Game development is worthless? WTF? (Was: Why Ruby?)

[Caligo]

You are absolutely right; life sucks for many people, and that's why some of
them choose to play video games.  It gives them a chance to escape reality,
and game companies exploit this to make money.  Game companies use all kinds
of psychology in their games to keep you playing as long as possible.  That
is why to me there is no honor in game development.  Also, I never said it's
worthless; they make tons of money, and that's almost always at the expense
of people like you.

If it helps any, I'm not one of those baby boomers.  I'm actually in my
early twenties.  So if you are going to insult me at least do it properly.

You sound way too angry and unhappy.  Instead of playing video games, you
should definitely pick up Ruby if you haven't already.  I hear it's
"designed to make programmers happy."



On Sat, Dec 18, 2010 at 2:03 PM, Nick Sabalausky <a at a.a> wrote:

> "Caligo" <iteronvexor at gmail.com> wrote in message
> news:mailman.5.1292651710.4588.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> >
> > IMO there is no honor in game development as it contributes nothing to
> > society.  I've rarely played any,
>
> I gotta jump on this as being a giant load of pretentous bullshit. First of
> all, there's the patently obvious "how in the world would you know?"
> considering the "I've rarely played any".
>
> But more importantly, games make life suck less - I can't even imagine any
> more significant contribution to society than that. Even all of the
> endevors
> generally considered to be the biggest contributions to society are *only*
> significant contributions *because* that's exactly what they do: they make
> life suck less, and are therefore well-regarded.
>
> Seriously, what up with all those presumptuous assholes out there (mostly
> baby boomer dinos and their even more anachronistic parents, interestingly
> enough) who have barely ever touched a videogame and yet figure they
> actually have reason to believe such absurd pretentous crap? Fuck, they all
> remind me of that pompous Roger Ebert douchebag. (Speaking of ways to
> benefit society, when's he finally gonna keel over? Isn't it about time by
> now? And speaking of "contributions to society" what the fuck's he ever
> done? Collect a salary just to spout off opinions? Fucking useless wanker.)
>
>
>
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