Castlevania and Bloodstained developer Shutaro Ida dies aged 52

One in four people dies of cancer[^1]. Those are terrible odds as they are, but it gets worse because most people will go through their lives terrified of when it will be their time to enter that Russian roulette of agony, and because everybody will have to see or care for a friend or relative dying that way.

Our therapies and treatments are so pitifully inadequate and yet so damn trying and expensive... We need a true revolution there, a qualitative jump of the kind between calling linear correlation a form of "AI" and calling an LLM a form of "AI".

[^1]: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm

If, like me, you were wondering how a 52 year old could have been a developer on a game you remember playing on an NES in the late 80s or early 90s: It looks like Īda's Castlevania involvement started around 2003, working in increasingly senior roles on Castlevania games released since then.

> He was someone who constantly thought about games, approaching development as if it were burning his life away.

I like it, a YOLO variation. Consciousness is at the glowing point on a long fuse. Moments picking the bike shed's color are not refunded.

Phew, way too young. RIP.

Please schedule your colonoscopies.

We lost another one of the greats. RIP