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cRPG => General Discussion => Topic started by: Devilize on July 13, 2011, 11:57:22 pm
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:arrow: So it's come to my attention since my absence that rumors about me have spread on the assumption that I left with hundreds of dollars in donation money.
:arrow: I'm writing in reply to quell these suspicions. So I'll start from the beginning.
:arrow: In the real world I go to a business school to receive my Master's in Computer Science with focus on Computer Programming. I work for a utility company as a glorified repairman for servers and networks ect...
The beginning of my absence was the result of Finals during June. (As a business school we follow a 10 week semester not a 16 week) Shortly following the end of my Finals I was met with an proposition through my company to earn double pay + bonus for what was to be about 2 weeks of work offsite. This offsite project took me from Michigan to Raleigh, North Carolina. For the time being I was shacked up in a hotel for a total of 3 weeks (Due to complications) with my fiance's labtop playing games when I wasn't working. (I finally beat The Witcher 2, badass game)
So lets address some rumors.
:arrow:- Devilize is a jerk off who ran off with hundreds of dollars in donation money!
A- Simply not true, I encourage any single person whom has donated to offer proof that their money was stolen. In case a donator has felt humiliated they may request a full refund of their donation. I know ever single person who donated btw. To make things more official I offer you my paypal transaction record I used to explain myself to my clan. http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb205/devilization/mydefensecase.png As you can see I've personally spent hundreds of dollars for the server with my own money, you can also see that with the exception of one payment all payments have been for the server alone. The single payment to Jestservers is the for the clan ts and was requested by one of the clan donators to have half his sum sent to the ts donation.
:arrow:- Devilize changed his phone, we called him and a girl was on the voicemail!
A- That's my fiance's voice, she even says my name, Demetrius, during the voicemail.
:arrow:- Devilize is ignoring people on steam HE'S GUILTY!!!
A- I never had steam online while I was away as the hotel wanted to charge me for internet that was wireless only. My fiance was the one on my computer playing games or watching movies or looking up shit on PerezHilton.com She advised me that people were messaging me while she was on and asked to shut steam off. I advised her to to just shut off the friends list if she wanted to play games.
:arrow:- Devilize is playing eveonline!!!
A- Yes I do, however, since I was unable to update my character's skill list while I was away I asked my fiance to do it for me. She would have been on for only minutes.
:arrow:- Devilize didn't pay for the server obviously he ran off with the money!
A- Call it a series of unfortunate events, Ecko and I were talking about doing upgrades with the servers which would cost more money and a new donation center. The initial plan was to roll them out by July, the month i didn't pay. The first problem came with my relocation, I had planned to be back before the end of July and either pay into the server or begin rolling out the upgrade, unfortunately, I was detained for another week plus which put me over the date for the server bill. I could have made a payment, however, at the time I had no way of communicating to find if we upgraded or not and wasn't about to throw money off into space.
:arrow:- Devilize could have done something to get a hold of someone.
A- True, however, I simply had no idea that being gone for 3 weeks would amount to such random rumors. That being said I did advise a few friends I got a hold of at the last min that I would be gone for sometime. These select friends apparently didn't think it was a big deal, I don't blame them.
So inclosing these rumors are all false - generated by
A. Miscommunication
B. Bruised chromosome
C. Ungrateful little prick(s)
D. All of the above
I apologize to the community if I caused you heartache and chest pains. Thanks for reading.
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In before the "TL:DR" and conspiracy comments.
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Only one way to prove your innocence. We have to handcuff your hands and then throw you into the sea and if you float you're guilty but if you sink down as a stone you're innocent.
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But...
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No buts mister! Off you go! Case closed.
P.S (We can lend Okin's and Alexs private handcuffs).
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tl;dr
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If it's TL:DR then it never bothered you to begin which as such the post and you reading it is irrelevant. That being said sorry for the wall.
