I haven't been active here in a long ass time, when I was young i always came here everyday, I even made jokes about how I couldn't spend a day without coming here at least 4 times a day, hell I even use to automatically type gamingw.net when opened a browser without realizing it.

I had a lot of great memories here and heard a lot of opinions, and met a lot of cool people here who made some great stuff. I came here as a little kid who discovered rpg maker and fell in love with it. I never released anything, or did anything with games after I left here, I always wanted to be a graphic designer to be honest.

so I was wondering where did all the people I knew from back then end up? how are you guys doing? so I thought I made a topic to see if anyone from back then was still around and if you could just state where you were in life when you got here, and where you are now.


when I got here....
I was a sophomore in high school
I didn't work, I was a lazy artist who had big dreams but procrastinated on everything.
Ran track....
and my goal was to be a graphic designer.

Right now ....
entering my 5th year in college going for my BFA concentration graphic design/webdesign.
I work a job as website designer par-time and I do freelance work in both areas of design, including flash work.
I've changed a lot from my lazy ways, but I think it's because I enjoy my job, hell it's not even a to me.
Oh...I stopped being a player I guess and settled down with a nice girl. I never thought I'd ever do that but hey, it's life.


What about you guys?

I really don't know where you guys tried to be artist, or what art fields exactly, but I just pulled in 4gs in just freelance work this month, I don't even touch my work checks. I'm in Graphic Design and Web Design. and I'm still in school.

I know chainer is more of a illustrator and that can be hard.

I havn't been active here in a long time, but I stopped by to see if you guys had made a topic.
 I'm from haiti and I have a large family living there, I go to Haiti every summer, I lived their for 2 years. this is really tragic for me but I got word that every single member of my family is fine, thank god.

I'll post some pictures of the level of damages in my home-town (not the capital.)

there was never such a thing as missing link, it was a bad phrase driven by media. their will always be something in between, you find one you'll need to find another one that links it to the other one. its like only taking half of a portion until its gone, you will never finish.

turn the white outlines to either a light brown or remove it, that's just my personal opinion.

We could.. have an Black Anime Day.. where we make contentwith Black Anime Girls.. ..take it a step further further and make it Black Lesbian Anime Day.

Everybody wins.

What is your real name boy? I wan to have it engraved on my chest so people can ask me who that is...and so that I can respond "GOD"

Whoa, this is an outrage to black people .... fucking anime gets a DAY!? what do black people get here!? less than 2% of gaming world is black, thats 2% higher than gw's anime lovers. AND WE DON'T get a FUCKING DAY?

Xenosoft Corporation demands that we get a topic dedicated to black "culture" where everyone most post a picture similar to this every week or get banned.

This discussion is ridiculous. THE IMPORTANCE OF A FIRM HANDSHAKE IN A JOB INTERVIEW. This is not something that is going to put you ahead of anyone else. The interviewers and Human Resources people of the company you are applying for have most likely been conducting interviews for a long time and all they want to know is whether or not you are the right person for the job. They are not going to pass judgment because of something as retarded as a limp handshake and maybe other overly specific aspects that hints on the applicant being insecure. You are supposed to grow in your role as an employee of their company and being insecure is not going to break the deal.

None of you have any idea what you're talking about and it sounds like you've had just as little experience with this as Psyburn.

Riighhht. Because I disagree with you on this specific subject, means I have no idea what I'm talking about. Besides the countless job interviews I've been to and the internships I've done in human resources, marketing and graphic design...right. I can't quote articles alll day, but I doubt you would read them nor is it that important but I'm not telling you how this should be, I'm telling you how things are. This is just how some employers (again you can argue majority or minority all you want.) do things.

"A huge study at the University of Iowa found that those people who start job interviews with a firm, strong handshake are always perceived in a more favorable light than those who shake hands like a limp fish.

Good handshakers are seen as being more extroverted and, eventually, more hirable. And women with strong handshakes have an advantage over men because their grips are more memorable."


A poor handshake isn't something that takes away from you, it is a missed opportunity for extra points in an interview. It's not that hard to understand. no one said you going to get hired for it, jesus you guys are like republicans pulling out shit people didn't even say.

No, what he said was you shouldn't judge someone as harshly as was being suggested by one piece of non-verbal communication. And he's right. You'd be an absolutely terrible interviewer if you held everybody to such an arbitrary standard.

If you had been my interviewer more than three years ago when I first applied for a job at a graphic design studio, I most likely would not have been hired because back then I had very little self-confidence. I hadn't had a serious job before and the company I went to was quite well-known and had high standards. Despite all that, eventually I ended up working on some really nice projects with them. And by working there I learned quite a lot about clients, projects, deadlines, coworkers, talking to people on the phone, planning, designing and programming, and probably loads more that I can't come up with right now. Looking back, it was more important an event to me than anything else. I've since quit working there to be a freelancer.

