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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."

During the interview, I was full of the over-confidence of youth and proceeded to tell them ALL my thoughts about the game and how I'd make all these aggressive changes to core systems. Maybe my enthusiasm tricked them into hiring me as a Content Designer for a whopping 30k/yr.

I was taken around by HR to the different departments and she would ask them if they needed anyone. "Server programmers?" "Nope." "UI programmers?" "All good." "Gameplay programming?" "We're all set." Finally we get to design, and they shrug and say, "sure."

She said that I should apply with them so I sent my programmer resume along with her and quickly got brought in for an interview. The company was small and disorganized though and they didn't know what I was applying for or if they had openings.

With tons of free time, started to play the alpha of Asheron's Call, an MMO that some friends had worked on for their summer jobs. Played a LOT of it. During a party, my roommate introduced me to his gf who was a programmer on it, and said, "Dude, show her your character!"

1999 - The luckiest and laziest path that should no one should follow:

Graduated with a fancy CS degree but had no desire to go work in big tech, despite the raging startup bubble. Ended up using my previous summers' internship savings to live off of and just play games all day.

Lazy academia retweeting!

Looks like it's time to make a Winnie the Pooh game now that it's public domain!

Gonna get so damn twee...

Having a baby is freakishly similar to streaming to a small channel: you largely talk to yourself, trying to stay upbeat and positive with little chat interaction, and then every so often, someone screams nonsense and then sh*ts all over you for no reason.

Kind Words is brilliant! A dash of that and a smidge of pretending to be Peter Dinklage and I'm sold.

Was just looking through my mp3s and apparently my oldest is from '93 and isn't even too embarrassing!

What's in the recesses of your old timer / hoarder mp3 directory?

WORDS WITH ENEMIES

Finally, all those years of hyper-competitive scrabble will pay off

Promotion day is so full of good feels. Congrats to my many deserving co-workers after a(nother) decidedly weird / terrible year!

Do the kids still say "get that bag"? Cause if they do, do that.

This thread is going to fuel me for the next 3 weeks

(Un)fortunately for my newborn, the only "love" songs I can sing from memory are from my college years, so she gets lullabies from @TheMagFields, @Built_2_Spill, and @mountain_goats.

There's no chance this backfires on me at some point in the future.

I mean look at this chunky lad

Annual thicc Thanksgiving holiday gobbler to bless your timeline