JFC. An rm -rf /* because they didn't check if a variable even had a value, let alone whether it pointed to a directory that should be removed. What a noob mistake.

Tim Swiney is really dumb and has no idea how to read the room. I doubt this was a joke

It is. The Epic Games Store infamously launched without any of the features that are standard for online stores, like customer reviews or anything more than basic information about the product. They didn't even have a shopping cart, something that was widely mocked at the time, and it was like an entire year before they got around to adding one. The only reason the store got any traction at all was because they used the billions they were making from Fortnite to bribe players with free games if they made an account and visited the store every week.

I don't know why he'd poke fun at himself like that. The whole thing was the sort of fundamental development failure that you'd normally want everyone to forget about, but here he is giving people excuses to share stories about how incompetent his company is.

the Shadiversity of gaming. Massively overcompensating for his inferiority complex and forever doomed to live in the shadow of his more successful brother.

I don't know, Shad wrote one of the worst books I've ever had the displeasure of reading, it's pretty hard to beat that.

I'm OOTL on what's wrong with Shadiversity. Got a link?