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jbskaggs

Nice:)

I was asked how old I am... I am old enough to remember when MTV only had music videos. When rockstars actually sang about MTv.

"maybe get blister on my little finger.... maybe get a blister on my thumb." Im about 20 years older than that.

cybereality

Yeah, never made any sense why MTV stopped showing music videos. Like, it is in the name of the company. History Channel turned into alien shows, and Sci-Fi doesn't show sci-fi movie. Like just make a new channel.

fire7side

I remember when televisions were black and white. When the only calculator anyone had was a slide rule. When it was a big deal to have a two transistor radio. When computers took up a room and only large corporations could afford them. When John Kennedy was assassinated.

cybereality

I'm not that old. But I remember I had a beeper in high school. Cell phones existed, but you had to be some wall street day trader to afford one. So I had a beeper and me and my friends would have to make coded messages in numbers to send texts. Like to let someone know where to meet them or whatever. So I would text "14 200" and that would mean" "Meet me at 14th street (Union Square) at 2PM". Kids have it easy these days.

fire7side

@cybereality said: I'm not that old. But I remember I had a beeper in high school. Cell phones existed, but you had to be some wall street day trader to afford one. So I had a beeper and me and my friends would have to make coded messages in numbers to send texts. Like to let someone know where to meet them or whatever. So I would text "14 200" and that would mean" "Meet me at 14th street (Union Square) at 2PM". Kids have it easy these days.

The only people I knew who had beepers, ever, were these medical people and I thought how awful that must be to have to just drop everything and go to work at a moments notice. I didn't know regular people had them. I didn't have a cell phone till about 5 years ago because I thought they were too expensive. Now I have one, but I don't have a land line. I don't have the one that has internet because that still seems expensive, although it's down to about 15 dollars a month if I just got a few gig, but my cellphone which I hardly ever use costs me about 20 dollars a year. My internet costs 50 dollars a month and it's pretty slow.

jbskaggs

@fire7side said:

@cybereality said: I'm not that old. But I remember I had a beeper in high school. Cell phones existed, but you had to be some wall street day trader to afford one. So I had a beeper and me and my friends would have to make coded messages in numbers to send texts. Like to let someone know where to meet them or whatever. So I would text "14 200" and that would mean" "Meet me at 14th street (Union Square) at 2PM". Kids have it easy these days.

The only people I knew who had beepers, ever, were these medical people and I thought how awful that must be to have to just drop everything and go to work at a moments notice. I didn't know regular people had them. I didn't have a cell phone till about 5 years ago because I thought they were too expensive. Now I have one, but I don't have a land line. I don't have the one that has internet because that still seems expensive, although it's down to about 15 dollars a month if I just got a few gig, but my cellphone which I hardly ever use costs me about 20 dollars a year. My internet costs 50 dollars a month and it's pretty slow.

most cell phones can work with out service via the internet. My kids used to do that.

cybereality

Yeah, it was mostly doctors around that time that used beepers. At least in the beginning. This was a few years later, after cell phones came out (and car phones) but they were huge and really bad. I think the one I had was like $200, which was a lot of money back then. But my mom bought it for me cause I ran away once and the deal was that she would give me the beeper, but I would have to respond if she texted me. Not a bad deal.

You can get smart phone service for cheap now. I use Google Fi. My bill last month was $28. I also have a ton of phones I used for mobile testing, but I'm not really working on any mobile games anymore. If you want an Android phone, let me know, I can send you one that will work on Wi-Fi. I think I even have some new ones I never opened, but I have a ton of used ones too.

fire7side

@jbskaggs said:

most cell phones can work with out service via the internet. My kids used to do that.

I can do that except they charge me for it and I have to be in wireless range. I do it now, actually because my reception is pretty bad, but they know when I make a call and charge me. It's really cheap anyway unless they get me to go to the internet service deal, which isn't that bad either if I made a lot of calls because you can talk as long as you like for the same price. I have to pay 17 cents per minute. I'm just not a talker. I don't know why. It's like being on chat. I never do that. It would be a huge waste of money.

cybereality

Look into Google Fi. It's a really good deal, provided you can use Wi-Fi most of the time. It's only $17 a month, but you pay for data ($10/GB). But I work from home, so I am always on Wi-Fi, and just use it outside for navigation and stuff, so my bill is usually around $25 - $30 a month. They also don't charge for calls or text. So if you only used it in the house (on Wi-Fi) you could do everything and the bill would only be $17. https://fi.google.com

cybereality

So Itch is having a fundraiser where you can get 1,000 games (worth $6,500) for as little as $10 (or however much you can afford to donate). Please don't reply with any comments about the war. I am posting because this is literally the best deal of all time and you don't want to miss it.

https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine

jbskaggs

@cybereality said: So Itch is having a fundraiser where you can get 1,000 games (worth $6,500) for as little as $10 (or however much you can afford to donate). Please don't reply with any comments about the war. I am posting because this is literally the best deal of all time and you don't want to miss it.

