Jordan Lynn
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Jordan Lynn
@premiumjordan.bsky.social
Senior Games User Researcher at Amazon Games/ ex Bethesda ex Daybreak ex Scopely ex Volition/ my opinions are my own/ Golden retriever gamer boyfriend/ #foreverDM
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:

"When are you going to stop playing with those toys and get into newspapers, where the real money is?"

My dean tried to stop my program of studying video games because there was no future in it. 15 years in industry later, I disagree.
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:

(1995)
"Graduates from this program go into catalog illustration or CAD. You will waste your education making video games."

3 decades later and in what that program evolved into, over 90% of incoming freshmen go for games studies.
Introduce yourself with your worst feedback from school:

Hello, I’m Mary, and no one will want to read my writing because its attempt to break through intellectual arguments with raw emotion “feels like a woman thing”

(Why yes it was a 50+ dude professor why do you ask)
November 22, 2024 at 11:12 AM