Orson Scott Card on Games

RexDart writes "Author Orson Scott Card has published an essay on modern gaming at the Ornery American site. Titled Brain Training, the piece touches on many points in the ongoing debate on videogames. While Card concedes that 'there are brutally violent games' and that games are addictive, he argues that videogames and games in general are excellent brain-stretching exercises, and expands from that into intentional mental workouts as a lifestyle and calling."

Comments

OSC is an Asshat

[coaxial]

The past several "insights" of OSC has revealed him to be bit of a crackpot. Why would anyone give a damn about anything he has to say?

Re:OSC and gaming

[XretsiMisterX]

Dude, no one is saying that Card's wrong about everything. But it's got to matter how wrong an opinion is. Someone in the flat earth society, for instance, is pretty f**king wrong, and you'd pretty seriously need to question their judgement on any issue of practical physics or history, wouldn't you?

Similarly, in many people's opinion, myself included, Card's feelings on homosexuality are so at odds with reality and morality that they call into judgement his assessment of any other social or political issue.

The man can be as right about as he wants about many other things, but I'm going to have to take a pretty hard look at each and every one, because he can clearly not be regarded as a trusted source. And it's not inappropriate for people to remind others of that.