/digipen/ - DigiPenitentiary

>>513
Haw, I think I know this guy.

>>524
That dude is legit autistic but you're not wrong, that shit was the worst.

>>525
I don't have anything against him as a person; he's a nice enough guy, but it's infuriating to have to take classes with him.

Are you seriously shit-talking individual students behind their backs anonymously now?

Really? Come the fuck on.

>>549
It's inevitable due to the anonymous nature of 8chan. Also nobody's yet shit-talking anyone by name, not counting professors, which is a rule I should probably write down at some point.

The whole point of this board is to anonymously share your thoughts and feelings about your life at DigiPen.

>>549
Nobody is naming any names.

>>549
Is being a grown up now too hard to adapt to? Shit happens all the time everywhere. Deal with it.

>>549

To be fair, I was shit-talking freshies who stomp around Edison with no volume control LONG before this board. Maybe if a third of the student body didn't act like overgrown and overprivileged children, I'd get my tuition money's worth out of the instructors.

>>556
My fucking feelings exactly.

>>549
CREEPY ANIME DUDE SPOTTED.

WEABOO ALERT! WEE WOO WEE WOO! WEABOO ALERT, WEE WOO!

>>573
I'm actually relatively sure he doesn't browse this website and if he did he'd write a paragraph about irrelevant stuff rather than an aggressive retort.

>>582
He might be the sort of guy who would've written the "positivity thread" a while back.

so many people do this, and it's annoying as shit. It tapers off after a while, but goddamn it's annoying. Do these people honestly not realize that everyone knows they don't have a real question, and are just trying to sound smart?

"But professor, I have a question, if you did that thing, what would happen? Something like? [insert 30 minutes of answers as to what will happen, from the lecture notes, in order]"

yeah, fuck off, nice 'question'. Freshman game designers are the fucking worst though. The worst ever was when I was in a class where ellinger gave this brief description of a game where you "fight evil" and someone engaged him for like 5 solid minutes challenging him to define evil. He finally got the guy to shut up so he could keep talking, and 10 minutes later this asshole's hand is in the air again. "Professor, I have the dictionary definition of 'evil' open on my phone right now, and" and this was a solid 10 minutes where he wouldn't stop to let anyone talk. He didn't have a question, he just wanted to lecture everyone with his semantic bullshit, and at the end there wasn't even a real response wanted to give because fucktard would just rob everyone of another half hour of our lives if anyone dared question why this line of conversation was even relevant

fat tittysprinkles christ on a bike, don't be that guy

>>556
by far the worst are the designers who show up and the second they open their mouths you can tell that every ounce of design knowledge they have came from /v/. My freshman year this was fully half of the BAGD and BSGDs. Junior now, I only see like 3 left – they seem really pissy, don't talk much, and spend a lot of time browsing 4chan. I think one or more of them are stuck on the studio team because nobody wants to listen to their shitty ideas

>>550 Giving enough personal information to identify someone crosses a line, though. I might not be able to tell who CAD is because I (thank god) don't have GAT240 with bae3e3, but d3969e knows who CAD is and so would anyone else in the class, probably. There's a huge difference between "fuck all the _" and "fuck that one guy that said __ in class number ____". Generalized negativity is cool, we all need to vent, but there is definitely a line.

re: everyone who replied to me

I was under the impression that "being a grown-up" entailed not doing shit such as talking about how a specific dude is creepy behind his back like we were middle-school aged girls. I'm not your fucking mommy and I sure as hell don't want to be some kind of anon-SJW, but for fuck's sake, this is a small ass campus. I probably know half of you.

>>612
I'm missing the part where there's "personally-identifiable information." Nobody's saying "that one douchebag with the x hair" or "that fucker who always wears y." I fail to see anything wrong with recounting anecdotes from your time at DigiPen. I know I've done the same with fellow classmates and friends and family outside of school.

For example: I'm sure a large portion of my class remembers Pillow Kid, this idiot who (rightfully, but still) thought GAT 110 was too boring of a class for his tastes. But instead of sleeping at the back of class like a reasonable person, he saw fit to sit in the front row every day because of being a tryhard. One day, he brought a pillow to class, and then proceeded to sleep with the pillow, right in front of the whole class.

This is also the one who was responsible for roughly 90% of uncalled-for hand-raisings in GAT 210 and GAT 211. This kid was and is a total sack of shit. I'm pretty sure he's also the one who first started the GAT 211 trend of blurting questions out without raising his hand, as though the whole class was a dialogue with him and the professor. He legitimately made my time in those classes actively miserable.

