Molyneux hype.

Sometimes a specific person’s incompetence has no limit!

See the Peter Principle.

Everyone rises to their own personal level of incompetence.