Well sure. The skill of art itself is transferrable. But you can't really blame anyone for trying to streamline the process. Isn't making things more accessible a good thing?
Bad way to tell yourself that you don't actually want to learn anything. I'll admit, Picasso painted a lot of great stuff. But he was also a lunatic who painted a lot of actual garbage. You have to know what the rules are if you want to break those rules.
I agree that college and university education is an overblown issue, especially with contemporary mediums like art. But you wouldn't have gone if you knew how to learn it yourself. Don't pretend you would still be the same artist today if you didn't go.
You chose a fun and relatively easy career path. What did you expect? It's not like popping an ollie on a skateboard suddenly makes you a professional skateboarder. You have to earn that.
Then you're in the wrong business. You know what's stressful? Moving furniture out of a 3 story octagon house is stressful. Cleaning up 100lbs of garbage is stressful. Performing brain surgery is stressful. All you're doing is moving one hand for a few hours. Sure, very stressful.
My brother in Christ, you are a critic. You are a critic because you are a consumer. Being a consumer doesn't make you qualified to make the thing you're consuming. Just because you can eat a souffle and talk about whether or not you like it doesn't mean you can make a souffle.
Is it? Or is your take just hot? The reality is that we all have different opinions. If you don't like a game that everybody else likes, that doesn't make it overrated. Clearly the majority disagree with you. It just means you personally don't agree with the rating.
So what you're saying is you can't be trusted as a critic to give us your real thoughts. You are incapable of having your own opinion if it isn't validated by everybody else. That's not being a critic. That's being a simp.
Why? If you hated it, why would you tell other people to play it? Sadism? Same in reverse. If you loved it, why wouldn't you want other people to play it?
What does that have to do with the quality? A movie from 1920 that's great today is just a great movie. A bad movie is just a bad movie. Same with games. The year doesn't matter anymore because it isn't that year anymore. If something isn't playable today, it probably wasn't playable in the 90s either. It's just your nostalgia blinding you to that. Games are and can be dated. Graphics are dated, systems are dated, and standards are dated. But none of that really matters. Time period limitations don't really matter for raw design quality.
You're a programmer. Fix it. If you can't fix it, then what room do you have to call it horrible? You're not some end consumer who only browses the web. You're a programmer.
This isn't always dumb. There are definitely good criticisms of some languages. But most of the time, this is just some doofus who doesn't actually understand code. They just know how it's supposed to look.
Are they? Because the lead programmers are the guys who develop the scripting languages. If you wrote a language that sucked and ran like shit, it isn't the language's fault. It's yours for not writing a more efficient and optimized language.
This is only valid when it's a senior programmer with proven senior experience. If you're just some nutjob who developed an indie game, you can't really claim to be a more serious programmer. Your thoughts and methodologies are completely irrelevant because somebody else is developing the tools that you work with. Regardless of how complex that game is, it will never be as complex as creating the language that you used to make it.
Armchair optimizers are always trying to one-up each other. They made the code block shorter, they wrote a more efficient function, whatever. But you can't seriously assume that one guy can re-optimize the code of an entire 100-person studio. It isn't tangible. There's no real way their individual IQ is higher than the combined IQ of 100 people. Sometimes what these doofs call "optimization" is really just "I wrote it my way because I think it's better."
Honestly, I should know better. But I still reflexively say this pretty often. The reality is that you should use every resource you can to learn something. The best possible thing you can do is read some textbooks, and then follow that with video tutorials. But none of that matters if you aren't practicing while you learn. That practice is what cements the ideas in your brain.
I only partially disagree with myself. You should trust your own opinion as the dominant opinion for yourself. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't listen to other people. Other opinions provide perspective. Those perspectives may or may not be helpful in shaping your opinion into something more coherent. You don't have to change what you believe in, just take in what others believe.
Ah, if a younger me could hear me now. I would think I'm such a prick. A younger me couldn't really perceive limitations of development or the process of actually making stuff. It was just a one dimensional "good or bad" mentality. It's easy to complain when you don't know fuck all about what you're complaining about.
I remember the exact time and place that I said this. It was the first time I questioned myself after having said something. Who am I to tell somebody what they do and don't understand about their personal feelings? A literal nobody, that's who. It's not like I understand their feelings better than they do. That thought is just as stupid as a college teaching classes on appreciation. Who do they think they are to teach you how to appreciate something?
Yeah, young self, I don't think you were as wise as you think you were. The Shia Coefficient doesn't exactly apply to skill building. "Just do it" was a good driving motivator, but not helpful at all for actually doing anything. Saying something like "pick up a textbook" would have been better.
In 10 years, I'll look back on myself again as if I didn't know anything. That's just how learning works. We learn stuff, we realize that stuff we knew previously was wrong, and we accept that we were stupid for that stuff. The trick to accepting it is realizing that you are where you are because of the mistakes you made just as much as the successes. So even if I don't agree with any of this in 10 years, I'll accept that as a part of the learning process.