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Topic	A Geektivus For The Rest Of Us
ParanoidObsessive 03/28/18 6:15:24 AM #358:	Zeus posted... ParanoidObsessive posted... SoBe Not sure what's that's short for? The username of someone who used to post here. I_Abibde posted... Apathy, IMO. At least hatred means a game made you feel something, right? Well, sure, that's the argument people always apply to art - it's supposed to make you feel something but "something" doesn't always mean "good". Art that disgusts you, or makes you uncomfortable, or angry, or whatever is still accomplishing the purpose of art. But realistically, games aren't art (fuck all y'all, Ebert was right). Games are entertainment. And a game you loathe every second of is basically anti-entertainment - it's failed so hard at being what it's supposed to be, it's come out the opposite side into negative values. Apathy just means the game isn't very interesting or engaging. It's a bland tapioca pudding, as opposed to a goulash made out of feces that someone has also set on fire. Entertainment that is boring has failed to accomplish its purpose, but entertainment that is actively frustrating, annoying, and which makes you hate the people who made it has actively achieved the opposite of its purpose. shadowsword87 posted... Nah, it's a videogame called Space Station 13. But it's one of the few games where you are actually supposed to roleplay stuff, and you can get banned for not. To be fair, there are quite a few games like that online. The problem is that most people still don't RP anyway. Though on the subject of RP-ish space sim-type games, I'm now reminded of AstroEmpires, OGame, and Lunar Wars. And by proxy, CyberNations, CyberCitizens, and all the other games in that particular online sphere that I used to play. They were pretty fun. A shame most of the people playing them all sort of burned out and the games hemorrhaged their user-bases due to that and administrative incompetence. It seems like only yesterday that people were recruiting like every other month or so on PotD/RI/CE/etc for new members for CyberNations. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family <cite>ParanoidObsessive posted [p:898631704] in A Geektivu... [t:76102111]...</cite> <quote><cite>Zeus posted...</cite> <quote><cite>ParanoidObsessive posted...</cite> <quote>SoBe </quote> Not sure what's that's short for?</quote> The username of someone who used to post here. <cite>I_Abibde posted...</cite> <quote>Apathy, IMO. At least hatred means a game made you feel something, right?</quote> Well, sure, that's the argument people always apply to art - it's supposed to make you feel something but "something" doesn't always mean "good". Art that disgusts you, or makes you uncomfortable, or angry, or whatever is still accomplishing the purpose of art. But realistically, games aren't art (fuck all y'all, Ebert was right). Games are entertainment. And a game you loathe every second of is basically anti-entertainment - it's failed so hard at being what it's supposed to be, it's come out the opposite side into negative values. Apathy just means the game isn't very interesting or engaging. It's a bland tapioca pudding, as opposed to a goulash made out of feces that someone has also set on fire. Entertainment that is boring has failed to accomplish its purpose, but entertainment that is actively frustrating, annoying, and which makes you hate the people who made it has actively achieved the opposite of its purpose. <cite>shadowsword87 posted...</cite> <quote>Nah, it's a videogame called Space Station 13. But it's one of the few games where you are actually supposed to roleplay stuff, and you can get banned for not.</quote> To be fair, there are quite a few games like that online. The problem is that most people still don't RP anyway. Though on the subject of RP-ish space sim-type games, I'm now reminded of AstroEmpires, OGame, and Lunar Wars. And by proxy, CyberNations, CyberCitizens, and all the other games in that particular online sphere that I used to play. They were pretty fun. A shame most of the people playing them all sort of burned out and the games hemorrhaged their user-bases due to that and administrative incompetence. It seems like only yesterday that people were recruiting like every other month or so on PotD/RI/CE/etc for new members for CyberNations. --- "Wall of Text'D!" --- oldskoolplayr76 "POwned again." --- blight family</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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