Megan Fox

@glassbottommeg@mastodon.gamedev.place

The further I get in my career, the more I end up being the one Adult In The Room that knows how to do a thing,

except "knows" here means "did it once poorly, without expert supervision"

Yet that's still more than the rest have and

Oh fuck has it always been so and now I'm just on the other side-

March 14, 2026 at 2:34:54 PM

Anyways, speaking of being old, I think I have tracked my crippling foot pain when I walk sometimes back to "when I'm sitting at my chair working, if not wearing slippers, I sorta dangle my feet crinkled up in a little ball and this appears to piss off joints"

Bisexual Sitting: The 40 Year Grudge

I feel ya. My coworkers are all 10+ years younger than me now and I can see the same process.

Recently I had a design meeting where at some point I realised I was talking 95% of the time because there was a design complication they saw as a problem, and I just kept listing all the solutions to it that I've seen over the years.

I guess my big blessing in disguise is I used to work under some extremely incompetent directors and learned from their many mistakes.

but I'm still young! and vigorous! and

need to do my stretches 馃槶

A while back I hadn't realized how much I was lodging my foot into the table I use as a "workbench" to hold it still when working on stuff in the garage.

Was trying to figure out why my ankle hurt so much, even brought it up to the doctor at one point.

Ended up weighing it down with the dumbbells I should be using to lose weight, and then later reusing a heap of gallon water bottles so I could actually use the weights. Eventually I'm just gonna build a hefty bench.

I鈥檇 like to unfeel the feelings this made me feel 馃槶 馃樁鈥嶐煂笍

the most startling one to me was I vaguely said something about adding a significance check to multiple runs of a test with real data inputs and everyone went, "oh good we have a statistics person" and I was looking around like "where... oh no".

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