Fallout co-creator Tim Cain had a "10-year period where I didn't do anything but make games," to the point where he asked a co-worker if Britney Spears was a "new weapon" in their RPG

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Video games are a time-consuming hobby, and an even more time-consuming profession. You can't expect a gamer to stay up on pop culture when there are 100-hour RPGs to enjoy, right? Well, some of us can at least take comfort in the fact that we're not quite as out-of-touch as original Fallout lead Tim Cain, who at one point was so wrapped up in the game development rabbit hole that he thought Britney Spears was a weapon somebody had added to his new RPG.

"There was a 10-year period where I didn't do anything but make games," Cain explains in an interview for YouTube channel The Vile Eye. "In most of the 90s and the early 2000s, I would go to work almost every day and work on a game. On the weekends, I might play a game," and then he'd be back to work making RPGs again.