speaking of target audience (which i just was, somewhere else) when i was ~15 i had to interview someone for a school project so i emailed the questions to gabe newell and one of them was about target audience and he said “it’s hard enough making something good without trying to figure out how to target an audience”

whether that’s a feasible attitude when you aren’t valve is another thing but it remains pretty much my feeling on it and i’m never convinced any of the concessions small time folks make to marketing concepts genuinely yield anything