Wish the actual video was there and that it had better audio, but the perspective is pretty funny. How crazy are we going to seem to our grandkids when we describe our hey-days to them? Even better: do you ever bring it up if you were a fan of, say, Tupac, Dr. Dre, Wu-Tang, 50 Cent, Ludacris, Missy Elliot, or the like? I remember hearing older generations talking about the "good ol' days". What the HELL are we gonna sound like?
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Hey that was really funny good find!!
ReplyDeleteThe reading about Seldes (Jenkins article) was interesting. I agree that criticism is important to the gaming industry. Creative enterprises will always be appraised by mankind for their merit and value; scholars will tout their usefulness or lack thereof. Any criticsm we make is bound to end up as an historical footnote somewhere though; do you agree? Will this industry grow in one direction as opposed to another due to criticism or in spite of it? Yes, those who create the games want to please us, but they are always finding new ways to please us that are so creative (out of our range of creative imaginative possibilities that we could demand or ask for) that we cannot demand something else. The average person cannot even think about alternatives. Perhaps some people can. But I think that a lot of people are like Neanderthals, playing games that they could never even imagine on their own. Will the computer types who make these games ever really appreciate what the Neanderthals have to say about anything?
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