I haven't been well enough to attend a con in years, but still -- thank you for all the work you've put in.
I remember when I was doing stuff with the computer game The Witcher, somebody said, "You seem to be able to do stuff with Djinni (the Witcher 1 toolkit) that nobody else can do. How long did it take for you to get THAT familiar with the thing?"
I said, "About 2000 hours."
They said, "Two THOUSAND hours? I think I don't want to know anything about the toolkit!"
I said, "Wait, come back! You can learn how to do cool stuff in a lot less time; the basics only take maybe ten hours to learn."
But they didn't want to be able to actually make stuff; they just wanted to be able to amaze the community. They hadn't realized it would take quite so long. :-)
Here's hoping you have better luck finding a successor!
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Date: 2018-01-10 04:25 pm (UTC)I haven't been well enough to attend a con in years, but still -- thank you for all the work you've put in.
I remember when I was doing stuff with the computer game The Witcher, somebody said, "You seem to be able to do stuff with Djinni (the Witcher 1 toolkit) that nobody else can do. How long did it take for you to get THAT familiar with the thing?"
I said, "About 2000 hours."
They said, "Two THOUSAND hours? I think I don't want to know anything about the toolkit!"
I said, "Wait, come back! You can learn how to do cool stuff in a lot less time; the basics only take maybe ten hours to learn."
But they didn't want to be able to actually make stuff; they just wanted to be able to amaze the community. They hadn't realized it would take quite so long. :-)
Here's hoping you have better luck finding a successor!