Old Squid Yells at Cloud (angry ranty)

[Squideey]

It's time for me to embarrass myself by shooting-off a bunch of poorly-articulated angry sentiments that are going to be misinterpreted no matter how clear I make myself:

forget all this "open-source" coding bootcamp quirky start-up bullstuff. forget your social media presence and forget you for talking about how casual you are and how you put stuffed-animals in the rooms of your indie game studio, with your walls painted with bright colors. forget your crowdfunding campaigns and just in general forget all of the goody-goody stuffmonglers who are happy all the time because they're so intoxicated from supporting their favorite github projects and giving eachother thumbs up for creating an "awesome" new web project that prints out a photo of your star fish when you tweet the creator. forget your endorsement of 3D printing and virtual reality like it's going to be revolutionary. Shove your bitcoins up your ass and try to stuff out a real currency next time. forget every advertisement with acoustic guitar music in the background and sepia-toned video of white-as-forget people in an sunny field and an annoying female narrator talking about some hipster stuff I don't care about. God it's like the smug enthusiasm of hippies got combined with the shameless materialism of yuppies. One time I looked through a slideshow of "good" website designs and I puked from the sheer amount of obnoxious paragraphs printed over "vintage"-toned photos of, again, white people advertising a product that in a sane world would never get past the idea phase. The web-design community makes me want to shoot myself from the snobbiness. The indie game community makes me want to hang myself from the over-saturated happy-go-lucky attitude. forget.

If you can't read that then I guess I hate anything a young, middle-class, tech-oriented person would typically like. Also that happy, motivated people are enraging. I'm going to board a plane now and live the rest of my life in a concrete hole in Siberia.

[Ad Bot]

[Mr.Noßody]

Woah, the forget happened?

[Squideey]

Woah, the forget happened?

Years of misdirected rage getting to me finally. The final straw was just now visiting a website looking for Blender tutorials and being bombarded with half the stuff I ranted about up there.

[Mr.Noßody]

Either way, I agree with you. Sucks even more when everything you talked about is a place I am in currently. (Web dev and game design)

Then again, the cookie cutter bullstuff that everyone seems to be following in my classes just draws more emphasis on my work so technically I'm benefiting on the absence of creativity in others.

[Planr]

what came to mind when i read OP VVVVV




I'M TYRONE

And forget this talking seafood muthaforgeta
I'm here to forget your wife!
LONG richard Style!

[Squideey]

Either way, I agree with you. Sucks even more when everything you talked about is a place I am in currently. (Web dev and game design)

Then again, the cookie cutter bullstuff that everyone seems to be following in my classes just draws more emphasis on my work so technically I'm benefiting on the absence of creativity in others.

Tell me about it. My study is 3D modelling so I go to a school offering a bunch of art programs. I'm never going to really make any friends this way.

[TheBlackParrot]

geez, what happened?

[Mr.Noßody]

Tell me about it. My study is 3D modelling so I go to a school offering a bunch of art programs. I'm never going to really make any friends this way.

Hey, that's what I'm doing currently. Only, the program I'm in has me going through a much broader range of game development classes.
I'm going to an actual game development college right now.

It's neat, I'm getting to meet and talk to a whole bunch of developers.

[Camel]

old squid??? you're 21! you're basically in the target demo lol

although i have to agree, forget over-simplification and acoustic guitars. give me experimental hip hop and interfaces that are easy to approach but cleverly customizable and un-dauntingly complex

[Bushido]

i too think that the youth is corrupt and soulless with their soulful indie guitars and their chip toons and their insta-graham crackers and their i, funnies and their mee mees

i think im more general-purpose upset then actually angry that these people do these things though like its not like they're hurting anyone, i'm just angry about other things and they happen to be nearby attracting attention

its the same reason people hate geek culture; not really because geek culture is offensive as much as it is because geek culture is annoying enough to be a target to fume at

[Space1255]

I, too, am disappointed in my generation. Almost everyone is almost always on their phones, and I got plagued by that behavior. However I'm not constantly taking selfies to get people to throw attention at me like them, and if I filter my photos, I don't add "#nofilter" bullstuff to it because it's horrendously obvious that a filter was added.

[Bushido]

itt: hipsters

[Yosher]

I, too, am disappointed in my generation. Almost everyone is almost always on their phones, and I got plagued by that behavior. However I'm not constantly taking selfies to get people to throw attention at me like them, and if I filter my photos, I don't add "#nofilter" bullstuff to it because it's horrendously obvious that a filter was added.

i'm a little tired so i can't tell: is this post serious or not

[Space1255]

i'm a little tired so i can't tell: is this post serious or not

Only the part about me saying "I don't constantly take selfies"
Other than that, you know me. Almost never serious.

[Nonnel]

Those acoustic guitar commercials are the worst