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May. 12th, 2005 01:32 pmI've had 3 separate invititions to see Revenge of the Sith.
Why am I not getting as excited by the new Star Wars film as everyone else seems to?
Am I just too cynical?
No. It's not that. My alliegences have changed. Star Wars has become generic commercial pap. Lucas has sold out to the egotistical side. Joss Whedon is my master now.
Ah yes, and all the stupid fan retcons explaining how the Millenium Falcon did the "Kessel Run in 12 parsecs" (A parsec being a unit of distance) are daft. There are various explanations along the lines of it being difficult to navigate. But come on. Have you any idea how big 12 parsecs is!? I think a better explanation is that Han didn't know what a parsec was and wanted to impress them with meaningless jargon.
Still job hunting. I need to change industry. Who else would want me? Doesn't seem to be a lot of activity in the games industry, apart from at Criterion. I might apply to them, but I really don't know who they're after. Looking at their job spec,
"Excellent C/C++ skills" goes without saying.
"Previous experience on at least 2 released PS2 and/or Xbox games" and "Proven expertise in at least one area of games programming such as Graphics, AI, Physics or Audio", are largely irelevent. PS2 games are not fundamentally different from PC games at the level they work at, and it doesn't take that long to learn the techniques.
"Practical experience in debugging and optimization" is another non-requirement since all experienced programmers have this.
"Excellent communication skills", "Able to take responsibility for organising own tasks and priorities" "Able to confidently present work within team environment", "Able to research and develop new techniques and processes" and "Passionate about videogames" are filler.
"Able to think outside the box in a challenging environment" is mangementese.
I guess they don't know who they want either.
Why am I not getting as excited by the new Star Wars film as everyone else seems to?
Am I just too cynical?
No. It's not that. My alliegences have changed. Star Wars has become generic commercial pap. Lucas has sold out to the egotistical side. Joss Whedon is my master now.
Ah yes, and all the stupid fan retcons explaining how the Millenium Falcon did the "Kessel Run in 12 parsecs" (A parsec being a unit of distance) are daft. There are various explanations along the lines of it being difficult to navigate. But come on. Have you any idea how big 12 parsecs is!? I think a better explanation is that Han didn't know what a parsec was and wanted to impress them with meaningless jargon.
Still job hunting. I need to change industry. Who else would want me? Doesn't seem to be a lot of activity in the games industry, apart from at Criterion. I might apply to them, but I really don't know who they're after. Looking at their job spec,
"Excellent C/C++ skills" goes without saying.
"Previous experience on at least 2 released PS2 and/or Xbox games" and "Proven expertise in at least one area of games programming such as Graphics, AI, Physics or Audio", are largely irelevent. PS2 games are not fundamentally different from PC games at the level they work at, and it doesn't take that long to learn the techniques.
"Practical experience in debugging and optimization" is another non-requirement since all experienced programmers have this.
"Excellent communication skills", "Able to take responsibility for organising own tasks and priorities" "Able to confidently present work within team environment", "Able to research and develop new techniques and processes" and "Passionate about videogames" are filler.
"Able to think outside the box in a challenging environment" is mangementese.
I guess they don't know who they want either.
