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> I credit RuneScape with teaching me the value of delayed gratification

I credit RuneScape with teaching me to write Java code to write bots to do the work involved with the delayed gratification.

Then eventually created a GP selling business online.

Also led a PvP clan and ran a PHP forum for it.

The RuneScape metagame was where I acquired real-world software development skills.

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Learned Java as a first language to write bots back in 2009. Present day, I’m 1.5 yrs into writing a market analysis/flipping site for OSRS, and it’s been a great way to play with time-series stuff, sysadmin, and front-end.

Gotta credit a good chunk of career success to RuneScape as well.

Something like ge-tracker? I always thought it sounded fun to work on something like that, but also a ton of work for a game I'd probably be bored with way before I'd be able to finish anything tangible. I'm guessing there's decent potential for profit though, so that might be a good motivator.

Yep, same basic premise as GE-tracker with higher detail visualizations and fancier stats/feature engineering on top. Flipping to max cash became a pandemic hobby of mine, so I started off with a handful of homerolled spreadsheets/Jupyter notebooks to cover blind spots that I felt GE-tracker was missing, and eventually decided I could make a better version of the same recipe on my own.

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