Computer games - What an utter waste of time! :: Stephan Paukner

Monday, January 23. 2006

Computer games - What an utter waste of time!

Finally, here is my little rant against computer games. You expect computer freaks to be gamers? You’re so wrong. Actually, there are two groups of computer geeks who don’t communicate with each other: The programmers and the gamers; Well, to be honest, the only intersection are game programmers, but they’re time-wasters in my eyes, too.

I can’t understand why the gamers of all people assess themselves as being qualified for an IT-oriented education, just because they sit in front of a screen all day long and play different kinds of... games. Their only real practise in handling a PC is to open and close a CD-ROM drive, get illegal copies of commercial games from peer-to-peer networks and download cracks for these from the web.

I know what I’m talking about, because I went through that phase in my youth, too: I played “Wolfenstein 3D”, annihilated bad Nazis with bazookas while listening to aggressive techno music—believe it or not. Fortunately, I went over to the good side of the force.

In a way I haven’t understood yet, those gamblers finally make their way through their education, and sooner or later, they start to work at your employer. If you finally have to implement some kind of requirement together with one of these highscore-hunters, you soon find their limitations in decreased effectiveness of their logical thinking. In the end, after they’ve given up, you will have to do twice the work: remove the stupidity from their code and do the requested enhancement by yourself.

Giga TV! Have you ever heard one of their moderators speaking? Their pronunciation is absolutely hell, it makes me aggressive if I just hear one of them speaking. They clearly have been selected for the show by their pretty faces, they deliver news about games all day long, play games all day long and get paid for it—the ultimate dream for a gamer!

I hate computer games. I only like to work on a computer in a creative way. If there is no result like a picture, text, music or some kind of service, then it was a waste of time. A PC is my tool to get done what I need. Especially the whole GNU-landscape offers so manifold possibilities every programmer dreams of. But here, I’m already missing the point.

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