Computer plays video games
I want to make video games
Learn to program
Never even make video gamesYeah… Decades later I still sometimes think about making video games, but never have any time to do more than write down a quick idea. Maybe one day…
I had enough common sense as an 18-year-old to know that writers and musicians need day jobs, but not enough to realize that I’d have been better off learning a unionized trade and becoming an electrician or a plumber. Since I didn’t have the looks or the personality to make it as a rent boy in Manhattan, I rent out my brain instead of my ass as a programmer.
There’s no inspiration or passion involved. I’m in it for the money. It’s thankless work best outsourced, and I laugh at articles saying that AI is going to take my job. An AI smart enough to take my job would be too smart to want it.
How was the process of learning it / getting good for you, as it can be really frustrating in the beginning?
If I wasn’t autistic before I learned to code, I sure as hell became autistic in the process. Learning to think like a computer in order to program one is a dehumanizing process. Kind of explains why so many techies are fucked in the head.
Fucked in the head and believe that we can solve every problem with tech.
The example of the guillotine ought to be all anybody needs to understand that social and political problems are not amenable to technological solutions.
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Nah, they would have rented 'em out: PEaaS: public executions as a service.
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I was good at math and bad with people.
Back in the mid to late nineties I used America Online and the warez chat rooms. I found out Visual Basic was used to create bot programs and now I work for a big tech company.
programming cool
I don’t suck as much at programming as I suck at everything else.
Making games, which, I’ve come to discover, is basically the Santa Claus of programming because most professional developers that I know started for the same reason and absolute do not program or develop games.
Same here. Always wanted to do cool games. But wanted to have an even cooler scripting language for the game. At some point programming languages became more interesting. Now working in ide development :D never finished a game
