your explanation brought to mind the design ideals behind the RISC (reduced instruction set computer) CPU architecture. Less complexity means higher throughput.
Jen Zee is a phenomenon. I have one of her Opera posters from Transistor in a lovely frame on my wall, its one of my most prized posessions. Absolutely wonderful artist
"patch mode" - Patch mode allows you to stage parts of a changed file, instead of the entire file. This allows you to make concise, well-crafted commits that make for an easier to read history.
probably because of NFS, Burnout, Forza, even Mario Kart being largely open world now