That’s the only way to see it when the front side is mobbed by hundreds of people.

I ask my partner to text me a list. Gives me a reference, and she doesn’t have to interrupt me.

This is also an excellent strategy at work and other places. If it’s “free” for your boss to dump work on you, they will. It will eventually devolve into meaningless work because it’s easy to just “dump it on PiJiNWiNg”.
Ask them to put the request in an e-mail, a text, a JIRA or whatever and it will force them to evaluate if the task is really worth doing. They’ll often figure the task isn’t “worth their time” for an e-mail and just drop it. Basically you’re giving them a cost that keeps giving you tasks from being “free”.

Ball says that the blame for all of this can’t be pinned to a single thing, like capitalism, mismanagement, Covid-19, or even interest rates. It also involves development costs, how studios are staffed, consumers’ spending habits, and game pricing. “This storm is so brutal,” he says, “because it is all of these things at once, and none have really alleviated since the layoffs began.”

Huh. Baldur’s Gate 3 blew the doors off. They had the same Capitalism, Covid-19 and interest rates. They had the same development costs, consumer spending habits and reasonable game pricing. They had good management and no layoffs. All this success selling to a gaming segment that makes up a tiny sliver of the overall market. Maybe some of those game developer leaders should ask Sven how he did it. Or, you know, listen to him because he already told everyone how they did it. Or not.