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Bravo! It is not TL:DR. I read it all in 2 minutes :)
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I had a feeling that these were indeed merely heinous lies! I do believe you laughed at one of my shitty jokes once, and this proved to me that your character would not allow something like this, after such charity. Now we can get back to the real issue at hand, the fact that DarkKarma_of_Chaos uses the autoblock hack (but it doesn't work for him any more.)
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I love how when people don't know something, they just make shit up. Yes Kesh I'm looking at you O_O
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I love how when people don't know something, they just make shit up. Yes Kesh I'm looking at you O_O
I heard mine from several ATS :mrgreen:
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I heard mine from several ATS :mrgreen:
Screw those homo-momos.
Anyway Devilize are you back now?
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If it's TL:DR then it never bothered you to begin which as such the post and you reading it is irrelevant. That being said sorry for the wall.
Would you have preffered a cool story bro then?
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[So inclosing these rumors are all false - generated by
A. Miscommunication
B. Bruised chromosome
C. Ungrateful little prick(s)
D. All of the above
lol.
Glad to see one of the few(three?) Hospitaller's I like, is back.
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This has been entertaining to watch. When I heard about the latest NA drama I didn't believe it (although you ARE Americans you can't be THAT bad, can you?) and now that it is explained it's even more entertaining.
Cheers.
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I heard mine from several ATS :mrgreen:
Me too
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Why are you all so quick to accept this awfully conveniant explanation that covers everything? it's TOO convenient... I have another explanation...
Devilize, having accumalted a couple hundered in donations was overcome by greed at the seemingly endless amount of money that he was now in possession of; he hired some lady on the street to make his voicemail message as he did not want to get a new phone, and he wasn't sure how to turn off the steam friends list.. anyways; he took his ill gotten two hundred or so dollars and fled to mexico to live a life of luxury and sin with his endless funds. Ecko caught wind of this though and sent Dog the bounty hunter to capture Devilize and bring him before the high council of the northern empire to answer for his sins. When Dog the bounty hunter caught up with devilize as he was struggling to jump the fence into Mexico, devilize was able to bribe Dog with his copious wealth into verifying this nonsense story that devilize has posted... thus devilize was able to return and pretend nothing had really happened... he would have gotten away with it too but Huey is the master of conspiracies and through exposure to him, I too was able to see through his flimsty story... I'm on to you!
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All I saw was Devilize bragging about having a girlfriend. God.
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All I saw was Devilize bragging about having a girlfriend. God.
I know, right?
How terrible, I mean, who does that?
Such a Liar, that Devilize guy. Either he is a real lifer who has GF wand thus does not play gamz, or he is a LIAR! there are no women on the internet too, he claims she was splaying gaimz, psh...
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Devilize stole my bike.
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All I saw was Devilize bragging about having a girlfriend. God.
YUP.
And something about Eve Online. Is Eve her name!?
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YUP.
And something about Eve Online. Is Eve her name!?
wtf how the hell did I end up in 2002 again
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YUP.
And something about Eve Online. Is Eve her name!?
Her name is Eve and he found her online on craigslist
ZINGGG!
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Her name is Eve and she found her online on craigslist
ZINGGG!
This explains everything!!!!! :shock: :!: :shock: :!: :shock:
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He bought her with the donation money D:
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How dare people start such vile rumors, like that you vanished for a month with hundreds of dollars of donation money. What a terrible rumoh-wait.
"Honey, some people are talking to you on steam. They sound angry and are saying that you have their money."
"Shut up baby, close steam and go back to playing The Sims."
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ROFL
Until know I haven't heard a thing about this. It's a really interesting story.
But I would never expect Devilize to do such a thing. Wayne Smart on the other hand...
Uhm, one more thing. Will there be happy ending, Devilize marrying his fiancee and stuff like that?
I wanna know how it ends :D
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:arrow: So it's come to my attention since my absence that rumors about me have spread on the assumption that I left with hundreds of dollars in donation money.
:arrow: I'm writing in reply to quell these suspicions. So I'll start from the beginning.
:arrow: In the real world I go to a business school to receive my Master's in Computer Science with focus on Computer Programming. I work for a utility company as a glorified repairman for servers and networks ect...
