Mr Jolstad and his co-founder Ilya Kruglenko - who first met each other in Moscow during the 1990s while selling second-hand Australian telephones to the Russians - initially created Magic Desktop to protect their own children from getting tangled up in an unpleasant web.
The linearity of the core story becomes clear during a second playthrough, but here the relatively short duration of each episode is a strength: it is possible to take different sides and pick different fights to elicit different responses over the episode without finding the situational repetition tedious over these short stretches.
Steady second baseman Marco Scutaro and outfielder Hunter Pence each came over in trades during San Francisco's run to the division title, and they're hoping for a repeat performance.