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sorry spool
Live within your reality, 21st
Have goals, and set yourself up to achieve them
So, let’s assume that mom’s basement is not an option, long-term
You need a place to live, then, and your prime motivation is game-designing
So a place to live costs money, you gonna need some of that
Ergo your prime directive should be finding a way to make money
You seem to be on a good course for that!
Sometimes things take time, and making money is notorious for testing one’s patience
I don’t get paid $4,000 an hour and it’s immensely disappointing to me
Now, making money takes time, but you also want time to make games
So if that’s your focus, then you want to work enough to provide you with the best and easiest situation in which to design games
40 hours of work / week is pretty typical, and in Canada it’s generally enough to put a roof over one’s head, even at minimum wage (if just barely)
If you want a shorter commute, you’ll probably have to pay more for housing, which either means work more or make more money at the work you do
But the bonus of a shorter commute, of course, is the abundance of free time it allows you for your thing: game designing
Everything is goals and orders of operation and patience, 21st
Set your sights on a thing, keep your head down and put in the time, and you will get that thing
Will that thing succeed? Will you be good at that thing? Will you be good enough to get paid at thing?
Who the hell knows? Probably not at first. I write a lot, but I still suck at it and no one pays me to write. But I keep doing it because it’s my thing and also because it’d be awesome if one day someone wanted to pay me for it.
But I also need to live within my reality, which is that to afford a place to live I need to sleep 56 hours a week, work 40 hours a week, commute 15 hours a week, exercise 7 hours a week and sit in a vegetative state licking my wounds / nuts 14 hours a week. And I have chores and errands to run and all that, and you can see the time getting small.
But it’s still there, there’s still plenty. Make those hours count towards your thing. Or your things, whatever. Maybe there's a few of them.
Live your life for those things, is what I'm saying.
-50 to liege opinion
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
30m past appt time, still no doctor
Goddamn you low income clinics
That movie was the best
Dk. Time to get stabby.
My high income prestigious hospital staffed entirely by Harvard med school people does this too. Doctors ain't care.
I once waited 2 hours for my Gastroenterologist at fancy U of M hospital.
But I always have to wait at least 30 minutes.
It's part of why I stopped going
A screwdriver and twisty cords to hold wires.
his character's name was cmdr. ace hunter
Hands
screwdriver
Phillips head screwdriver and... that's basically it. Some 90% alcohol and thermal compound if you wanna mess with heatsinks.
Granted, but I'd still be fucking psyched to get to visit an extra-dimensional library with first-hand records from every era.
Frog ramming is gonna be a thing now, huh?
Can we get a reaction button for it?
We're grownups. We use zipties or velcro straps.
torchlight
large workspace
container for fiddly bits
scissors for cutting plastic bags and assorted straps
Did you get a heat sink separately from your cpu?
no
you want to buy an imac
i say yes to at least buying a nice thermal paste; the alcohol is optional to really get that surface clean
and the gengars who are guiding me" -- W.S. Merwin
Stock CPUs (the heatsink that comes with the purchase of most CPUs, although you can buy some without) are fine. Custom heatsinks are neat and sometimes useful if you want to overclock but aren't really a big deal, they're more toy than hardware.
can I get an explanation?
Probably not, but if you fuck up putting it together, those two things will help you undo your mistake and try again as many times as you need to.
hmmmmm you guys
is this gonna be a five hundred book series
Frustration with the fact that turning frogs into 64-bits is way more time consuming.
Is to imagine the shadow-you who doesn't get distracted and doesn't break down and doesn't say he'll do that "tomorrow"
And that asshole is so successful and he has all the things I want and my god Becky, look at dat butt
And I hate that jerk and if he can work that hard well I can work harder
He may have got a headstart but the race is long
And to quote the great Mike Tyson on how I feel about this shadow-me:
jacob made a list of things i should buy and i'm looking into buying them and then hoping i don't die or inadvertently time travel or whatever happens when you fuck up building a computer
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I waited 45 minutes past my appt time yesterday whee
this will probably happen unless you are literally the first appt of the day
If we're gonna be somewhat professional then one of those extendable wands with a magnet on the tip for grabbing screws that fell into weird places.