First of all I wasn’t comparing. 2nd of all it is incredibly stupid to argue that American machismo doesn’t exist. Compared to fucking what?

This is not optimism. It’s more irreverence. Which is honestly something we need more of these days. Everyone’s so goddamn serious.

It’s rooted in the tradition of American machismo and braggadocio. Hyperbole is a huge part of the American oral tradition. You go to any small town in the Southern US and the old timers will have some tall tales that beggar belief and they will tell them too you as if it were the gospel with no winks or nods.

I think Devil Went Down to Georgia is supposed to be viewed as a boast by Johnny himself. “I’m a really good fiddle player.” “Oh yeah?” “Yeah, this one time I beat the Devil himself.” “I told you once you sonofabitch, I’m the best there’s ever been.”

Well if you’re religious. There’s a whole class of individuals in the South that get off on showing the religious just how little they care for the tenets of Christianity. In addition to playing a mean fiddle, Johnny probably swears like a sailor and has extramarital sex whenever he can.

The song came out in 1979. The Southern Rebel was a big concept in the culture.

Yeah, just mentioned it because it’s really when console shooters went mainstream.

Halo CE

So devs used to have extra time just to add multiplayer. My how times change.

You’re just wrong. Devs today work far more than those devs did. Devs today work insane hours. It’s nearly physically impossible to work more hours than devs do today.