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I think with OP is trying to say is that more money means more leverage – not in the credit sense – to only feel beholden to people that have interests that align with yours (family, peers, mentors) and less with those that don’t (boss, managers or people who know how to manipulate your behaviour by using lack of money as a tool).

The only artifact of that era I still carry is still hanging around the neotokyo IRC channel after 15 years.

Like you said, the modding community helped a lot of people get in this industry. I wonder if it’s still the same now that it’s less about modding/hacking a game with a group of people and more about contributing content piecemeal (Elder Scrolls/Fallout) or working on an actual game from nearly scratch.

Given what a more accessible Internet has done in general, I’m not sure if the IRC idea would be better or worse…

I missed the modding communities in the late 90s/early 00s that had a sense of place and community. Things tended to gravitate around their IRC channels and those of the actual game. Was great to develop relationships online with not only the modders but the people developing the games.

As an example, Epic Games were super-accessible back in the Unreal Tournament 99/2003/2004 days to chat with on IRC and not just about modding or stuff related to their products. There were also some game servers where you know certain employees made it their haunt.

But now everything is hyper-optimized so both Epic and customers waste the least amount of time talking to each other to solve a problem. It definitely feels more like you’re talking to a corporation than engaging with a community of creators now.

[1]https://podsync.net/

Because they want to run a cafe, not a networking hub. Your typical owner isn’t going to be aware of turnkey solutions for this and would rather not spend money on a manager wifi provider to solve this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVckX_-MYng

Not sure about other countries with universal healthcare, but seeking therapy for depression in Canada isn’t exactly that much better.

Such treatments aren’t covered by public health insurance so you’ll be spending $100/hr CAD, likely more, out-of-pocket.

When I sought therapy, and this is probably due to unfortunate timing or being in an underserved city (but highly doubt it being Ottawa), I had to wait 3+ months before any therapist near me had room. By that time I had largely remedied my depression myself out of necessity.

EDIT: Realized I’m conflating psychiatry and psychotherapy with my comment. The former is covered by our system but due to the demand you’re looking at several months before seeing someone. My example of waiting 3+ months was just for a psychotherapist.

You have a vigilante shorter that roams around markets “identifying fraud and terminal business models” and using strawman arguments with little research to improve his position.

This is probably just as sketchy as his claims about Shopify’s marketing and referral tactics are.

Crazy how prices can be manipulated by these people so easily.

You may look at spending $$$ on a keyboard or chair that you use a lot as a similar purchase, but they are far less likely to dangle carrots in-front of you to take more of your money and give you questionable value in return.

And I don’t understand why we have this gold comparison. Compared to a productive asset, gold won’t be generating any value. But gold’s value in the first world is at least somewhat in lockstep with inflation, where Bitcoin is all over the place and can’t be used as a hedge like gold can.

So yeah, we definitely need improved hygiene that addresses the pain points of trying to do these funding events through a blockchain.

With my extra time I mostly read, visited museums, worked on a game prototype and travelled between cities along the Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal corridor (since I worked remotely it didn’t matter where I was).

I think the only thing I would have done differently was get out of Canada more often. I had insane flexibility but didn’t take advantage of it as much as I could have.

This year I’ve gone back to working closer to full-time and with predominantly Canadian clients. However I’ll probably try to resurrect the routine I had just mentioned.

https://news.ycombinator.com/

http://www.allgamesdelta.net/

and I can only think of a fourth, which is my web IRC client which then feeds me links for the rest of the day (in some channels across freenode and gamesurge)

I’ve been doing remote consulting for the past three years - product design & development - but over the last several months I decided to bump up my work rate from the usual 2-3 days per week I had. Realizing now that I prefered the more leisurely schedule I had before.

I’ve been to the Philippines a few times and strongly considering working from there next year to avoid Canadian Winter for at least a few months of my life. Just good to hear more references about expat life there. :)

Sketch, Visual Studio Code, iTerm, Chrome Dev Tools, InVision

I have five messaging applications on my phone already and there is nothing critical on these platforms that couldn’t be handled by a single, polyglot client.

Funny enough, 1P6 worked fine with my local/Dropbox vault during beta, then the app stopped letting me update my vault when it left beta. :\

But is increasing the quantity and frequency of consumer spending really necessary? These tactics may help businesses meet their end-of-quarter goals but along the way more people are drowning in debt and shit they don’t need.

I guess giving the solograms - what they call them - a lot of airtime is one way to do that if you don’t want to explain why they’re there in the actual story.