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

Nick Sabalausky a at a.a
Sun Dec 19 12:00:53 PST 2010


"Caligo" <iteronvexor at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.30.1292776925.4748.digitalmars-d at puremagic.com...
> 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.
>

The old "games as drugs" argument.

First of all, anyone who's a slave to psychological tricks is an idiot 
anyway. Casinos use many psychological tricks to induce addiction and yet 
most people are perfectly able to control themselves.

Secondly, if you see movies, music, comics and novels as the same 
"dishonorable escapism", then I'll grant that your reasoning is at least 
logically sound, even though you're in an extremely tiny minority on that 
viewpoint. If not, however, then you're whole argument crumbles into a giant 
pile of blatant bullshit, and clearly far too much of an imbicile to even 
continue discussing this with.

> 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.
>

Fine, but that does make you the exception.

> You sound way too angry and unhappy.

I just have no tolerance for such obvious lies and idiocy.

> 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."
>

I realize you mean that in jest, but I actually have been using Ruby (Rake) 
as the build system for a big web project. It gets the job done, but I'm not 
exactly impressed with it.





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