Wonderful interview. I hope their new studio is a big success. The wedding anecdote was lovely and this quote too:

“There’s more lucrative stuff to do, there’s saner stuff, and there’s stuff that hurts less when it goes bad. But the reason you do it—cynical people call it parasocial, but it’s this connection with the audience, and if you’re a musician or a writer or a filmmaker, a video game maker—if you know you know. It’s very powerful because you’re not doing this shit for yourself. Nobody’s writing a novel and then pitching it into the fucking fireplace. It’s so hard to write a book, and it’s so hard to make a game. So you’re doing it for this connection between humans.”

This is why genAI is trash. This connection between humans is what makes art... art.