Pixel Pusher doesn't sound so bad. Kind of imagining it as someone who get's to tell the pixel who's boss, tell him where to go and what to do. All that power.
I was once called a pixel pusher by a concept artist I knew who also happens to be one of the biggest asshats I have ever met. I was just wondering just how many of you have had someone call you a pixel pusher because I know this term has been around before even used ironically in some respects even in a jovial fashion but…
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.
I made a t-shirt for myself that said "akimbo polyslinger". "Pixel pusher" wouldn't specifically offend me. That said, sounds like the dude sat down one day and had a chair stuck up his ass ever since, so screw 'em.