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I guess there's Vimeo?

I know a couple of guys who worked on this and I got to play some early iterations about two years back. It was massively fun. Highly recommend it.

Just picked up Faster Than Light, The Stanley Parable and Paper's Please. Thanks, Steam!

I enjoy that all of those are just forces of nature who don't know or care about humanity in the same way most people don't care about stepping on ants - except for Fox, which is the only one that is truly and maliciously evil on purpose.

I don't know you, so: Hello, how are you doing? Enjoy your stay.

A dinky Bamboo tablet I'm afraid. That said it serves me well enough for my purposes given that I come from a fine arts background (oil painting) rather than being a full-on digital painter. Well that's fine if you're a hobbyist. Don't knock it - I've got a Cintiq 12WX and an Intuous 4, but they are both consistently blown out of the water in terms of comfort, reliability and ease of use by my ancient Graphire 2, the Bamboo's predecessor. It's a pretty clear case of "it's not the size that matters".

To me he'll always be Cohen the Barbarian.

Yeah, Bruce is right. I'm not unpaid - it's a school based internship so I get paid very little, however. Gfted is correct however that I'm going into debt due to student loans. To clarify some things: - I didn't take it to get hired out of the gate but to satisfy an internship requirement for my Bachelor's degree in Multimedia and to learn. Artists in this company are freelancers who are hired on a project to project basis, so a solid artist position was never in the cards. However, I'm very likely to get freelance work out of it anyway, regardless of whether or not I had taken the CM job. - I have to stress again that while Community Manager has the word manager in the title, it's by far not a managerial position but an entry level position. It would mostly have been copywriting, social media, audience analytics and dealing with client inquiries. I would not be managing a team because, in this company, the CM is the entire communication team. I also had more practical reasons for not taking the job than "it wouldn't make me happy" though. * Other employees haven't been paid for three months and this is not the first time that has happened. I've seen unprofessional (read: scary) office politics and at least two of the regular employees confided in me that they were looking for work elsewhere after I inquired on how happy they were there. Not inspiring. * Most of the projects I'll be working on in the coming time is stuff I've already made 3D assets for. Once the NDA lifts, these projects will be on my portfolio regardless. * The Animated Show oppertunity I mentioned might be an unpaid assignment through my education but it's in collaboration with and closely connected to a larger and more interesting company that I would be working closely with while giving my portfolio a huge boost. I also have recently become friends with the floor manager there during preparation for this project and I have a fairly good chance this project will work out in an artist position there, or at least more freelance work. * The CM before me that just quit was there as long as I've been an intern and was on sick leave for most of that. The one before that also lasted about six months. I have to wonder what causes this turnover. The few weeks I temporarily took over the job were also the most stressed I have ever been. Considering it was work I really disliked doing and it made me stress out, I don't think I would have lasted long in the job anyway. * In theory, during the job I would have been able to still get my diploma. However, if it turned out that the job didn't conform to my education's requirements and I couldn't get my diploma? I would risk having to pay back all my limited scholarship in addition to my student loans, essentially doubling my debt. Between these reasons and it not being compatible with my personal goals, I'm pretty confident in my decision. Plus, other interns here had to pass tests while I was taken on in an interview that ended with "can you start today?" and then after I tried out something without any experience for two weeks they wanted to hire me. Beyond that I've been praised up the wazoo for my professionalism and effort. I'm pretty sure that if after school I can't find work, I can still come back here. They seemed pretty eager to keep me on. I have enough prospects to look forward to so I can justify not taking this job. I think it's enough about that subject though. I already turned it down so it's kind of a moot point now. I appreciate all the input and it's been interesting to see people's take's on the situation but the bird has flown.

Doesn't sound like a sweet deal to me. If something good happens I could take credit and advance further into a field I have no long-term plans in? I stick by my decision, in the long term this job would have kept me away from my personal goals even if the pay would have been nice. I can currently still afford to go for my personal goals.

What bragging rights?

Community Manager may have manager in the title, but it's hardly a managerial position. There's no community team in place so it would have been just me. It was that and being responsible for communication with clients, marketing companies, etc. Essentially being a middle man for outside communication.

Anybody else here using f.lux? Been using it for about a month now and I love it, and it's seriously improved my ability to sleep.

