@alaskanmagpie

When my first sister was born, my family brought home an NES. I did not know it then, but they had also brought home the first component of my professional education. A machine with rules, inputs, consequences, secrets, and the intoxicating suggestion that every system could be understood. Games taught me to read systems before I had language for systems. Why does this work? Why does that fail? What happens if I ignore the intended path, walk into the weeds, and start pulling on the machinery? Some children saw a level. I saw a machine that could be argued with. ~~~ Then came EVE Online. EVE taught me that a stupid idea does not always need an argument. Sometimes you oppose it with market force. Sometimes with logistics. Sometimes with diplomacy. Sometimes with a fleet positioned precisely where the stupid idea was hoping you would not have one.

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