And to think I could have been rejected based on something so simple as a handshake. I must have been lucky that the owners of the company weren't stupid enough to believe that if you're not good at non-verbal communication you must OBVIOUSLY be a terrible employee.

You go on as if I said its the make or break deal. Even when I said it wasn't .... Their are tons of factors that go into that decision, your field, or your work, who else were they looking at, where you live.  If your work was amazing or at least better than all the other candidates, then their was no reason to give undeserved value to your subtle body language. This weights heavily on when the employer has a lot of options who are close in skill, he has to start to take into account little things.

No one is saying shy people don't hired, or weak body language is the key to a job. it's just what you can work on for an interview, chances are if you have an interview you already have a resume and work history, what else can you improve for an interview that's coming up in a week? I can't account for all the things that go against my experience and what I learned but I never said it was black and white in the first place. 

However to assume that people don't judge people by those factors is ignorant, yes some (whether it's a majority or a minority) people do judge harshly, so why even take the chance? No one is going to turn you down because you had a good handshake, you knew how to dress for the job, you were polite, you  had good posture or because you were out going.

It's funny on a lot of levels, he thinks that having a strong first impression doesn't include a firm handshake which falls under communication.  I just find it funny to hear a comment like that after all the things I have heard and gone through in my life because it's not true. Body language is just how humans communicate, and that includes a handshake.

Having a poor hand shake will not end your career, but why would anyone pick someone who shows poor self-confidence for a position when you have a hand full candidates with equal or better resumes and  show they are confident about the job.

having a poor handshake to me...is like asking someone "hello, how are you" and they say "hi." it's not making me reach out for you at all.

Most communication and judgments about a person are not done by conversation, in fact conversation is usually used to confirm or correct the judgments you have already made about a through body language and behavior.

lol you're seriously a faggot if you judge someone so harshly based on something as trivial as a handshake

lol, man this is so funny.

what? I want to find out what happens I hope their is a sequel.

I've been in a lot of interviews so let me tell you what I know

1. don't lie, just don't. Say it how it is, if it needs to explained, then do so after stating the fact, not before.

2. don't allow for quite moments, if they aren't saying something and you have nothing to say give them a mirror... as ask them about how they got to their position, do they enjoy it, etc.

3. research what your position would entail, have questions to ask about it.

4. connect on a personal, if they tell you something about themselves and you think it relates to you or share a similar experience, share it, but make it short and quick.

5. Thank them for the opportunity and tell them how you feel about what you heard.

6. Dress for the job.

7. be 15 minutes early, not an HOUR, if you arrive an hour early, don't announce yourself until 10 to 15 minutes of your appointment.

8. Relax and don't take the rejection personally if comes down to it, bitterness won't do you any good.

I've gotten rejected from jobs who referenced me to other jobs because they liked me but for whatever reason I wasn't the best candidate.

9. STRONG body language, open chest, no arms crossed, no slouching, no hands in pockets, no direct eye contact, but don't look down, here is a tip about eye contact.

When they are talking always look at them, when you are talking, look at them when you start to respond, then break eye contact and start using your hands as you talk to express yourself. And make new  contact at every new point you make in your response or every other sentence. OR when you finish a thought. (pick whatever is easier for you)

 I know people say strong eye contact is good, but that's a myth, looking at the interviewer head on through out the interview is  just creepy.

Lastly if you have glasses where them, a study shows that employers view people with glasses more reliable for some weird reason don't ask me why.

Working with XP :3

EDIT:

Very Classy, is this a mock up or is it coded?

I did the whole putting the phone/alarm on the other side of the room idea, and I would literally wake up and turn it off and go back to sleep without remembering that I did it, for a while I thought my phone was broken until one day I hit my toe on my bell bar and caught myself doing it.

I liked it, however I didn't like the idea that he (you) weren't embarrassed by your actions and just shrug and continue, kinda toned down the humor for me, but it was a good concept.

its really funny how someone who makes jokes can't take an ass crack to the face?

so you are saying

Aristotelian Physics
Mathematics
Medicine
Biology
Greek astronomy

all had their routes based on the notion that the earth was flat even though it was only relevent to one of the fields mentioned? I'm an art major, I havn't touched greek history in years but I'm pretty sure they thought the earth was round or at least a mountain to some extent, I might be wrong but it doesn't matter because you still make no sense.

foundation... i think the earth was in fact... the bedrock of classical sciences. belief in the flat earth was what all classical science... stood on

regardless it was attacking your underlying assumption that the more people use it or believe in it the more valid it is

what are the classical sciences?