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Message: <blockquote data-quote="malladin" data-source="post: 4033346" data-attributes="member: 8230">Pity, since my opinion of what is and isn't professionalism is based on post graduate studies of the subject! How about your opinion?Ultimately the only quantifiable measure of "professional" game designer is someone who gets paid to design games. Game designers do not fulfill the traditional definations of a profession; social relevence, you know like in the examples I gave, oversite by a recognised organisation/governmental department, agreed ethical codes of conduct and a recognised qualification in the field, congratulations if you can point me to a single game designer with any formal "professional" game design accreditation.If you actually want an informed opinion, rather than just putting someone down because you don't agree with them I can happily recommendEraut, M. (1994) Developing Professional Knowledge and Competence. London: The Falmer Press.Even going by the more general definition of a professional, someone paid to do something, my arguments still hold in comparing the behaviour of these professionals to real ones, you remember the actual point of the post. And humour can easily be used to lash out under the cover of it being 'funny' but really a way of insulting/denegrating people. I assume from your view of the nature of humour you've no problems with jokes using race, belief or gender being acceptable, especially to those they target? Even thats irrelevent since the post I was referring to stated the acceptability of lashing out.So maybe before you call someone's opinion arrogant you might want to consider what their saying and how much you know on the subject.</blockquote>

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