The beginning of my absence was the result of Finals during June. (As a business school we follow a 10 week semester not a 16 week) Shortly following the end of my Finals I was met with an proposition through my company to earn double pay + bonus for what was to be about 2 weeks of work offsite. This offsite project took me from Michigan to Raleigh, North Carolina. For the time being I was shacked up in a hotel for a total of 3 weeks (Due to complications) with my fiance's labtop playing games when I wasn't working. (I finally beat The Witcher 2, badass game)
So lets address some rumors.
:arrow:- Devilize is a jerk off who ran off with hundreds of dollars in donation money!
A- Simply not true, I encourage any single person whom has donated to offer proof that their money was stolen. In case a donator has felt humiliated they may request a full refund of their donation. I know ever single person who donated btw. To make things more official I offer you my paypal transaction record I used to explain myself to my clan. http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb205/devilization/mydefensecase.png As you can see I've personally spent hundreds of dollars for the server with my own money, you can also see that with the exception of one payment all payments have been for the server alone. The single payment to Jestservers is the for the clan ts and was requested by one of the clan donators to have half his sum sent to the ts donation.
:arrow:- Devilize changed his phone, we called him and a girl was on the voicemail!
A- That's my fiance's voice, she even says my name, Demetrius, during the voicemail.
:arrow:- Devilize is ignoring people on steam HE'S GUILTY!!!
A- I never had steam online while I was away as the hotel wanted to charge me for internet that was wireless only. My fiance was the one on my computer playing games or watching movies or looking up shit on PerezHilton.com She advised me that people were messaging me while she was on and asked to shut steam off. I advised her to to just shut off the friends list if she wanted to play games.
:arrow:- Devilize is playing eveonline!!!
A- Yes I do, however, since I was unable to update my character's skill list while I was away I asked my fiance to do it for me. She would have been on for only minutes.
:arrow:- Devilize didn't pay for the server obviously he ran off with the money!
A- Call it a series of unfortunate events, Ecko and I were talking about doing upgrades with the servers which would cost more money and a new donation center. The initial plan was to roll them out by July, the month i didn't pay. The first problem came with my relocation, I had planned to be back before the end of July and either pay into the server or begin rolling out the upgrade, unfortunately, I was detained for another week plus which put me over the date for the server bill. I could have made a payment, however, at the time I had no way of communicating to find if we upgraded or not and wasn't about to throw money off into space.
:arrow:- Devilize could have done something to get a hold of someone.
A- True, however, I simply had no idea that being gone for 3 weeks would amount to such random rumors. That being said I did advise a few friends I got a hold of at the last min that I would be gone for sometime. These select friends apparently didn't think it was a big deal, I don't blame them.
So inclosing these rumors are all false - generated by
A. Miscommunication
B. Bruised chromosome
C. Ungrateful little prick(s)
D. All of the above
I apologize to the community if I caused you heartache and chest pains. Thanks for reading.
So you are engaged to a guy?
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lol, no, I'm heterosexual. Amber, my fiance, doesn't really play pc games, more like pop cap games and card games. On the Wii, however, she is a crazed maniac who plays all of the Mario games she can get. Id like to get her to play a MMO with me but it's just not in the cards. Were getting married summer of 2012.
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lol, no, I'm heterosexual. Amber, my fiance, doesn't really play pc games, more like pop cap games and card games. On the Wii, however, she is a crazed maniac who plays all of the Mario games she can get. Id like to get her to play a MMO with me but it's just not in the cards. Were getting married summer of 2012.
yeah yeah yeah stop bragging yeesh anywho who cares we are now all Rabble Rabble Rabble over the Classical drama, you are ancient history!
But seriously, congratulations, that is wonderful news!
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lol, no, I'm heterosexual. Amber, my fiance, doesn't really play pc games, more like pop cap games and card games. On the Wii, however, she is a crazed maniac who plays all of the Mario games she can get. Id like to get her to play a MMO with me but it's just not in the cards. Were getting married summer of 2012.
