What do you get when you pay for a game?

This is something that's been bugging me for a while.

I had recently bought Counter-Strike Collection and when I started installing it a pop-up showed up prompting me to register in "Steam", something I had read about some time ago. The purpose of this was to make me log in everytime I wanted to play so they could make sure I was using a legal copy of their software.

Fair enough, I paid for it and it was an online game so it wasn't that big an issue.

Sometime later I bought Valve's Half-Life Anthology. The main game I wanted to play using it was the original Half-Life. I started installing it on my computer, which wasn't connected to the internet and at that time simply couldn't be. Suddenly a pop-up showed up. "Register your copy on Steam or you won't be able to play the game". I couldn't.

It was a singleplayer game, I had paid for it and it was there in my hand but they wouldn't let me play it. What had I just bought?

Apparently I had just bought permission to play the game but only if they were watching.


(I'll probably write more about this in the near future.)

Dice

I have started rolling the dice about two weeks ago.

I sent out CVs and portfolios to some companies I was interested in, mostly for the jobs of Junior Artist and QA Tester. I know I still lack a LOT of practice but I feel that I need to start sending all of this stuff right now. I might get a positive answer.

So far I have recieved some negative answers and one that sounded positive but some time later was denied. Right now there is another one that I feel optimistic about but will not detail further on this post.

Time to work on my texture painting skills.