As a network programmer who has written a metric asston of concurrent parallel asynchronous whatever-the-hell code [0], this article is confusing. It seems like doing somersaults over a leaky abstraction. The tool for the job is wrong and its implementation is wrong if you can shit the bed this easily.
[0] debugging is fun precisely because it’s amusing to watch people be frightened of having to debug multi threaded hydras.
To be fair, Postal and SOF haven’t been relevant in almost 20 years, though your point stands.
I wonder how a modern implementation of these two games would look given the vast visual improvements since then. I assume UE5 or 6 already comes with a Ghoul-esque framework ready to go. Though I hope they would feature a curmudgeon caricature of Jack Thompson.
[0] debugging is fun precisely because it’s amusing to watch people be frightened of having to debug multi threaded hydras.