Zoë Quinn - The End of Fun

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A Guide to Ending "Gamers" by Devin Wilson on 08/28/14 07:57:00 pm Sohere are some nreiminany tactics rargpse for transformg tet ropose your own in the comments, and offer revisions to mine): 11. We stop upholding "fun" as the universal, ultimate criterion for a game's relevance It's a meaningless ideal at best and a poisonous priority at worst. Fun is a neurological trick. Plenty of categorically unhealthy things are fun". Let's try for something more. Many of the alternatives will have similarly fuzzy definitions, but let's aspire to qualities like edifying" healing", "pro-social", or even "enlightening". I encourage you to decide upon your owrn alternatives to fun" in games (while avoiding terms like cool" and "awesome" and any other word that simply caters to existing, unexamined biases).

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MegaX, the Lurker (still follows DIO)

Aug 31, 2014 at 08:06PM EDT

THIS, WITHOUT A DOUBT, IS THE WORST, THE WORST THING I HAVE EVER SEEN TO COME OUT OF THIS! "video games shouldn't be fun" ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?! VIDEO GAMES ARE MEANT TO BE ENTERTAINMENT! THEIR VERY EXISTENCE IS FOR YOU TO HAVE FUN! WHILE SOME GAMES MAY HAVE HIDDEN MESSAGES AND ARTISTIC REPRESENTATIONS, THEY STILL NEED TO BE PLAYED FOR FUN TO FIND. THEM. OUT! GAMES ARE FUN, THEY CAN HELP DISTRACT YOU FROM PROBLEMS IN THE REAL WORLD BECAUSE THEY'RE FUN! AND NOW YOU WANT TO BE NOT FUN BECAUSE YOU DON'T WANT TO CHANGE YOUR STYLE OF JOURNALISM?!

NO! FUCK YOU! FUCK YOUR ANTI-GAMER MESSAGE! AND FUCK YOUR ENTIRE, DUMBASS MOVEMENT!

there rant over. maybe I should take a break, play some Fallout or something

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