Recent content by nuclearday

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    Open Letter to Parents of League of Legends' Players

    Shouldn't that be going both ways, though? I just don't think this is an "either/or," "all or nothing" situation. Yeah, people should respect that there are unpredictable elements in real life and sometimes we all - young or old - have to quit a game because of pressing or more important...
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    Open Letter to Parents of League of Legends' Players

    There is, of course, no denying the irony that the people that letter is trying to reach out to are specifically the ones who are least likely to read it. :) Still, though - not everything written as "hey, here's a problem I've come across and I've at least made an initial attempt to offer up...
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    Open Letter to Parents of League of Legends' Players

    That's kind of my thinking - this is an internet conversation so of course there's a degree of hyperbolically extreme positions and all-or-nothing attitudes, but overall I'd say that if I'm pulling my kid out of a game it's better that I know what I'm doing than acting from a position of...
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    Open Letter to Parents of League of Legends' Players

    To me, it's an online behavior thing. Even if it's online, you're still dealing with real people. How you act, the manner you conduct yourself, matters when dealing with other people. Regardless of whether it's an online or face-to-face interaction. It's all "real life." Just because you're...
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    Open Letter to Parents of League of Legends' Players

    As a parent, though, I don't think that's an untoward suggestion. If you're playing online, you're playing with other real people. To me, a game with other people is a game with other people. The rules are same whether my son is playing down the street with friends in person, has friends over to...
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    Open Letter to Parents of League of Legends' Players

    Agreed - I think it's a perfectly reasonable and understandable request to ask parents to put in the minimal amount of effort required to help their kid schedule an appropriate time for the game. Nothing's ever perfect and few things make life messier than raising a kid - there's always going to...
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    Open Letter to Parents of League of Legends' Players

    I don't actually play League of Legends, but as a parent myself I can toss in my two cents from that perspective: Overall I feel I understand the gist of the open letter. I'm sure if you're playing a match online and have already invested a degree of time into it (as a parent, most days I'm...
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    ESA, IGDA: Threats, Personal Attacks Have No Place in Games

    Personally, I just find the hyperbole and extreme rhetoric exhausting. And at this point, that's really all there is to the conversation anymore - extremist rhetoric versus extremist rhetoric and I feel it's now more about rage venting than trying to promote anything constructive on either side...
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    Indie Dev Threatens to Kill Gabe Newell, Valve Pulls His Game From Steam

    Seems like a pretty sad state of affairs all around. I haven't done any research into how long the banner ads were inaccurate - but I think it's safe to say there were more constructive ways to respond to that problem regardless. Indie devs don't generally have the benefit of a team of...
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    All My Hard Work and I Get This Ending?

    For the most part, I just like to think that the story is building toward something. If the journey is as important as the destination, it's still important that there actually be a destination - otherwise you're just driving down a random road. Edgar Allen Poe famously wrote his stories in...
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    Jimquisition: It's Not A Video Game!

    I wonder how much of this is just awkward (and often lacking) nomenclature? Back in the day, you could pin down a game by genre pretty easily. It was either a sidescrolling shooter, or an RPG, or a strategy game, etc. King's Quest was an Adventure Game, Wolfenstein 3D was an FPS, Zork was a...
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    Jimquisition: It's Not A Video Game!

    Only that's not necessarily the definition of the word... http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/game
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    What do people actually want male gamers to be like?

    So... I don't know, maybe I just don't hang around the same places as everyone else - I can't think of a time in recent memory that I've ever been attacked or denigrated for being a white male. Obviously, I'm not trying to say "I haven't seen it so it never happens." Just that I can only speak...
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    Should Every Game Allow You to Choose Your Gender?

    I think there's also something to be said for just how long it takes to make a top-shelf videogames these days. When you're looking at, what, 3-4 years' development time for the most part I'm not surprised if the industry isn't shown to be terribly quick to respond to things like this... That...
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    Should Every Game Allow You to Choose Your Gender?

    Well, I'm sure there are some people who do refuse to play as any character that is unlike themselves - but I also don't think it's a situation where every single person who might want more or better female characters in games overall is going to have the most extreme viewpoint on the matter...