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General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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You gamer geeks are a bunch of fat, antisocial losers.......
At least according to the cover feature of the current issue of Time magazine.......
http://games.gearlive.com/playfeed/a...-3-draws-fire/ |
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Dark Cloud
Join Date: Apr 2001
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But who reads Time anyway?
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: New Mexico
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I resent that. There is no way I can possibly be considered fat.
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General Manager
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Kansas City, MO
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Bounty Hunter
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Oh, no, somebody thinks that gamers are fat, antisocial losers. Well, this is new and exciting.
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Head Coach
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Hometown of Canada
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We be hard azz hardkore, bitchezzzz!!! |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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Is that a parody? |
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Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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I just read what I think was the allegedly "offensive" Time article. Maybe I need to read it again, but I didn't really get any anti-gamer bias from it.
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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Me neither. The guy bitching about it is clearly reading way too much into the article. He doesn't say anything negative about the gamer community, he says that much of the world thinks negatively of the gamer community, and considering most of the mainstream media coverage about games comes up only when there is a school shooting, he's probably right. |
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Hockey Boy
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Royal Oak, MI
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Good. I am glad I wasn't missing something. The whole "ghetto" analogy didn't seem to imply that gamers are "ghetto" or live in a "ghetto", but rather Halo was trying to breakout of videogames (here, the "ghetto") and into more mainstream things like books, comics, movies, etc. I didn't see anything wrong with it.
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General Manager
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: The Satellite of Love
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Yeah, "ghetto" is clearly being used metaphorically. The list of quotes he provides is pretty laughable too. “The Bungies bring a grinding, jeweler’s meticulousness to what most people consider an unhealthy amusement for children.“ (his emphasis) Yeah, this is pretty much a factual statement. Most people do still think of video games as something for kids and most of them probably think it is unhealthy, again going by what you see in the mainstream media about video games. “This devotion is fueled by a belief, not shared by the world at large, that video games are an art form with genuine emotional meaning and that Halo 3 will be the premier example of that art.” (his emphasis) Most of the world doesn't consider games to be a form of art. But he's cherry picking a line here to make the guy look biased. Earlier in the article, the author said: "The action isn't nonstop; instead it includes dramatic beats and even moments of melancholy solitude, with Romantic weather effects and sublime vistas and soaring Gregorian chants. The game has a moody, Wagnerian quality--the Master Chief is dwarfed by towering alien architecture that recalls Piranesi. Halo takes itself seriously as, if not art, certainly a spectacle. But art seems more apt." The guy pretty much states that Halo is a work of art. All he's saying is most people don't think of games as art, and he's right. "“There’s an opportunity beyond video games, too, for Halo to break out of the ghetto and become a mainstream, mass-market, multimedia entertainment property.” " (his emphasis) Seriously, how can anyone with a brain not know that the word "ghetto" is being used metaphorically in this sentence? "“Not that the Bungies care. They don’t need to legitimize Halo by associating it with other, more respectable media. They sell enough units and make enough money. They’re happy in their invisible geek ghetto. But that’s the logic of the marketplace: it can’t leave subcultures alone; it has to turn them into cultures. It may be time for the Master Chief to come in from the cold and join the party, with the popular kids.” " (his emphasis) Does this guy not understand the concept of metaphors? All three phrases he highlighted are clearly metaphors. "more respectable media" = mainstream media. "invisible geek ghetto" = niche subculture associated with geeks, much like comic books, role-playing games, etc. "with the popular kids" = Film and TV. Yes, people can quote numbers of sales, and the amount of money that games bring in compared to TV and movies, but there is a clear perception issue in that most people still view game negatively and not on the same level as movies and TV in terms of entertainment. The argument that the author is making is that Halo could break that perception with a lot of people and, more importantly, the mainstream media. And it's amazing to me that someone could misread such a clearly written article. |
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Coordinator
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Big Ten Country
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