Victim Complex to the max, it's kind of sad actually.
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Trump Plan To Defund U.S. Arts Endowments Could Impact Video Game Programs
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Victim Complex to the max, it's kind of sad actually.
Sure corporately made video games will be unimpacted by this, this is going to limit exposure to design/programming for the less privledged and potentially impact unique voices & perspectives.
Poltergust
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OK.
I got a graduate degree from FIEA. Some of my classmates would not have been able to attend without a grant or scholarship, and those same people have worked on games you are probably playing now and will continue to make games into the future.
Raylan Targaryen
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Couldn't you at least skim the OP?
You bring up 735 million dollars. OP has this little nugget in it
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Taxpayers didn't pay the $200 million budget of GTA V, I don't know where you're getting this shit from and why you're talking as if it's absolute fact
Bubbavelli
Banned
You are literally sounding crazy right now
Chaos2Frozen
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djitalianice
Banned
Last time I checked, computers were pretty cheap and plenty of coders are self taught. I'm not seeing some massive injustice problem here. Just a bunch of whining children complaining that their video games are gonna dry up because a politician decided to cut funding to something pretty questionable in the first place.
Pellegri Testament
Member
The fact you say the bolded in the way that you do says quite a bit actually. The defensiveness says even more.
You have to be trolling at this point.
You're deluded.
The only person whining and acting like a child who doesn't understand what's happening, is you.
Poltergust
Member
There is nothing questionable about funding the arts. This has been the practice for decades.
Also, most software and hardware nowadays can get extremely expensive, and formal teaching to help guide students will allow them to get a good head start.
Furthermore, this is not just about coding. Game development encompasses a wide range of disciplines, including art and production.
potatohead
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You have zero idea of how business works in the real world, how investment works, and what is necessary to maintain jobs and industries in different states and countries.
What you just posted is elitist libertarian trash. The real world ain't so simple dear.
Scrooge McDuck
Member
Maybe you are mixing up complaints from somewhere else? Because nobody here is saying this at all.
djitalianice
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Except not really. Within minutes of posting my opinion, a hoard of petulant children started posting about my "conservative blah blah", insinuating my support for Trump all around and not just on this particular issue, and wandered off topic blabbing about building a wall. What does building a wall have to do with this? Squat is what it does. Just a bunch of babies taking out their aggression all at once about all the other issues keeping them up at night.
The fact that a bunch of likely NEETs circle jerk on this board around their social justice causes every time someone posts a dissenting view and then start hopping on someone - "ohhh he has a VICTIM complex! he must be doing this for awhile.". Gimme a break. You may outnumber me on this message board, but the silent majority elected a president, who... if you live in the US... *IS* your president. Your Alinsky tactics will not work on me.
How old are you? Because you sound like a child that has no idea how the world works.
djitalianice
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"people I went to school with wouldn't have been able to work on games you're playing right now"
I'm pretty sure I'd be playing all the games I'm playing now. But thanks.
Silent majority?
Numbers, how do they work.
Congrats on ruining a thread because you're incapable of rational thought.
How would you know?
You seem to think the money would be going to Mario and Sonic. You don't seem very informed on this issue.
Poltergust
Member
Majority? Trump lost the popular vote.
You have no idea what you're talking about in regards to the topic at hand. You probably never even considered the opportunities that people would lose should funding for grants get cut.
This is not the same as saying the industry would entirely dry up.
Also, my statement is not any less true because of you hyperbolizing everything.
djitalianice
Banned
Of course Trump would pull funding for things like art and culture. Even if you take games out of the equation, it's a supremely shitty thing to do. But, I'm really not even surprised any more by what he wants to pull funding for.
PBS? Take away funding.
Healthcare? Let's ruin it for millions.
Meals on Wheels? To hell with the elderly and those incapable of going out!
Arts and culture? Fuck that noise!
You're going to go far here.
Only Call of Duty for this guy.
PBS? Take away funding.
Healthcare? Let's ruin it for millions.
Meals on Wheels? To hell with the elderly and those incapable of going out!
Arts and culture? Fuck that noise!
You're going to go far here.
Only Call of Duty for this guy.
djitalianice
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The popular vote doesn't matter. The electoral vote is what matters and trump won fair and square. That is the way the voting system works.