You should be calling her fiancee then, not fiance.
Fiance is what you are. <3
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Why are you all so quick to accept this awfully conveniant explanation that covers everything? it's TOO convenient... I have another explanation...
Devilize, having accumalted a couple hundered in donations was overcome by greed at the seemingly endless amount of money that he was now in possession of; he hired some lady on the street to make his voicemail message as he did not want to get a new phone, and he wasn't sure how to turn off the steam friends list.. anyways; he took his ill gotten two hundred or so dollars and fled to mexico to live a life of luxury and sin with his endless funds. Ecko caught wind of this though and sent Dog the bounty hunter to capture Devilize and bring him before the high council of the northern empire to answer for his sins. When Dog the bounty hunter caught up with devilize as he was struggling to jump the fence into Mexico, devilize was able to bribe Dog with his copious wealth into verifying this nonsense story that devilize has posted... thus devilize was able to return and pretend nothing had really happened... he would have gotten away with it too but Huey is the master of conspiracies and through exposure to him, I too was able to see through his flimsty story... I'm on to you!
xD
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Lies! I saw him lurking in some other forums only a few days ago!
Hmm, do we have June already?
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You should be calling her fiancee then, not fiance.
Fiance is what you are. <3
Your correct i apologize for my grammar.
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yeah yeah yeah stop bragging yeesh anywho who cares we are now all Rabble Rabble Rabble over the Classical drama, you are ancient history!
But seriously, congratulations, that is wonderful news!
I can't believe you made me zoom all the way in for that. I was expecting more. :mad:
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I can believe you made me zoom all the way in for that. I was expecting more. :mad:
Sowwy!
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Good to have you back boss :D
Glad the guy that allowed me to admin did not leave town :D
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Your correct i apologize for my grammar.
Hah! Funny response, that.
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I can't believe you made me zoom all the way in for that. I was expecting more. :mad:
You do know that you could just quote it and see it right?
Sowwy!
No reason to apologize!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
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You do know that you could just quote it and see it right?
No reason to apologize!!!! :twisted: :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:
That is the same trick I use when someone uses a bunch of spoilers in spoilers! It works rather well and saves a lot of time, as after I hit the third or fourth spoiler then I tend to get bored and impatient hahahaha :lol:
Say, who else thinks that it is stupid that we can make white text?
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Your correct i apologize for my grammar.
You're grammer weren't tha prollem, it were the spelling
:mrgreen:
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Where the heck did you find time for gaming while schooling.. especially while working...
I'd ask you to unban me, but I found something to obsess on besides M&B and playing games, which I mention seeing what you went to school for...
UDK
http://www.udk.com/features
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You're grammer weren't tha prollem, it were the spelling
:mrgreen:
"spelling" falls under grammar as grammar is a generalization of the rules that define a language. I also used it to cover the mistake of using "she" defined as "fiance" instead of fiancee, which can be described as a syntax error within a sentence, this also falls under the generalization of grammar.
Where the heck did you find time for gaming while schooling.. especially while working...
I'd ask you to unban me, but I found something to obsess on besides M&B and playing games, which I mention seeing what you went to school for...
UDK
http://www.udk.com/features
As is available in most if not all high schools (generally year 9-12) in USA I was given the option to duel enroll into college while going into high school for my 11th and 12th year. I graduated high school 05 had my associates in 06 and bachelors in 09. (would have been 08 but had to wait till summer to take my mandatory 80 hours of internship)
So I've done all my crunch time and currently taking it slow with my current schooling, I do 3 classes on average which are 4 hour classes once a week generally at night or weekends. My job is unique in that most of it is done right from home and any work i do whether it takes me 20 mins or 14 hours counts as 8 hours salary. It's rare for me to have to put more then 20 hours of work in a week. There are other benefits but I suppose the downfalls are that I am on call 24 hours if anything should happen within my region. (which can cover as much as a 2 hour drive) The situation is rare but happens, I always triple check my work to make sure the reason isn't one of my own, but if something can happen it will happen.
