Posts by DD

  • schoolage

    I am not harsh, I'm truthful. Would I be upset if certain people saw this? Yes but only because it would mean more work for me to motivate people to do what I want.

    And yes I honestly don't care.

  • Everyone Once in a While

    As usual, photoshopery here and there.

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  • schoolage

    Quote from OL

    except for levelord who teaches at the guildhall (which is awesome and i wish i was going there)

    What has levellord done again? Pretty much everyone I've worked with from the guildhall has been pathetic. We had a bunch of testers from there for a short while who were just horrible. We had a few guys involved in our SDK that could not level design to save their lives. We have a couple programmers who so far have been completely disapointing.

  • schoolage

    The tuition of most those schools are higher than a years salary for any entry level game industry job. Consider that.

    If you're going for animation or character design go, anything else I recommend not. In my experience everyone that comes out of game design schools for anything related to art, code, or level design have all sucked.

    They're the kids who weren't motivated enough to do things on their own, pushed by their parents in a desperate attempt to make their suckbag children decent human beings. Much like the kids who are forced to be lawyers or doctors who end up sucking at life and getting people killed. Probably how Jack Thompson came to be known. Or not... really depends on the person. Don't be afraid to change your mind if you end up not liking the school.

    Code, go to a regular college and mod on the side.

    Level Design, ditto.

    Art is questionable, depends on what kind of art you want to do.

    And anyone that possibly could be considered a game designer worthy of learning from isn't going to be teaching at any school.

  • Short Story I wrote "Dead Birds Fall Slowly"

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    Moving clocks appear to tick more slowly relative to their stationary counterparts but this effect only becomes really significant at very high velocities that app roach the speed of light.

    So in 10 years on Earth someone accelerating close to the speed of light can experience 1.

    In 11 mins someone can experience what appears to be a minute, but not more than 11 minutes. Unless of course the world around the person increased in velocity.

    Anyways, if relativity did apply to the thought process, if someones mind became more active, time would go by faster.

    If someone was a retard, time would seem to take forever but would actually be no more than 11 minutes. Anyways, I liked the story regardless

  • The dangers of unions and the halt of the game industry

    Quote from mikezilla

    As for the industry itself unionising. This is probably 5-10 years off. It's sorta goes without saying though. It just takes a while to set up.

    The fact that you think it is just 5-10 years off is a problem. It should never even be a question of happening or not happening, it just shouldn't.

    Quote from mikezilla

    It won't affect you Dorian. Small independent developers can stay just that if their workers don't join the union. The same way independent film is non union for the most part (although that's starting to change.) Unions will be back at all the publishers for a long time before they are at the developers.

    You're correct in that a union of publisher workers would not affect me. However a union of developers more than likely would. Let me explain how unions work in the US government and business. Most unions start of largely unaffecting a market, the only people who gain and lose benefits due to a union are the members. In most cases unions lobby in politics to get what they want, not by volunteered members, but by law, by force, by gun. By pressuring politicians with large parties they manage to get laws written which force people to obey their terms. An example of this today is the radio industry. Airport worker and airline unions, an example market where unions are forced and constantly airliners are struggling to stay in business borrowing money from the government.

  • The dangers of unions and the halt of the game industry

    Let me start on why I think unions are dangerous. The United States was founded on the belief of freedom, including a free market. Because if you think anything else you're a commie or a terrorist. Anyways.. what unions usually do is force private companies, by law through government involvment, pay workers a standardized value. Since the process which is involved in setting this standard is extremely slow and hard to set specially on a national level this almost always means workers are forced to be overpaid or allow companies to have their employees underpaid.

    It forces companies to consider moving to other countries with lighter laws, sadly, like China. HAHA!

    Recently the VAG group, Voice Actors Guild, kind of like FAG, has started a lobby demending less hours, more pay, more breaks, royalties, for very little work within the game industry. Actually I think last I heard it was successful. This means guys like me who took years to learn skills, who will work 2-5 years on average per project is likely to get equal or less royalties from a game versus a employee of VAG. A VAG member who would probably work between 6-24 hours total hours spaced apart on 6 hour days (6 hour days forced by the guild), on the same project, for talking into a mic.

    I'm mean... are you serious?

    Anyways, the worst part about this subject is that is has started discussions about a union for developers. The only outcome I see of a union of developers is a halt of progression in a booming industry. First, if successful, it would force smaller companies to pay higher wages. It could also result in the opposite, allowing companies like EA use the excuse of the standard for underpaid employees. Large publishers/developers would start considering moving to other countries if the wages were forced much too high, as many have already started. It would mean controlled work hours, so small companies who may volunteer to work extra hours in order to finish a game on a certain time to make more money is not allowed to do so. It would mean that new comers who would like to one day start their own small private studios would be near impossible because the ridiculously high forced goverment costs. Much like how radio stations are now impossible to start in the United States, thanks Clearwater or whatever they're called.

    Anyways, remember kids, Unions are bad. If this developers union ever happens remember my words.

  • My arch thing model something..

    Very goo! My only suggestion, looks like all the detail you put at the top will always be pretty far from the player. You may actually find it better in the future to really not care too much about details from that distance and focus more around the base if you have extra polies to push. You put more time and effort into the top it seems which most players just will not see.

  • Frustration with Counter-Strike Source Servers

    Before I go off on my rant I'd like to explain two beliefs of mine. I believe no man should exist for another and that every man should live and perform to the best of their ability. With that said people should run their not cheap to run CSS servers however they want, but remember I still believe they should not suck at life.

    My royal complaint list of fortitude:

    1. Stop using lame admin mod sounds. This includes: Movie and tv show sound clips such at Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, Beavis and Butthead, which are all great shows if not played out to hell by f-tards. This also includes UT2K3 announcer sounds. If I wanted to hear a UT2K3 sounds I would play that game, which I don't like to play, I like to PLAY FUCKING CS!!!! STFU STFU STFU STFU!!!! I also partially blame not being able to turn off downloading, does cl_allowdownload 0 not working anymore?!?!

    2. Please put a warning in the server title if you use bots!!! I don't mind playing with bots when they're less than 50% of the server. If I get a warning I can check the server info and investigate how many bots are on the server, if I don't get a warning I often end up waiting for a massive CSS load time which is even long on my effing fast computer before having to cancel and find a new server.

    3. Put a FF warning in the server title!!!! Seriously, when did people start thinking FF enhanced CS gameplay. Did Christopher Reeves die and come back to life, say that CS servers should use FF then die again? Another thing, FF may make CS "more realistic" but CS is not very realistic!!! One of the reasons I like CS so much is because there are so many things about the game where Valve and its creators sacrificed realisim for FUN. It's not realistic for someone to be strafing around in front of you when you're firing a gun down a narrow hall, where this idiot usually strafes in front of your fire and dies then uses a admin mod to slay you not realizing they are a fucking idiot. These kinds of server admins praise realism but then don't mind the completely retarded admin mod slay explosion effect. Look at me I randomly combusted into the fourth of fucking July, only ugly!

    That's all I got for now.