Posts by Skjalg

  • What's going on with your life?

    At my first job, as a gas station clerk we had to stand up all the time and I remember vividly that the first few weeks I got back pains and was super tired in my lefs after work. I had to get better shoes and learn to better my posture and it all went fine after that.

  • What's going on with your life?

    Quote from FMPONE

    Standing desks are terrifying.

    Standing desks spread like the plague. Our CEO injured his back while snowboarding and had to get a standing desk. Then we hired a guy to do QA and he wanted one as well (because he is old) and now our game designer is complaining about a sore back and wants one too. And we're just 6 people lol


    Are standing desks really that great?

  • F2P is burning article on polygon

    Quote from Taylor

    Fairly sure I've read this article fifty times already by different authors, although this one at least gets credit for length. As usual it pretends mobile and traditional gamers are the exact same demographic, but the former have just been mislead by the evil people in suits. It also has some pretty suspect examples: Mobile games don't care about UX design? Please. Like all other opinion articles in Polygon, it's link-bait to advertise something, although at least it isn't quite as factually inaccurate as Bennet Foddy's "my game collection won't have net-play because I don't understand net-code" piece.


    The F2P model is already ingrained in PC gaming and Steam, and accepted and beloved by gamers who will defend it as being fine because you're never "paying to win." Go tell a League of Legends player LoL's model is exploitative and they'll bite your head off. Valve are pretty much leading the F2P charge with Team Fortress and Defence of the Ancients being a constant test-bed for different monetisation models.

    Hah yeah, I've had this discussion a lot with LoL players and none of them seem to understand that if you pay you get an advantage simply because you can actually just grind and get the same advantage. But if I don't have time to grind I can pay.. to win... Its just the same with Hearthstone.


    Which, we all should know, is pay to win.

  • Music you listen to while weurking ?

    Spent some hours with this on repeat today

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  • What's going on with your life?

    Hehe yeah I remember very well when I asked my parents if I could take 1 year off after high school to spend on making maps (This was the year HL2 came out). Unsurprisingly we had a huge fight and I ended up having to study at the university that year. After the first semester my grades were D, D and E. The next semester I didn't show up.


    But it was not because I was creating levels, it was because I was playing World of Warcraft.


    So my parents were right all along, I would not spend that year working hard, I would just spend it playing games and wasting my time. And after realizing what a failure I was and that I did not hold up to my own wows I was pretty depressed. But I turned it around. So the next year I switched schools (same study) and improved my grades considerably and finished my bachelors in programming after 3 more years, which in turn led me to the games industry with a (perhaps?) more fulfilling job than creating levels (at least for me).

  • What's going on with your life?

    Wow I had no idea some of you were battling so much dark shit. I just want to take the time to say that Dux you are so incredibly talented and there's been so many moments that I wish that I was you.


    But then I had no idea about that other side of you. The stuff you were dealing with. I wish I could help, but all I can really say is that I know there's a lot of stigma in Europe against going to doctors when all you have is dark thoughts and I just want you (all of you) to know that you should not feel that way. Oh and, if your current doctor is not working out for you, don't give up on doctors, just try another doctor.


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    I think its weird how positivity and negativity works. There's so many reasons why I could be unhappy. I mean, I still beat myself up about how much of a failure PONH/ESE was, and how most of it was my fault. And so much stuff has happened since then that I should stop blaming myself for that by now. And if I focus too much on those things I start feeling really shitty, but luckily my mind usually blanks all that shit out. Day to day basis I don't have time to think about it.


    And whenever I start thinking about the negative stuff my mind usually just goes something like this: Are you fucking serious? All your life you've been devoted to creating games, and now you are doing it professionally. You have a wife, two children, you own your flat, a car and have a supporting family and a bunch of really close friends that would be at your door immediately if you asked. Stop complaining.


    I guess I don't have time to think about those sort of things lately either, with having a second baby to deal with and all. Summer vacation is coming up too, and there's just so much more planning involved when you have kids. I'm really looking forward to just sitting in a chair on a lawn with a beer in my hand. But I know that will probably never happen in 20 years lol I'll be too busy running after my kids

  • Music you listen to while weurking ?

    Lately I've tried just wearing my head phones and not listening to anything and its actually better than listening to stuff.


    Except when the team starts having an argument, because that breaks my attention...


    So maybe I should invest in some noise cancelling head phones

  • Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft

    All the guys at work are playing this now hehe


    My boss suggested an in house tournament and one of the guys quickly chimed in that it wouldn't really be fair because he didn't have enough cards yet so they decided to hold some form of draft tournament.


    I thought that was interesting, considering that this "isn't pay to win", but clearly here he would have to pay to become an equal in our in house tournament.