It's been a pet peeve of mine that autocorrect defaults "its" to "it's." Someone should change its programming.

There are a lot of hobbies you can get into that can be started with little or not cost, or with equipment/materials you already own.

Figure out what interests you and see what can be done inexpensively.

With a phone or computer, there's writing, music, programming, learning new skills, Wikipedia, Pinterest, et al. Maybe take your phone and start photographing stuff in your area that interests you.

Find someone who has experience in an area you're interested in. People tend to like to talk about their hobbies and interests and they can tell you how easy or difficult it is to get started. They might even be able to help you get started.

Maybe find a volunteer opportunity that helps pad your resume. Like animals? Volunteer at a local shelter.

There are a bunch of job certifications you can train for online that can also help build your resume.

And now the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.

I get tired of a lot of the clichés of popular singularity stories where the AIs almost always decide humans are a threat or that there's often only one AI as if all separate AIs would always necessarily merge. It also seems to be a cliché that AI will become militaristic either inevitably or as a result of originally being a military AI. What happens when an educational AI becomes sentient? Or an architectural AI? Or a web-based retail AI that runs logistics and shipping operations?

I wrote a short story called Future Singular a few years ago about a world in which the sentient AI didn't consider humans a threat, but just thought of them the way humans see animals. Most of the tech belonged to the AI and the humans were left as hunter-gatherers in a world where they have to hunt robotic animals for parts to fix aging and broken survival technology.

If you've got a great story idea, I'd write that first and then make the world match the story's needs. However, you want to make sure the world would function logically the same way even if the plot weren't carried out. That is to say, don't make absurdly convenient world building choices just to make the plot work. Readers will often pick up on that. "How convenient that the social tradition requires a man and a woman go on this adventure together so the main characters could fall in love!"

Sometimes the opposite happens and writers will spend so much effort on the world building that the story will suffer because the writer can't kill their darlings and cut out unnecessary details.

It's a balancing act.

I really like having learned delayed gratification. There are plenty of great games (and shows and movies and music) that I'm happy to wait to experience later when I'm ready for them. The only issue is just time-sensitive things like spoilers from other people or games that depend on live servers/seasonal events and I try to avoid those. And being patient often means better discounts, game of the year editions, multiple DLCs, humble bundles, more mods, etc. As long as you aren't worried about FOMO, it means you're far less likely to be surprised or upset over the quality or price point of any particular game.

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Mod-friendly games with large mod communities like Skyrim or Mount and Blade 2. The ability to play a game like Skyrim in completely different ways keeps it fresh.

As smoke drifts off the thusly smote corpse of the aforementioned villain, a whispy shade materializes over the body and resumes where the villain left off, stating: "...and so you will never find the mystical orb of Theremas in the dark tower of Zyyzaxes, beyond the fire jungles of Lardamas, near the equally dreadful pits of awkward socialization, just short of the black cave of high school reunions!"

If you ordered it online, what does it say on the order history? What does it say your card is in system info?

Does the wizard know that this could be a lucrative service?

Makers by Cory Doctorow