Ever gotten in trouble with "higher powers"?
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Have you ever been "busted" or otherwise investigated by the Feds, local police, etc, during a myth busting in such a way that the event was unairable?
I was amazed at the amount of marketing WotC put into the show. Besides the massive booth and the banners everywhere, they had all the convention center staff, such as food vendors and janitors, wearing shirts with their product logos on them.
I reaffirmed my gamer geekness when my first thought at seeing the convention center staff was, "Wow, WotC has the NPCs wearing their stuff."
This is my first high emotion moment in gaming as well. I was probably twelve, playing Rescue in the dark with my bedroom door closed. The first time one of those aliens popped up I freaked out, screamed like a girl, and jerked so hard the joystick plug popped out of the Atari 400. My mother burst in wondering if I'd been murdered.
Then there was the incredibly well done Aliens total conversion for Doom. Damn near wet myself on that one.
I work in an IT firm that internally supports a major retail chain. I recently started comparing the educations of our management to that of our developers. In most cases I found our developers have higher education in more complex areas of study than our management.
I understand a college degree does not necessarily indicate great intelligence. We have our share of college educated duh-velopers. Still, I find it strange that a less educated group of people manages a higher educated group of people, and since most of our management comes from a retail background rather than an IT background they manage us as if we were retail employees instead of programmers.
In my experience, many IT managers fail to use the full potential of programmers/developers. Programmers are usually highly educated and very intelligent people that can look at a business problem and help come up with a logical, efficient solution. Instead, programmers are usually kept in a closet and given the hand-me-downs of good intentions as business rules.
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Have you ever been "busted" or otherwise investigated by the Feds, local police, etc, during a myth busting in such a way that the event was unairable?
I reaffirmed my gamer geekness when my first thought at seeing the convention center staff was, "Wow, WotC has the NPCs wearing their stuff."
This is my first high emotion moment in gaming as well. I was probably twelve, playing Rescue in the dark with my bedroom door closed. The first time one of those aliens popped up I freaked out, screamed like a girl, and jerked so hard the joystick plug popped out of the Atari 400. My mother burst in wondering if I'd been murdered.
Then there was the incredibly well done Aliens total conversion for Doom. Damn near wet myself on that one.
I understand a college degree does not necessarily indicate great intelligence. We have our share of college educated duh-velopers. Still, I find it strange that a less educated group of people manages a higher educated group of people, and since most of our management comes from a retail background rather than an IT background they manage us as if we were retail employees instead of programmers.
In my experience, many IT managers fail to use the full potential of programmers/developers. Programmers are usually highly educated and very intelligent people that can look at a business problem and help come up with a logical, efficient solution. Instead, programmers are usually kept in a closet and given the hand-me-downs of good intentions as business rules.