>>2466
what the hell is even the point of saging on this board
>>2467
if you're going to sage at least learn how
>>2468
i haven't been in contact with said people all summer because i wasn't in projectfun and i'm not on their game team next year (both because i dropped out, obviously). i thought we were better friends but nope, turns out that every friend i made at digipen with the exception of like two people has chosen the digipen herd mentality over their friendship with someone struggling with a difficult life situation. you learn who your true friends are when you're dealing with tough shit in your life. good friends stick with you and help you through bad times, even when they're facing difficult times at school themselves. bad friends look at your struggles as weakness and distance themselves from you because they need to be tough and not drop out themselves.
however i'm the personality type where like, i have about a half-dozen or so REALLY good friends, and the dozens of "extended friends." so when you lose the majority of your really good friends to something like this, and those friends were your gateway to the extended friends (get-togethers, friday night parties, etc.), it really fucking hurts. i went from hanging out with people every day and every weekend to seeing one of my two remaining friends about once every couple weeks, and that was after they came back from visiting home over the summer
i'm just venting about my issues and hoping to raise awareness about this kind of attitude, because digipen instills it into you without you noticing. freshman year is all happy-go-lucky funtimes, making new friends, nerding out about video games and magic cards and pokemon. sophomore year is where things start to get rough, and where digipen revealed itself to me as being a shit-ass school for learning game design. when i spent a class period having a teacher regurgitate concepts he saw in a youtube video (that he cited), and i did the math and figured out how much i was paying for this shit… i couldn't keep doing it.
that doesn't mean i'm a bad game designer, a bad programmer, or, more importantly, a bad person. yet digipen teaches you to think of dropouts as inferior scum because they're the culled weak and you're the surviving strong.
notice this fucking shit you people who choose to stay at digipen. yes, some dropouts are shitty people that can't handle not living at their parents' house playing games all day. this doesn't mean that everyone who drops out is like this, and this doesn't mean that you have to treat people who you were EXTREMELY GOOD FRIENDS WITH like complete garbage.
maybe it's just affecting me extra hard because i don't make friends easily, and when i started to meet people around halfway through first semester and just kept on meeting more and more cool people and befriending them, it was like a dream come true for me. finally, i was at a place where other people recognized my talent and skills and personality and could accept me for who i was and not just think of me as a weird dumb nerd. to lose almost all of these friendships was absolutely devastating and i would not wish it upon anyone.
but by all means just type sage you fucking morons.