{"id":33848,"date":"2016-08-24T11:53:07","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=33848"},"modified":"2017-05-01T11:57:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T15:57:47","slug":"ding-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/?p=33848","title":{"rendered":"Ding 45!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here we are. Halfway to fifty. That’s terrifying. Fifty is an age for old people. I can’t be old people. Can I? It’s right there in my last name: NOT OLD!<\/em><\/p>\n

Last year<\/a> I was worried I might have glaucoma. I finally got around to making that eye doctor appointment I talked about. It turns out I’m fine. I’ve just got a really goofy, non-standard optic nerve. <\/p>\n

This wasn’t a bad year. I was nominated for a Hugo award, became a finalist, and then didn’t win<\/a>. While a win would have been a nice boon, I’m thrilled any time recognition for my work reaches beyond this humble site. <\/p>\n

I released Good Robot<\/a>. It wasn’t a huge success, but it felt good to bring a project all the way to market. Also, I can now go around calling myself an indie game developer, and I’m told that’s really hip with the young people or whatever.<\/p>\n

My oldest daughter RachelYou might recognize her as the one who edits the podcast<\/a>.<\/span> moved out this year. That’s a bit of an emotional gut-punch, but it’s gratifying to see someone I helped make turn into a capable, confident, motivated adult with goals and skills.<\/p>\n

I lost my weekly column at The Escapist<\/a>. I loved that gig. They were easy to work with and it paid well. A lot of you folks pitched in on Patreon<\/a> to help soften the blow. Have I said thanks recently? No? Well thanks. I love being able to keep up with basic needs like food, shelter, broadband internet, and graphics hardware.<\/p>\n

So goes another year for me. Also Happy Birthday to Stephen Fry<\/a>, Hideo Kojima<\/a>, and John Green<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here we are. Halfway to fifty. That’s terrifying. Fifty is an age for old people. I can’t be old people. Can I? It’s right there in my last name: NOT OLD! Last year I was worried I might have glaucoma. I finally got around to making that eye doctor appointment I talked about. It turns […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[610],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-landmarks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shamusyoung.com\/twentysidedtale\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}