Anyone else think that part of the reason people find automation games so fun is because they let them live out the fantasy that what they do matters at all?

Brought to you by nothing I’ve ever done in my technical career mattering in the slightest, I’ve liked the problems I’ve been able to think about but I’m under no illusions that they matter. Anxiously awaiting a likely upcoming promotion to lead so I can do the actually fulfilling work of being a shit umbrella for others.

@amy I’ve been involved in exactly one project that had a real, tangible benefit to the world. It lasted a year. I’ve been doing this shit for nearly twenty years.

That 1 in 20 is a spectacularly good ratio for someone in our industry says way too much.

And even that one project wasn’t technically complex, we just looked somewhere no one had before and found some shit, and someone higher up had the connections to put that information to use.

@amy this is the main reason that I play games in general

@amy I hate how right this is. you shouldn’t be right, but you’re right