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[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

child me taught myself a functional amount of actionscript in like 2008-9 and all i got for my trouble was a couple flash games and a massively decreased interest in game design as a career.

i also learned a bunch of batch and VBS, whole lotta fucken good those are doing me.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

a massively decreased interest in game design as a career.

This is worth a lot though. It takes many people a few years of their life, a burnout and a lot of mental healthcare to get to this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Are you trying to tell me that there was a point I was allowed to quit?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

God the actual fucking wasted youth. Just learn something slightly different and you'd make gazillionaires look like bums.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

and at this point everyone i ask in person is just like “ask gpt for help” and that’s NOTHING