I did once, for about nine months when I was 18.

Then an exorcism happened, I became doubtful and finally stopped believing.

I changed jobs during the pandemic. I asked if I could work remotely permanently, they said yes. It’s in my contract I work from home, not the office. I’ve been watching the “sea change” as working remotely has been removed from various companies and wondering why? If all the research points to it being better, then - again - why? The speculation about it being related to real estate is depressing!

Oh the horror! I have a laptop running Linux! Two laptops even!!!

Somebody help me!

Windows is too bloated to run on said laptops. On one, during it’s life, it could barely do an update! I eventually wiped Windows and put Linux on it. It worked fine, just not very fast. I mean 4Gbytes is a bit of a squeeze.

12 years I think for my imekon account on reddit.

I deleted mine by hand, they still returned. I’ve taken to editing them and replacing the text with [deleted]. Seems to be working better for now.

My main system is Windows, I’m a Windows developer. My older machines are Linux - because Windows runs like a dog on them and no longer supports them.

I found the best way to study for me was to follow a video tutorial and copy the steps involved. See the results myself.

Learning a new game engine for example, I try doing something simple with, do I understand what I’m doing?

The Saga of Tanya the Evil - rewatching again, loved the series and the story.

I remember thinking the world to be harsh place long before I figured out I’m gay. I didn’t want children and got told, “oh you’ll change your mind”. I never did.

Sounds like my dad. He thought I was seeing a therapist to be “cured” of being gay. I had to correct him - he didn’t like that.

It’s like we chose it for some peculiar reason to spite the world. 8(

“life has been brighter…”

I feel sad. I understand… I just feel sad.

I used to try face to face evangelising when I was a born again christian, however no longer (I’m agnostic now). It felt like I was intruding and always got a negative reaction.

We do have people in the UK door knocking who try to engage you with conversations about “the state of the world”.

Seems pretty reasonable, even the federated stuff works fine - unlike Mastodon, oddly.

I’m debating it, but deleting content seems pretty much a lot of work.

Reddit to me felt like I’d found a home. My score shot up into the thousands and I felt it was somewhere that was mine. I was on Twitter but never got into it, left when the orange babboon was allowed back on, and don’t miss it.

A long time ago… when games were using ASCII characters and were called Adventure, Rogue, Moria, NetHack et al… I started creating something I called “The Wandering Wizard’s Castle”. It never went anywhere because the machine I wrote it for only had 4K bytes of RAM…

Anyway, being a games developer never entered my mind until I joined an audio company and started porting their 3D audio library to Windows device drivers and supporting a bunch of hardware companies trying to be in that space.

That got me exposed to audio and to games! We played Unreal Tournament or Quake at lunchtimes and had all the insane audio taunts installed. It was a fun time… and eventually lead to me joining Codemasters in their audio team and working on some of their racing games.

Racing has never been an interest of mine. Seeing the scene rendered, yes… that was interesting. Seeing how audio gets used…

Then after ten years out of the games industry, I’m back, working on a massive online space sim and finding I actually like playing the game - either on my own, or with others.

I work for an AAA games company as a tools programmer (C#/C++). I’ve worked for two games companies so far, and mostly non-games companies.