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No one cares about your job/degree/background
We all have experiences, but as a player your experience most likely has nothing to do with actually building Glitch. I keep spraining my eyeballs from seeing players make mistakes in-world, then running here to complain or call it a bug, then, "I have a a degree/worked on computer/bought the first Atari, so there's no reason...blah, blah, blah."
Just. Stop.
Carry on.
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Loooool
:) - +1.5mil
- As someone who has a background in liking threads like this, I think it is important to +1 this one :)
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But I did buy the first Atari, so...
Oh, nevermind.
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I assume this is aimed towards me. As such it's defamation, an insult to anyone who worked hard for their diploma or degree and i think this post should be removed. It's even written in the ToS - post, email or otherwise transmit any content, or use the API in connection with any Licensee Application or content, that (i) is unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, excessively violent, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, pornographic, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, racially hateful, ethnically or otherwise objectionable.
SO if the Admins are doing their job, i should see this post removed by the end of Today. Tuesday October 4, 2011. - @Walla Walla: Fantastic post. I just laughed so loud, that was awesome.
- OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!
- Walla Walla, there are a lot more people than you who try to impress the forums with their educations or how many decades they've been playing games/using computers/etc.
- This behavior and its associated hubris is pretty crummy, yeah. Walla Walla, if you assume that this thread was directed toward you, then maybe you should reconsider your behavior in the game and around the forums. :-)
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Everyone knows that someone with a degree would never make a mistake in an easy game like Glitch. Like that time a Juju stole my Gurly Drink. Obviously a flaw in the gamedesign.
Signed,
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Walla Walla, I have a Game Design certificate that was an additional semester for my Master's Degree. I graduated with that certificate in 1999. Don't even think about claiming this thread is about you. It's clearly all about ME.
And Victoria, clearly your MSc trumps my MUP. - Yeah you may all have your "whatevers" but no one posted bloating about their degree/diploma... as i have done, what like three times now?
- Walla Walla, that's because--as Jarhaven pointed out--nobody cares. Except for you, it seems.
- +1 this entire thread. What a great laugh......
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I would like to bloat my diploma, too! But I thought those places were called "diploma mills."
And yet, here I am obviously toiling away in a diploma mine... where did I go wrong?! -
This thread had me laughing.
Walla Walla, point out where I said it was you. Or are you a mindreader and know exactly what threads and people I've spoken to over the past week? - Cellar Door, you DO know Walla Walla is joking, right? Hard to tell ;)
- Lulz
- I am getting my PhD and I accidentally donated my pick to damn Lem! So uh degrees, in game, yeahhhhh.....
- If it's any consolation, I know someone with 7 PhD's and he doesn't even know about this game, so... :P
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7 PhD's....... wow
that's like what 40 years of school???
If only there was a PhD in Game Design.... one can only dream... ahhhhh - *cue Carly Simon*
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@Cupcake, actually, I'm pretty sure he's not joking. Between this and this and this and the fact that he was in Live Help yesterday shouting for an "admin" to delete this very thread, I'm pretty sure he's actually bent out of shape over this. Others have noticed his sensitivity regarding his academic credentials, too.
But! I really hope I'm wrong. Because the whole thing would be pretty sad if it wasn't a joke. :-) - ...I know several people with game development/design phds, actually. RIT, Georgia Tech, and UNC Chapel Hill all offer them in the US. (Probably others, too) I know you can at least get a Master's in it at UBC in Canada, and there are universities in Germany and the Netherlands offering them as well (judging by people I've met, anyway). One of them has even played the game! Shock! Awe! :O
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As someone who has a long past of +1ing theads, I feel rather qualified to +1 this thread and I believe my degree in a completely unrelated subject matter will attest to the fact that my +1 comes from an extremely knowledgeable place.
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Does it count if I once clicked the "Get training for your new career as a video game tester!" ad on the Facebook sidebar?
We are all equal little glitcnies here of course. Yeah.
That said, the devs SHOULD find some forms of feedback from trained/experienced tech people of more value than that of the typical modern chat-room lounge lizard. Theyd be nuts not to. -
Feedback is only good if it helps create a better product. It really has no connection to your training and experience. Sometimes a naive question by someone with no experience will provide an amazing insight into your market and tweaks that can be made to your product. The usefulness of feedback can only be evaluated by its *usefulness*.
Trained and experienced tech people might be able to provide useful feedback more frequently, but their ideas are obviously not innately better or worse than anyone else's. That's why companies create focus groups instead of relying on their engineers.
Feedback from "trained" tech people in this game has included such woefully inadequate statements as "the player is always right". Should that have been "the trained/experienced tech people" are always right? - Meh. I've seen griefers and trolls use 'the player is always right' as an excuse. Color me not impressed.
- Back in the day when I used to sell Apple II computers, a fellow came into the store and seemed to believe that the computer should be connected wirelessly to his bank account. All the staff had a good laugh over that one. I really wish I could find that fellow and ask him what he thinks computers should do now...
- How can the player "always be right" when we can obviously see that the players do not always agree?
- I thought companies had Focus Goups to give the marketing types something vaguely scientific to do so they would quit bugging the engineers.
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This thread made me remember a wonderful commercial:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nco... - As a marketing-ish type I have to say that we have focus groups only so that we can sit behind those nifty one-way mirrors. And we usually want to avoid engineers. And/or accountants. Let's face it, we pretty much want to avoid anything remotely math-like.
- Voluptua! I've never seen that before. I can't stop laughing at it. I have tears. Her pause...classic.
- Bwahaha... that commercial... LOL