A fair bit! Well, I'll be hanging around London before and after too, for a couple days, actually.

absolutely certainly sounds very fun and cool.

Truly, one of the best sequences of the whole show, and it has many!

To each and every one of you out there, in the cold... a Disco Elysium.

If the "impossible" already got done, why be so concerned about doing that very thing all over again, all the time. No wonder I burned myself out, hah! In any case, these are the traces history leaves upon the mind and soul and so forth. In some ways, the 90s and 00s are still carried within.

Often the fear is that I won't. Which is... frustrating? It shouldn't be, but it is. I really shouldn't care as much - especially that the "latest project" must be the best, surpass all previous ones. That's silly. It's not like the successes will vanish. But that's the fear of "peaking", right?

Years have gone by, yet a dissonance remains. So it sometimes feels strange to be proud. Feels arrogant. Which I occasionally am, and for good heckin' reason, why not. Gets me through the day. Anyway, strange thoughts from a little walk around town. Maybe one day I'll do another successful thing.

I can only appreciate the success, however it came along. One led to another, and so on. It remains strange to achieve something that I couldn't even conjure with imagination. I'm still not sure if it's possible to retrain the brain to understand something that "could not ever be".

Turns out things sometimes just align. Unrelated things become useful and fruitful. Having the chance to actually play games throughout the 90s still helped, even as I didn't know it at the time. And there were other people, even my age, who thought differently - that it is possible, somehow.

So, even after the new millennia got going, I didn't actually ever think of games as a prospect. I never studied anything specifically related to game design. It somehow remained, in my mind, a thing that "could not be done here". The spectre of the 90s where some things didn't seem possible.

Which is why it still boggles the mind, to read a list of this kind. To achieve this... *something*, through many coincidences and accidents, wasn't anything that I could aim for. Although I remember the one time - coming up with a silly game idea after being inspired by Nethack. Just the once.

Inspired me to do my ~9th rewatch of Babylon 5 over the past 30 years. It continues to be so enjoyable!

Oh heck, should have informed me you were in Tallinn! :D

oh no, turns out my cloud rank is a mere 4.3, making me essentially worthless as a poster and a human being. i am now ashamed of my irrelevance

You know it. Franklin's just always going to have some of the most depressing plotlines. Can't ever catch a break!