I think it’s the combination of them being so blinded by Gen X/Millennial nostalgia and being whales that clearly have way more money than common sense. There’s something cathartic about the blatant affirmation that being able to make a good amount of money in this political economy is not an automatic indicator of intelligence or critical thinking.

And Roberts is a great character to be at the center of it, a creative who had a stroke of genius thirty years ago but now has fallen into the trap of believing his own mythos. So he’s that rare creature of a grifter who thinks his grift is justified because he’s deluded himself into thinking he’s really going to make the video game to end all video games.