OMG.. I would have done SO much differently. Like, I would have tried to anticipate the rise of YouTube and social media.. and justin.tv.. and then tried to popularize shimo/diplomacy style across all games. I'd also serve as THE superconnector between AOK and other communities (and even try to hook up w/ppl in the RoN/AoM/AoE3/other RTS communities) and then try to invite them to play AoK (or AoKers to play with them). And then set up a long-lasting community of people who kept on revisiting these communities over decades. I'd also stop trying so hard to appear smart when I didn't need to do so!
Oh, and I would TOTALLY be less neurotic. Like, AoKH formed *so* many of the happiest memories of my life. Though I'd also be careful not to be overspecialized within AoK - I think people who have more varied interests are generally more robustly interesting over time.
I think that consistently being a "big fish" was a comparatively easy problem for me (even trying to become the "big fish" on the ENTIRE Internet - I think that was a solveable problem TOO) It was actually remarkably easy to get people here to like me (I mean, I managed to be pretty well-liked despite doing stupid things). I'd just be the enabler for everyone. I could have used this as a preliminary platform for what some could call as "paradise engineering".
Also I'd have copied some of the old chatlogs from Agincourt - some of those were so EPIC and I still daydream about these. Especially some of those automated quizzes.. haha..
I'd also have tried harder to improve over time.. and not asymptote.. E.g. actually USE the hotkeys, and be more aggressive about hotkey labeling, and even get others to comment on how I could improve on my recorded games (while not playing TOO frequently in intense spurts of time - research now shows that people improve the most when they DON'T train too hard in intense periods of time).
OH - and there are old recorded games where I still intensely regret my actions. Like this one where I could have teamed up with Tonto_TechDude to attack Adder, rather than attack the only remaining enemy across the map (Alyantis, who WAS a friend of mine!) Adder had no enemies at the time and I *had* the highest score - wasn't it logical for me to expect Adder to attack me??? I still have that embarrassingly stupid recorded game years later. Sometimes I think my dumb actions in old AoK recorded games are also reflected in dumb actions I make in real life.. Like this one other recorded game where I could have EASILY owned Tonto_Stendecca when he was chasing down Toastabal... Rather than wait for Stendecca to pwn Toastabal and then only to unally him later..
I think managing my time would be a TRICK challenge though.. Like, I would TOTALLY do early entrance to college again (GOD, K-12 education was child abuse on me), but then use THAT as a period to basically unschool myself and become huge on the Internet (and then later Quora when **that** became huge). I would just be the ULTRA-CURIOUS curator of the entire Internet - and thank AOKH as the starting ground of it all, enshrining AoKH permanently in eternal fame as strong AGI permanently changes the world (and then we have millions of conscious agents permanently playing AoK in paradise).
I'd also have talked to many AoKHers/AoMHers/EEHers more. Especially people like Matei (don't you know Matei is CHANGING THE WORLD RIGHT NOW? He even has a WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE for himself!! ). And Soccy. I've always been of the belief that AoKHers were of much-higher-than-normal-intelligence, and are capable of having vast Internet footprints, and I'd have done more to help more of them have sustained Internet footprints that last over decades.
(though drama, of course, is difficult to deal with).
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Oh, and I would TOTALLY be less neurotic. Like, AoKH formed *so* many of the happiest memories of my life. Though I'd also be careful not to be overspecialized within AoK - I think people who have more varied interests are generally more robustly interesting over time.
I think that consistently being a "big fish" was a comparatively easy problem for me (even trying to become the "big fish" on the ENTIRE Internet - I think that was a solveable problem TOO) It was actually remarkably easy to get people here to like me (I mean, I managed to be pretty well-liked despite doing stupid things). I'd just be the enabler for everyone. I could have used this as a preliminary platform for what some could call as "paradise engineering".
Also I'd have copied some of the old chatlogs from Agincourt - some of those were so EPIC and I still daydream about these.
I'd also have tried harder to improve over time.. and not asymptote.. E.g. actually USE the hotkeys, and be more aggressive about hotkey labeling, and even get others to comment on how I could improve on my recorded games (while not playing TOO frequently in intense spurts of time - research now shows that people improve the most when they DON'T train too hard in intense periods of time).
OH - and there are old recorded games where I still intensely regret my actions. Like this one where I could have teamed up with Tonto_TechDude to attack Adder, rather than attack the only remaining enemy across the map (Alyantis, who WAS a friend of mine!) Adder had no enemies at the time and I *had* the highest score - wasn't it logical for me to expect Adder to attack me??? I still have that embarrassingly stupid recorded game years later. Sometimes I think my dumb actions in old AoK recorded games are also reflected in dumb actions I make in real life.. Like this one other recorded game where I could have EASILY owned Tonto_Stendecca when he was chasing down Toastabal... Rather than wait for Stendecca to pwn Toastabal and then only to unally him later..
I think managing my time would be a TRICK challenge though.. Like, I would TOTALLY do early entrance to college again (GOD, K-12 education was child abuse on me), but then use THAT as a period to basically unschool myself and become huge on the Internet (and then later Quora when **that** became huge). I would just be the ULTRA-CURIOUS curator of the entire Internet - and thank AOKH as the starting ground of it all, enshrining AoKH permanently in eternal fame as strong AGI permanently changes the world (and then we have millions of conscious agents permanently playing AoK in paradise).
I'd also have talked to many AoKHers/AoMHers/EEHers more. Especially people like Matei (don't you know Matei is CHANGING THE WORLD RIGHT NOW? He even has a WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE for himself!!
(though drama, of course, is difficult to deal with).
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