Scrooge McDuck
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Please address what people are actually saying instead of the extreme interpretation of what you think they are insinuating.
Poltergust
Member
Then stop bringing up "silent majority" as an argument.
Chaos2Frozen
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But you just said the silent majority...
Poltergust
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Agreed, but it still makes me sad to see something like this potentially block people from achieving their dream of entering the industry.
Don't know why you guys are bothering with djitalianice.
1. Assumes the victim position right off the bat despite no actual proof of being attacked.
2. Accuses others of being "petulant children", displaying little self-awareness.
3. Gets facts wrong multiple times.
4. Invokes "social justice" as a pejorative term to describe those with contrary opinions.
We are about 2 or 3 steps away from him calling us cucks.
1. Assumes the victim position right off the bat despite no actual proof of being attacked.
2. Accuses others of being "petulant children", displaying little self-awareness.
3. Gets facts wrong multiple times.
4. Invokes "social justice" as a pejorative term to describe those with contrary opinions.
We are about 2 or 3 steps away from him calling us cucks.
DanielJr82
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Impeach that orange clown already, what is taking so long???
djitalianice
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No, the money just goes to companies that will fight to get projects. You know, Big Entertainment. Money that goes to funding Big Colleges (not the same as education, by ANY means). Money that does to funding Big Business (console makers, advertisers, etc).
If you think I think Sonic and Mario are getting tax money by way of direct deposit to their Cayman Island bank accounts, then you're clearly misunderstanding the point I am making.
How About No
Member
Oh absolutely, this is just a hairy corn kernel in the giant steaming turd of whateverthefuck is happening in America right now
Poltergust
Member
For one thing, no one in America is going to be working on a Mario or Sonic game unless you are counting spin-offs.
Secondly... "Big Colleges"?
I have no idea what point you're making here.
Do elaborate. How is, for example, USC not a purveyor of education?
ScientificPizza
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BoosterDuck
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Only 4chan babies cry 'boo hoo the neogaf hivemind is infringing on my freedom of speech! PC POLICE ALERT VIRTUE SIGNALING!!!'. How about you stop going off topic and focus on the actual discussion instead of victimizing yourself and derailing. Trump's defunding the arts and it's affecting the video game programs that certain big time developers like grabbing talent from. The next call of duty or in your case the next anime schoolgirl rhythm game you play could be affected by Trump's policies.
SPEAK 👏 ON 👏 THE 👏 TOPIC 👏 AT 👏 HAND
Technically Hillary got the most votes. And he's not my president, he may be your president since this topic stimulated you well enough but I voted against him and anyone who supports him can get a big, fat Fuck You
I see the "fuck you, got mine mentality" is strong in you. You sure you didn't vote for Trump? Cuz his supporters sound exactly like you.
djitalianice
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LOL. I have lurked this board for years and waited my turn to get approved for my account. I rarely post, except for one time, and immediately I get more responses than anyone else. Many members here cannot handle dissenting opinion and that is the largest fact in this thread. Citing this observation doesn't make me claim to be a victim. Acting as if Trump is personally robbing you of video game entertainment is the position of the victim. And I am calling it out, as it should be, in this echo chamber of NEET/SJW majority thinking.
Let me ask what is so violently repulsive about government NOT contributing towards the arts? Why are so many people worked up about this? Maybe you should be asking yourselves that question before getting so butt-hurt about me stating my opinion on the matter. Nah instead, just go on a virtue signaling circle jerk about Meals on Wheels, "The Wall" and other stuff that has nothing to do whatsoever with the topic at hand.
I am well versed on Alinsky tactics and will not be fooled for a single minute thinking that some here are not professionals at this.
djitalianice
Banned
Nah. I don't blame millenials. I blame their parents. Participation trophies and gold stickers didn't just give themselves out.
I get the feeling you won't be here for long with the way you're acting.
it's like poetry
joecanada
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That's cool take away all the grants and tax breaks. We give great ones in Vancouver see who that works out better for. I already know tons of people here with full time entertainment jobs , more middle class tax payers for us.
Also lol at your premise that college will suddenly get cheaper when private. There are private universities you ought to actually research what they cost
Dude.
Take a step back,
read what you are posting,
read what other people are posting,
try to understand what they are saying and not what you think they are saying.
Then come back.
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