https://itch.io/b/1316/bundle-for-ukraine

Some of those games and books are worth way more than $10. Of course lots of stuff I dont care about but I got the bundle and some of them I am looking forward to.

some_lame_kid

I'm late to the conversation, but I think finding a mentor in mastering yourself can be more valuable than a mentor in technical skill. A lot of barriers can be made easier to understand and overcome once you overcome yourself. Mentors like this are hard to find because it's such an abstract and subjective skill that has zero market value to teach. Unless they know how to turn it into a scam. My advice is either go to college and expand your social circle, or try to meet up with people online who happen to live nearby. Someone who I met through 4chan of all places happened to be nearby, happened to be down to meet up, happened to be fine with hanging out with some loser kid less than half his age(probably because we met up with some other dude closer to his age), and somehow the relationship evolved over 4 or 5 years. The best lessons are learned from the weirdest circumstances, if not the hardest ones.

cybereality

That's a good point @some_lame_kid . Technical skills are important too, but they are not the most important thing, and if you don't have vision or inspiration, then it won't matter how well you can use the tools. A lot of it is just your mindset.

I guess I've been lucky cause I always went to the best schools and ended up at good companies. So I've had a lot of inspiration and worked with some amazing people. But most of the stuff I learned was from books. I never had a mentor in real life or anything like that. And the people in my circles I never really knew that well, but I guess you learn some stuff. But for me there is a wealth of human knowledge in books.

I've read so much stuff on all different topics. I read about 50 books a year, so I've read hundreds or maybe even over 1,000 books in my life. Lots of books on success, on motivation, spiritual books, metaphysics, philosophy, as well as programming and art and basically everything. It's really important.

But I think the two most influential books for me were these: https://www.amazon.com/Guide-Present-Moment-Noah-Elkrief-ebook/dp/B00ADDTAA0/ https://www.amazon.com/Dissolve-Problem-Shifting-Physical-Reality-ebook/dp/B01FBE5XZ6/

If you read those, you can get your head straight. The technical stuff is actually easy if you are thinking clear.

some_lame_kid

I was mentored in stoic type of philosophy. I'm hesitant to call myself a stoic because most people who do are also the type to over blow their own intelligence, but my philosophies are best considered stoic. I try to keep them grounded in nature. Transient, a chaotic sense of "good" and "bad", very taoist and zen in nature though with a heavy dose of western spiritualism. I try to draw a line between "religious belief" and "spiritual belief" for a lot of reasons that you have probably noticed if you live in America. Personal experience with combining religion which I define as a set of base societal morals and laws with spiritual belief, as in beliefs concerning higher powers and all that always results in disaster. I have watched many chuches tear itself apart because they try to do just that. I could be wrong, but I'm pretty convinced that it's better to not consider law and morality as sacred as the belief it's derived from.

cybereality

You might want to check out my visual novel. Free on Steam. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1918260/The_World_is_Binary_Why_Love_is_the_Answer/

duane

@fire7side said: I remember when televisions were black and white. When the only calculator anyone had was a slide rule. When it was a big deal to have a two transistor radio. When computers took up a room and only large corporations could afford them. When John Kennedy was assassinated.

Unless you can tell me that you know what it's like to drop a deck of hollerith cards on the way to class, in a high wind, I'm not impressed. :p

fire7side

@duane said: Unless you can tell me that you know what it's like to drop a deck of hollerith cards on the way to class, in a high wind, I'm not impressed. :p

Nope. Didn't start programming till I got a color computer from radio shack.

some_lame_kid

I didn't start programming until my Windows machine broke itself and I didn't want to pay for it again, or even use it again. I installed Lubuntu, and wrote a few bash scripts and realised I like it when computers do what I ask. Though technologically, I was always a good few years behind, especially when the housing crisis hit. I was still using a Mac from I think 2001 or 1999 when Windows 7 was in full swing. That Mac was free and replaced the previous Windows XP machine.

jbskaggs

@some_lame_kid

SInce the 1970's early 1980's modern Christian religion in the USA has moved towards entertainment. The term evangelical no longer means to send out missionaries and plant churches- it means conservative republican. I was a preacher since 1989 and I can say you are not far off in your assessment.

I think one of the biggest failures in the church (methoodologically) was the failure to adapt to computers. Gaming essentially would have been a great way to spread Christian doctrine and explore its struggles. Instead they did the whole super fake, super cheesy, moronic, low production quality approach to what few games they tried as they did to much of children's TV programming.

Any one of the great bible stories would be excellent story lines for a game- rpg and some of them rts. And culd convey the nuances and horror at what those peole faced and overcame.

cybereality

Yeah. I never understood why there has never been a good game made about Jesus. There is so much material there for an amazing game. Like if they did it sort of like Assassin's Creed (but without the assassination parts). I guess that is the closest thing, as they have some of the historical periods and religious themes.

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