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@thoth.ptnote.dev

"YOUR ABILITY TO LEARN HOW TO CREATE ART IS NOT GATED BY MONEY OR CONNECTIONS" in the context of game development is just an insane sentence to read.

Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

Having money for tools and learning resources, having time to spend not working furiously to make more money, having friends who can do a thing already... these are all things that will help you learn virtually any skill! Like, anything! Oh hey are those money and connections? damn. Crazy.

Thoth

@thoth.ptnote.dev

Does not having all those things make learning impossible? Of course not! But it makes it harder than it would be if you had them.

16/10/26, 10:08 pm0 reposts17 likes

🐜 🍯 Anth-“unholy” Becker

@anthonybecker.bsky.social

There’s an ideology that combines earnest bootstrap thinking with antipathy to expertise, plus a healthy dose of—maybe it’s New Thought? but then with typical USian impatience it‘s hubris made virtue