I downloaded (not Shattered) Pixel Dungeon and then Shattered, and nearly a decade later I'm still playing. In fact it's 70% of my non-work computing time.

Not only that Shattered's dev updates often with sometimes great changes.

You've been warned.

One concert I recall Shane managed to sing only three or so songs. He fell backwards, and was eventually dragged off stage. The rest of the band carried on.

Another, Shane made it about half way, but noticeably inebriated, and then just disappeared. The rest of the band just carried on.

The concert with the Popes, Shane had to carry the show, so he made it all the way through a couple of hours.

RIP Shane.

I haven't paid much attention to what the issues are, as I expect a mapping app to be intuitive enough that I'm not thinking about anything but finding whatever I'm looking for.

For example, professional networking is a tremendous amount of work. But in meeting, bonding and potentially working with those people opens so many possibilities for serendipity / luck what have you. Sure there are those with Daddy's money, but more importantly the relationships, networks and resources that Daddy has are more important than just the cash.

Nepotism, sure, but that's how the society has pretty much always worked.

I'll either find a better channel, price point or give up on my dream of dirty bath water money. Point being the actual value is the packaging and selling of said bathwater.

In the case of a firepit, local consumer channels would likely be speciality shops, hardware and big box with probably a couple of layers of distribution and logistics in between. That market however is more likely to offer $500-$1000 firepits, because that's the way it WAS before Amazon, ALi, etc etc opened up new digital channels to drive down volume, manufacturing and up quantity (which eventually results in either greater margins or lower prices).

Those same non Amazon channels will also sell Joe FBA's $200 firepit as well, perhaps for $400 using those other channels.

To access and operate a business around those traditional / other channels however is nowhere near as simple as "order 50 of these on Ali" + "sell these as FBA on Amazon" = $profit.

It's a lot of work. I wouldn't necessary call Amazon a shortcut, but it's a path to market that is easier, but at a cost.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Birch_Society

Architects are about end results and "vision". General contractors, while imperfect, should be about getting it built.

So an architect you should roughly expect getting something built at any cost. A GC should be how to do it pragmatically or even if it's possible.

In between is the end result.

Many times I wish I could pull off a long, awkward pause and gather my thoughts and response.

To add some context to those not from that era. Dejanews was the only practical way to search USENET at all, so it was effectively a USENET search engine with a crude web client. It was pretty darned crude, but was also much easier than the many NNTP clients. Most people I knew used both pretty effectively as USENET grew.

It was simple and functional, only to be slowly eroded by Google News.

Have no idea where Google News is now. But Dejanews was in many ways a Reddit for that era.

Not that I'm bitter...