So all in all I generally have a good amount of time for myself to do w/e.
On the gaming aspect, that is not my field. Sure the languages are used and I can, for the most part, understand what is going on in said script, but I have absolutely no desire to get into the gaming industry.
Firstly its cutthroat to high hell. Companies in the gaming industry will go on a hire spree for development of a new product and once the product is complete they will drop 75% or higher of the new employees and pick up a fresh batch to keep the cost of production down. It happens like clockwork across the board for large and small companies because the field is saturated with new would be devs who want the make their "dream game".
If you do happen to find a steady job you will be overworked and underpaid all the way through, It's even worse in EU. This is assuming that you actually get into the business, but if you do its a lot like government jobs, once your in your in. I'm afraid the list goes on but if you like stats I can say that about 90 percent of my class graduated with intent for the gaming industry and now just about all of them are doing a job they didn't go to school for.
The grass isn't exactly greener over here either however work is steady and you will more likely be paid what you deserve. Since I want to marry and raise a family this is exactly what I needed and wanted, I enjoy my job and I'm happy to have it. Only thing I'm unhappy about is where I'm living which will change in the next year.
:arrow: Couple tips for those interested in the computer science field.
- Employers are more interested in a broader range of skills then a higher range. Get a bachelors and then start getting certifications in other areas such as cisco. (in short don't do what I'm doing, a master wont get you much further but experience will, in fact, having a masters can over qualify you for jobs.
- If you have a degree in computer science with certification in medical terminology you will never be without a job for the rest of your natural born life. It is a very sought after skill set and very rare to find.
- Experience is everything in this field, if you can prove that you have a 4 year skill set with C++ and 2 years with C# you will get a job. So practice practice practice.
- This job, like the medical field, is always changing and updating, stay in the know, go to conferences, keep reading and learning and take classes through work. (several will pay for your classes so you can be of more use to them, don't let this waste.)
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On the gaming aspect, that is not my field. Sure the languages are used and I can, for the most part, understand what is going on in said script, but I have absolutely no desire to get into the gaming industry.
Firstly its cutthroat to high hell. Companies in the gaming industry will go on a hire spree for development of a new product and once the product is complete they will drop 75% or higher of the new employees and pick up a fresh batch to keep the cost of production down. It happens like clockwork across the board for large and small companies because the field is saturated with new would be devs who want the make their "dream game".
If you do happen to find a steady job you will be overworked and underpaid all the way through, It's even worse in EU. This is assuming that you actually get into the business, but if you do its a lot like government jobs, once your in your in. I'm afraid the list goes on but if you like stats I can say that about 90 percent of my class graduated with intent for the gaming industry and now just about all of them are doing a job they didn't go to school for.
As a software developer living in EU (I'm also making games, Devilize knows at least one of them :D) I can confirm that. I'm making all sorts of software, from web productions to games and the most fun I have making games - but it's also the worst paid work with a lot of crunch times. It's also the only branche where you have to deal with angry customers of your customer.
- Employers are more interested in a broader range of skills then a higher range. Get a bachelors and then start getting certifications in other areas such as cisco. (in short don't do what I'm doing, a master wont get you much further but experience will, in fact, having a masters can over qualify you for jobs.
I'd make the masters (at least in the EU) if I want to do more theoretical and specialized work. Otherwise it could make you over qualified, that's true.
- Experience is everything in this field, if you can prove that you have a 4 year skill set with C++ and 2 years with C# you will get a job. So practice practice practice.
IMHO nowadays it's not about programming languages but technologies. Learning a programming language is a matter of days, maybe weeks, but technologies and different libraries are a lot more complicated.
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:arrow: Couple tips for those interested in the computer science field.
- Employers are more interested in a broader range of skills then a higher range. Get a bachelors and then start getting certifications in other areas such as cisco. (in short don't do what I'm doing, a master wont get you much further but experience will, in fact, having a masters can over qualify you for jobs.
- If you have a degree in computer science with certification in medical terminology you will never be without a job for the rest of your natural born life. It is a very sought after skill set and very rare to find.
