The 2nd one is commonly called "bootstrapping"
Your options for self-funded game dev becoming a sustainable career:
1. Have existing money or income.
or
2. Get extremely lucky while doing everything perfectly.
1. Have existing money or income.
or
2. Get extremely lucky while doing everything perfectly.
July 3, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The 2nd one is commonly called "bootstrapping"
Bootstrapping. Wraparound over illustration for a book on computing development.
January 15, 2026 at 11:47 AM
Bootstrapping. Wraparound over illustration for a book on computing development.
i really do not know the correct fix for this while simultaneously bootstrapping your way out of fascism
February 27, 2026 at 5:44 PM
i really do not know the correct fix for this while simultaneously bootstrapping your way out of fascism
Bootstrapping mental wellness by getting a dog
December 8, 2024 at 5:50 PM
Bootstrapping mental wellness by getting a dog
This 👇. My go-to explanation since the boat strikes and navy buildup began in late summer: They're bootstrapping a justification for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport people domestically.
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
December 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
This 👇. My go-to explanation since the boat strikes and navy buildup began in late summer: They're bootstrapping a justification for invoking the Alien Enemies Act to detain and deport people domestically.
Bootstrapping against the deadline 😬
February 12, 2026 at 11:01 AM
Bootstrapping against the deadline 😬
Bootstrapping hype. Yuck.
October 2, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Bootstrapping hype. Yuck.
Seems to me that Friedman is cheating: bootstrapping GOP Neo-Nazism and using that to conflate all opposition to Israel with being pro-Hamas.
This is a growing problem for people who advocate for Israel.
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This is a growing problem for people who advocate for Israel.
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November 21, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Seems to me that Friedman is cheating: bootstrapping GOP Neo-Nazism and using that to conflate all opposition to Israel with being pro-Hamas.
This is a growing problem for people who advocate for Israel.
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This is a growing problem for people who advocate for Israel.
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PragerU videos depict a version of American history that fits current right wing narratives. Bootstrapping history is never a good way to present it.
August 8, 2025 at 12:28 PM
PragerU videos depict a version of American history that fits current right wing narratives. Bootstrapping history is never a good way to present it.
Silver spoon Yale guy knows all about bootstrapping and what the American Dream is suddenly
March 16, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Silver spoon Yale guy knows all about bootstrapping and what the American Dream is suddenly
I'm pretty sure it's actually a traumatized bootstrapping undiagnosed ND person but only because it says GenX in the profile.
September 23, 2026 at 5:12 AM
I'm pretty sure it's actually a traumatized bootstrapping undiagnosed ND person but only because it says GenX in the profile.
This is just a ridiculously bootstrapping argument.
an “inherent power” to respond to an “imminent” attack is just a license for aggressive war on the president’s whim
How does launching air strikes and a commando raid fall under the remit of self defense for an arrest operation
January 3, 2026 at 12:45 PM
This is just a ridiculously bootstrapping argument.
Trump’s executive orders aren’t laws, but if everyone in Texas, from the whiny student to the dean to the TAMU President to the governor, acts like they are, then what’s the difference? He’s bootstrapping new (and unconstitutional) laws.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...
“Gov. Greg Abbott urged Texas A&M to fire the professor seen in the video because they acted “contrary to Texas law,” although he did not say which law the professor had violated.”
Could that be because the prof didn’t violate any TX (or federal) law? 🤔
“Gov. Greg Abbott urged Texas A&M to fire the professor seen in the video because they acted “contrary to Texas law,” although he did not say which law the professor had violated.”
Could that be because the prof didn’t violate any TX (or federal) law? 🤔
Texas A&M University System orders audit of courses at all 12 universities
The Texas A&M University System Board of Regents ordered an audit of courses at the system's 12 schools amid backlash over a professor’s gender identity lesson.
www.houstonchronicle.com
September 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Trump’s executive orders aren’t laws, but if everyone in Texas, from the whiny student to the dean to the TAMU President to the governor, acts like they are, then what’s the difference? He’s bootstrapping new (and unconstitutional) laws.
If only this kind of bad faith bootstrapping could have been predicted by the scholarly community.
