Cruncher goes inactive from Complexity Roster - Page 5

On October 04 2011 11:34 MilesTeg wrote:
Gotta admit, it's weird for me too to see peope with the sad face after the announcement that he leaves. I mean... do people really think he was any good? I think he was more known because of that idra incident than anything else.

Besides, I remember him stating he doesn't like Stacraft so it's no one's loss really.

On October 04 2011 11:41 Sub40APM wrote:
i wish i could re-do college. Wasting the best 4 years of your life playing a video game, even a fun one, is a terrible decision for most people.

On October 04 2011 12:13 RajaF wrote:


If I was in Cruncher's position, I would of stayed with Complexity since they were paying him decent money to do something that he clearly loves. You can go to college at any age as long as you are still motivated and able to study.

I am a bit bitter about this subject, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

But I'll say that I went to university (and a pretty prestigious institution too, namely the university of toronto) and college before that, got good grades and good experience, and all I have to show for it is a lot of debt. Most certainly a waste of time and money, not a doubt in my mind.

Unless you go to Harvard or some Ivy league school with really small class sizes and almost guaranteed employment at graduation (in which case you are rich anyway), then you will be entering the workforce at the same time as another 200 - 400 people in the same field just from your school, in just that year. And unemployment is on the rise right now. Think about that. And I'm not talking about English majors. I'm in computer science.

80% of the people that graduated with me and that I went to classes with are now unemployed (and can't get a decent job because they are overqualified) or employed in an unrelated field which they most of the time hate being in.

I myself work in a computer store as a technician, using skills that I had when I was 19, that I did not need to pay tens of thousands of dollars to get and be useless. But hey, I can program an awesome content management system in my spare time, since no one is willing to pay me even minimum wage to do it.

On October 04 2011 12:34 Zorkmid wrote:


Just because you haven't translated your U of T degree into a decent living doesn't mean that university is stupid.

I went to university, and I make many times more money than I'd likely have been able to make had I not gone. I'm not saying that my experience, or this posters, is what YOU'RE going to get, but I beg of you 16-18 year olds.....TAKE RajaF's POST FOR WHAT IT IS....the cries of someone who didn't make the best of a rare opportunity to get a great education.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=77

You're going to make about 60% more money on average with a bachelors degree in your lifetime.

On October 04 2011 12:34 Zorkmid wrote:


Just because you haven't translated your U of T degree into a decent living doesn't mean that university is stupid.

I went to university, and I make many times more money than I'd likely have been able to make had I not gone. I'm not saying that my experience, or this posters, is what YOU'RE going to get, but I beg of you 16-18 year olds.....TAKE RajaF's POST FOR WHAT IT IS....the cries of someone who didn't make the best of a rare opportunity to get a great education.

http://nces.ed.gov/fastfacts/display.asp?id=77

You're going to make about 60% more money on average with a bachelors degree in your lifetime.

On October 04 2011 12:37 GettinMyFill wrote:
You don't need to jump straight into tertiary education. You can study at any point in time in your lifetime. This is simply an average 'pro-gamer' realising that he is never going to make it, so he returns to his normal life, before forcefield exploitation garnered him some kind of internet fame.

On October 04 2011 12:42 daxile wrote:
In this economic climate, you would be lucky to even find a job with just a bachelors degree.