Reality Factory

well, america is lucky.
in germany i saw it was like 6 euros

In ukraine (where I used to live for a short while) it was 5 Grevnas ($1) (1 Grevna = $.20)

Agentarrow wrote:In ukraine (where I used to live for a short while) it was 5 Grevnas ($1) (1 Grevna = $.20)

you lived in ukraine?

$2.13!!!! Its 3.13 around where I live.

bernie wrote:

City gas is outrageous too, it's like $3.50 a gallon and there's so many people, the gas stations look as if they're making a killing.

Oh how I wish ours was that cheap. €4.36 a gallon here and that is a lot cheaper than across the water in England. You guys just don't know your born.

It is all relative. Prior to 9/11, gas was 1/3 that cost. That is what you budget for and are ready for, then 9/11 and then hurricane Katrina happens, and al lof a sudden your paying 3 times as much for gas. It's all a budget issue. It drastically changes your budget, when your handling support of a 5 person family, etc.

To be honest, the price wouldn't bother me if the oil companies profit margins showed that they needed this price to keep themselves afloat. But when they are making record profits every quarter, that ticks me off. That is gouging, plain and simple.

its 3.30 up here AA. not much different.
And whats so bad about having stores around. atleast you can get nice things.
Why would you want big buisnesses around you. the country is atleast peacefull. unless I'm shooting the country side up.

I like the country, and cant stand cities myself. They are ok to visit, but anything more isn't my cup of tea.

Right on man!

Living in a city must be like rats living in a sewer. Never fancied the idea myself its like MOG says but I'm not too sure about the visiting being ok.

I've lived in the city of Pittsburgh more than once. I liked it very much. I got to meet Mel Gibson while he was filming there.

Nah far too hectic. Everyone rushing round like there's no time for anything, traffic snarled up and tempers fraying. There's little wonder folk turn to drugs or even suicide. I prefer the quiet lfe in the countryside. When I awake in the morning I hear the birds singing. I can see the stars in the sky at night. When I visit my kids in the city there's none of that. Sodium street lights shining through the curtains and traffic noise keeping me awake. You can't see the stars at night just the orange glow of sodium lighting. The sound of the birds drowned out by traffic, the neighbours playing loud music into the night, rowing with each other after a frustrating day among the traiffic, muggings and prostitution rife in the city centre. Not for me thanks very much, I'd rather be dead than living like that.

when ever i visited i went through newyour to the parts of long island were there are no big buildings. just small towns of old houses owned by a bunch of old people on a bunch of old sand is all.

well i live in auckland, NZ, and its pretty big, altho there is only 1.2 million ppl in it, im in the suburbs, were there are hardly any tall buildings, but even in the city center, its pretty good, although al the buildings are taller.Auckland is pretty green, unlike some places, with lots of parks and trees and all. i wake to the sound of birds too, but thereis traffic at nite. im so used to that,that i cant get to sleep as well without it. i can see the stars, and i think you can in the city cnter too, although the big buildings are in the way. hardly ever is there loud music playing at night, and the only place aronuf here that ever does play loud music att nite, their mum makes em stop at 10, or they get grounded. traffics not too bad, sumtimes there r jams, but not near as bad as london. petrol cost about $1.70 per liter here.

about the schol placement things, you all must remember that it is verra hard to get into the games indutry, or even the graphics industry. im planning on learning programming, and if i can ill do graphics stuff with games , but otherwise ill do programming, for anything, wether for games or not. dont EXPECT to get into games, just hope.

me live in ultra rich area, right by the beach.
its nice.

zany_001 wrote: about the schol placement things, you all must remember that it is verra hard to get into the games indutry, or even the graphics industry. im planning on learning programming, and if i can ill do graphics stuff with games , but otherwise ill do programming, for anything, wether for games or not. dont EXPECT to get into games, just hope.

Yeah, I have already stated it but am raising the point again. It is hard to get into the game industry and graphics industry. The easiest way in is through portfolios and projects you can show. Right now there is a change in the job market because colleges are now offering degrees for these previously untrained jobs. Most of the people in the industry today were never trained for game design, but were computer programmers, computer scientists, artists and other occupations. It is because of the new possibility for companies to get the well educated college graduates that limits who can get into the industry which makes competition tough. I would say the best bet is to get a career that can directly relate to the industry and make a portfolio of game related work. Then you can show that you are skilled enough for the job even though you aren't specifically trained for it. Then if you don't make the cut, you will already have a career to fall back on.

Of course, I am a college student myself and do not have any hidden industry knowledge, I am just going by what colleges and some internet research has told me. What I mean is that I am just stating what I feel is the best path to enter the industry.