IF in the Wild - Unexpected mentions of IF in places not explicitly about IF

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Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow XYZZY reference

I dunno if many folks here have read Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin - it’s a literary fiction novel from last year about a pair of game designers working through the 90s, aughts, and teens, and despite the nerdy premise it was pretty big (it made the NYT notable books list, among a bunch of other plaudits). I thought it was generally pretty good, and got almost all of the video game stuff right (the take on how producers work seemed to be a little confused with how they w…