The most white privilege thing you will read today

[bluemax]

http://syntheti.cc/van-build/

skip to the intermission for the part where he vies for cac of the decade.

Oh god I got to the end, he's a full on loon and he wants to make compelling Indie games from his van. GAF is gonna love him if he ever releases his game.

[Syph]

breh can you please give me a bit more of a description before i read that bible

[Brehvolution]

It's early, but I'll find something in my internet travels.

[helios]

Why I Intentionally Became Homeless in San Francisco

[Am_I_Anonymous]

I thought it was the Declaration of Independence...

[I'm a Puppy!]

I'm not kidding. I had a client a few weeks ago tell me I should just buy myself one of these and live out of it because that's what she was going to do in a few years

http://pleasureway.com/pleasure-way-ascent/

[Rufus]

That's one way of dealing with being passed down the rungs.

[CatsCatsCats]

Not gonna read this shit but really there's nothing that locks you into capitalism quite like owning a home 

[Positive Touch]

i just want these people to understand that intentionally making your life harder isn't impressive or worthy of admiration

[studyguy]

Can't hit up a club then drag a girl back to your pedo-looking van. Who does this?

Yeah this is my son, he lives out in the Homedepot parking lot, sometimes in the Walmart one, yeah we helped him build that hobomachine, no I don't know how long it'll be till he decides to stop being a manchild. 

[brawndolicious]

Why didn't he just keep his truck and buy a fifth wheel trailer? He'd have way more space (and a bathroom) plus he'd be able to go around town without looking like he's delivering packages.

[Great Rumbler]

So, what happens when the money from selling his house runs out...?

[Huff]

By then he'll be the next notch of course

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

I see it as a sad rationalization of the disappearance of the middle class.

First tiny homes...now this.  Next up will be a yurt that you can take with you on your bike!*

* - For those who can't afford a car.

[chronovore]

I see it as a sad rationalization of the disappearance of the middle class.

First tiny homes...now this.  Next up will be a yurt that you can take with you on your bike!*

* - For those who can't afford a car.

Wouldn't it be on a fixie?

[bluemax]

breh can you please give me a bit more of a description before i read that bible

Sorry the tl;dr was that a software developer in Georgia had an epiphany that we shouldn't work in cubes or have bosses so he sold his house, bought a van, re-did the inside of the van and started driving around the country writing his own programming language so he can make indie games.

i just want these people to understand that intentionally making your life harder isn't impressive or worthy of admiration

But he made his life easier!

So, what happens when the money from selling his house runs out...?

Assuming his indie game doesn't pan out he apparently had a decent enough career as a software dev to afford a house in Georgia.

Can't hit up a club then drag a girl back to your pedo-looking van. Who does this?

Yeah this is my son, he lives out in the Homedepot parking lot, sometimes in the Walmart one, yeah we helped him build that hobomachine, no I don't know how long it'll be till he decides to stop being a manchild. 

His hobo van doesn't even look like it has enough room to jerk off in, let alone bump uglies. But that was one of my first thoughts. His dad seemingly did most of the hard work on re-doing the van's interior so he must be supportive.

[Syph]

breh can you please give me a bit more of a description before i read that bible

Sorry the tl;dr was that a software developer in Georgia had an epiphany that we shouldn't work in cubes or have bosses so he sold his house, bought a van, re-did the inside of the van and started driving around the country writing his own programming language so he can make indie games.

holy shit at least just go straight to making the games not the language lol wtf is he thinking

[bluemax]

breh can you please give me a bit more of a description before i read that bible

Sorry the tl;dr was that a software developer in Georgia had an epiphany that we shouldn't work in cubes or have bosses so he sold his house, bought a van, re-did the inside of the van and started driving around the country writing his own programming language so he can make indie games.

holy shit at least just go straight to making the games not the language lol wtf is he thinking

So: how has it gone, so far?

My focus for the first 6 months was creating a programming language, which I call Kong. I've been working on the language for a few years now, but have never been able to get anywhere working nights and weekends.

I'm proud to say that I've reached my target: in the 6 months, I have created a compiler, intermediate bytecode representation, virtual machine, and garbage collector.

That means Kong is actually usable. I have a test suite that I run everything against, and I'm passing all my tests :-).

Why create a programming language, if my target is to create games?

Game programming is a behemoth of complexity. Traditionally, you have two basic approaches to manage that complexity: 1. use someone else's toolset and jump right in to making games, or 2. build your own toolset.

Using someone else's toolset is tempting... but I have been bitten too many times using other people's platforms. In many ways, living in the van is similar: sometimes, it's just better to take responsibility, and build it yourself.

So, just like my house, my work is also handmade. Sure, that means it's not as fancy, but at the end of the day, it's mine. No one else owns it.

There is a certain pride in building something yourself.

And now, I have officially moved on to building games. My target is to create seven games over the course of 2016. If all goes according to plan, the first game will be available in January of 2017 -- one year from now.

That's what he is thinking.

Also he made Vice: http://www.vice.com/read/the-nomads-of-game-development

Also apparently the guy in the original link is from Maryland, not Georgia. My bad.

"They settled on buying a 1982 Yamaha Sloop boat, naming it "Pino," sitting at 33 feet in length and 50 feet tall, for $38,000, all with the help of over 170 backers on Patreon"

https://twitter.com/voidqk/status/767474686716444673
https://twitter.com/voidqk/status/730581109440831488 - bodes well!

Also he gave up on his language: https://t.co/6TGLEGUS1d

[recursivelyenumerable]

pretty cool, I'm jealous.

[recursivelyenumerable]

wow this guy's twitter is really boring

[recursivelyenumerable]

this makes me feel a bit better about wasting my life for the last ten years tbh, at least i'm slightly less boring than this guy

[brawndolicious]

Other things I'm wondering:

1) buy a new car for the reliability but it's a Dodge and I'm sure his modifications voided the warranty.

2) why make your own code if you're making games simple enough to be made by a man in a van in a couple months? I thought only big studios do that for games that are really pushing their hardware (ie: Naughty Dog).

[Madrun Badrun]

pretty cool, I'm jealous.

You would think that and you would be that wouldn't you?

[recursivelyenumerable]

Wouldn't you like to know?

[Madrun Badrun]

no

[naff]

this makes me feel a bit better about wasting my life for the last ten years tbh, at least i'm slightly less boring than this guy

that's the vibe i got from this, he was sick of his dull office life because he is a dull office drone. now he's developing some character by becoming the kooky van man.

[recursivelyenumerable]

yeah. whatever it takes I guess

it must be awful not being a natural weirdo, I certainly wouldn't be able to handle it