At some point in the distant human past, someone traded something they did not want for something they did. The person they traded with likely didn’t want the thing they traded away as much as they wanted the thing they didn’t have. This may have been the most colossal error humanity has made.

The ever excellent Unwinnable here with a potted history of rot culture and how it relates to videogames and unfortunately, just about everything else in the year of our Molyneux 2026.

It’s prime “know your enemy” stuff that lets nobody off the hook for the shitshow we all find ourselves in now but makes its systemic nature abundantly clear to all.

I suspect there’ll be nothing new in it for quite a few people but it’s going to be one of those pieces it’ll be super handy to link to when I need to save myself some time.