Would you say 75% of game devs are fat?

Post by **I cant spell u** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:26 am

I got into an arguement with someone telling me that playing games are a waste of time, and that game developing is a waste, and that I should play the drums like he does. Then he tells me this bullshit statistic that 75% of game devs are fat but he can't remember where he saw it at.

Post by **werldhed** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:33 am

How was that supposed to strengthen his argument?

Post by **I cant spell u** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:35 am

werldhed wrote:How was that supposed to strengthen his argument?

That game development is a waste of time and that it's meaningless and will never get people any where.

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 1:49 am

wow. no really.

Post by **bitWISE** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:03 am

inolen is pretty fit

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:39 am

Yea hes one hot mofo

Post by **dzjepp** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:45 am

I'd say Gabe Newell probably pushes the average up A LOT. Oh and drummer?

Maybe he's related to drum :icon31:

Post by **iambowelfish** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 8:02 am

I picture the drummer as being the fattest guy in the band.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:01 pm

i hate fat ppl...

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 4:01 pm

iambowelfish wrote:I picture the drummer as being the fattest guy in the band.

lo no

Post by **diego** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:07 pm

What a moronic argument, "games are useless because a statistic (of which I don't remember where I read it) says 75% of game developers are overweight".
Is it more useful to play drums in a - say - rockband?

Post by **I cant spell u** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:32 pm

diego wrote:What a moronic argument, "games are useless because a statistic (of which I don't remember where I read it) says 75% of game developers are overweight".
Is it more useful to play drums in a - say - rockband?

According to him that all game devs will never be remembered and that rockers are better in every way.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:34 pm

I cant spell u wrote:
diego wrote:What a moronic argument, "games are useless because a statistic (of which I don't remember where I read it) says 75% of game developers are overweight".
Is it more useful to play drums in a - say - rockband?
According to him that all game devs will never be remembered and that rockers are better in every way.

id rather be a nobody in the gaming industry and having real money than some loser who never makes it out of local bars living in a van and banging underage skanks nightly..

Tell that retard to stuff it..

Post by **+JuggerNaut+** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:46 pm

i think you need new friends.

Post by **I cant spell u** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 5:53 pm

+JuggerNaut+ wrote:i think you need new friends.

It's only one, rest are okay.

Post by **Jackal** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:02 pm

I would say that 75% of people in general are fat.

Post by **inolen** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:10 pm

Hardly. I'd say we have 1 overweight person for every 50 or so here.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:13 pm

inolen wrote:Hardly. I'd say we have 1 overweight person for every 50 or so here.

lol...ur so far off...

Post by **Coriolis** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:45 pm

Game development sure hasn't been a waste for me.

And that 75% figure is total malarky. Most game devs look like normal people.

Post by **Juelz** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:49 pm

I cant spell u wrote:I got into an arguement with someone telling me that playing games are a waste of time, and that game developing is a waste, and that I should play the drums like he does. Then he tells me this bullshit statistic that 75% of game devs are fat but he can't remember where he saw it at.

It is a waste of time, go join a gym fat ass.

Post by **Tormentius** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:52 pm

Juelz wrote:
It is a waste of time.

Care to offer a better alternative?

Post by **Grudge** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:54 pm

Post by **Juelz** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 6:59 pm

Tormentius wrote:
Juelz wrote:
It is a waste of time.
Care to offer a better alternative?

I just said "join a gym" fat ass!

Post by **Tormentius** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:05 pm

Juelz wrote:
I just said "join a gym" fat ass!

Joining a gym doesn't exactly qualify as a career choice :icon27:.

Post by **Foo** » Wed Feb 01, 2006 7:09 pm

Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy. While few philosophers would claim to be nihilists, nihilism is most often associated with Friedrich Nietzsche who argued that its corrosive effects would eventually destroy all moral, religious, and metaphysical convictions and precipitate the greatest crisis in human history. In the 20th century, nihilistic themes--epistemological failure, value destruction, and cosmic purposelessness--have preoccupied artists, social critics, and philosophers. Mid-century, for example, the existentialists helped popularize tenets of nihilism in their attempts to blunt its destructive potential. By the end of the century, existential despair as a response to nihilism gave way to an attitude of indifference, often associated with antifoundationalism.

http://www.iep.utm.edu/n/nihilism.htm

To enter into a debate on the ultimate pointless of something, you'll most likely come up against the ultimate pointlessness of everything.

The above may be of use to you. In my experience the argument can come back around to the value placed on suffering/pleasure throughout the course of a person's life. On that basis, I think the arguments for gaming/game development are equivalent to those for music/drumming.

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