A Perspective on D from game industry

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 19:09:08 UTC, c0de517e wrote:
> On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 18:18:28 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
>> On Wednesday, 18 June 2014 at 18:17:03 UTC, deadalnix wrote:
>>> This is, but that's how it works nevertheless. You don't 
>>> succeed by arguing what the reality should be, but by 
>>> accepting what it is and act accordingly.
>>
>> Being ashamed of it instead of glorifying such attitude is one 
>> way to motivate a change :)
>
> You can't fight human psychology, but if you're -really- smart
> you strive to understand it and work with it.

No, this is what is what you do to _pretend_ to be smart and 
pragmatical person, an approach so popularized by modern culture 
I sometimes start thinking it is intentional.

You see, while fighting human psychology (actually "mentality" is 
correct term here I think) definitely does not work, influencing 
it is not only possible but in fact has happened all the time 
through the human history. Mentality is largely shaped by 
aggregated culture and any public action you take affects that 
aggregated culture in some tiny way.

You can't force people start thinking in a different way but you 
can start being an example of a different attitude yourself, 
popularizing and encouraging it. You can stop referring to that 
unfortunate trait of mentality as an excuse for not adopting the 
language in your blog posts - it will do fine without your help. 
You can casually mention how much of a wasted efforts and daily 
inconvenience such attitude causes to your co-workers (in a 
gentle non-intrusive way!). You can start acting _as if_ 
mentality is different instead of going the route of imaginary 
pragmatism.

In practice acting intentionally irrational is the only way to 
break the prisoner's dillema and the way people have influenced 
the culture and mentality all the time. It may not change 
thinking process of contemporary adults but few people doing 
stupid things here and there can accumulate enough cultural 
change to influence the future.

Considering amount of "not smart" things I have done through my 
life by now it must have been totally fucked up. Failing to 
notice that indicate that something is fundamentally wrong with 
popular image of pragmatism.