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    "Your 'reality', sir, is lies and balderdash and I'm delighted to say that I have no grasp of it whatsoever."
    — Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, Freiherr von Münchhausen

    The Lapsed Game Developer Thursday, April 13, 2006

    This article, for me, was a very interesting read. It's about how many game developers I've been an amateur game designer pretty much my whole life, but got swept up in the dot-com explosion, and somehow ended up programming software for Wall Street lawyers rather than writing games. I can't really complain, since the job is challenging, the hours are semi-flexible and the money is good. I guess it's easier to make money working for the man than it is doing what you love, but they don't have to be mutually exclusive options, do they?

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      Comment from Blogger MacFurious at Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:14:00 PM
    I'd hate to say the are.

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