Why should the benefits of my labor not pass on to my children just because it’s a creative work?

Duke Nukem Forever was just ok. StarCraft: Ghost got cancelled.

This is my take. I have ~50 hours in Hollow Knight, which is insane for a platformer. If all team cherry ever did was expand the map and add new enemies/bosses I’d be stoked.

Steven Segal

Go on

If you stopped at the end of season 1, you stopped at a good time. It’s not great beyond that.

The question becomes, then, if I spend 5 years learning and mastering C++ versus rust, which one is going to help me produce a better product in the end?

An acquaintance of mine once wrote a finite element method solver entirely in C++ templates.

If you’re able to focus on learning stuff and school was kinda easy, engineering has always been a great career choice for us. Software development is a great one too, and comparatively easier than some of the more difficult engineering disciplines (though still difficult)

If you don’t want to do a 4 year degree, we also tend to do well in metalworking trades like being a machinist, welder, sheet metal worker, millwright, pattern maker, etc.

With welding in particular, the skill ceiling is infinite and the pay scales with how rare your skillset is. With enough experience, you can become an inspector if you want a less physically demanding job.

Some 2 year degrees that lead to pretty stable jobs are instrumentation and process operator. You’ll work in places like chemical plants or wastewater treatment facilities making sure everything stays running. You’re in the same environment for years on end and knowing every inch of your facility is critical.

Another 2 year degree is in non destructive examination (NDE). Basically training to use fancy gear to make sure manufactured parts aren’t going to fail. NDE technicians are the guys that make sure that metal parts are actually safe to send out into the world.

If you don’t want to get a degree, and you’re relatively physically fit (or don’t mind getting that way on the job), framing houses and carpentry is a good trade to learn and always in demand. Apprenticing as an electrician can lead to a good career as well, and doesn’t require a degree.

As far as hobbies go- that’s just… Whatever you like to do. You don’t have to pick one. It’s whatever you’d do to fill your time if you weren’t focused on surviving.

I have a somewhat common word as my last name.

My first two initials are ‘al’, which means “to the” in Italian.

My email is al.lastname@gmail.com

I get Italian train ticket reservation info about twice a year.

Gilligan’s Island had a long, healthy life of reruns on over-the-air TV, which was the only affordable option (i.e. free) for my fellow poors up until ~2007

My reading journey mirrors yours. When I entered the professional workforce, I was consistently met with vacant stares when I’d use whatever words I thought perfectly fit whatever I was describing. I came to find that using “big” words like that (examples I can recall: superfluous, inimical, vacuous, cogent, avuncular) made people think I was trying to show I was better than them. I had to pare my verbal vocabulary back to the most basic form so I could do my actual job.

Granted, I was in a “white collar” job surrounded by blue collar folks.

A room temperature can of full sugar soda takes at most 2 hours to chill in a 0 °F freezer. A refrigerated can of full sugar soda takes about 45 minutes to get to just above freezing (the perfect temperature for Dr Pepper consumption).

Diet sodas take about half the time in both scenarios.

This is for 12oz cans.

I’ve got it down to a science.

I beat breath of the wild solely because I was holding out hope that it somehow got good at some point.

The dungeons and boss fights were enjoyable. But there were only 4 of those and the rest of the game was sorely underwhelming.

Tears of the kingdom is the first Zelda game I didn’t care to finish in 30 years. I’ve even beat Zelda 2.