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As someone who has invested 1000s of hours in EA and Blizzard games, it never crossed my mind that one day I would prefer EA to Blizz.

EA is like MongoDB, you know you are getting a flawed product that's nevertheless fun to use. Blizzard is like Oracle's MySQL, they try very hard to be taken seriously only to eventually stab you in the back.



Then Valve must be Postgres (I guess it would have been CDPR before the whole cyberpunk fiasco)


With the number of amazing independent games out now, like Outer Wilds (not Worlds!)… I’ve found sometimes I just really enjoy an Excel Add-on.


I'll nominate Zachtronics for SQLite.


My choice for SQLite would be Super Giant. Pretty much all of their games can be used as an argument in favor of videogames being a form of art.


Sorry I'm new to MySQL, in what way did they stab you in the back? Just curious about the analogy!


Do not trust anything it does implicitly (like casting stuff, running triggers reliably, locking properly etc).

Nothing follows logic so if you assume something would work a particular way, it will most definitely do the wrong thing instead.

It is fine otherwise.

In a serious tone, I ran large apps on MySQL, it works and performans fine. But makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Go with PostgreSQL if you can choose / it is not a big hassle.


Obscure / unexpected behaviour in production, MySQL caused little data disasters at every company where we used it




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