jenuinepanic.bsky.social
Writing a scary book. Baby trail runner. Gym hamster. Work in games tech and once made a board game about puns.
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that looks brilliant! any plans for an audiobook version?
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I recently had to have a friend explain a very basic thing to me that I've been confused about for years cause the example I learned in college was totally inaccurate.
eh... and that's my little rant 😅
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And related, lecturers giving career advice that they're totally unqualified to give, and refusing to learn about how the industry is now, versus what they thought it was like 10 years ago. Oh and giving examples that don't relate to real world use cases at all,
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and if they want to code games they need to learn to code outside of that framework too, and they were all adamant that the Unity framework was universal.
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will teach you when you start if you can prove good foundations. Which seems like a silly thing to complain about, but I've had many contentious conversations with students trying to explain that knowing Unity isn't enough to work at any AAA game developer
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Worst thing? Lecturers who know nothing about the industry and confidently teach the wrong thing. An example being they choose one tool and convince their students that everyone in games uses this, when in reality most companies use different ones and
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I have a game dev degree, previously taught on games courses and work in games tech.
Best thing is learning overarching concepts that last you years and are frequently implemented in different ways
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how are we all in this exact same boat??? I spent hours today trying to debug a website which gave many college flashbacks and zero tangible results.
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then presents those two peoples opinion on Adams like fact and makes a guess at who an unidentified murderer is.
It was an interesting overview of events but I'd take it as a very one sided biased view.
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I read the book and it seemed quite even handed until the last third where he reveals the books is mainly based on two peoples recollections, who both openly loathe Adams for GFA instead of keeping the fight going, intentionally doesn't bother covering the British,
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In search of the true GOAT?
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I've always tried to keep games on a console to try to separate work from fun- the classic problem with working in the games space- but now work is also asking me to play games so... I am very lost
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this was actually all sparked by me hooking up my old desktop to my TV last night to watch TLoU on DVD and being unable to get the image to display at full res 😅 I usually use my ps4 but I've somehow lost the power cable, so naturally a new console as a glorified DVD player is the way to go
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I don't know about where you are, but here (Ireland) when businesses shut down their equipment sometimes gets sold liquidiation auctioneers for cut rates. I know someone who get a Hermann Miller super cheap at one, it might be worth looking into.
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I might check those out. My last noise cancelling headphones died sometime last year and I haven't got around to replacing them yet