Your Daddy Makes WHAT, now?
As many folks who follow this blog know, I got sucked back into mainstream video game development after walking away many years ago and assuming I'd never return. "Never say never." However, a couple of months ago, after dealing with some pretty serious issues with my previous employer (in spite of really liking the company, the people I worked with, and even my boss...), I had to call it quits and move on to a somewhat different profession... making professional simulators.

My family got to see one of the big sims I'm working on now - with a big projection dish, a motion-base platform, a chair with lots of buttons and joysticks and flashing lights. My youngest daughter, in particular, thought this was all amazingly cool. Maybe even cooler than when she got to play an early version of the Tale of Despereaux in the spring, before the game had even been announced.

So we were in church in Sunday, and our local church leader asked me my job situation, as he knew that I had been working some pretty insane hours before and had been pretty unhappy with things. He hadn't heard that I'd already switched jobs. I explained that I had a new position that was much more stable with far better hours (most of the time).

But at this point, my youngest daughter decides to add - with great exuberance and volume - "My daddy makes STIMULATORS!"

Some rapid words of correction and explanation followed.

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