Like, I always used to plan too long-term, in Spiderweb games (Exile/Avernum) I'd always clear out the first goblin caves and keep going back to pick up every least valuable loot, like the rocks that weren't even ranged equippable until after Nethergate, to haul back to town and sell and then buy all the skills the pay-trainer offered up to fill before I moved on
Which crosses very productively with the thing where I can game contemporary trends put to tell where they'll eventually end up
Which is maybe part of how it works out that I am now more amazingly well-positioned than I could ever imagine.
Like, in 1999 I was like "anime, happy hardcore, JRPGs, and Daft Punk is the important stuff going on" and with the benefit of hindsight was I wrong?
Basically my experience right now is that my very first diagnosis of social cycles and history in like my late ‘90s teens was 100% correct and all my attempts to live in line with my understanding of them finally succeeded perfectly and I won like, life
Like that sounds so comical but instead of just dismissing it that spurs me to prod at its weakest point but it doesn’t yield