neothaka
10-04-2007, 07:57 AM
so, we all know the cliché, people who use computers intensively, either be it for work or games, are supposed to be geeks.
the bigger cliché is that those people get bugged first over others.
Now, it struck me last night that those "geeks" are the only reason this world is still running.
It's simple, pretty much everything is run through computers and the people operating them. If they were the shut the entire network down, there comes World Chaos.
Yet the "though" guys pick on them (or the current generation of "these people"). i notice that happening once and a while, even on uni campus (where people are supposed to be remotely adult).
the next thing is how people who play games, and here i make a clear distinction between casual and hardcore, are considdered geeks as well, or time-wasters.
(This only counts for the casual players of course, hardcore (read: addictive) don't fall in the boundries of gaming as pass-time.
So basically, people blame games for pretty much everything, violence, being anti-social and so on.
But i've been wondering, reading books is a good hobby for spare time, but gaming isn't? I have recently started worrying just how diffirent playing a game is from reading a book. It depends of course, how story intensive that game is.
As an example, i'll take Neverwinter Nights 2. NWN is like reading a book to me, only interactive.
There's a story, a deep one, but you're "directly" involved in it, an interactive story. Then there's the "learning from books" part, sure, that is true, but in same cases, just as true for games.
Over the past 2 years i have learned quite a cartload of english just from playing games (that if they are modern english, not ancient or fable'ish english).
I'm starting to wonder when the whole braindead idea of computers being evil is going to fade, since more than half of the worlds population seems to be so ignorant, not wanting to admit that 90% of everything that exists is based on computer, wether it be controlled or created by.
the bigger cliché is that those people get bugged first over others.
Now, it struck me last night that those "geeks" are the only reason this world is still running.
It's simple, pretty much everything is run through computers and the people operating them. If they were the shut the entire network down, there comes World Chaos.
Yet the "though" guys pick on them (or the current generation of "these people"). i notice that happening once and a while, even on uni campus (where people are supposed to be remotely adult).
the next thing is how people who play games, and here i make a clear distinction between casual and hardcore, are considdered geeks as well, or time-wasters.
(This only counts for the casual players of course, hardcore (read: addictive) don't fall in the boundries of gaming as pass-time.
So basically, people blame games for pretty much everything, violence, being anti-social and so on.
But i've been wondering, reading books is a good hobby for spare time, but gaming isn't? I have recently started worrying just how diffirent playing a game is from reading a book. It depends of course, how story intensive that game is.
As an example, i'll take Neverwinter Nights 2. NWN is like reading a book to me, only interactive.
There's a story, a deep one, but you're "directly" involved in it, an interactive story. Then there's the "learning from books" part, sure, that is true, but in same cases, just as true for games.
Over the past 2 years i have learned quite a cartload of english just from playing games (that if they are modern english, not ancient or fable'ish english).
I'm starting to wonder when the whole braindead idea of computers being evil is going to fade, since more than half of the worlds population seems to be so ignorant, not wanting to admit that 90% of everything that exists is based on computer, wether it be controlled or created by.