Wildermyth is a game about quest management.
During the pandemic I swore I was inventing new coffees. I would challenge myself by picking something random in the condiment pantry and just tossing it into the pot like some lead poisoned alchemist. To say that in my mind I was changing the game, and that I believed once I got ten toes down back into society proper that Starbucks was done as a business would be an understatement.
The biggest mistake I ever made that day was telling an old friend about my new concoctions. Actually let me walk that word, friend, back. This is just a person that's been around most of my life, is a whole hate-stone, and that I don't like. But they are such a sunk cost at this point that it's like... what was I talking about?
Oh ok, yeah so I place the smoldering embers of fire born from knowledge into their hands on the call and all they can fix their mouth to do is ask questions, like those ever helped. For instance:
Me: Yeah so I made coffee with black pepper. Crazy right?
Them: Oh, like they do in Africa?
Me: No, not unless they make it in the future. Alright, well I also made coffee with chilli powder so...
Them: So a Mexican spiced Mocha. Didn't you work at a coffee shop in college?
Me: Yeah. What's that got to do with anything?
Them: I resent how you are simultaneously this dumb and smart. But also not smart at all. I wouldn't call what you offer the world intelligence... But it's something.
Me: Thank you for saying I'm smart.
Them: I'm hanging up.
Anyway, their jealousy blinded them, obviously, so as soon as pandemic restrictions lifted in California I headed to the nearest coffee shop to tap in with my fellow mixologists and take the temperature of future franchise locations. Turns out all the stuff I made at home was already invented and available for sale at that location.
Such is life.
Btw the only moral of that story was to never ask your friends for advice because they are haters. Also shouts to information, the pandemic is far from over for us. Also shouts to McAfee, he died as he lived; fuckin' weird. Rip tb rip tc rip tall-T. Get out there and do great things, we believe in you. Also Jobs.
