Ms. ArmoredThirteen

Not who you responded to but yeah I want to hear a drug fuelled rant I don’t even care what topic

Finally holy shit the game industry needs to unionize so badly

I’ve never seen such a majestic creature

Yes but the early game is killer

I code using punch cards hand cutting each hole with a xacto knife

When I was first figuring things out I wore a sports bra a lot. They can be completely invisible but still provide a feeling of something there

I feel like we’re standing on top of a melting glacier labeled ww3 that’s going to flip any second now but we’re not entirely sure when. Not saying Japan shouldn’t be in control of the means to protect themselves. We’re just in a dangerous situation with the US going batshit while having so much global influence, lots of contries’ relationships with each other feel in flux

I have so many spiders on the lower floor of the place I’m in now I’ve given up on even bringing them outside. I identify what they are to keep track if we have an uptick in dangerous ones. If it is a particularly gross one it goes in the garage to war it out with the cellar spiders otherwise I just shoo them under furniture so I don’t have to think about it. Damnit I’m turning into my dad…

Here’s a cheap way to improve the weather proofing of any cyber trucks you see out in the wild: https://www.sheetlabels.com/labels/SL111HS-XW

You can even put fun designs on them!

This is why even if I think something is 100% legit, if a place calls me asking for anything I tell them I have to check on it and call back. Then I’ll call their known public number and go through that way. I’ve avoided a couple scam situations like this

I’m a little confused here, I’m not EU/Swedish citizen wouldn’t any of my studies require me to pay? I care about money very little which is part of why I’ve been feeling so soul sucked at my current job. I’ve only been here for money for a bit now and I hate it. In a lot of ways I’d rather just be poor. I was happier when I was working for like 1/5 what I make now but felt excited about what I did

I love games and game making. I’ve been skirting around the industry for over 15 years at this point and haven’t been able to crack in yet. Future Games, or any of the schools I’ve applied to, is an opportunity to be on a visa for nearly the entire trump term and hopefully network enough to land a job after school. So I’m not just paying for education I’m paying for my own safety

The crunch is for real but also the job culture in the US is batshit. My first job out of college I ended up pulling 16 hour days 7 days/week. Everywhere here it is expected you’re going to do more work than you’re paid for or you risk getting fired. Crunch time in Sweden sounds like normal time in the US tbh

I’m hoping to get into a pretty well regarded game dev school in Sweden that is $25k USD for the entire degree. Comparing it with anything similar in the US is mind boggling. Schools here are impossibly expensive

Best of luck let us know if you made it ❤️

Yo, Children of Men where all the dudes are shooting plastic pellets let’s go

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My employee stock purchase plan went through recently. I missed selling before the dip caused by all the other employees selling. Normally I will ride it out for a bit and the stock jumps back up but this time I had a sense it was going to just keep dropping. I waited a couple hours for it to partially rebound and managed to time it perfectly, it’s only been downhill since I sold lol

Every time I see these two side by side I think of the smiler and the beast from transmetropolitan

Around 90% of Swedes speak English and tech jobs are often done in English, from what I’ve heard. You could potentially get a work visa

Live with the crushing despair of having a tech job that provides no real value long enough to have a degrees worth of money and living expenses then get on a student visa, is what I’m attempting anyway idk probably there are easier options

Cries in programmer while looking at northern Sweden