Some people might imagine that being a programmer is a very prestigious and impressive profession.
They sit in a customized chair, facing eight monitors. After a moment of thought, their fingers dance across the keyboard. Several black terminal windows pop up, code scrolling by in a chaotic flurry against a mandatory background of cascading green 0s and 1s.
In reality, only programmers in movies and TV shows are like that.
A real programmer's workflow usually goes something like this: think for half the day, type out a few lines, run the code, and discover it doesn't work. Then they hit backspace, open a search engine, lean back in their ergonomic chair, and start scratching their head.
Now, Zog was watching a room full of old men and women scratching their heads.
'I'm honestly afraid they'll scratch away the few hairs they have left.' You'd never see a sight like this at a game company on Earth. Programmers don't last to that age, but Mages can.
'Win!'
