[USER=55]@GuilleAcoustic[/USER] and [USER=5836]@tinyitx[/USER] - The global pandemic and lockdown is currently fueling a DnD renaissance! It's now hip to play DnD! So I'm having fun rekindling that using modern tools like dndbeyond, zoom, twitch, and discord. Would love to get a campaign going with fellow SFF enthusiasts! Right now, we're playing Rime of the Frostmaiden. Takes place in Icewind Dale (Forgotten Realms) just after Drizzt did his thing.
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[USER=273]@IntoxicatedPuma[/USER] For me, I'd say it's the other way around? My PC modification passion influenced my career?
I'm an 80s kid. Grew up with a hand-me down Atari. Loved video games. In the 80s, personal computers were uncommon and expensive. Something like $6K adjusted dollars? My family had a "work" PC, but it didn't take long for the kids to figure out it could play games too! And it was amazing! The graphics trounced everything else at the time.
But, this was a work PC, so the parents didn't see fit to spend more money on upgrades for gaming. The late 80s and early 90s were filled with breakthrough PC games like Wolfenstien, Doom, Quake, Myst, Day of The Tentacle. My brothers and I spent a LOT of time trying to keep that dusty old 386 PC alive to play the latest games on a shoestring budget: soundcards, more RAM, overclocking, cleaning and cooling. Eventually we hit the upgrade wall, and I distinctly remember modifying the X-Wing source code to remove textures and reduce objects in order to complete the game on an underpowered PC.
Today, I am a software engineering manager in the financial industry. I'm still out here modifying systems, and messing with code. We just do it at scale, in the cloud. As a kid, "lack of funds" was a challenging constraint that bred innovation. Today, "keeping it sff" is a chosen constraint that breeds innovation. I love the engineering challenge, and I love watching this community innovate.
