It seems that casual gamers here are seen in a negative way. Like local coastal surfers calling out the posers from the valley I feel that hardcore gamers look upon us casual gamers from some sort of elitist platform. Sure, on one hand you get to spend all your extra time involved in some fantasy that you wont walk away from. But on the other hand you spend all your extra time involved in some fantasy that you can't walk away from.
As a casual gamer I don't play many games. I don't have level 70 wizards, I don't have dedicated gaming TVs. I haven't logged very much time at all on any game. But I have spent many hours with my family and my boys exploring the non virtual worlds around my home. The mountains, the coast, the local lakes and rivers. I choose to invest my time in those around me.
What is the epitaph of the hardcore gamer? Out of the finite number of hours we have to live, how many would you want back at the end? What did you accomplish in those hours that will outlive you? Who will remember your deeds? Thank you hardcore gamer. Thanks for immersing your time in yourself and yourself only. Thanks for carrying an industry on your back so I can casually play some titles that mean nothing to me. Thank you for staying inside and not crowding the places I like to take my family and friends.
I have nothing against hardcore gamers, unless they become elitists. I feel your accomplishments are the opposite of elite.
My sister lives with my family in my house. She is 33 years old and was born with spina bifida. She has the mental capability of a 5 year old and the emotional capabilities of a 13 year old and she LOVES movies and music. We keep her very active but she loves to watch her movies. She can load the tapes into the VCR her self and she can rewind and fast forward to her favorite parts. However, DVD's and CD's are a different story.
Because she has limited agility (due to her condition) she has wrecked every single DVD and CD she owns. We are lucky that there are some re-surfacing technologies out there for CD's but not so much for DVD's. DVD's and CD's are not near as tough as a VHS tape. And VHS is becoming obsolete. We are reduced mostly to garage sales, ebay and craig's list to find replacements for warn out tapes and many new movies that she really likes are not released on VHS (Happy Feet).
My solution is to buy her DVD's and then make a few copies from the origional purchased DVD. She can then control her own movie selection and when the dvd is broken, scratched, or just beat up I can easily replace it.
Isn't this fair use? Isn't this normal and natural usage of products that I have purchased? Why are some of you haters saying that Fair Use = Piracy Facilitation. In my world the only way to exercise our consumer rights is to pirate and break the laws of big corporate interests.
I am indebted to the community of people who have taken to "illegal" activities to give me the capabilities to back up a $15 movie stamped into a DVD so that my sister can find happiness and usage in the things she already owns.
And to all of you who question backups as nefarious I hope that you look outside your self-serving world and think about what your view of the world would cost others. You who are so quick to judge.
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As a casual gamer I don't play many games. I don't have level 70 wizards, I don't have dedicated gaming TVs. I haven't logged very much time at all on any game. But I have spent many hours with my family and my boys exploring the non virtual worlds around my home. The mountains, the coast, the local lakes and rivers. I choose to invest my time in those around me.
What is the epitaph of the hardcore gamer? Out of the finite number of hours we have to live, how many would you want back at the end? What did you accomplish in those hours that will outlive you? Who will remember your deeds? Thank you hardcore gamer. Thanks for immersing your time in yourself and yourself only. Thanks for carrying an industry on your back so I can casually play some titles that mean nothing to me. Thank you for staying inside and not crowding the places I like to take my family and friends.
I have nothing against hardcore gamers, unless they become elitists. I feel your accomplishments are the opposite of elite.
My sister lives with my family in my house. She is 33 years old and was born with spina bifida. She has the mental capability of a 5 year old and the emotional capabilities of a 13 year old and she LOVES movies and music. We keep her very active but she loves to watch her movies. She can load the tapes into the VCR her self and she can rewind and fast forward to her favorite parts. However, DVD's and CD's are a different story.
Because she has limited agility (due to her condition) she has wrecked every single DVD and CD she owns. We are lucky that there are some re-surfacing technologies out there for CD's but not so much for DVD's. DVD's and CD's are not near as tough as a VHS tape. And VHS is becoming obsolete. We are reduced mostly to garage sales, ebay and craig's list to find replacements for warn out tapes and many new movies that she really likes are not released on VHS (Happy Feet).
My solution is to buy her DVD's and then make a few copies from the origional purchased DVD. She can then control her own movie selection and when the dvd is broken, scratched, or just beat up I can easily replace it.
Isn't this fair use? Isn't this normal and natural usage of products that I have purchased? Why are some of you haters saying that Fair Use = Piracy Facilitation. In my world the only way to exercise our consumer rights is to pirate and break the laws of big corporate interests.
I am indebted to the community of people who have taken to "illegal" activities to give me the capabilities to back up a $15 movie stamped into a DVD so that my sister can find happiness and usage in the things she already owns.
And to all of you who question backups as nefarious I hope that you look outside your self-serving world and think about what your view of the world would cost others. You who are so quick to judge.