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Just... dropped right into it, eh.

It'd be time to rustle up some money (most cash we'd have on us now probably wouldn't pass muster, back then, and I don't have much in the way of hawkables on me, normally.) and make some investments. Once millionaire, figure out something important to do. Plenty to choose from!

... also, find pants, and probably figure out how to explain waking up in bed with whoever owned this house back then. That'd probably be hella' awkward.

Would 1993 self still be around? Not sure what could be done, there, but it might be interesting.

E: Of course, if the house and the contents thereof (or even just the bed) overwrote past house... hrm. I sleep with the laptop besides me. Find the right buyer for that, and not only do I make hella' green, I manage to catapult PC development by a couple decades, hopefully funneling the advancement in a useful direction.

What's a Reus?

Reus!

Pretty impressive thing to give away, neh? I can't help but wonder how the two winners are going to split it.

Better ask Toady about it first. Two furry threads locked in a week or so? Might want to let things simmer down and try next week.

Less than, less than. It took four days to lock both of 'em. I'm actually not entirely sure I've seen successive (discussion/non-spam) threads get closed down that quickly before, or at least recently.

Maybe do a steampunk thread instead or something. Perhaps a general foopunk thread. That might be amusing.

I think that was the intent in this case, Nenj.

I didn't see your response Frumple, but i think we can agree that having achieved this feat, (and it's immediate surroundings) indicates both intelligence and skill.

... we couldn't agree, actually. It takes a particular skill set, and particular sorts of intelligence, but there's not guarantee either of those is transferable to... well, anything else but what they were used to do. I'm not in a position to know how capable the folks who did the work on the games are of repurposing those skill sets, or how complementary their particular sort of intellectual capability is with other tasks.

I do know that a lot (if not all) of the programming skill sets related to content creation in general isn't terribly useful when being directed at, say, database programming, or building software designed to assist with construction, research, etc. Often entirely different methodologies and theoretical bases, to say nothing about different programming languages and whatnot. I be indulging in a fair degree of folly to just assume that someone trained and capable in the former would be able to just swap to the latter at the drop of a hat... or at all.

As for the sweet spot... why not? If game programming (art and entertainment in general, really.) is what gets a person fed and keeps 'em sane and functioning so they can go out and do other things, that is what it is. It's certainly no less in line with a utopian goal than a retail job, or most industrial or desk jobs. Honestly, small scale/independent programming work (game related or otherwise) is often more in line with that kind of goal -- at least it isn't quite as blatantly contrary to most utopians as many consumerist enabling fields of work are and sometimes manages to produce something of notable aesthetic merit. It's a cleaner path than a lot of things, yeah.

-.-. Creators of indie games are often wasting their talents. I chose them as being one of the better examples within the industry. Also, that is the can of worms I'm going for.

Every single person on the planet is wasting their talents to some degree. By posting on this forum, we have both likely wasted our talents to some degree. By doing anything at all beyond maximizing our capabilities with whatever talents we can develop and then spending every waking hour either exercising them or making it so that we can, we are wasting our talents, to varying extents. That'd be the can of worms you're prodding, yeah. "Wasting your talents" is a bit of an empty statement, really. Some day I'll figure out what that's supposed to mean besides, "They're not doing what I want them to do."

But yeah. What would you have them do, instead? And how do you know that their talents aren't in doing exactly what they do?

There's mods for the graphics, these days. Dunno about the combat, it never really bothered me enough to go looking for something else. Especially once I got around to slipping in a magicka regen mod and actually using magic regularly, heh.

It's interesting to note from that that at least some of Scotland apparently wants to play with Farage balls. You sure you lot don't like the guy?