September 29, 2025 at 10:15 PM
If only this kind of bad faith bootstrapping could have been predicted by the scholarly community.
Real indie RPG bootstrapping here. Looks like an interesting project!
Ambition is a psychological, daoist, tarot, fantasy, tactics TTRPG. Its a lot of a game, it takes inspiration from disco elysium's introspective storytelling and tarot's relationship with archetype to guide stories.
I'd love for you to check it out!
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
I'd love for you to check it out!
gamefound.com/en/projects/...
Ambition by The Press Betwixt - Gamefound
Ambition is a tales & tactics TTRPG for 2-4 Ambitious and a River by Yanni Panagiotopoulos. Reach for Heaven from underneath, Strive for whats beyond it, and Shape the continents into the image of you...
gamefound.com
November 13, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Real indie RPG bootstrapping here. Looks like an interesting project!
yes, i think that institutional bootstrapping is difficult, which is why, e.g., the most competent African bureaucracies have drawn heavily from participants in international institutions.
a. you think other peoples and nations, the people of Africa or Asia or the Balkans or South America are incapable of building and governing educational, agricultural and health systems themselves? that’s racist as shit, and as is typical for racists, it’s fully disproven by history.
September 25, 2025 at 8:37 PM
yes, i think that institutional bootstrapping is difficult, which is why, e.g., the most competent African bureaucracies have drawn heavily from participants in international institutions.
the problem with bootstrapping, actual bootstrapping, is that it's trivially easy to run out of cashflow and find yourself out on the street
fortunately i only came perilously close to that 🙃
fortunately i only came perilously close to that 🙃
January 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
the problem with bootstrapping, actual bootstrapping, is that it's trivially easy to run out of cashflow and find yourself out on the street
fortunately i only came perilously close to that 🙃
fortunately i only came perilously close to that 🙃
feels like bootstrapping a factory on a new planet in factorio
September 11, 2026 at 6:34 AM
feels like bootstrapping a factory on a new planet in factorio
It's disturbing to see them bootstrapping themselves into pretty much all positions of authority nationwide
June 23, 2026 at 5:22 PM
It's disturbing to see them bootstrapping themselves into pretty much all positions of authority nationwide
There also overstating the level of assurance. Read carefully, the briefs that they count as independent affirmations of mootness only state that Blanche made the statements he made. In other words, it's bootstrapping.
June 19, 2026 at 8:04 PM
There also overstating the level of assurance. Read carefully, the briefs that they count as independent affirmations of mootness only state that Blanche made the statements he made. In other words, it's bootstrapping.
the only way one learns language is through comprehensible input. everything you do in classes is just bootstrapping. Duolingo is a particularly ineffective form of bootstrapping.
(In their attempts to create magical constructs, AI cultists called this "the bitter lesson.")
(In their attempts to create magical constructs, AI cultists called this "the bitter lesson.")
September 22, 2026 at 1:51 PM
the only way one learns language is through comprehensible input. everything you do in classes is just bootstrapping. Duolingo is a particularly ineffective form of bootstrapping.
(In their attempts to create magical constructs, AI cultists called this "the bitter lesson.")
(In their attempts to create magical constructs, AI cultists called this "the bitter lesson.")
Here we are - back to “Welfare Queens” disinformation. Screw your BS. Racist classist bootstrapping claptrap.
June 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Here we are - back to “Welfare Queens” disinformation. Screw your BS. Racist classist bootstrapping claptrap.
Please give me moon shot money for bootstrapping a repeatable bottom up architecture for infrastructure management.
February 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Please give me moon shot money for bootstrapping a repeatable bottom up architecture for infrastructure management.
As someone who had a working class upbringing – and in full bootstrapping style was the first person in my family to go to uni (and went to Oxbridge) – that experience increases rather than reduces my sense of responsibility to protect the poorest in our society.
Seemingly unlike Starmer.
Seemingly unlike Starmer.
May 11, 2026 at 11:37 AM
As someone who had a working class upbringing – and in full bootstrapping style was the first person in my family to go to uni (and went to Oxbridge) – that experience increases rather than reduces my sense of responsibility to protect the poorest in our society.
Seemingly unlike Starmer.
Seemingly unlike Starmer.