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This morning I went to the doctor to have them check out my knee because it's been acting up. After x-rays and an exam, he said, "Well, there's nothing acutely wrong with your knee. You're... just getting old."

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"Yeah - I just want to see how you approach this..."

We then went through red/black trees, hash map collision, and big O. I was SO CONFUSED but really glad I that sweet, sweet undergrad CS degree to help me fake my way through it.

You know, to design games. (2/2)

Hilariously, at one Big Game Company, I was interviewing as a game designer and one of the people interviewing me was a coder, and started off by asking me about graph traversal, and I had to stop him and be like, "Hey, so you know I'm a designer, right?" (1/2)

A friend gave the kiddo a "warmie", which is a stuffed animal you stick in the microwave to heat it up.

Every time we use it, all I can think of is the hamster in Maniac Mansion.....

It's always a good time for the Why Cheap Art Manifesto!

Was thinking about how 20 years ago, building an MMO, scaling it to thousands of concurrent players on the same server shard with real-time physics and so on wasn't considered that hard. Player housing on the other hand? Huge scary undertaking!

Nowadays, it's the reverse.

Our heat has been out for the past 4 days of 10F-20F weather.

I'd like to thank the abundance of wool and down in the apartment and my mother who kept the thermostat at 58F (and brought it up to 60F when we had guests) to show me how to stay warm.

Reading with the 4 month old: She did NOT enjoy Saul Bellow's Adventures of Augie March. @neilhimself's Neverwhere, on the other hand, is landing much better. It's probably because my impressions for Great Depression-era Chicago are not as good those for Fantasy London...

My whole apartment is white noise.

Baby napping room: white noise machine
Wife napping in bedroom: white noise machine
Den/office: host of computers humming away
Cooking in the kitchen: exhaust fan

It's at once both soothing and deeply unnerving.

This is why I’m only a 1%’r in other people’s games. https://twitter.com/TFT/status/1492174091305979907

My HS Latin teacher would be so proud. In struggling to communicate with the cooing baby, I have taken to running her through declensions which do shocking work as standins.

I really never expected to see (hear) this

Managed to change a diaper and put the kid down for a nap during a 90 minute meeting with only an imperceptible amount of spit up on me.

I truly am the man who has it all.

A good reminder that if some part of your comp is in equity, learn how it works so you get a sense of its value in various scenarios and how long they might take. https://twitter.com/Vahn16/status/1488595024845627395

(So we're clear, that was like top 10 in the world... granted the "world" was probably only a few hundred people back then but do not yuck my yum.)

Alright Sony, time to bring back Myth. Getting a Half Moon on is still my pinnacle esporting achievement.

I’d enjoy talking about “wake windows” much more if they were called “uptime” instead.

I realize this has an audience of like 3 people and I’m okay with that.

You can't argue with math

Day 3 of waiting for @FedEx to pick up a package. I’ve resorted to putting a giant fake box on the porch with a big sign on it because the previous two days they told me “the package wasn’t ready” despite the numerous notes on the order. I am not hopeful but I am entertained.

After 20+ years, it's a terrible path to intentionally follow but in summary: "Be lucky and know people, play a lot of game(s), and convince everyone you know what you're talking about even if you probably don't."