This has been my last semester at my college.

🂿 · December 14, 2015, 08:41:29 PM

Just found out that I'm not going to get anymore financial aid starting next semester due to a term dismissal, but hey, I've already been screwed over once by being told to "pick a different major" so I pretty much milked it dry.

It was fun while it lasted. Time to get a job, or at least try to. Hopefully one as a tester. I'll also be volunteering at the local game development club, their in talks of branching out eventually and starting out as its own studio. Don't know how that will work but the opportunity is right in front of me, and I'm going to give it a go. That's not really going to deliver dough, but I'll at least have experience.

Tomorrow I turn in my photoshop project, print out whatever I need to print out, and that will be it.

I think I'll also contribute to my community as well by helping out with any local historical stuff, just to do something other than shitpost on this site.

So that is currently where my life is. What do you guys think I should do instead?

maverick · December 14, 2015, 08:45:39 PM

Wouldn't you have been about done? If money's the only hurdle, you could work up some money and then pick up where you left off later. I'd just try to practice coding so that the knowledge doesn't deteriorate.

🂿 · December 14, 2015, 08:49:00 PM

Quote from: Maverick on December 14, 2015, 08:45:39 PM

Wouldn't you have been about done? If money's the only hurdle, you could work up some money and then pick up where you left off later. I'd just try to practice coding so that the knowledge doesn't deteriorate.

Yeah thanks to this past semester, I've had hardly any time to work on my own stuff, and my skills with Unity have become rusty.

I'll see what I can do, and I would have been done since 2013, but the college screwed me over in terms of my major, because they don't "offer a transfer or anything for it" and that I should pick another one after 3 fucking years of this.

Then what was the point of the classes then? Just comes to show that the counselors are useless. Never trust those fucks. Your professors are your best bets here.

maverick · December 14, 2015, 08:58:52 PM

Quote from: Decimator Omega on December 14, 2015, 08:49:00 PM

I'll see what I can do, and I would have been done since 2013, but the college screwed me over in terms of my major, because they don't "offer a transfer or anything for it" and that I should pick another one after 3 fucking years of this.

Oh wow that's rough man. If losing financial aid was related to not having graduated yet, there should be a way to challenge that.

Girl of Mystery · December 14, 2015, 08:59:47 PM

Eww why would you want to be a tester?

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Naru · December 14, 2015, 09:01:53 PM

fuck financial aid, those retards doing their job are so retarded and will keep your money, even over an electronic signature. but im not familiar with "term dismissal", must be a cali thing

Naru · December 14, 2015, 09:03:01 PM

also, depends on what you wanna do in the long term. uni? talk to a uni so you can ask them about transferring. its really all up to how you plan and improvise.

Casper · December 14, 2015, 09:20:07 PM

I really don't see college being worth it, anyway.

🂿 · December 14, 2015, 11:02:31 PM

Quote from: Naru Loves Yellow Snow on December 14, 2015, 09:03:01 PM

also, depends on what you wanna do in the long term. uni? talk to a uni so you can ask them about transferring. its really all up to how you plan and improvise.

To be honest with you I'm ready to just set my foot into the door of the video game industry. Or with this club that I'll be volunteering, Go Indie. Possibly the mobile market since people will buy that shit anyway.

Gotta make shit first before you can make gold, though if I'm ever a tester that's one way in. I already have a fucking portfolio, I'm not looking to be a programmer, I'm more of a level designer.

Naru · December 14, 2015, 11:04:53 PM

Quote from: Decimator Omega on December 14, 2015, 11:02:31 PM

Quote from: Naru Loves Yellow Snow on December 14, 2015, 09:03:01 PM
also, depends on what you wanna do in the long term. uni? talk to a uni so you can ask them about transferring. its really all up to how you plan and improvise.

To be honest with you I'm ready to just set my foot into the door of the video game industry. Or with this club that I'll be volunteering, Go Indie. Possibly the mobile market since people will buy that shit anyway.

Gotta make shit first before you can make gold, though if I'm ever a tester that's one way in. I already have a fucking portfolio, I'm not looking to be a programmer, I'm more of a level designer.

clubs do seem to be the one way to get your foot in, even in shallow water. astronomy club im part of is presenting their poster at the aas (im not gonna be there, and most of the club, sadly) but i do get to have something under my belt and have references. i dont know about testing, heard it was pretty shit and burns you out in months from insanity.

🂿 · December 14, 2015, 11:58:36 PM

Quote from: Naru Loves Yellow Snow on December 14, 2015, 11:04:53 PM

Quote from: Decimator Omega on December 14, 2015, 11:02:31 PM
Quote from: Naru Loves Yellow Snow on December 14, 2015, 09:03:01 PM
also, depends on what you wanna do in the long term. uni? talk to a uni so you can ask them about transferring. its really all up to how you plan and improvise.

To be honest with you I'm ready to just set my foot into the door of the video game industry. Or with this club that I'll be volunteering, Go Indie. Possibly the mobile market since people will buy that shit anyway.

Gotta make shit first before you can make gold, though if I'm ever a tester that's one way in. I already have a fucking portfolio, I'm not looking to be a programmer, I'm more of a level designer.
clubs do seem to be the one way to get your foot in, even in shallow water. astronomy club im part of is presenting their poster at the aas (im not gonna be there, and most of the club, sadly) but i do get to have something under my belt and have references. i dont know about testing, heard it was pretty shit and burns you out in months from insanity.

Nice!

As far as testing goes, insanity is my middle name. I can play the same games, hell the same fucking levels over and over and over and over and over again. Especially if they're broken as fuck.

I tested my own shitty games, I would know. I'm like a mindless drone that focuses what I'm doing lol.

Doctor Doom · December 15, 2015, 12:52:43 AM

Quote from: Decimator Omega on December 14, 2015, 11:58:36 PM

As far as testing goes, insanity is my middle name. I can play the same games, hell the same fucking levels over and over and over and over and over again. Especially if they're broken as fuck.

I tested my own shitty games, I would know. I'm like a mindless drone that focuses what I'm doing lol.

You're gonna have to be, since you'll be playing the same level week after week, jumping into every wall again and again, for minimum wage with no real opportunities to progress any farther.

🂿 · December 15, 2015, 12:58:41 AM

Quote from: Caped Baldy on December 15, 2015, 12:52:43 AM

Quote from: Decimator Omega on December 14, 2015, 11:58:36 PM
As far as testing goes, insanity is my middle name. I can play the same games, hell the same fucking levels over and over and over and over and over again. Especially if they're broken as fuck.

I tested my own shitty games, I would know. I'm like a mindless drone that focuses what I'm doing lol.

You're gonna have to be, since you'll be playing the same level week after week, jumping into every wall again and again, for minimum wage with no real opportunities to progress any farther.

I'm used to it, I've replayed a lot of strenuous shit, and hey. It beats dealing with customers.

Besides, it is a job for a reason, right?

🂿 · December 15, 2015, 01:01:26 AM

Quote from: Lemsip on December 14, 2015, 08:59:47 PM

Eww why would you want to be a tester?

So I can make you cringe at me even more. Also, were you not the guy that wanted an Easter Egg in one of my prototypes before you started giving me shit?

FatherlyNick - fuck putin · December 15, 2015, 05:54:14 AM

Prepare for pain, if you go into testing. Trust me, mate. Its still a fun job though.