thank you for reading! i realize in retrospect that the bottleneck that i was in when i wrote that was more like the long looping glass tubes of some laboratory experiment or complicated coffee-making apparatus, as it went on for years and years, going in countless circles.

my friend who plays the most video games works at a defense contractor, developing Massive Murder Machines, since it's a low-stress job that allows him plenty of time to come home and game all evening

though i also know another guy from the forums i posted on that lived in a van, worked part time jobs or made money repairing old consoles and doing mods, and spend as much time as he could to playing the oldiest wonkiest nes games

i don't know if the second guy has attained anything approaching buddhahood, but i always admired him. since he actually played retro games on original hardware over and over rather than merely talk about CRTs (what most retro gamers do), he had all sorts of insights about the endless wonders hidden in these tiny pixel worlds

(also i feel obligated to spoil the fun by pointing out the buddha explicitly discouraged his followers from playing games: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_games_that_Buddha_would_not_play)

i need to play all those Buddha-hated games

Now, if you were to make a composite of those two people, you would end up with something like Palmer Luckey's life. Lol Maybe a Buddha discouraged game playing because they can disconnect one from reality sometimes, in the same way that a drone weapon tends to remove one from the consequences of their own decisions. When you automate killing with a disposition matrix, you end up with Ellison's AM.

unemployed people seem to possess the hidden knowledge of life; the wagecage wrecks the body, mind and soul.