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  • I feel you, I’ve gone through similar problems but from the other side of the world. In case if you need advice:

    Consider eastern europe. From what I know, you’ll have 3 months-visa free, that’s more than enough to find a job in a big city even without any kind of connections. All you need is moving expenses and a few months of rent, and you’ll have a very good chances of getting into some kind of residency program (do research your options in advance)

    The language barrier will be a thing, but english will get you into many doors if you choose a big city. You can work on your language afterwards.

    You’ll fail a lot, it will be very stressful, you will be outsider in the eyes of many, but trust me your chances are much bigger than some people I know that have done a similar thing and succeeded. And after you succeed (and you will, if you try and don’t give up) the understanding that government’s power over you is not absolute will stay with you forever.

    All that said: I’m not saying you need to leave. I’m just saying that you can.









  • (let me preach a little, I have to listen to my boss gushing about AI every meeting)

    Compare AI tools: now vs 3 years ago. All those 2022 “Prompt engineer” courses are totally useless in 2025.

    Extrapolate into the future and realize, that you’re not losing anything valuable by not learning AI tools today. The whole point of them is they don’t require any proficiency. It “just works”.

    Instead focus on what makes you a good developer: understanding how things work, which solution is good for what problem, centering your divs.







  • One of the best part of shadowrun was picking irl city and giving it a fantasy+cyberpunk makeover: placing districts of note, choosing what factions operate there, riffing on landmarks…

    Venice is where church agents, mafia goons and old money are bidding for awakened relics while gig workers are trying not to drown in half sunken apartments.

    Detroit is, of course, a jungle of mega factories and spacescrapers. Robo-cops? Naah, there was a trial run, but the tin men always go psycho from sensory depravation. We’ll stomp our citizens scum the old fashion way, thank you very much.

    Moscow metro runs through literal hell. Also grab a molotov, Lenin has risen and calling for a revolution against the corpos. Why are his eyes red? Uhh… communism?

    Session 0 was always a blast. (Minus explaining new players how to use chummer5)