Yeah, it's such a simple solution - quit the career you've been putting your entire life into. That's sure to clear this depression issue up!
Seriously though, it's time for a little rant: I find your response incredibly insensitive. It perpetuates the unreasonable expectations of society, which leads people towards depression and suicide. Your post might as well tell him to commit suicide - it's all the same to a suicidal person. "Failure is death."
Human beings are more than tools to get work done, you know? Unfortunately, workplaces would like you to keep your personal problems to yourself. Being a "human being" is a liability - it affects the bottom line, deadlines, and overall productivity. They would rather replace you with someone who is "more capable" than deal with the baggage. And we criticize people for withdrawing from society. Like they have a choice?
It's also a shame that we're so ignorant in our treatment of depression. "Just talk to someone! Take some pills! Avoid stress triggers! Get a better job!" This is all bullshit advice. Depression actively prevents you from "seeking help" and making changes in your life. We think of it as a personal issue, but it's really sociological due to the way we glorify work and self-sacrifice. We need to stop basing the value of human life on productivity. Especially when the majority of "work" revolves around unimportant bullshit we dreamed up just to keep ourselves busy, since technology has largely removed the urgency of survival. There are very few jobs that deserve the amount of stress we attach to them.
Did I just log into tumblr?
Here comes the token, sanctimonious speech about depression. Complete with the "it's society, NOT MEEE!" cop out.
Though this one espouses the need to coddle people with a lack of productivity or even ability. That's... new. So, people are entitled to jobs they cannot do? They are entitled to compensation for work they are incapable of performing?
Because why? Their mental illness? Their immaturity and lack of ability to cope outside of the babysitter?
If this was the military, your cohorts who rely on you would be picked off like flies with that mindset.
If this was engineering, hundreds or thousands of people would be dead due to malfunctions and a few billion dollars would have been wasted. Not to mention the automotive and aeronautical industries like to shove people who designed unintentional instruments of death into long winded show trials for negligent homicide.
Thankfully it is just a low-production video game and the only thing that will come out of failure is a few thousand japanophile nerds with impotent rage. Also probably the death knell for the small company XSEED if they spent what little money they have on the budget for the project. They weren't working designs, but it was nice knowing XSEED if this turns sour and they aren't able to make their money back.
All that said, it would be preferable to me if we don't use the computer science industry for more of a receptacle for every depressed kids and social justice addicts than it already is. With the world becoming more and more computerized the hiring abilities of these companies go down the drain.
Interestingly enough, it was the hiring practices and lack of work ethic that killed IBM dead in the 80's. If their HR and management weren't so incompetent then all their actual talent would not have jumped ship to Microsoft, Apple, Google, Oracle, etc. and made all those companies hundreds of billions instead of standing on the sinking ship into oblivion.
Weirdly enough, almost 30 years after the exodus and slow death of IBM the big boys are making the exact same mistakes IBM did. Hell, the mistakes are making it's way into other industries now, ones that are a bit more critical than video games and computers. I don't want to say you should be scared, so let's not go there.
I hate to bring actual reality onto Internet forums because they tend to have no actual connection to reality, but this needed to be said.
I also hate to almost ruin a lighthearted thread by giving you all a taste of just how close our world is to the end the of a cliff, but what I said is really nothing to what I could be saying. If I was to really let go I would have to be talking for hours and you would all probably want to be joining the Carpe Fulgur guy. Let's not do that either.
I wish I could say that this entitlement mindset (among other things) was a only small problem in today's world, but it will genuinely kill us one day. I don't want to hazard a guess as to how soon either, I suggest we just keep playing video games.
I am usually free to play afternoons on weekdays and nights on weekends. You can hit me up on PSN, and I don't have Battle Fantasia but you can check out other games we have in common in the trophies section. I haven't played P4AU in a while but we can brush up on all the characters for the trophies and help you get adjusted to the different mechanics of the game. I also have a headset if u wanna chat or something.
