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Zeus posted...

"Hi Michael, could we go through all the illegal stuff I may or may not have done. I want to get a better scope of the crimes I might or might not have committed."

Like that, right?

In not so many words, yes.

Zeus posted...

If he was doing something really illegal, you certainly wouldn't be able to find it in his tax returns. His tax returns would just be potentially embarrassing, since they'd either show that he doesn't pay much in taxes or has exaggerated his wealth.

It could also show who is providing him with capital, which might shed a light on his opinion towards specific countries.

Zeus posted...

Except not really, no. If you wanted to see something get made, you'd have to learn how to do the stuff yourself, pitch the idea to a company, or hire people. The first is tedious and unlikely to be successful.

Didn't you just finish arguing about how people would want to work for their money? Now you're saying that work is tedious and bad.

Zeus posted...

First problem, you're thinking of coding only, which is the boring part of design that people don't really want to do in the first place. People learn coding because they can't get people to code for them. The thrilling part of any design is more of a producer/executive producer role where you're coming up with the game concept, you're dictating character designs, you're coming up with the layouts for areas, and then having others do the coding work.

You're still going to need to know how to instruct whoever is ultimately making this game on what the final product should look like. And if you don't understand anything about game design, that's going to be a pretty big ask.

Zeus posted...

Except you kinda can practice law or medicine on luck alone.

You say this, and then spend the rest of this point disproving yourself and essentially restating what I said. Luck will *help* with the practice of those things, but you can't - as you state here - practice on luck alone. You need to actually know something about what the fuck you're doing first.

Luck in finding case precedents won't help if you don't even know where you should be looking to start with (or even what the law is in this particular case). Likewise, being lucky at not missing something on a medical chart requires you to understand what that chart represents in the first place.

I could show a layman some of the data I have to sift through on a day-to-day basis but I don't care how lucky they are, they're not even going to know what they're looking at unless they're trained in the field.
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