hap wrote:
Tell them it's a complex combination of designing, programming, problem solving, drawing, composing, ...
Which don't immediately lead to making money or earning school credit.
peppers wrote:
How bout this, I assume your a grown man
I am a grown man, but I don't yet earn enough at work to afford my own place. (That's part of why I want a hobby I can monetize.) And a lot of this is about my cousin, who's still in middle school, and he can barely afford dev equipment out of his allowance.
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But to contradict what I just said if u really spend all your spare time on it I would advise that u get a life.
He already has a life:
But seriously, what kind of life is an eighth grader supposed to have during summer vacation? But I don't think he
wants a life: whenever his family tries to take him out to do something, he complains about having his time wasted.
tomaitheous wrote:
If you're coding, you're being productive.
One problem is that my productivity isn't necessarily anything I can put on a resume because the platforms that employers might want me to code for are nothing like the 8-bit home computers of the 1980s.
MottZilla wrote:
Some people, especially old people, don't understand computers. They seem to believe that when you sit at the computer you are automatically doing something pointless and unproductive simply because they don't understand what you are doing.
My cousin works on projects in 6502 asm for NES, C + Allegro, Z80 asm for his TI calculator, various Lego robotics environments, Golly (2D cellular automata engine), RPG Maker 2 (for PlayStation 2), and some platforms I can't remember. He also edits old animated TV shows together in various dadaist or dirty ways. But he appears unproductive in part because he doesn't ship. He just doesn't think taking projects to completion is worth his effort.
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So maybe you should try to explain it to them and when they don't understand because it is too complicated maybe they'll STFU.
You correctly guessed that one of the critics is nearly old enough to draw US Medicare. But I'm trying to understand my cousin's motivations so that I can explain them.