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I whine and rage too much.  I need to stop, but I can't.  It's so addictive.

HATE it when people delete anything I post on their wall.  A friend of mine is going to college and getting the same degree I got, you know, one of those more worthless degrees that you mention at parties or job interviews and people laugh at you for.  So I posted on his wall and tried to warn him that he's gonna need some other education to back that degree up.  Naturally, he responds, deletes his response, then deletes my post.  A post I spent a lot of time thinking and editing over and over to make it as polite and humble as possible.  We're both ADULTS for good's sake, why can't we say a few words about sensitive subjects?  I made a horrible mistake about my career choice and he simply doesn't want to hear about how he's making the same mistake, or he doesn't want to explain how he's going to avoid my mistake.

Granted, he's on his last quarter for school, so I'm definitely too late, but why can't he even say that?

I've heard your results can change over time.  People change over time after all.  I've taken this test twice, first time was a few years ago and again recently, and although the results were different it pegged me pretty well both times.

Oh yeah, the reason I came here.  I'm playing Dragon Age Origins.  I really want to hate it for the DLC stuff, but I can't deny being AAA is a positive thing.  No more Emowyn, no more embarrassingly dorky intros like NWN2, it's a cool game, and I like it.

Agreed, definitely enjoyed Dragon Age.  A moral choice system with either difficult decisions or very very tempting evil choices, vibrant characters with interesting and unique personalities (at first I dreaded meeting the golem from one of the DLCs, but the moment he started speaking I figuratively hugged the developers).  I've heard complaints that the skill system is imbalanced, but seriously, it's a single player game, deal with it.

What made me happy today?  I have until midnight to email in a story to possibly have it featured in my old school's magazine.  Maybe I have something good, maybe I don't.  We'll see.

I'm sad because it snowed quite a bit, thus I'm worried about driving to work, and my boss pretty much said "well you can go in a little later, k~ X3"

I posted a while ago in the happy thread about me and a friend finding a site that would give us relatively basic access to programs like Maya to help our video game company get started, all for a not so bad monthly fee.  I couldn't access it right away because I had to leave on a family vacation, so I told him to get to know the programs while I was gone so we'd be able to make up for lost time.  I worked on concepts and ideas during the vacation as best I could with pen and paper, knowing he was probably accomplishing way more than I could.  I came to his place this weekend to see what he'd learned, and to see what we could build on.

Turns out he "lost all motivation" when I had to go on my family vacation (I had no choice in the matter about going, none), and wasted a good two weeks doing nothing at all.  So I had to wrestle his username and password out of him to load up the site to find the darn programs myself.  After two bad rounds of League of Legends.  Then I couldn't find them on the website.  And my friend laughed.  Finally posted on their forums, and their moderators curtly replied, "we only provide access to thousands of training videos here, you'll have to get the programs yourself."  Woah woah hey now, let me look up your advertisement that said... no wait, it heavily implied that I'd get access to those programs, but could also be taken to mean that I'd get access to their overpriced training software, not the actual gaming software.  When I tried to post about the advertisement in the forums, my post was "directed to the moderators for consideration" and was never actually posted.  Swell.

Back to square one again.  Is this an American thing or something?  I can't make games until I pay tens of thousands of dollars in software.  I can't make that much money without selling games.  I also need a ton of experience in game design, which I'd get from education in gaming... if I had the money.  It's so infuriating.  I see companies with experience, money, talent, time, and the expertise, and they crap out games like Metroid: Other M.  And all I can think about is "if I had been on that team, I could have made a difference.  I know good characterization, I know how to write, I could have made that game shine."  But no, no I can't.  I'm not good enough.