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  1. Good luck on your future, I will be more than happy to give you important tips if you are free Hopefully you will be famous and remember my tips, so always think big and do not let anyone make you down! THINK BIG like you will be the next viral game designer! Also get a job of what you really LIKE, do not be a copycat like what everybody wants or anyone forcing you to be (like my dad wanted me to be a doctor, but I told him I am a tech enthusiast!) No I was invited by mistake but they couldn't change the situation, it turned out against them ?
  2. Hello there! My name is Ahmad, I am a character designer/animator in my last year in AUE college. I am based in Dubai. Last year there was a gaming academy (They play video games) that visited our university to play games and they added us to a WhatsApp group. People in the group are so inactive in the group (including me to be honest because of studying) 3 days ago (18/Aug/2019) in the group, the admin invited us to the launch event of HP (His client) Omen X 2S and he told everyone to come and as usual only one person and me and another person answered the invite. I answered the invite because I finished my morning work and was free and read it newly and he grabbed my attention of new revolutionary laptop and freebies. I think he didn't want anyone to come but tried this way to make group active and I think it is also for marketing reasons. I went and I met him inside the place and he was busy with someone so he moved his hand telling me he will talk to me later. Later I saw him and he ignored me, so I thought whatever, let me keep going. After that, I saw this "revolutionary" worthless dual screen laptop reveal and I thought what the heck? You can just use another monitor with the laptop you have and stop this messy touch screen down. Better yet, you can use use your custom made desktop high end PC better than this laptop in specs wise and budget wise ($2499 WTH??). I commented on this to one of the HP Omen people and she/he agreed with me, but changed her/his mind later for the fear of HP firing her/him. Later I talked to the managing director of HP and I wasn't stable in chatting with him because of my social anxiety. I greeted him and he asked me which part of the world are you from? I told him Syria. He told me "No, no, I meant are you influencer, gamer, streamer, etc… " I told him I am Character Designer in my last year in college. He told then "Do you stream?" I told him no, but I think this is an opportunity for me to learn more about gamers and their needs. I told him that the hype is on Gaming PCs as there is not that much work on workstations, that is why designers/programmers use gaming PCs. He told no we have a standalone workstation series. I then asked him about Omen software and driver updates is it there? He told me of course (and proudly happy) that driver update software is preinstalled as this is not custom build PC (I directly remembered HP tons of bulky useless bloatwares which slows down your gaming experience). I then asked why there are different results for different driver updating softwares. He answered I don't know but you use third-party app only if you custom build your PC. He then started looking around and I figured out he doesn't want to speak to me anymore. I think he was really disappointed that I won't give him anybody because I don't use social media, which is normal for social anxious people, or I might tell the people of how custom PCs are better. In addition, I figured out that this is exclusive event which I didn't know (Thanks to the group admin who wants more activity in his WhatsApp group) which explains a lot about how rude the HP Middle East director was to me. Then I met the Saudi team (Part of KSA national eSports team) and introduced them about myself. They didn't understand what is character designer (which is normal as there are not many folks out there know these stuff) I explained to them everything and how hard is it to create games and how big companies force overwork of game designer/programmers for the sake of the gamers which the team really cared and really happy to talk to me. The team also even surprised to know that a character development need 1 year to finish. I was really happy to talk to them and proud to speak to them (The problem is of my social anxiety is I handshaked them too much ?) At the end they didn't give me the goodie bag because I am not "influencer" which I think the HP managing director told them to not give me. What made me sad that these tech whales ignore the source of the games which are game developers/designers/programmers and focus on money and influencers. Also they make gamers really unaware of how hard is it to make a game or even make an update, which I don't blame the gamers but I blame the media & tech whales. Please know as you are a gamer or anything related to game, you wouldn't enjoy your game without us the game developers. Also if tech whales keeps ignoring the source of the game which are developers or designers/programmer and you keep requesting updates, we won't enjoy our life with our families as we take overtime and we get paid poorly because of competition and free interns. My experience was a good example of rude tech whales which here was HP. Please share your story with us so gamers be aware of us! (Hint: YouTubers will understand our pain in video editing) We need THE GAMER & THE DEVELOPER & PLATFORM DEVELOPER & HARDWARE DEVELOPER unite as ONE, NOT ONE overcome OTHERS. Please note that I meant by game developers the CREATORS of the game which are the underpaid people. NOT the whale which get all the money, a good example would be the PROGRAMMERS/DESIGNERS of League of Legends game, not Riot. These are totally different big stories, not to mention the female harrasement in game industry which I think a female person will explain better than me. Last thing, I choose LTT forums as I really like Linus friendly-netural-funny ideology and really learnt a lot from you since NCIX days not to mention my beloved TechQuickie! Also he give people a chance to explain their opinion like the video about how Linus work as a leader and how he accepted negative feedback from his employee! Thank you for your hard work and your "Speaking of.." ads!
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