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Playing Games Seen as Brainless Hobby?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the coming-into-its-own dept.

Richard Goodness writes "Recently I watched Simon Bysshe's film Modern Day Gamer. The film is a natural springboard for some talk of the shared experience of videogames and the legitimization of gaming as a form of entertainment. Therefore, in '2 Legit 2 Save and Quit,' I come to some conclusions." A good article, with some excellent points. I took this to heart, but I see a weekly D&D session with friends as being akin to a weekly poker game but with less financial repercussions, unless one counts all the books needed.

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  1. Re:A waste of time? No. But all good things... by An'Desha+Danin · · Score: 2, Funny
    Is eating a pound of chocolate a day bad?
    That depends entirely on whether you ask me that question before or after I throw up.
    --
    Anything you might ever need to say about anything has already been said better by Penny Arcade.
  2. Give them the Civ III handbook by Nice2Cats · · Score: 4, Funny
    Anybody who things that computer games are brainless hasn't watched the face on somebody who has never played Civilization or Call to Power before and is having the rules explained to them. Yeah, its just a simple little game, sort of like Scrabble...

  3. Re:A waste of time? No. But all good things... by Corfitz · · Score: 2, Funny
    Is eating chocolate bad? No. Is eating a pound of chocolate a day bad? Yes. What I'm trying to say is that there is nothing wrong with video games, or tv, for that matter, if used in moderation.

    Mom - is that you?

  4. Re:A waste of time? No. But all good things... by Jacek+Poplawski · · Score: 3, Funny

    But if you watch, or play, videogames/tv for 3 hours straight

    At first moment I wanted to agree with you. However, I noticed you wrote "hours" and not "days". Dude! Playing good game for 3 hours is just a warmup...