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Your skills are real, your achievement is meaningless. I am an awesome Natural Selection (the FPS RTS) commander. I have lead epic campaigns back and forth acr
by gridspy 17y ago
Your skills are real, your achievement is meaningless.
I am an awesome Natural Selection (the FPS RTS) commander. I have lead epic campaigns back and forth across the game map against huge odds. When I played, my team often told me that I was doing a great job.
Then, I won. The game went "well done" and all that hard work turned into nothing.
Sure, I had skill, but I had achieved nothing but entertainment and wasted weekends. At the time I was very happy with that. I'm not satisfied with that any more.
- Retric 17y agoAfter the heat death of the universe everything done by anything becomes meaningless. Your actions increased the happiness of other people for some period of time, abstractly that's about all you can do. Granted creating a fun video game or a more effective solar cell are on a larger scale, but it's still the same basic thing.
- gridspy 17y agoTrue. However some achievements will last after I am dead, some will not. I'm more interested in the former.
- eru 17y agoIf you die sooner your achievements won't have to last for so long to qualify. (Though that's probably not what you want.) I guess your best stab at achieving immortality in your works is mathematics.
- gridspy 17y agoI love developing software. To me achievement is a happy customer. Who cares if all memory of me is erased in 300 years. Hopefully I will have helped to advance some technology in that time.