For the last few years I studied at uni doing a gaming centric course (c/c++, actionscript, 3ds max, story boarding, video editting, etc.). While quite entertaining and useful for my own interests (Ive been making games for 25 years or so, and it's nice to be uptodate with the industry, even if there are trends I dont like), I must admit some of the people invloved, including a few of the younger lecturers can make it a chalenge sometimes. Now I do understand that age can limit experiences, so to a degree some ignorance is excusable, but a not small portion of these newer generations actually seem to believe that because theyre "current" theyre the experts on the matter. More frustrating however is some of our textbooks, which are themselves innaccurate are being used as a basis for these "experts" to dismiss something I was a part of, and in fact disregard somethings that I say, because it doesnt match..... this is very frustrating. I was there, I lived it, I *know* it, yet because some text book written by people stupid enough to say, for example, the cdtv was a c64 with a cdrom (yes, I kid you not, "official" uni textbooks on the history of videogames claim this) I get dismissed as the old guy who doesnt know what he's talking about. Slowly, but surely I think people are starting to realise that maybe what I have to say is worth listening to and that I do know what Im talking about, but each year starts the same and the process is getting tedious.
Slight sidebar, but I have no fear of death due not to a video game, but accepting it in a very realistic dream a few years ago. I've been in some pretty hairy situations before, but until this dream it used to scare me, now I just accept it as inevitable. There's a good chance these words in text dont fully explain how profoundly the dream effected my outlook on death, but Im glad I had it nonetheless.
