For me being able to read/comment/edit on my phone/tablet/whatever computer I'm using is such a big win that it works out. Also I got accustomed to using it way before I was aware of how terrible Google were and those habits are hard to change.

The thing that will be hardest about that transition to me will be docs, I think. Having an in-browser word processor that is good enough for my needs is so useful.

I've only really learnt about Rolemaster recently so in my mind it's "the terrifyingly complicated 80s game where an injury could make you gay."

Sure, but if Jeff Bezos was an office worker in Mumbai would he still be Like That but with far less influence? Would he be the kind of person who is unpleasant and manipulative to family and colleagues or a normal guy who's just a bit annoying?

Discovering that art wasn't a mysterious talent, just a set of skills I could decide to learn has been one of the pleasures of my forties.

Drawing is surprisingly similar - get some cheap pens and a ream of paper, just keep drawing and you'll get good. There are loads of great resources, free and paid, and out-of-copyright books are still full of good information, but just doing the work and thinking about it is 95% of everything.

Honestly, would love some work.

Apart from regular art commissions in the quoted post, I also do mixed media/photo collage images/book covers.
Three for own projects and the forth is the first draft for a published cover (it went through some changes but this is my favourite version.)

I'm interested in the causation here - are they like this because they are billionaires or did they become billionaires because they were like this already and had the luck to become wealthy?

This is how you know every billionaire is a hollow shell with no heart or humanity - once you have enough money to do anything you want, deliberately accumulating more instead is a mark of madness.

I'm realising that I have spent my entire forties incandescent with rage at the politicians responsible for running this place. It's probably not healthy.

They only part they didn't mean was for people to find out or complain about it.

They knew and they thought it was fine because after all they're the adults in the room. All of us silly children should simply accept what we they give us.

We need a term to indicate that the multiple incidents are related, all reliant on one another and probably the result of a sinister plot. I suggest "co-incidents."

This is a familiar feeling!

As far as I can judge a person who wasn't a moral void would go off and do something that brought them joy long before they became a billionaire. That level of accumulation is a clear indicator that there's something wrong.

I mostly play virtually with old friends, but if I was looking for games of probably find some games I wanted to play and look for specific discords. This is the only way I can see myself getting to play Hearts Of Wulin, which I've been meaning to do for years.

This is why most of the interesting stuff being made now is podcasts and videos and comics where a small team can put together something amazing without major studio cash. A smart studio would be finding those people and giving them enough budget to explore, but alas there are no smart studios.

Good thing the week is otherwise going great and you have nothing else weighing on you.

He was very ambitious and very smart about leveraging contacts to build more contacts. Networking is critical, it transpires.