Kushan

I appreciate that, but that isn't really a solution for a saleable game. Concept art sure but that's it.

Yewahh.... How does that help?

Yeah I've never been able to draw in my entire life, believe me I tried. I have an eyesight impairment and that doesn't help.

I feel like your rage is directed at the wrong people

So I'm in two minds about this. I am a software engineer by trade and have an idea for a game I'd like to try making.

The problem is that I don't even really know how to make games, not do I have any artistic abilities myself. I can't afford to pay a load of artists for work for a game that might never be finished and might never make money.

So I'm stuck in this hard decision of do I try and make my game, invest a lot of money and potentially lose it all, or do I try and find a publisher who can front the money but lose creative control of my game? Or do I use AI to give me a head start in building something that I can use to garner interest in, in the hope that enough people like it that I can fund the development?

Essentially, AI offers me a way to create something that I would not otherwise be able to create and that's really hard to accept.

I mean... They're all kind of arbitrary in their own way, but one could argue that the excel time being invalid is actually useful because it serves as a null value - you know it's incorrect, whereas on the other systems it could be the default date or it could be the actual date.

You know exactly what I'm referring to

Yeah this sucks but honestly it never really worked well for me, ebooks are horribly underserved in the media world.

And say what you will about apple, it worked (the slogan, not the Macs)

Yeah it's a fucking abysmal take. More kids had access to the internet and computers because of Chromebooks, without them they'd have had nothing - maybe once an hour in the computer lab each week, assuming they even had one.

Prior to Chromebooks, the most a school could do was "a computer in every classroom". That was it, that was the ambition in the early 2000's and even then most schools failed.

What happened was tech companies made computers easier to use by hiding a lot of that complexity. And average humans were fine with that because shit should just work.

The arguments being raised here about a loss of skills are the same arguments boomers used against millennials because they didn't know how to do DIY and shit like that.

The blame is always squarely on the education system. That system is supposed to set kids up with the skills they need to make it in the wold and tech literacy is one of many, many areas that is hugely underserved.

It'll be expensive gold paint from one of Don's mates

Op please don't ignore the above.

Learn docker once and you'll be able to install almost anything, rather than having to learn every individual app and how it installs on specific operating systems.