Message from @aguyyouknow
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They do that at studios tbh. Free snacks and such
But it's also partially a holdover from crunch time nightmare years afaik
saddest thing I've seen a guy around 19 just started crying because his mother was upset with him or something and he had to comforted by a girl in the class
at about that point I was like "nope" I'm taking as much candy as I can fit my pocket and I'm going home
some of them even cosplayed on regular days
the kids aren't alright
I think itβs a sign that these kids think their childhood is damaged or something.
They have no hope because the left has destroyed every sacred institution
more that they don't realise it's supposed to end
it's one thing to still like young people stuff like gaming comics but to act as a child into your 20s that's pretty pathetic
no fathers probably
what the hell school did you go to for that to be the case? I went to college for game design (ended up not really helping with what I'm in beyond generally being tech), and it was about 80% programming courses, 15% animation courses, and like... at best 5% design
a shitty one
I left it, waste of time and money
apparently, jesus. I consider my degree to be a bit of a waste, but at least it wasn't fucking THAT
honestly I'm amazed there are any game design courses here in Aus, the entire game industry is like 500 people
yet there's dozens of schools teaching it
it's basically free money for the schools - people want to go into game development because it looks like a dream job from the outside
hell, at my college, we had an issue where the administration team bloated the number of slots year after year
by the time i graduated, it got to the point where there weren't enough professors to actually teach all of the core classes on a consistent basis
teacher turn over was crazy too
I changed main teacher 4 times in 6 months
(and they would fill up within a few minutes of registration being open)
I took a "game engineering" degree. We had 50% dropout rate *every year* because people just decided that programming was too hard
that wasn't a problem at my college. All of the professors that were there, had been there since the game design masters degree was going on at the college, which was about 4 or 5 years before I started college
sounds about right
it was really sad the principal of the college basically said he didn't want to be there during our orientation and begged if any of us knew of a job
he ended up leaving 2 months later π
i think the school is shut down now, a complete shit show
@C1PHER There was a rumor that my degree had the highest dropout rate in the college. In one of our first courses with the guy that was the head of the department, he admitted to spreading that rumor himself to scare off people that didn't actually want to do work π
lol
lol
I've never really studied programming, always seemed weird to learn it from someone else I've always just learned that shit on my own
probably why I suck at it π
it's similar to learning a new language, honestly. If you do well learning languages on your own, yeah - learning programming on your own would probably just work out better
We may have legit had the highest dropout rate. Started with 90+ freshman wanting to make vidya games and ended with maybe 10 graduates. Results in some fairly competent engineers, but even then the industry expects you to be an absolute master for terrible hours and mediocre pay, so most of us just go into regular tech jobs anyway
I don't think I retain that kind of information well from being taught classically, I used to have a php class, and I can't remember a thing of php
yeah the real money is always in regular tech and support stuff, too much demand in gaming drives down wages
Data structures is where the real important stuff is.
learning a programming language after your first is trivial
especially if its the same programming paradigm