Sacrifice a few things, let you mother move into with you, no matter how little space you have. Take control of her finances if you can, mentor her if you can't. Be her shield and keep her demons away (finance, foolishness, whatever). Start to pay out her loans but prevent her from taking more.

She needs help, she needs your help, tough love - so give that in spades. Money means little when you've lost your family.

That's because most of the second year syllabus is written and examined in Yiddish!

I went to uni around the same time, coming from a house with parents who enjoyed mostly rock, with a little nod to metal (Sabbath), a bit of prog, and some electronica.

Once I hit uni my exposure to other music increased massively. I made new friends who were into metal / death metal, including ones in death metal bands. Others were getting further into electronica - meanwhile, the alternative scene was my main influence (goth, new romantics, etc). I still liked radio friendly rock to an extent too, but it started to take a sideline to the newer grunge that was coming out, and even a bit of rap / hip hop.

I'm always happy to try new music, new genres, new production styles. Once you stop growing, there's only one way to go from there...so keep on growing I say :D

Actually, I don't have a mortgage, I have no children, and my divorce is a decade in the past. My shit is sorted.

I think it's something else altogether.

In your teens and early 20's you're partying hard with friends, getting laid, and making lots of good memories. The music playing at that time is the soundtrack to the happiest time of your life. Twenty plus years later and you're weighed down with a mortgage, several kids, a shit job, and an impending divorce. Now the music you hear is the soundtrack to a less wonderful part of your life.

When you're young, you can't help but be exposed to new music. You have no control of the turntable at parties, or when visiting friends. You are challenged more often and learn to enjoy it. As an adult you just press the skip button when something doesn't immediately please you.

TLDR: It's not the music, that's pretty much a constant, it's the memories you have when you were listening to that music.

"What has it got in it's pocketsss...? " (Lars Ulrich)

If you ask me, where we wrong was pushing for this ultra-realistic pixel art when we already had the truly engaging expression of ASCII art. It's still a struggle to make ASCII art work with modern screen sizes and non-standard (80 x 25) layouts...but we must persevere, lest the unwashed heathen masses that consume our art fail to understand it.

I suppose we could supply them with a README.TXT file to tell them what the art is trying to say to their monkey brains.

Don't conflate gameplay quality with engine / grahics quality - they are orthogonal to each other.

You can help the discussion by telling us the name of the engine you created, and the list of commercially released games that used it. We need some perspective.

It wasn't Moore's law that kicked us in the butt, it was the differential between the increases in the speed of CPU / GPU vs memory access speeds. As CPUs kept increasing at a decent pace, the memory lagged massively behind leading to new strategies for fast code.

This is pure rhetoric and chest thumping until you tell us exactly which engines you wrote and the products that used them. Making 11 shitty low grade projects that no-one cares about is a little different to making even a single AAA engine.

CRYENGINE has no royalty cost attached to it. Unlike the other engines, you can make and release a game without paying a single cent of royalties. The very minor cost of $10 / month is basically chicken feed to anyone able to afford a PC and is just to keep the lights on.

By contrast, you will be hit for massive amounts of cash the second you go over a set amount with Unreal. Unity hits you straight up and again in the rear.

How big were the meters they were using to measure the depth? Given that information we can know how deep 100 meters are. Alternatively, give us the depth in metres.

Which means it's now on the long slow slide into obsolescence. I figure it's good for software updates for maybe another 12 months, after that it's just a matter of time until some software I need / want requires an OS version the tablet can't support.

The tablet has an earlier version in 2012, and a refresh in 2013 which was a major update in terms of the hardware. It's basically being retired after only 2-3 years, which is a shame, since it's quite a decent little tablet - the 2013 refresh at least is.

I expect it will still give me a couple more years of happy service in any case, and since that meets my "five year lifetime" criteria for buying, I'm still relatively happy.

It's working just fine on mine, though YMMV as they say.

In other words...motherfucking Google! Must you kill everything I love!