Recent content by TinPeregrinus

Hmm. Do you happen to have an ancient Greek text or two to back that up? Because I've read pretty much all of them, and none of them says that. In ancient Greek literature, the gods embody human phenomena like war and marriage; even when, in a text like the Iliad, it seems like the gods are...

I think it did--but it was confined to children until there were enough adults with enough leisure time to devote to it. Moreover, I think there are many, many ancient precedents for the genre, especially in cult ritual.

Clever comparison with Athenian tragedy. I think there's a huge, unexplored territory lying just a bit further out, too: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides composed what they composed, and gave birth not just to drama but also more or less to literature, because writing and reading were just...

(I'm Roger Travis, the author, BTW.) I wouldn't disagree with your assessment, Outlaw, but I think you're missing some of the point of the article. The title, for example, is intended ironically, as are the references to "Halo" as a masterpiece. It's well worth noting, however, that the...

Very nice article, Mr. Elrod. I think that the publishers, and the gamers to a certain extent, are mistaking a relatively small subset of what's really possible in the medium of video games for the entirety of the medium's potential. I keep coming back to the amazing similarity between the early...

This is a wonderful article. It demonstrates the incredible power of the anecdotal evidence on our side of the debate, which is probably the ideal counter to the equally anecdotal evidence on the other side of the debate. More, it does so with a balance and a measure that every voice on the...

I've read the article twice now, and I can't get past the feeling that it's schizoid in a certain way: on the one hand, it advocates in-game testing; on the other hand, it advocates games in general as a primary, rather than a marginal, learning method. I think both ideas are sound and have very...