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I will be an established game developer as soon as I finish making pong....

 

I want to say “that's a fine looking deer-dragon hybrid”, really.

Probably. Even I drink stuff with caffeine when coding.

Albeit in my case it's just tea, green or white depending on the mood. So there you go, you needn't drink coffee to get your daily not-recommended caffeine dose.

 

Inject uncut caffeine straight into our eyeballs.

 

That was amazing!
Makes me extra sad I had to miss my D&D session yesterday :'(

 

Meh, something new, yes, but an actual update to things would have been more interesting for me. Thanks for the work, anyway.

 

"We got a lot of shit done and drank boatloads of coffee" just doesn't sound as cool.

That's a boatload in the sense of keeping a boat afloat, not just a boat cargo's worth of coffee (don't be silly)

 

...Brilliant. This was brilliant.
You've also inspired many evil campaign ideas. You should all feel proud of yourselves

 

Makes me miss the days of my group actually playing D&D and not trying out 50 different systems that are never as good *shudders*

 

This was the greatest of blog posts. Five flagons up!

 

You're the kind of person that hates fun aren't you?

 

No, it´s just that I didn´t find it funny. I know it was supposed to be funny, I even understand where the jokes are and I understand perfectly well that this is good written stuff that took a lot of thinking and effort and I understand that people like it. But I didn´t laugh about it and I didn´t find it as interesting as say the combat post before. Maybe has something to do with the fact that I never got to try out pen and paper games (allways wanted to try out, but never found a group to try it with).
Screw me for having a different sense of excitment, humor and fun right? I will try to comply with your sense of Humor more in the future, as you are Morgan Freeman and therefore must know better than me what is funny.

 

If they made a poster for this, I'd hang it on my wall.

 

Well, there is that. And I know what I am about to write now is a most terrible attempt at derailing this thread, but really, it boggles the mind how many young people try to go into programming because “yay, video games, it's fun and all that”.

Well, it can be enjoyable, and from time to time there are bits of code writing which is amusing or fun even, but overall it's just a lot of thinking and writing. And sometimes all that thinking and writing doesn't give us any results measurable by potential players who have no access to the product-in-the-making yet; oh, sure, we could go on for a long time about how this or that got improved or how we laid the base for some new thing or how we handled some problematic issue in the code, but that's dev stuff and not what most players would want to hear about.

And yet, so many young people still believe it's a job composed of 100% “fun” and nothing more.

But oh, well ... .


Oh, and Deadmeat5150, SangerZonvolt's first post on that issue wasn't really any indication that he “hates fun”. It's just not his sort of humour and he's just not a dev, so there was nothing of interest to him in this post. Unfortunate, but it happens.

 

Fun and interesting aren't mutually exclusive.

 

No, but that's not really the point there, is it?

 

*Shrugs* If GLG didn't run a post this week, people would be like "omg were pots????". They ran with this one, and we've already had "not interested soz gusy". I'll admit it was a fun post, but it wasn't particularly interesting for me. And I'm fine with that. If I'm honest I don't tend to read them anyway. If I did, if I followed every bit of news, etc., I'd have burned out on the game long before it even hits stores.

But I guess what I'm saying is... um... uh... You know, I don't know what I'm saying. But not every post can be hilarious, not every post can be interesting. Or, should I say, just because you don't find it interesting, it doesn't mean someone else wouldn't.

What day is it?