Is it wrong for me to recount these tales? I paid a lot of money for those classes, only to be distracted by this toolbox because he felt like he needed to draw attention to himself unnecessarily, on a constant basis. I'm not mentioning at all what he looks like or what his name is (I don't know his name, actually, I just know him as Pillow Kid); I'm just telling some stories of this fucker who ruined some very expensive classes for me.

I wrote the board rules (see red text at the top of every page) after your last post; perhaps I should update it to include wording saying that mentioning people in an overly-identifiable manner is wrong, also? I agree that if people start calling people out based on their appearance, that would be pretty bad. I read every post on this board (the mod panel provides a "new posts" page), so if anything uncouth comes up, I'll be sure to cut it immediately.

>>615
What constitutes "overly-identifiable"? There was that shitstorm on DigiPen Confessions a while back about some post about a girl with a supposedly identifiable purse or something and after some drama with some white knights it got deleted.

>>616
Honestly? I have no idea. It's really difficult to put a hard line on this kind of thing, so I guess you guys are just going to have to trust my judgement.

I mean, it's inevitable that someone is eventually going to post some straight-up dox at some point, because this is an anonymous message board on the Internet, but I'll do everything I can to mitigate that as soon as possible when it does. This is the price you pay for anonymity.

We had one issue early on where someone felt the need to reply using their real name (before I had the Name field disabled), and I had to go in and edit it out. We don't need that kind of crap here.

Apparently there's some way to set up an @8chan.co e-mail address for board owners; I'll figure out how that works and set up an e-mail address for people to send suggestions, private complaints, etc. to. I'll post a sticky about it once that's ready.

>>615
A direct quote from someone and the class they said it in is pretty identifiable. Even if you think it might not necessarily be, bear in mind that d3969e literally did ID CAD based just off of it.

Talking to friends outside DP and family is way different. There is literally 0 chance they can ID someone based off a description of what they did in class/around campus, so for all intents and purposes, the anonymity of the person being discussed is intact. My point is that if things like that were posted on Reddit or something, who gives a shit? The chance anyone reading it was actually there is incredibly low. Posted here, it's reasonably high. (as illustrated by the fact that it happened)

There's also a difference between things that are openly public and obviously going to be talked about like Pillow Kid bringing a pillow to class and sleeping in the front row, and things like CAD, where it seems like the guy wasn't trying to be a shitsack, and he sure as hell never called himself Creepy Anime Dude.

To me, that's the big difference. Your guy from 210 and 211 who makes everyone miserable and is a total shitsack? Okay, sure, he deserves the heat. Fuck that guy. CAD, someone who is likely legitmately autistic according to d3969e, getting the moniker CAD and getting insulted when it seems like he's just socially ignorant occasionally, rather than constantly selfish and shitty? That's another thing entirely. Like I said, that's middle school level shit right there. Obviously it's gray as fuck and the line is super blurry, but it's there.

What it "seems like" and how IDable shit is are really fucking important. I'm not going to tell you how to run your board, but imagine CAD or one of his buddies reading this, alerting him, and then summoning the white knights to come in. Shitstorm fucking central. Hell, imagine if one of those white knights pushed this beyond our walls? All anyone would ever hear was "DigiPen Students Anonymously Mock Autistic Classmate". NOBODY wants that shit to happen, Game School is enough of a fucking joke as it is.

>>619

Whoops. I was writing this before I saw the sticky. If for some reason you wanna discuss this shit but don't wanna do it here, just poke me and I'll make some kind of anonymous email.

Stop getting all rustled over nothing

>>619
Fair enough; I honestly thought that CAD could be more identified as an archetypal annoying DP student, considering how fucking annoyingly persistent students here (especially whiny BAGDs) can be about completely irrelevant bullshit, and did not intend for him to be ID'd (nor did I know he was legitimately autistic; in a school where people fucking cringe when handed a peice of paper on which to sigh their names, it's hard to identify when someone is just dimwitted enough not to pick up on social cues or actually suffers from something).

In the Real World(tm) people like that do not always get a free pass, someone should call him out on it. Say "Look you are driving people crazy, slow down". My experience (only 3 test cases) with those kinds of people is they usually stop if they understand they are annoying people.

It's worse for everyone to just say nothing and ignore them.

>>619
This high horse right now.

Careful everyone, or the cyber-bully police will give you a citation.

