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Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by qPM9l3XJrF » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 4:45 AM UTC

pmiller2 wrote: post #126

alexgmcm wrote: post #78

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Yeah, I also played that game and had pretty much the same experience as you. Hopefully, the world has improved somewhat since the game was written.

I don't think it has. Not for the majority, anyway. Maybe it has for members of the "lucky sperm club."

https://ourworldindata.org/uploads/2019/11/Extreme-Poverty-p...

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by muskox2 » Sun, Apr 25, 2021, 2:30 PM UTC

astura wrote: post #65

cpfohl wrote: post #45

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Sorry, kinda wanted to respond sarcastically, but I'll be direct instead: Hiking, cooking together, playing board games, card games, playing music together, exploring, and just talking are all inexpensive or free. The most interesting people I've known in my life focused on those things anyway.

This is hacker news where everyone values their time at at least $100/hr. If you're socializing you, at the very least, aren't working.

Personally I value my time at $13.50 am hour because that's what I'm paid (part time retail while I go to school).

There's many different kinds of people on this site.

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by jcpham2 » Mon, Apr 26, 2021, 7:24 PM UTC

aisofteng wrote: post #121

jcpham2 wrote: post #76

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Not all of us are social

A strange comment to leave on a social media site.

Is that what this is? I thought it was news for hackers. Apparently everyone wants to make friends on random websites and talk to each other.

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by fallat » Tue, Apr 27, 2021, 6:22 PM UTC

pattle wrote: post #85

fallat wrote: post #84

I would love to play a more refined version of this.

You will be able to, just give me a month

If you don't rush it, I would even say people would pay to play. Something minimal, like $5. Put it on itch.io.

Re: Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

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Post by gnrlst » Sat, May 01, 2021, 3:35 PM UTC

pattle wrote: post #32

gnrlst wrote: post #3

Interesting to see KnockoutJS still being used in the wild! Cool game. Would like some more unexpected events to happen, and the Mortgage and Pension emails don't load, and neither does the "request valuation" of a bought property.

Haha yeah, I've been using KnockoutJS since 2015 and use it on all my projects. I should probably learn React or something but if it does the job I don't see any reason to change yet. Yes unexpected "life events" is definitely something I want to add in the future. Still a very early stage MVP at the moment"

I get it. I was in the same boat, and played around with Vue and React for a couple projects, but since I've discovered Svelte, it's blown me away. It has the best of ALL worlds :) and it's super easy to use.

Good luck!