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Posted January 12, 2013
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dragonbeast: perhaps instead of saying " we are not paying you!", TET should have said:
"your payement will not be in money. Instead your payment will come in the form of experience and wisdom, which was according to certain greek philisopher worth more than all the gold in the world"
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keeveek: AND GOGS
I do not remember the greek philosopher saying that... hm... :P
Posted January 12, 2013
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keeveek: AND GOGS
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KylieM: I do not remember the greek philosopher saying that... hm... :P
i think it was diogenes who did not say it but kinda lived to that idea
Posted January 12, 2013
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Yeah, fair enough. I was a bit of an ass in the previous post. Let me apologize for that. Jetlag has me cranky, and I've clearly not phrased that well. Let me rephrase what I said:

When you're a student, learning how things are done in a workplace environment is valuable. My first two jobs were both internships, and both unpaid. The work that I did was basic graphic design, and--to be honest--I wasn't phenomenal at "work" yet. I was learning how to do office work, instead of school work. They're different, and when someone takes on an intern, if they take it serieously, it costs them a substantial amount in time and effort that ends up being a lost opportunity cost. Then, of course, about the time that the intern has fit in at the office, the internship period ends, and off we go looking for another one again.

RIght now, the work that we're hoping an intern wil do for us, some of it is currently done my by or by VIdeoNinja or whomever else has the time; because we want to try and do other things with our time, we're looking at getting someone to do something that is not terribly demanding and which, I do believe, will be valuable for someone who's not experienced in an office environment. I do believe that for someone who wants to learn, say, why editing choices are made, how to set up gear for a live shoot, and also get the opportunity to play some games and have it count as an internship (which, for many learning institutions, brings you credit and advances you toward graduation), and to get to do so in one of the best office environments that you could hope to work for, this is a good opportunity, and a fair trade.

I'm not generally someone who says stupid things--that's my job, really: not say stupid things--so I wanted to correct myself and say this: the intern's work is valuable, despite the stupid thing I said. I do think that the opportunity to learn is valuable, as well, and I believe that the value of what an intern can learn at GOG.com is plenty fair recompense for the work we're asking.
Posted January 12, 2013
BOOOOO! NUKE THE PLANET! NUKE THE PLAAANET!!!
Posted January 12, 2013
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TheEnigmaticT:
+1 :)
Posted January 12, 2013
Good luck to the person who wants to apply.

Personally I'm won't apply (too old and too far) but I have worked with a few interns and most of them don't mind that they are working for free since they learn so much.
Posted January 12, 2013
Interesting opportunity.
Posted January 12, 2013
Very well said, TET. I feel like I would like to work there! Even for free, but well, I live 300km away :P

I think the person who gets the internship will learn quite important things and play some kickass games.

btw. does that mean you are going to make gameplay videos for games being released here? It would be a cool thing, because some trailers or game intros you post on game cards are hardly useful. An actual gameplay video taken from GOG version of a game would be very, very important improvement.
Post edited January 12, 2013 by keeveek
Posted January 12, 2013
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keeveek: Very well said, TET. I feel like I would like to work there! Even for free, but well, I live 300km away :P

I think the person who gets the internship will learn quite important things and play some kickass games.

btw. does that mean you are going to make gameplay videos for games being released here? It would be a cool thing, because some trailers or game intros you post on game cards are hardly useful. An actual gameplay video taken from GOG version of a game would be very, very important improvement.
Have you seen This Week on GOG? We're including gameplay of pretty much every new release on there.
Posted January 12, 2013
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TheEnigmaticT: Have you seen This Week on GOG? We're including gameplay of pretty much every new release on there.
Yeah, I've seen it, but it's rarely a few seconds. I treat them more like "hey, we released this game!" but not something that really shows what that game is like.

I know that including, let's say, 5 minute gameplay video made by yourself for every game you purchase might be hard and time consuming, but I think that would be, well... nice :P

But it's not necessary, since gameplay videos for most oldies can be easily found on Youtube.

btw. This week on GOG are very cool videos. I watch them all even though I am here all week. They are fun to watch, pretty well executed too.
Post edited January 12, 2013 by keeveek
Posted January 12, 2013
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keeveek: Very well said, TET. I feel like I would like to work there! Even for free, but well, I live 300km away :P

I think the person who gets the internship will learn quite important things and play some kickass games.

btw. does that mean you are going to make gameplay videos for games being released here? It would be a cool thing, because some trailers or game intros you post on game cards are hardly useful. An actual gameplay video taken from GOG version of a game would be very, very important improvement.
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TheEnigmaticT: Have you seen This Week on GOG? We're including gameplay of pretty much every new release on there.
And it does look good too. Whoever ends up getting the internship will have the chance to edit these vids together.
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TheEnigmaticT: Have you seen This Week on GOG? We're including gameplay of pretty much every new release on there.
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keeveek: Yeah, I've seen it, but it's rarely a few seconds. I know that including, let's say, 5 minute gameplay video made by yourself for every game you purchase might be hard and time consuming, but I think that would be, well... nice :P
We users can already do that, providing we have something like fraps, and also a video editing program.
Post edited January 12, 2013 by gameon
Posted January 12, 2013
quest:
intern at GoG:
-do some stuff the others say
-survive
-repeat until time ends

reward:
8999 Exp
1 credit
2 pizza
1 cardboard sword of pizza boxes


but i live all the way in belgium and have barely started my studies so i won't take this quest
(real life has no fasttravel)
Posted January 12, 2013
Does intern get a DRM free pizza by working there? :D

I'd like to apply, but unfortunately it's too far. If you plan to open office in Belgrade I'd be quite happy to work as long as I'd get DRM free pizza and opportunity to get long term payed employment.
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