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[–] Patches@ttrpg.network 3 points 10 hours ago

Back when optimization was Black Magic. Now we just tell the customers they need better hardware.

Someone probably had to argue hard to get 3 letter variables. Guarantee there was some one arguing for 1 letter variables.