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 it’s 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

there were some courses that were REQUIRED for the degree that would be taught once a year

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 😄

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 😛

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 😄

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

I learned Actionscript back in the day....

really thought that'd pay off