Corporation for Public Gaming.
Coolest idea ever. Let's recognize that "non-commercial" gaming deserves our support. "Develop a diversity of games for the public good."
Like many mass culture phenomena, games are understood more on the basis of prevailing myths than reality. Few people realize that the average gamer is 30 years old, that over 40 percent are female, and that most adult gamers have been playing games for 12 years.Games can do good things, and they are the red-headed stepchild of entertainment just the way that television was viewed early on.
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I think this is kinda what the Open Gaming License was meant to do, but unfortunately, all it did was completely corrupt ingenuity...
But, I agree, awesome idea.
The OGL was devised by Wizards to co-opt every freaking RPG player into their system and kill off their competitors. Which is pretty much what happened. The "cover story" was more like "it's good for the industry," but I never believed that.
The CPB and this proposal for a game based version are designed to help the little guy, not put him out of business. I see a difference there.
Television rots the brain and steals the soul.
Video games do too, only they leave you with better thumb muscles.
:-)
I love television and I will not stand for anyone saying bad things about it. Homer Simpson and I are unanimous in this decision.
Honestly, if you're going to knock the leisure pursuits of a great number of people in nearly every industrialized nation on the planet, the least you can do is leave your name.
Television and games are, just like some things with a more universally positive connotation (like food, love, exercise, etc.) possibly good for you in reasonable quantities, and possibly bad for you if used without thought or overindulged in. To say something that clearly has had positive effects on some people (games can encourage shy people to interact with others, television can inform as well as entertain, and I'm sure you can come up with more examples yourself if you really open your mind and try) is "bad" just because it makes you sound like an intellectual is clearly an unneccesary oversimplification.
I have a degree in an art that is dying or dead because it is a leisure activity that has been replaced with games, television, movies, and pop music. If anyone has an excuse to bear those things any undue ill will, it's people like me. But despite my grasp of both the hoity and the toity, games and television simply aren't the monster under the bed of intellectualism that some people would have you believe.
In retrospect, perhaps it would have been better to quote Homer though, instead of indulge in such rampant pontification. Can I take it all back and just say, "MMmmm...games," in classic Simpsons fashion?
We must rise up and eliminate all non gamers!
Or we could just write a memo.
And you only lose your soul to TV if you watch ABC or CBS.
Yes, Kathy, please go with the latter.
The comments were meant to so filled with hyperbole ("Mmmm... creamy hyperbolic filling...") as to make it obvious the comments were fodder to be shot down, rather than a serious swipe.
THEN there was the cherry on top. Er, uh, the smiley at the bottom.
See, now? I've gone the same as you: an essay where a one-liner would have done. I'll put two such one-liners this time:
:-) :-)
[It's actually the Intarweb that rots the brain, steals the soul, and only improves the thumb muscles :wink:]
No, the internet rots your brain and steals your soul, but leaves you with better wrist muscles.
sure, for the amateurs ;-)
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