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Anyone else in the Industry sick of being confused with a Computer game designer?

Started by Ian Warner, September 30, 2011, 02:28:23 PM

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Bedrockbrendan

#15
December 11, 2011, 11:36:34 AM
Quote from: Eidolon;494640I HATE HATE HATE that computer games are allowed to be called RPGs. It's insulting and demeaning.

It also makes google searches that much harder.

Vile Traveller

#16
December 11, 2011, 06:08:56 PM
In real life my profession (landscape architect) is constantly confused with garden landscapers. It seems kind of poetic, in a really bad way, that every person I tell about AEON thinks it's a computer game.

I wish people could just learn to say, "What's that?" if they don't know something ...

Aos

#17
December 11, 2011, 06:41:43 PM
Quote from: dsivis;494583Reminds me of people ask me what my favorite dinosaur is. FYI: I'm an archaeologist. Of course, then I have to explain that I don't know how to use a whip, nor am I afraid of snakes. I usually make jokes about it.

I actually had exactly the same thought.
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Planet Algol

#18
December 21, 2011, 12:01:02 AM
Great, now when I take my Archaeology course I'm going to have to fight the impule to act confused and keep asking questions about dinosaurs,

"Wait, wait....so when do we get to see the dinosaur skeletons?"
Yeah, but who gives a fuck? You? Jibba?

Well congrats. No one else gives a shit, so your arguments are a waste of breath.

Ian Warner

#19
December 27, 2011, 04:55:57 AM
Nah, mostly you'll be entertained by batshit crazy professors for a few years before hitting the dole queue with everyone else!

Trust me, I was there up to MA level.
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T-Willard

#20
December 27, 2011, 07:54:22 PM
Naw, it doesn't bother me.

What does bug me is as soon as people hear that I'm a writer, they automatically assume I do nothing but hang out in coffee shops smoking cloves and drinking expresso.

Most people can't seem to understand that writing involves a lot more than sitting in front of a computer screen and typing whatever random thing comes into your head.

And why shouldn't computer games be referred to as RPG's? Games like Neverwinter Nights, Dead Space, Mass Effect, Dragon's Age, all are roleplaying games. What would you call them?
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#21
December 31, 2011, 02:34:09 PM
I did more roleplaying in NWN and Mass Effect than with my last D&D group.
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#22
January 01, 2012, 05:59:12 AM
Quote from: Ian Warner;497597Trust me, I was there up to MA level.
Trust me, I'll be making a living involving subatomic particles in a few years.
Yeah, but who gives a fuck? You? Jibba?

Well congrats. No one else gives a shit, so your arguments are a waste of breath.

Melan

#23
January 01, 2012, 06:04:01 AM
"They are waiting for you, Gordon. In the tesssst chamber." ;)

Hope you are good with those wrenches.
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