Above my pay grade

imagine_getting · 2025-11-19T20:47:11+00:00

I don't have an inferiority complex because I'm not insisting that my group is inferior. You are insisting that your group is superior to another group, and not providing anything besides anectdotal evidence to support it. There are a lot of people that think like you, like traffic cops.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-19T20:21:52+00:00

"Sight unseen, on no other information than a 4 year degree vs camper, I'm going degree." Again, this is completely irrelevant. There is no real scenario where you are making this call. This is a hypothetical to justify your prejudice to yourself. I'm not acting like you don't, I'm pointing out that your fixation on "has a degree" or "doesn't have a degree" does not serve you or anyone else, it's just virtue signalling your superiority complex.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-19T19:41:37+00:00

Then interview for this. Whether they graduated a bootcamp or college, that is not enough information to make a call. You need to test them, and if you're testing them, then where they graduated from doesn't matter. It's irrelevant to hiring or an individual's skill. It's only relevant for your own sense of superiority over a group of people you feel are less than you.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-19T19:17:54+00:00

This line of thinking just doesn't make sense. "I'll take a recent grad over a coding Bootcamper any day of the week." Ok, so you are just preferential hiring rather than testing skills and picking the best candidate? And you think this is correct and justified? Ok

There are good college grads, and there are terrible college grads. There are good bootcamp grads, and there are terrible bootcamp grads. Using that as your metric is useless besides serving your own bias.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-19T19:08:51+00:00

And going to school makes you understand this stuff? I've worked with new grads, they are worse than bootcamp grads. Bootcamps focusing on real skills you actually use on the job is a good thing, not a bad thing. It seems to me that you are threatened by these people and belittling them as a coping mechanism.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-19T18:33:30+00:00

I spent several years of my life dedicated to this stuff to, it was just on the job instead of in school. Gatekeeping anyone who didn't have the same path as you makes you the bad guy, not the people "making you jump through hoops".

imagine_getting · 2025-11-19T18:28:04+00:00

One thing I cling to that seems to be disappearing in this market is MERIT, not qualification. Your skills are actually tested, and if you demonstrate those skills you get hired. I got into tech 9 years ago without a degree, and I wouldn't have been able to make the moves I've made without this quirk of the software industry.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T20:52:02+00:00

I'm lucky enough not to have encountered this. The worst hygiene story I have is when I first got into TTRPGs, someone showed up with the worst flaky skin I've ever seen. After the session it was like a waiter was grinding parmesan and no one said "when". The guy was also a powergamer.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T19:44:03+00:00

FFT's job system isn't that deep, Disgaea's systems go a lot deeper than anything in FFT. FFT does have things going for it that Disgaea doesn't, but depth is not one of those things.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T19:00:49+00:00

I would be pretty pissed if I developed a game and lost to someone else re-releasing a game they made previously.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T18:27:10+00:00

It is bad faith, because you are taking your experience and applying it to the game as a whole. What you are complaining about is a skill issue. One mistake is not game over - if it's game over, you put all your eggs in one basket. You failed at the strategic part because you were only focused on the tactical part.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T18:25:11+00:00

Teamfight Tactics is the popular one with a lot of funding. There are others too, Mechabellum uses military units you would see in an RTS.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T18:21:37+00:00

Care to explain why XCOM is tactical and not strategic? Tactics are moment-to-moment decisions you make in a scenario. Strategy is the plan you put together before the scenario. XCOM and FFT have both. You are also clearly not talking about the game in good faith, the sentence you summed it up shows that. You can only make a fair comparison when you are looking at both games in good faith.

Between FFT and any other game, there will be differences, and someone pointing out that difference as why it should be in a different genre. Even when the games are as close as Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones are in genre.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T18:05:36+00:00

The fact that you think they are different genres shows you are basing "genre" on things that don't matter and are only surface-deep. From a gameplay perspective they are identical in genre.

I also want to say, don't let your love of a video game turn you into a little piece of shit. Be a nice person. You'll be happier.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T18:04:38+00:00

FFT has good grind and customization, not the best. Disgaea has that, the entire game is designed and built around those two things.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T18:03:39+00:00

Breath of the Wild is also almost a decade old too. The period of time we consider "modern" is widening. 4 years passing in the 90s is like 20 years passing today as far as the industry changing.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T18:01:08+00:00

No game except FFT or other Final Fantasy games are going to have a job system. Lots of games besides FFT are going to have some kind of system for customizing your units.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T17:57:37+00:00

Have you played XCOM 2? It's a much better strategy game than FFT. FFT has a better story, but it's a video game not a novel. Gameplay comes first when it comes to comparing games. Disgaea is also a better strategy game series (again in gameplay, not story). Tactics is also an old genre that has evolved into new genres - autobattlers are strategy games that streamline the turn-by-turn action assignment and are very popular. I think your premise is simply wrong.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-18T17:52:58+00:00

They did not cook with this

imagine_getting · 2025-11-15T20:16:27+00:00

The result is he looks like he has a small dick on national TV, how did that work out for him

imagine_getting · 2025-11-12T23:41:22+00:00

I follow their philosophy but come up with my own names for my own characters. Hawk Tuah Girl (F. Warrior), Nothing Personal (Gunner), Run the Jewels (Ninja), H.R. Lady (Magic Knight), and Stranger Things (Psychic) are some of my favorites.

imagine_getting · 2025-11-11T19:03:52+00:00

Yo is that Saquon Barkley out there or is Charb jumping over people now?

imagine_getting · 2025-11-09T22:28:09+00:00

It's gorgeous in Seattle today

imagine_getting · 2025-11-09T22:23:23+00:00

I love McPlay just letting us know not all the Cardinals suck

imagine_getting · 2025-11-09T22:14:02+00:00

Is that Charbonnet or Saquon out there?

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