{"id":5169,"date":"2025-02-19T07:06:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=5169"},"modified":"2025-02-19T07:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T07:06:50","slug":"antonov","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2025\/02\/antonov\/","title":{"rendered":"Antonov"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man, that is wild. A good friend of mine worked with Viktor back in the days.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s something extreme about someone dying at an early age when they have a job that mostly have them, their entire lives, in front of computers or going through books.<\/p>\n<p>Physical jobs where folks die in their 50s, although sad, has some sense. Wear and tear. The idea that non-physical jobs will allow folks to live a longer life seems to be more and more untrue.<\/p>\n<p>So many game folks dying in their 50s. I guess we&#8217;ll never acknowledge how stressful that field is, but I don&#8217;t recommend doing it if you want to have a healthy life.<\/p>\n<p>Take <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Satoru_Iwata\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Satoru Iwata<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly important person in the world of games. He&#8217;s the Wii and DS&#8217;s father but before that, he worked absolutely relentlessly as a programmer for HAL and Nintendo. I&#8217;m pretty sure his health deteriorated the second he started to be a programmer. He worked all the time, helped on countless, very hard problems. Passed at 55.<\/p>\n<p>Game culture is reaching a wall. Its business doesn&#8217;t make any sense anymore and its heroes and icons die half-way through their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man, that is wild. A good friend of mine worked with Viktor back in the days. There&#8217;s something extreme about someone dying at an early age when they have a job that mostly have them, their entire lives, in front of computers or going through books. Physical jobs where folks die in their 50s, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5170,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5169\/revisions\/5170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}