Check your PM. Not posting it openly because I like keeping my real and message board identities seperate. I turned it down. "Community Manager" is also not the same as team management by a long shot - if it was a team management thing, I might have taken it. I may dislike management but it's not a make-or-break issue. But there's only so much I can take from this company in skills and finishing school through the TV Show oppertunity is a much better fit for me right now. And yeah, I'm not particularely fond of everyone there, there's a lot of office politics, unprofessional behaviour and the "employees haven't been paid for a few months" thing is a bit of a clincher. I'm not going to do a job I really don't want to do unless I'm positive I'm going to get paid.

See, this is what the pragmatist in me is saying too. But the pragmatist in me is also saying that the other guy I work with now on a daily basis hasn't been paid for three months, so I'm not sure money is the correct issue to focus on in this particular job. That leaves Job Satisfaction and Prospects as more important factors, and I think my Prospects as 3D Artist are still good enough (thanks to that TV Show oppertunity that I'll be giving up if I do this) to say no to a Community Manager job that I'll probably hate. So I've pretty much decided not to do it - thanks for your input though. And you too Nep. Just being able to write it out here and get some feedback made the choice a lot easier to think about.

Haha, I do find the idea of managing abhorrent. But when you put it that way, it does take away oppertunities that lead far more toward my goal. I don't think I'm going to do it.

I was twelve when BG2 came out, I had never played BG1, and I had no idea how D&D worked. I still thought it was easy - well, when I realized how Armor Class worked anyway. How can this hardcore gamer guy say it was too hard?

I need to spitball here about a tough decision. For the last couple of months I've been working as an intern (required school internship) at a game design company. I can't name who or what, but they are fairly big on mobile. I was hired on as a 3D artist & animator, which is what I want to do with my life. However, when our community manager who also does a lot of marketing and client-interaction got hit with health issues, I got tapped to take over that job temporarily (mostly because of my good written language skills). Yesterday, said manager returned, and then promptly quit. Now I got offered that job full time (and industry standard pay) - which would replace exam assignments and still let me get my diploma, while giving me, you know, a full time job - and allow me fill up my portfolio with launching titles for large publishers, and I do mean large. Like, not Activision large but not far off. On the other hand, I don't enjoy doing this community management and stressful client interaction stuff, I'm an introvert and I only have so much energy available for dealing with annoying people, and it is especially not what I want to do with my life. Also, this company has problems (barely ever make deadlines or milestones, titles are abysmally reviewed, employees sometimes go months without pay and then get it all in one go). Beyond that, the exam assignment I've already got lined up to do is making and generally being the creative driving force behind a 3D animated TV Show in a collaboration between my school and a large animation company. This is practically a dream assignment, but it does mean I will still be racking up student debts especially considering we've already figured out this assignment will take longer than my limited scholarship will cover. This assignment is also a daily two hour to and two hour back commute whereas the job is right here in my hometown, five minutes from where I live. I'm really, really struggling with this decision so if anyone could give me their take or advice, I would appreciate the input.

Name them after the people you have problems with, then chomp down imagining you're a dinosaur.

Hang in there Calax. I hope your issues get resolved but in the meanwhile all you can do is perservere. The thing is, these aren't all different battles - getting through life is really one single battle. It becomes a lot less overwhelming once you realize that. Life is hard, and nobody can give you the silver lining. But once you find them, it makes it a lot easier. Sorry that was so much platitudes, but it's hard to express how even when life sucks, you have to find the little things to make it worth it. Take it from someone who knows, I've been struggling through similar circumstances for a while and it came pretty close to breaking me.

Wow Gorgon, I've never seen you be that wrong about something. Not the opinion but the facts - Ender's Game is part of a universe that shares about a dozen books if I recall. I wasn't a fan of the book, never continued reading the series. I found Ender to be something of a Mary Sue.

Can I go back and take the blue pill?

A huge hangover after a day marked by drunk lasergaming. Now I have to work, create sales sheets to shop games to publishers andand I have to prepare for a conference call with a big client tonight at 9 for a project that I have had zero contact with and barely know what it's about. I'm an intern for god's sakes, why am I doing these important things?

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I misread this as major and throught that would be the best education ever.

I've only met one furry in real life. This would be a guy who believed that he was exactly like a transgendered person, but instead of being born as the wrong gender he was born as the wrong species. He truly believed that he was a dog in a man's body. In truth he was just guano.