Being a gamer..... (Score: 2, Interesting) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-10-06 21:37 (#2T57) ...is nowadays almost a political question.Am I one? No idea. Probably not. You decide. At best I play every six month a game. Never online.When it gets me, it is almost 24/7 for two or three weeks... little exaggeration here. ;-)Last two games I played:Skyrim... When I played this, it was: Wow... hard to top this one. It is just great. Can't get any better. But then...Dishonored... Erm... Skyrim? Hmm... nice game, but nothing special. :-DI have yet to find another game, which comes even close to Dishonored.Of course... very personal taste here and very IMHO. Re: Being a gamer..... (Score: 1, Interesting) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-10-06 22:20 (#2T5A) ...is nowadays almost a political question.No more than simply being human.If it weren't for the pipedot coverage of the github thing (which, as far as I'm concerned, is nothing more than drama for drama's sake), I'd have had no idea any of the drama were going on.I'm betting that 99.9%+ of 'gamers' also have no idea.To be perfectly honest, the whole gamergate thing seems like a whole lotta drama over very little - and nothing much new. Re: Being a gamer..... (Score: 1) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-10-06 22:25 (#2T5C) I had the feeling you were a bit annoyed about the GamerGate stuff here in the other story. You know... "News at 11?". And now you drag it in this one? Does not seem to be that uninteresting. :-) Re: Being a gamer..... (Score: 1) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-10-07 02:04 (#2T5F) GamerGate is far more interesting than the github thing. But that ain't saying much.I'd much rather see a distanced article on the subject. Not enough that I'll be writing one, myself. But Gender/sex/psych roles in gaming is certainly an interesting topic.I just don't think the recent hoohah is very insightful or informative.
Re: Being a gamer..... (Score: 1, Interesting) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-10-06 22:20 (#2T5A) ...is nowadays almost a political question.No more than simply being human.If it weren't for the pipedot coverage of the github thing (which, as far as I'm concerned, is nothing more than drama for drama's sake), I'd have had no idea any of the drama were going on.I'm betting that 99.9%+ of 'gamers' also have no idea.To be perfectly honest, the whole gamergate thing seems like a whole lotta drama over very little - and nothing much new. Re: Being a gamer..... (Score: 1) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-10-06 22:25 (#2T5C) I had the feeling you were a bit annoyed about the GamerGate stuff here in the other story. You know... "News at 11?". And now you drag it in this one? Does not seem to be that uninteresting. :-) Re: Being a gamer..... (Score: 1) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-10-07 02:04 (#2T5F) GamerGate is far more interesting than the github thing. But that ain't saying much.I'd much rather see a distanced article on the subject. Not enough that I'll be writing one, myself. But Gender/sex/psych roles in gaming is certainly an interesting topic.I just don't think the recent hoohah is very insightful or informative.
Re: Being a gamer..... (Score: 1) by tanuki64@pipedot.org on 2014-10-06 22:25 (#2T5C) I had the feeling you were a bit annoyed about the GamerGate stuff here in the other story. You know... "News at 11?". And now you drag it in this one? Does not seem to be that uninteresting. :-) Re: Being a gamer..... (Score: 1) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-10-07 02:04 (#2T5F) GamerGate is far more interesting than the github thing. But that ain't saying much.I'd much rather see a distanced article on the subject. Not enough that I'll be writing one, myself. But Gender/sex/psych roles in gaming is certainly an interesting topic.I just don't think the recent hoohah is very insightful or informative.
Re: Being a gamer..... (Score: 1) by kwerle@pipedot.org on 2014-10-07 02:04 (#2T5F) GamerGate is far more interesting than the github thing. But that ain't saying much.I'd much rather see a distanced article on the subject. Not enough that I'll be writing one, myself. But Gender/sex/psych roles in gaming is certainly an interesting topic.I just don't think the recent hoohah is very insightful or informative.