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Here's the problem with online relationships, you can pick them up and drop them whenever you like. You can do that in real life to a degree, but sometimes you are forced to confront friends in real life when you don't want to. A real friend requires surviving a degree of confrontation.

Agreed. I love that this happened, and on IRC!

Ya, I can see that now. My thought here was in regards to processing power and storage capacity.

I would enjoy hearing your perspective on this.

Several years ago I spent a great deal of time thinking about how to create something like this, glad someone did it!

My vision went beyond this into allowing users to create their own channels (still only identifiable by a channel number) which would basically just be a playlist. I think a better idea now would be to have them add a list of channels and have it randomly play videos from only those channels and have that interrupted by anytime that channel is live streaming.

Good read, very encouraging.

No way! The Internet is a small place. I remember seeing your original post and feeling very inspired to do something similar. One of these days I will find some time.

Just started testing them out last week. Amazing how much better it is than GA4.

Of course I I think I have what it takes... Don't most of us here?

I have endless ideas, a diverse set of technical skills that can get me most of the way there...

What stops me though is time and money.

I have a family to provide for, who are a much bigger priority than anything else. So my ideas take the back burner, and I prioritize the ones that have a higher percent chance at freeing me from a 9-5, instead of the more interesting moon shots.

However, the failures and wasted money do add up, and it emotionally wears on my wife... I do think of giving up trying to start something, but I dread the idea of working for someone else for the next 30 years. I feel like starting something of my own is part of how I am wired.

So I keep plugging away in my limited free time, getting up too early just to make the time. Maybe some day, but the years are already flying by, my family is most important.

Remember playing that demo over and over as a kid! Really cool that you worked on it.

I remember finding this and being super excited about how awesome it looked and how small the file size was. This was back in the day when LAN parties were common, and not everybody had high speed internet.

I still wonder if things like this have a place in the future?

Thank you, really appreciate you saying something.

Not sure I have ever had anyone comment on my writing style. Probably means I should write more!