Quite a while ago I decided, for what reason I don't know, to take Dwarf Fortress's exported fully-populated world, translate it through a layer of LLM to obfuscate all the races to new fantasy races and create outlandish points of interest, and put the whole thing in a renderer that could dynamically move around and zoom to create a nicely rendered watercolor-style map for a massive explorable TTRPG type world.

I gave up the idea when it was like 1% done but if you'd like to have any of the nonsense I created in case there's something useful you can turn it into, you're welcome to it. It's in Python.

"Where there's muck, there's brass"

In general, if you can do the more difficult aspects, then you'll be more in demand (both because people need them done, and because it'll serve as a badge that yes you know what you're doing in a general sense).

In games specifically, it's more likely that you'd find yourself doing optimization, or the low levels of porting a game from one system to another, as opposed to writing an engine from scratch. If it were me, I would probably get involved in some existing project and try to write a new low-level system (e.g. a Gaussian splatting renderer for Unity or something) as opposed to just reinventing a new engine of my own. But absolutely, if you're skilled with the deeper systems aspects as opposed to just using the existing tools, it'll help you generally speaking.

I listened to a good part of Blueprint for Armageddon, and I had to stop. It's so, so sad. It's too real.

The "battle" of Verdun lasted 10 months; it was less of a battle in the usual sense of a single let's-fight-and-loser-runs-away event, and more like an open-air industrial blender made of shrapnel and bullets into which a continuous stream of mostly innocent people were ordered to walk over a long, long period of time.

The Somme was similar, but worse because it was bigger. All war is hell, but World War 1 was much, much worse.

Yeah. Normally there's a swiss cheese model where multiple failures had to line up together to make a problem. MCAS was the only non-flight-crew-related problem I've ever heard of where it was just one thing. One thing failed, the plane flew itself inexorably into the ground, everyone's dead, the end.

And, engineers involved tried to raise the alarm that it was a problem.

The whole history of the decision-making that led to the MCAS system made it clear to anyone who's ever worked in an engineering organization that more failures were coming. The engineers saying "This is a problem, don't do it this way" and the management saying "STFU, I'm in charge, do as I say" never, ever leads anywhere good.

Some people didn't read up on what happened to Ernst Röhm

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(From memory, so there might be tiny mistakes in the language:)

"If we could climb the highest steeple
and then look down on all the people,
and shoot the ones not wholly good,
as we, like noble shooters, should,
Why then there'd be an only worry:
Who'd be left to bury
Us?"
    -Walt Kelly

Sounds like it'd work great. You might want to use something like DigitalOcean instead of your home machine, for a couple different reasons. DigitalOcean is cheap for this type of application (like on the order of, IDK, $5-10 a month or something).

Also, fair warning, the current generation of Fediverse software is a pain in the ass to install, even before you get into issues of upgrading it, staying on top of security of the server, etc etc. But sure, it's doable if you're savvy and willing to invest some small time into it.

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I mean, it's working for her so far. What else is she qualified to make six figures at, let alone while not having to behave professionally or do any work?

If she believed in hell, I think she'd have some reservations, but as it is I think she's probably pleased as punch about the result.

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I don't think she cares what the actual policy is. The point is, she gets to make noise about the right's well-trodden favorite topic. What's actually going on is of no concern.

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"Turned on the news in November '89
I could not move, I could not speak
Something was burning up in my eyes
Something wet ran down my cheek
All those laughing faces, all those tears of joy
All those warm embraces of men and women, girls and boys
Sisters and brothers dancing, all singing freedom's song
God, if only I could be there to shake your hands and sing along"
-John Kay, "The Wall"

Bro snuck across the Berlin Wall with his family when he was 5 years old and you got shot dead if they caught you trying to get across. He came to America, grew up and started a rock and roll band, and then as an adult got to watch the wall fall on television and wrote a song about it.

People who got born here don't know what they have.

Good point, just added that to my comment as well.

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Just one?