Yes

I mean programming in methods of anti-perving the camera view have been common in games for decades now.

Hermes the giant killer?

While David Brevik did move to GGG, he is not a dev there. He is an “advisor” and was originally hired to oversee their product exportation to China. Now GGG founded their company making games on the D2 engine, and were big fans of it, but I am pretty sure Brevik is the only D2 team member that went over, and he isn’t a dev there, at least not fully.

Oh, I have had more than one “I am gonna just sit here and eat this whole thing” nights.

As long as it isn’t a sink full of nasty dishes, and a PC surrounded by plates, cups, and empty cans, you are good.

They are more likely to be just eating the whole pie in one sitting, too.

They live alone, why have a pie server if you are just gonna eat it yourself?

They either fail to realize that the avatar is to maintain anonymity, while giving people a personable figure to watch, or they are just one of those people who don’t like it due to personal preferences, and want to sound like they have a better reason than that.

According to a lot of people? No.

If by stunt you mean, “discusses how the character has been set-up as the natural replacement with games media interviewer”… then sure, stunt.

but then we wouldn’t be defeating the whining about water battleships and the horizon

Just make a hovering AWACS that can hold U2 elevation. Then the gunship could hit targets across the pacific.

Yes, and the people, like Fuentes, who support it, and want it to be worse, should experience the thing they desire for others.