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

[Christopher Nicholson-Sauls]

On 12/19/10 14:00, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "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.
> 

Take a look at Thor sometime.  It's a replacement for Rake, and for some
jobs can be better.  Rails/3.x is apparently adopting it (or has adopted
it... I haven't made the jump to 3 yet).

https://github.com/wycats/thor

-- Chris N-S