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I just went through my first haunted house last night.

Q1- Does it every get psychologically strange to be inside a bizarre, dimly lit and freaky environment for a long period of time?

Q2- If you do jump scares, how often do you do them? Do you have an awareness of who can see you hiding and sort of wait until you're functionally invisible again to do another jump scare?

Thanks!

That is a hilarious and painful urban legend. I choose to believe it even though I don't think it's true.

Yeah, I had a Garmin in 2005. Had a flip phone with basic internet. We seem to have collectively forgotten about that transition phase in the early aughts. It’s probably market penetration. PDAs were for businesspeople only.

In the old days, what you would want to do is just build a great portfolio, perhaps work on a few mods. I would say though, document that you know how to think deliberately about design. Make a video detailing your thought process for a level. How you tested the level, looked at data and feedback, and reorganized it. One of the main thing employers look for is the ability to act rationally and make deliberate choices based on either data or design principles.

Disclaimer: I work in UX, and UX academia at that, so I wouldn’t weigh this advice all that heavily. But I’ve evaluated a lot of UX design work, and what I always look for is a clear thought process from start to finish. The resultant design itself is less important than a person showing that they know how to be rationally justify about their choices from top to bottom.

How did the gilded age actually end, and how is the current positive feedback loop we are caught in similar or different?

(this is not really about marriage, just something I’ve been curious about that you may be able to shed some light on)