Let's get this thread back on track
>Mat150
>fucking bagd/bsgd or some shit in class
>every fucking time to Dmetri speaks he gotta repeat what he said out loud
>starts discussion and asks questions out of nowhere without raising his hand
>says "hmm", "interesting" or "ah yes I see" to everything the teacher says

Kid please shut the fuck up Jesus christ. You sound like addicting idiot and you take up class time in the rudest fucking way. At least raise your fucking hand.

Talked to a BAGD and apparently he does this in every class… Christ

>>634
If this was this last year, then that is the same person as "Pillow Kid," mentioned above. If not, then it can only be Son of Pillow Kid

>>634 its hard to complain about that one, dmetri still lets us go 10 -15 minutes early every day.

>>645
As far as time goes I agree but it's just extremely annoying during class. All I want is for him to stop making his ambient noises ad raise his hand

>>659
I don't know if he goes on here or someone talked to him but today he raises his hand and no ambient noises! Guy if you go on here thank you for stepping it up!

I don't know which kids specifically, but I'll tie this into an "awesome professor" story.

>Be in MAT258
>Dumb ass group of kids (despite, I think, being 3rd/4th year) making snarky comments all the time
>Argue with professor about answers (In a logics course… as if she's wrong…)
>Get midterms back
>Kid makes some comment
>Professor is all: "Here is your midterm. Don't be too excited. I know I'm not."
>Kids go quiet.
>Professor: "You all did much worse than I expected. There's nothing else to say about that".
>Later on in the class, professor is trying to get an answer out of one of these kids, who's being snarky again.
>"This is like trying to teach a 7 year old".

"Those kids" are one thing, but seeing them be put in their place is fuckin' grand.

>>682
I fucking love Vermesi.

>>685
Brigitta is fuckin' awesome.

>>616
>What constitutes "overly-identifiable"?
things will go faster if you stop pretending to be retarded just so you can keep arguing. If you name a trait that is specific or uncommon enough so that you could narrow it down to just one person, that's overly-identifiable.

The reason I just had to explain something so shit stompingly obvious to you is because you are the exact kind of dick this thread was made to talk about.

>>682
I man I have one of those. People rag on boerkle but I personally really like him, this was in a math class a few years ago

>"okay class, so here is an obvious property you all know about. Now tell me how it works"
>that ONE KID raises his hand
>throwing out some impressive math vocab. Pauses waiting to be praised for knowing so much, didn't answer the question at all
>next bit is magic. Instead of just saying "wrong" boerkle goes "okay, that last thing you said, explain it to me. In simple terms"
>"I don't know if I can, that seemed pretty simple…"
>"no, you were using needlessly complicated words for something simple. If you can't explain it simply, you don't know it very well"
>provoked 10/10
>kid launches into a renewed bullshit spray. Explains one obscure term by following with "which is kinda like [other obscure term]"
>"okay, so explain that last thing you said then" every time
>kid is getting flustered
>eventually he's rambling about carrier pidgeons and hedge mazes
>the original question is how do you know if you can inverse something
>professor cuts him off
>"the reason you're reaching so hard is because you don't actually let me know what you're talking about. I'm going to stop you here and explain"
>kid goes quiet. After class he's angrily telling the tale of how the professor wasn't good enough to understand him

from what I hear there's a story almost exactly like this one with boerkle practically every semester. Love that guy. Hate his tests though, fuck they're hard

>>602
> I think one or more of them are stuck on the studio team because nobody wants to listen to their shitty ideas
RTIS student here, never written a spec of dialogue or lore in my life, I am the absolute bottom tier line of comparison. The studio team has one or two people that grind my gears more than other designers, and their goal is to write lore for their game through a series of in-game dialogue pages.

I'm going to use my shit-tier writing skills and outline lore. If their final submission lore looks anything like what I'm about to write in terms of quality, their lore guy is confirmed for shit tier

>a team of explorers/scientists/spelunkers came here and were never heard from again
>it's their journal entries (duh)
>everyone talks about some mysterious relic in the cave people want to find
>people start seeing things/going crazy
>people start vanishing
>"no jon you are the demons"
>cave is tied to a portal to hell or some shit

I'll check back on this thread at the end of the semester after their final submission and report results

>>616
Oh that? It wasn't that her purse was identifiable to everyone, it's that she knew that it was her being talked about because the guy making the post had never been as subtle as he thought. TLDR of the post read something like

>dear girl with that one purse, you are hot, I sit near you and stare at you forever, one day I will talk to you

everyone flipped over what a super creepy way that was to talk about someone, and afaik the girl ended up leaving the school

>>816
Was the girl leaving recent or from a few years back?

>>817
Last year.

>>818
>>816
Pff, girl didn't leave the school, she's in my grade. I hope the guy did though.