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Author Topic: Things that made you RRRRRRAAAAGGGGEEEE today: Trust-o-nomics Edition  (Read 3776640 times)

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This is the important part for me.  I think it's an incredibly significant difference.  The majority of people I know who aren't gamers are potatos.  They go to work/school and then spend the rest of their time vegetating in front of a tv.  I think there's a core element of humanity that atrophies from being so passive.

...Did you just say tv-watchers are "passive" and "potatoes" compared to gamers, of all people? That's just hilariously ironic. Surely you realise this has everything to do with what you are watching and nothing to do with the medium. Would you really say that watching tv-documentaries about the state of the world is more "passive" and atrophying then when you start up your 137th game of Cataclysm?

Pah. "Interactivity". I'll just leave you with the comment that literature is the least form of interactive media, yet the one that'll atrophise you the least.
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I think what he was trying to say is that you're much more mentally engaged when the medium challenges you to actively participate (like using imagination to visualise the book you're reading, or trying to solve a problem in game) instead of just absorbing information passively.
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I love getting treated like a bitch by people that we already fall over ourselves to help. Putting in over 15 hours a day for this guy, and he fucking screams at the start of the next day because OH NOES MY INTERNET DIDN'T WORK FOR 10 MINUTES.
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I think what he was trying to say is that you're much more mentally engaged when the medium challenges you to actively participate (like using imagination to visualise the book you're reading, or trying to solve a problem in game) instead of just absorbing information passively.
This is likely it. There's always some component of thought in a game, even if it is highly repetitive (though there's a point where the player being nothing more than the controller of which thing is clicked in what order approaches the level of passivity inherently connected to television. This is, I think, one of the reasons why we as a community and gamers more broadly favor games which either mimic a book or pen&paper RPG (DF, Aurora, various other sim/strategy/RP/roguelike games) in terms of allowing players to fill in the gaps with their imagination and build stories, or games which pit them against other players or overwhelming odds in situations which both encourage and require very fast tactical and strategic planning and execution.

Of course literature (small-l) is still often better when it comes to fueling imagination, but that doesn't mean that other media can't encourage thought. I can see where SG was coming from when I consider that of the people I know, they are almost all divisible either into the category of "gamers", "non-gamers who watch TV and play Call of Duty in between drinking binges", or "workers who spend their leisure time watching TV". The only reason I can't count the number of people I know who read for pleasure on my fingers is because of my family full of Arch-Liberal artistic types.  :-\
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=0oSzLS0j9fY ( Ignore the no mobile, I'm on an IPad)
This made me rage so damn much.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=0oSzLS0j9fY ( Ignore the no mobile, I'm on an IPad)
This made me rage so damn much.
I have no words. I have no fucking words. It's people like this that stunt progress by tarring everyone else by association.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=0oSzLS0j9fY ( Ignore the no mobile, I'm on an IPad)
This made me rage so damn much.
Reminds me of a biology/geology teacher I had few years back.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=0oSzLS0j9fY ( Ignore the no mobile, I'm on an IPad)
This made me rage so damn much.
Reminds me of a biology/geology teacher I had few years back.
You had a teacher like that?
You poor, poor child.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?nomobile=1&v=0oSzLS0j9fY ( Ignore the no mobile, I'm on an IPad)
This made me rage so damn much.
Wow. I have no other words.
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Can she be that stupid?

I mean really?

Come on, nobody can be that much of a brick, can they?

Seriously?
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Can she be that stupid?

I mean really?

Come on, nobody can be that much of a brick, can they?

Seriously?
I think your avatar perfectly sums up a lot of people's reactions.
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The number of times people have told me that, oh man, definitely gonna keep it :D
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I would be more on board with this rage if every damn comment below that video wasn't attacking her because of her weight and her sex. Thanks world that we all have to live in.
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I don't get why he didn't just turn off the engine.
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I don't get why he didn't just turn off the engine.
Because that would validate her bullshit?
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