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InMythic Quest: Ravens Banquet, making a video game can ruin your life.
With a slight shift in perspective, though,Mythic Questcould be a horror story.
The survival jobs are even worse.
This is where jokes work as an equalizer.
Workplace comedies have always been about indignities large and small.
Its the sort of thing familiar to anyone whos worked in retail.
No one wants to do these things, but you must or youll get written up.
To do a good job in America is to make everyones life just a little bit worse.
Work takesso muchof our time, most of it dull, menial, mundane.
Labor, like comedy, is tragedy plus time.
