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Don't scare me like that. Now I'ma hafta go buy like 10 lotto tickets to counterbalance this idea.
(The much smaller, fewer numbers, state lottery with a mere 6 figure payout. The odds are way better. I'm stupid, but if I'm throwing money away, I at least wnt to stack the odds if possible.)
No really; I struggle to think of brainwork of actual value that I could be doing. The ability to code does not make one a worthy asset anymore. On top of which, all I'd do with a spare million is ... IDK, hire someone from TeamFourStar to voice minor NPCs in my crappy game, and throw a bunch of it at creaters and charities who are underfunded. I'm not sure that's worth uprooting my life for a soul-sucking desk job at a tech city or whatever. My local CoL is fantastically low and family's nearby. My "house" finally seems livable, after all the work gone into it, but it's still not worth more than I could make by saving for a couple two-or-three years. Also my resume is mostly a bunch of crappy audio games that are not on Github.
... Why haven't I put my codebase on Github, anyway? Oh, right; most of it's redundant.
Are they on Itch, at least?
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