My experience, and I felt sad about admitting it to myself, was that anything complex and elaborate using new and quirky ideas, dies quick when given a good belt by a 10k drum.
That's definitely my fear, but I feel if I have 10 ideas and 1 of them ends up giving people something to think about or even just a laugh then it feels like time well spent, after picking up the remains of my contraption from the arena floor of course.
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