Augustus Doricko

You know the board game Risk?

Yeah, I used to play Risk.

Yeah, okay, so Risk is great.

Now imagine Risk, but you either have to be super autistic or have a spreadsheet open to play it well because you're managing where your iron supply chain goes and where you get your spices and where the wheat's grown for the economy and all that kind of stuff.

So I played that.

And then another video game that I liked a lot was called Spore.

And so Spore basically...

The important part of the game is you're this space-faring civilization.

And you can trade with other civilizations out in space.

You can fight wars.

You can explore.

But the thing that I really liked was always terraforming, so taking a planet that was totally uninhabitable and then actually engineering the atmosphere to put colonies down there, sort of like what we're going to do to Mars.

So I thought about that a lot as a kid, too.

But yeah, so space, sailing, philosophy.

What else did I like?

Probably giving my mom heartburn, running around construction sites late at night, that kind of thing.

Pretty bright kid, right?

I was and am a moron.

Oh, right.

Yeah.