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Behind the Guildhall - The Story of the Students
Sam Machkovech writes "Multiple stories about SMU's Guildhall game design school have already shown up on Slashdot, but none like this. My friend and coworker Paul dug into the motivations and stories behind people who dropped their lives to learn the art of game design in an upstart school, and what the story may lack in technical information, it more than makes up for in the students' accounts. Included is a particularly touching story about a student who survived the 2002 Sari Club terrorist attack in Bali. It also touches upon the excessive overtime and dedication that the job requires, which means graduates should be plenty prepared for their future careers."
A better example would be: if a company pays women less than men and discloses this, they should be allowed to do it? Children have less rights than adults, less responsibility than adults, and require more protection.
... government regulation of business is bad, m'kay, and i took an extreme example, child labor, as a position where we do need absolute government intervention.
i think that i took a more extreme example. the poster above said that
i have no doubts in my mind that if child labor were legal, we would see it in america. why? because its legal, and the labor would be ridiculously cheap.
you're example assumes already in-place legislation and regulations, and the original poster was against... regulation of business in general, and i dont think that you can assume that he's for existing regulation.
i'm certain that if the topic were to be discussed, he would be against minimum wage legislation, as well as mandatory overtime, OSHA, and all other types of business regulation.
business regulations are there for a reason, namely that business will never treat employees, customers or partners fairly unless forced to.
... hi bingo
You know, he's a pretty ordinary dude. And he is a a lot like those dudes described in the article, in that he's stuck doing a job that doesn't give much satisfaction. He grinds away, flying around a boring part of space, keeping the peace, dreaming about the glory of the NEG Marine Corps who won't let him in because he has to do his current job 'cause noone else wants to do it. Then he gets a chance to prove himself, and to get satisfaction from his own existence by doing a task that actually stimulates him on an intellectual and emotional level.
When I'm out there, gutting Skaarj, dismembering mercenaries and doing nasty stuff to equally nasty creatures, I think about the hard choices he must face every day. His responsibilities to the community and his friends. About doing what's right, but still true to himself. I make him excel in his work, but make sure that he never looses sight of what he is really doing it for, and that his life has consequences.
Unreal II is deep, really deep.
Ok, maybe it is a little mean for me to be lampooning what seems to me to be the noblest idea for a game ever (I don't mean Unreal II), but to me the idea of a role model, especially a racially based role model in a game is something that can never work. If you have control of a character in a game, that makes you intrinsically better than them. How can you be positively influenced by someone who you totally and utterly dominate? This sounds to me as unlikely as an abusive husband having a healthy and fulfilling relationship with the wife that he beats. Positive role models in games has absolutly no precident, and I am guessing that there is a good reason why. After all, is it just black people who lack a suitable role model in games? White people have Duke Nukem and the dude from GTA3, I think games are just naturally devoid of good characters of any race.
But anyway, I really wish the dude well, and I hope I am wrong about game psychology because I would love to see a game make a positive difference in someone's life.
When Argumentum ad Hominem falls short, try Argumentum ad Matrem
Come on guys, you might disagree with the parent's comment, but it is not a troll! Someone please mod it up so it's not at a negative score.
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