tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post5965966815424756847..comments2024-01-04T06:27:01.723-06:00Comments on Troll Racials are Overpowered: Has society not yet adapted to gaming?Klepsacovichttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-295684590863050532010-10-11T14:42:15.135-05:002010-10-11T14:42:15.135-05:00LOL!LOL!Sylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04473554645340972749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-81674036207961250712010-10-11T13:51:33.682-05:002010-10-11T13:51:33.682-05:00@Nikola: Shakespeare was a dirty, dirty man.
@Gro...@Nikola: Shakespeare was a dirty, dirty man.<br /><br />@Gronthe: We need is a Brave New World?<br /><br />@Syl: So what you're saying is that gamers are constantly going cold turkey and then binging?Klepsacovichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07915576683657376929noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-60905898486933354562010-10-11T12:09:02.597-05:002010-10-11T12:09:02.597-05:00If you consider that mainstream gaming and the int...If you consider that mainstream gaming and the internet have been around for maybe 20 years only in private households of the western world, it is NO wonder whatsoever that we are still in a massive phase of defining this medium and struggling with bias and fears. 20 years thats what - hardly one generation. <br /><br />It's been like that with any "world-altering" changes and innovations before, no news under the sun: when public transport took its huge leap with the first railway tracks, many people were actually convinced (!) that you would die when inside a vehicle that is driving at such speed - or rather the media made sure to spread similar propaganda. <br />the same with Television - we actually debated this topic back at university once, looking at old anti-TV adds and propaganda, telling people you would go blind (lol!) from watching television, etc. etc.<br /><br />so yeah, whatever lol. we'll talk again 20 years from now. ;)<br /><br />As for standards - the thing is that there can never be standards set for something like gaming, simply because every individual leads a different life from the next, with different interests and also different priorities. one person can deal just fine with gaming 10-40hours a week, another cannot. what counts (for me at least) is that you are in control of your life and are 'the ruler', not the ruled.<br /><br />As for "addiction", the term is heavily misused in gaming debates. for an addiction to qualify, there would need to be factors like substance increase and withdrawal symptoms in place. most wow gamers I know, including myself, have played less rather than more over the years and disappeared completely for months or even years, taking care of other things / being bored of the game during that time too. talking of the 'average gametime per week' is therefore rather unproductive, I probably should have elaborated on that in my post.Sylhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04473554645340972749noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-53370705248082326272010-10-11T11:50:27.013-05:002010-10-11T11:50:27.013-05:00You are so right, there are no good analogies real...You are so right, there are no good analogies really. TV comes close, but after 80 years our societies still haven't come up with a cutoff for how long is too long to watch TV. Although, I think everyone agrees that The Wiggles is bad for anyone to watch.<br /><br />If everyone was the same, had the same life circumstances, the same moral code, the same life priorities, the same personality then I think there could be some standard of normal. But without us being alike, there will always be opinions differing so widely that a consensus will probably never be reached.Gronthehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03440374214301179615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-58942737481157997872010-10-11T11:37:31.167-05:002010-10-11T11:37:31.167-05:00You don't have to go back nearly as far as the...You don't have to go back nearly as far as the Greeks to reach a time when theater was thought to be fundamentally immoral.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5462978744516866472.post-11654397813976891122010-10-11T10:01:34.430-05:002010-10-11T10:01:34.430-05:00TV was turning us into Zombies, Radios are evil, h...TV was turning us into Zombies, Radios are evil, heck, I'm sure some old timer ancient Greeks thought theater was bad for society.<br /><br />People are afraid of new things. That's all there is to it.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11985132482635293125noreply@blogger.com