The triumph of the mechanism produced a kind of giddiness, whereby the importance attached to what the machine actually produced was less than that attached to the extravagance of mechanical resources require to produce it, and frequently many of these machines displayed a wholly disproportionate relationship between the simplicity of the effect they produced and the highly sophisticated means required to obtain it.

-- Umberto Eco on Baroque and Renessaince machining culture, luckily no longer at all relevant to our current age phew!

Umberto Eco fuckin’ nailing AAA games from orbit