Hey, Darius, you there?

Sorry, I was muted. Can you hear me?

Yeah, perfect.

So this morning, I went back and listened to the episode you were on just to remember what that was like.

I love games. I'm a really hard worker. You know, I can't say that enough, because at this point of working all these these really bad jobs that was my whole selling

point you know and they called me and said I had the job and you know at that point that was when

everything changed you know that was from that world to this world it was kind of about how you had worked this series of menial jobs and eventually found your

way over into work at a big game studio. You've moved to Seattle and you're feeling really good about

things. So I guess what we need is an update on, you know, what happened after that.

Okay.

Yeah.

Well, after Seattle, I professionally bottomed out.

My contract was up and the pay was never that great.

I decided to go back to Austin and then did a bunch of various jobs in regular software, just back-to-back contracts.

I had a very brief stent working on short stocks at Charles Schwab.

It was really depressing. It's like when you like bet against a stock that's going to fail, you profit. Then I went to go work for a fitness company, which that one was a little bit more exciting in some ways. There's a lot of fun to be around people that like enjoy sunlight.

It was great for a minute there.

But despite all good advice, I just continued to be, I don't know.

Obsessed is a little strong, but any free time in my brain I want to design games.

I want to be around the people that are designing them.

I want to be with that energy.

Anyway, so I had a buddy. He called me up and said, hey, man, they've got a position at Arcane

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