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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:21:53 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

   Computers are a trap. You love computers right up to the point that you learn slightly too much about computers, and then you hate computers

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     Nikita Lisitsa (lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:25:55 JST Nikita Lisitsa

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     @sinbad Imo it's a matter of perspective. I still love computers after working with them for...about 17 years probably?

     Just accept that "everything is always broken" is how things are meant to be and suddenly it's not that bad

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:29:38 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     • Nikita Lisitsa

     @lisyarus ah so you’re in the Stockholm Syndrome era 😉

     (I’ve worked with them for twice that long, call me the ghost of Xmas future)

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     Leonard Ritter (lritter@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:40:10 JST Leonard Ritter

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     @sinbad which is practical since everything is a computer, which allows you to consolidate your hate

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:42:45 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     • Leonard Ritter

     @lritter Although being omnidirectional it does diminish fast according to the inverse square law

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     Jeremiah Fieldhaven (jeremiahfieldhaven@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:55:35 JST Jeremiah Fieldhaven

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     @sinbad I would like to tell AM that the feeling is mutual.

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     Nikita Lisitsa (lisyarus@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 21:56:52 JST Nikita Lisitsa

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     @sinbad I believe I'm past the Stockholm Syndrome era, and now I'm in the "I want to create stuff, not complain about stuff" era :)

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     George Laskowsky (glaskows@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 22:18:16 JST George Laskowsky

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     @sinbad I still love computers after my first contact 35 years ago. The software industry is broken though, and there are reasons to dispair, but computer themselves still hold all of their potential.

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Friday, 24-Jan-2025 23:43:52 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     • Nikita Lisitsa

     @lisyarus long may it continue. I don't even like the code I write anymore 😂😶

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     Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen (angryant@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:35:14 JST Emil "AngryAnt" Johansen

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     @sinbad I think I prefer a homeopathic approach to the application of computers to any given context.

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     Parker Morse (flashesofpanic@ruby.social)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jan-2025 00:41:44 JST Parker Morse

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     @sinbad When I was in grad school - nearly 20 years ago now - I went to a colloquium talk by a theory professor who skipped the usual Powerpoint projection and instead made dry-erase marker notes on transparencies she projected on a screen. I think she sensed our shock because after a few minutes she paused and said, "I don't think you can do really good computer science unless you hate computers."