It seems like a really lame insult to me. I mean of all the things one could think of to insult another artist, is "pixel pusher" really the best they could come up with? At the end of the day, it's just obnoxious elitism and there's absolutely no end to it. This happens all the time when it comes to programmers and it…
Code Monkeys. I once nearly flipped out when a scripter started getting arsey with me (referring ot me as 'one of the lazy coders' because I couldn't schedule in an unscheduled feature by the end of the week that they wanted. I'd just come out of a voluntary 100 hour week to implement some prototype tech-art the previous…
That's because it's OUR word. It's one thing for us to call each other pixel pushers but when some bitch ass doodler comes along and says it... it's time to call the National Association of Artistic Computer People.
It all comes from insecurity. Over the years as I got to know him, I found out he use to be that kid on the playground having basketballs thrown at his face. Felt sorry for the big guy after a while.
I once had a guy call me a fucking faggot and kick my car. He was renting property from my mom and I chewed him out for constantly being late and burning down the portable office in a misguided attempt to get out of his lease early. I couldn't imagine getting that angry over an innocuous comment like Pixel Pusher, unless…