I can tell you that I have had grade 3 ankle sprains with a completely purple foot and I have never missed work....
Once I had very strong hematuria from being at work alone and far from home and I was not incapacitated....
Moreover, during the covid 19 pandemic I was in an area with people who died and I was wearing a full suit in the middle of the pandemic and I did not get infected and I never asked for a day off....
A guy gets stressed out by making a video game.... Please. In the second world war, there were soldiers who were in Normandy.... Guys who deactivated landmines... People in forests with snowfall waiting like snipers.
There were even Polish spies who volunteered to infiltrate a concentration camp and collect information while alive.
Now it turns out that a person gets stressed out by making a video game and can no longer continue.... For God's sake.
I like that you felt the need to reassure yourself by making a comparison with your own line of duty. Really doesn't highlight the insecurity on display, but i digress.
Having said that, obviously both situations aren't comparable. It is fully understandable that a one man show, faced with things like these can get in wallop. But hey, if you like doing what you love to do, it is a choice you deliberately made. And so they did.
To me it feels very strange to, for no reason at all, talk down on someone who simply describes their thought process when developing the game and what kind of toll it put
on them, to not only feel the need like a internet badass about it, but also feeling it needed to make a comparison with your own line of work.
It doesn't portray you as a hardass, rather it is a weakness. That you felt the need to talk down someone who describes their thought process simply because you made different choices in life.
The comment section failed the vibe check.
Since everyone here is such a badass, I look forward to your indie game release that will sell 10 million copies. This guy realized this was his make or break moment, a once in a lifetime opportunity to achieve greatness and make a life changing amount of money if he does it right and he had a panic attack over it. I would too.
I think its perfectly normal to get this way - But i don't think its normal that your health has to be on the line for this. It says something about this industry that people consider sacrificing their own state of mind to get these games out - only for some folks on the internet to essentially say they shouldn't be such wimps. The problem isn't the developer itself, its that the industry as a whole
accepts the concept of putting your health on the line just to get a game out.
I am not saying people are lazy. But i am saying that this concept needs to be re-evaluated.
I agree. They probably get high on the attention their posts make. Maybe we shouldn't even acknowledge them and then they'd go away eventually, right after they go mental for not getting the attention they crave.
I am not here often enough to be aware of Heimdall's (Or any other hardliners) posting patterns. I am simply commenting how strange it is to talk smack about someone completely unknown to you in private life purely because they made a game, and are now describing how that went for them.
Correct.
Heimdall_Xtreme
who at every moment reminds us he is in love with a video game character unironically, has the balls to comment on someone else’s mental health.
In my experience on this forum, people who act like this eventually cop a perma and then its people like you and me who are still here. Or, in terms of internet badassery, we
win and
own it then.
