• teawrecks@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    A lot of stationary: paper clips, staples, pencils, sticky notes

    A lot of toys: yoyo, slinky, hula hoop, Play-Doh, crayons

    Packaging: cardboard box, plastic bottles, plastic bottles with the lid on the bottom, aluminum cans

    You use inventions all the time that you could probably just build from home now that you know what they are. But there’s nothing that says you/we are already aware of every simple invention. Just think about all the simple, yet revolutionary ideas no one has thought of yet…and if you can do that, you’ll be a billionaire.

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      But games and art aren’t exactly like that. People train by copying great art, and code and games especially are iterative. It’s not like he took a super useful thing and made millions by claiming he invented it. He took a game, made a clone and added features, admitting it was a clone. Like snake and pong and brickbreaker.