- Experience is everything in this field, if you can prove that you have a 4 year skill set with C++ and 2 years with C# you will get a job. So practice practice practice.
- This job, like the medical field, is always changing and updating, stay in the know, go to conferences, keep reading and learning and take classes through work. (several will pay for your classes so you can be of more use to them, don't let this waste.)
Sounds Similar to mine.
Engineering is tough(In the US they wish to make a standard degree have as much credits as a BS+MS). Though having a Masters goes further in this field.
(total schooling +interning= 8 years for just BS and job, 10 years if you do masters. Sucks horribly)
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Sounds Similar to mine.
Engineering is tough(In the US they wish to make a standard degree have as much credits as a BS+MS). Though having a Masters goes further in this field.
(total schooling +interning= 8 years for just BS and job, 10 years if you do masters. Sucks horribly)
Ugh, I remember that from SOE... "This is a four year program, you will be lucky if you finish in 5."
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Ugh, I remember that from SOE... "This is a four year program, you will be lucky if you finish in 5."
heh most the people i graduated with were on the 5+ year track. I was one of the few who did it in 4.
(SOE?)
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heh most the people i graduated with were on the 5+ year track. I was one of the few who did it in 4.
(SOE?)
School of Engineering, my university decided to make all Engineering degrees a separate part of the university with it's own guidance advisors, administration etc. It was nice to have nothing but geeks managing geeks :lol:. Though maybe they just wanted us far away since we had our own nuclear reactor....
Also, good job doing it in just 4!
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As a software developer living in EU (I'm also making games, Devilize knows at least one of them :D) I can confirm that. I'm making all sorts of software, from web productions to games and the most fun I have making games - but it's also the worst paid work with a lot of crunch times. It's also the only branche where you have to deal with angry customers of your customer.
I'd make the masters (at least in the EU) if I want to do more theoretical and specialized work. Otherwise it could make you over qualified, that's true.
IMHO nowadays it's not about programming languages but technologies. Learning a programming language is a matter of days, maybe weeks, but technologies and different libraries are a lot more complicated.
I'm so happy that The Guild 2 Renaissance is still being supported still, I'm wondering though if your company was going to take over in support of official server(s) for multiplayer, I know its off topic. I love the game though, it has so much potential I only wish the game had more of a mod community - seems a bit dry in comparison to PotES.
In the master aspect, your in the same boat as I, I desire it for my bosses job.
Last part, this is true, at this point I only need a book to reference syntax rules for any given language and I'm good to go, but technologies such as engines like the "Hero Engine" (being used for SWTOR) are sought after skill sets. If you can prove you have the skills you may have a job, only problem I see is that several technologies are not open to the public and require thousands of $ to acquire. Which means if your not already part of a company that is using it your not using it thus are not qualified. Course that's not true in every case but it is a situation.
I did want to add one more tip.
- Don't be overwhelmed when reading a job description with requirements or desires that seem godlike. This is the most optimal list that the business is looking for and 9/10 times will never find, If you can cover half the requirements, including the basics, on the list its worth submitting your resume for.
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Dear lord, this has became a tips on how to become a PC designer thing.
I like!
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I'm so happy that The Guild 2 Renaissance is still being supported still, I'm wondering though if your company was going to take over in support of official server(s) for multiplayer, I know its off topic. I love the game though, it has so much potential I only wish the game had more of a mod community - seems a bit dry in comparison to PotES.
That's because PotES has been released when the Guild 2 community was a lot bigger. :/
As for the MP-server issue: There are two options we're currently checking.
- Don't be overwhelmed when reading a job description with requirements or desires that seem godlike. This is the most optimal list that the business is looking for and 9/10 times will never find, If you can cover half the requirements, including the basics, on the list its worth submitting your resume for.
In German there's a word for that: Eierlegende Wollmilchsau, which means something like "egg-laying, wool and milk yielding pig" or "Swiss army-knife". I think everyone who is capable of all the requirements in a job description is too expensive for the company :D
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