Dad Makes His Kid Play Through All Video Game History In Chronological Order

An anonymous reader writes Andy Baio, aka @waxpancake, indy video game enthusiast and founder of the XOXO conference and other cool stuff, conducted a weird/cool experiment on his four-year-old. Andy taught him about gaming by making him play and master all of the old video games and gaming systems in the exact order they were actually released. In other words, this 21st century kid learned gaming the same way the generation that grew up in the 1970s and 1980s experienced them, but in compressed time. From the article: "This approach to widely surveying classic games clearly had an impact on him, and influenced the games that he likes now. Like seemingly every kid his age, he loves Minecraft. No surprises there. But he also loves brutally difficult games that challenge gamers 2–3 times his age, and he’s frighteningly good at them. His favorites usually borrow characteristics from roguelikes: procedurally-generated levels, permanent death, no save points."

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[marcello_dl]

earlier post: "about begging a magic Sky Daddy for things" implies prayer is ineffective towards a non existing god. A position which could even be wrong in atheist scenarios where prayer works because of natural causes or psychology BTW.

parent post: "I said it was no worse than religious indoctrination by parents"
Nope you said something different, I was not replying to your main point, I was just challenging the atheism that you just put there as self evident. That's a form of circular reasoning, see my other post, which is Exacly how other religions work, so your atheism fights fire with fire.

Or it's a failed appeal to authority, because I may not be familiar with the atheists who wrote the things that you cited. If you want to discuss where they are wrong, please google my comment history, plenty of hooks.

So, maybe, what in your words "makes no sense whatsoever", makes no sense to you instead.

Nice touch the personal attack at the end.