I enjoy gaming, always have, and as long as my peepers and hands hold out, always will. I enjoy them on an aesthetic level as much as their being a self-reflexive window into our increasingly post-modern society. If film is a mirror of humanity, then video games are a kind of shiny, reflective, odd smelling silly-putty of humanity.
So, I suppose, it comes as no surprise that people can obsess about video games. If people can be addicted to drugs, chocolate, and smooches, it's not such a stretch to imagine them being addicted to the escapist/voyeuristic aspects of interactive gaming. Faint, blurry lines separate "enthusiast" from "that smelly game-guy in the basement."
To make my point, here is a link I lifted from the exhaustive game blog Bluesnews. Click the link below and take a look at the images. What's your vote: Enthusiasm or Insanity?
4 comments:
"We hope you don't mind our comment on your site and do so repectfully." [sic]
Wonton spamming of advertisements on personal blogs seems highly questionable in the morals department. It's especially ironic, considering you are trying to make money through the marketing of Christian materials; which, I thought, tends teach deceiving people is bad, naughty, and hell-bound behavior.
Alas, you are a spam-bot written by a 13-year-old kid that goes around placing ads on people's blogs. Or, possibly, you really are a human poster, but have the intelligence of a 10-line Perl script. In either case, I doubt you lack the sufficient programming to be able to read this response (you even misspelled ‘respectfully’ in your comment), but I'll post it nonetheless.
Respectfully [note the correct spelling], please don't spam my forum with your advertisements or I’ll pray for Jesus to kick your ass. Thank you.
LOL, answer man? Thats Roger Ebert's name on his website! He's the answer man! Maybe that was Ebert spreading the word of God!
http://home.cinci.rr.com/adamk47/games.JPG
-nerd alert-
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