child me taught myself a functional amount of actionscript in like 2008-9 and all i got for my trouble was a couple flash games and a massively decreased interest in game design as a career.

i also learned a bunch of batch and VBS, whole lotta fucken good those are doing me.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

a massively decreased interest in game design as a career.

This is worth a lot though. It takes many people a few years of their life, a burnout and a lot of mental healthcare to get to this point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are you trying to tell me that there was a point I was allowed to quit?

[–] Skullgrid 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

God the actual fucking wasted youth. Just learn something slightly different and you'd make gazillionaires look like bums.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

and at this point everyone i ask in person is just like “ask gpt for help” and that’s NOTHING