What is up with the proliferation of the phrase above (or variants of it) in game developer interviews? Is it part of some kind of media training? Do they teach you “always answer positive first, even if what you’re going to say is negative,” and is “absolutely” just the longest way you can say yes while you formulate a sentence?

Does it weird anyone else out to see these people saying “Absolutely. No, we’re not planning on doing that,” or is it just me?