This week Charis discusses the landscape of video games and how many more new games have come into being over the past four years. How has this affected the video game industry and what does the future of it look like? Eugene wants to talk about an opinion piece written by Tim Wu that praises the pursuit of mediocrity in certain areas of life and the practice of having hobbies.
00:12:28 Indiepocalypse
00:28:38 Hobbies and mediocrity
Links:
https://www.polygon.com/2018/9/28/17911372/there-are-too-many-video-games-what-now-indiepocalypse
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/in-praise-of-mediocrity.html
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