The Clinical Separation
I have the GameSpot article open: Jeff Kaplan, the former Overwatch director, says he has not played the game since April 2021, when he left Blizzard after nearly twenty years. The numbers make a tidy little timeline. Almost two decades in; one date out; then the ongoing work of not looking. I read the verbs he gives the interviewers—read, watch, search—and they sound less like a farewell than a checklist for keeping the door shut.