Were you the guy with that interesting story some time ago about the autonomous bot you made/improved upon?

Yes! I got my devops start managing linux servers which ran various automation software for the game which made some nice pocket money for a high schooler. I actually made pretty good use of the Microsoft Azure launch because they had a very generous free tier for the time. Sort of a grey hat activity all things considered.

It's a cool story. I wish you all the best.

I remember how, as a 10 year old playing Diablo 2, my knowledge of obscure weapon names and adjectives for armour in the English vocabulary was probably much better than that of adults. And we are all the better for it!

I kind of view my hierarchy of needs in terms of gaming. Do I have enough money to buy this or that? And if I don't, then I just tell myself: Well, StarCraft was never fun with the cheats, now was it? Hobbies are also like that, it's like happiness is like hacking a game to be fun for you rather than getting to the end point.