Seamus Blackley

I remember I had done a story with Seamus Blackley before.

And so I called him up and asked him, so Seamus, I hear you're working on this Xbox thing.

And then he goes, well, I haven't heard of it.

And that by itself was not astounding because they had already sort of had flirtations with Sega along the way, like trying to buy Sega or trying to... uh i think they got windows a form of of windows onto sega machines right uh they never went anywhere

was a big deal for gaming

yeah and they i did cover directx as it was sort of blossoming inside microsoft at the time of the rise of 3d graphics right and um uh And I remember I had done a story with Seamus Blackley before about how his game, Trespasser, had failed.

But he was very interested still in some of the sort of inspirations from that game in physics-based games, where the physics of the game was more true.

function just like the real world.

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I guess in 2019, amateur Egyptologist Shamus Blackley, with support from archeologist Serena Love, collected yeast from a 4,000-year-old Egyptian loaf and then successfully baked a loaf in an earthen pit in his backyard in California-

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... um, using the yeast, and described the resulting loaf as, uh, "dense as cake with a rich, sour aroma and a comforting sweetness akin to brown sugar."

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Something that keeps coming back to mind is when Asha took over, former Xbox executive and the architect of the original Xbox, Seamus Blackley, said they are going to sunset Xbox.

And everybody was like, there's no way that's going to happen.

And I still don't think that's possible.