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She compared her company to Bach, so...

 

Cuz words don't have meanings.

I'm playing the best game ever made right now. It's called I Sit In My Chair. The goal is to sit here and type words until I get tired and go to bed. It's highly immersive, here in this dark room, with the buzz and crackle of a broken computer speaker. So many choices too. Do I turn off the speaker and save myself the annoyance, or do I keep it on and try to ignore the unpleasant noise emanating from it? Do I get up and grab a snack and risk having to restart my sitting from the last checkpoint, or do I go hungry? If I sit here too long without consuming nutrients, I could die. Game Over.

The story is highly compelling, wouldn't you say?

 

Classic strawman. Because apparently there's no middle ground whatsoever between violent, mindless shooter and pretentious walking simulator.

And yet their writing and music is still utterly forgettable.

 

Gaming hipsters are just as annoying as Call of Duty bros. It's like fucking Republicans and Democrats.

 

At least CoD bros might be socially adequate and good to have a beer with. Be fair to the CoDbros, an average guy with shit taste in games is infinitely better than the pretentious cunts that make up gaming hipsterdom.

 

CoD bros are racist, sexist, homophobic assholes worth culling.

 

Which puts them leagues above the hipsters

 

I dno, I think it might be a tie...

 

It's ironic that she doesn't doesn't provide any argument for why this concept is outdated and/or laughable but criticises the opposition as lacking in substance and rationale. But it's not surprising since to her the concept only "seems" laughably outdated.

But of course you do feel the need to call your product/whatever a "game", and get upset if people disagree.

 

And as it is on real politics, both are the same thing, the Republicans like to shoot things, especially things that walk in two legs and the Democrats acting intelectually superior and appealing to drama and hysteria every time their bullshit is exposed. CoD single player is like Dear Esther but with explosions and a mini game where you have to connect a dot on the center on the screen to other point in the screen, generaly something with a concave shape when you click once a number appear to reward you for connecting the dots. In case of Dear Esther, only a reactionary, racist,mysogenistic and illiterate wouldn't like the revolutionary and audacious idea of making an "videogame without game in it".

But if the masses want something so rustic, they should make Dear Esther 2 incorporating some CoD mechanics, Dear Esther 2: A CoD for hipsters would have the same mechanic as CoD but every time you click once on something, instead of blood flying, a pidgeon representing the simbolic representation of simbolism would fly in the sky, the numbers would be written in egyptian hieroglyphs to show how the human experience can't be understood and a music composed by a bored musician would play to remind you that you are a sad fuck for playing video games instead of experience the true art that is watching art movies.

 

This "CoD bros" culture is completely alien to me, where I'm from playing video games is automatically linked to being an extreme nerd and manchild.

 

CoDbros have one of those things down pat, so I think they qualify.

 

The review on that page is quite helpful...

 

I can't tell I know much more about the book after reading that review, except that the reviewer didn't like it. It's remarkable how you can write that much without saying anything substantial, except that the book doesn't have anything to do with the FR or D&D and that it sucks. Both of which is probably enough to know for this forum, although it should be obvious from the publication date.

 

From what I've heard from friends living back in the Kwa, over there it isn't really a nerd thing or a manchild thing. It's just a series that just about every guy between 10 and late 20s has played at least one game from. It seems to be more in the sports game niche than anything else, completely mainstream.

 

this isn't a parody, right?

 

Yep. :/

 

X86 came out in the 80s. OMG so old old better drop it.

 

It can't be worse than the real Baldur's Gate novel.

Fucking Abdel.

 

How I feel nostalgia for the time where gamming as a whole was considerated a nerdy thing.

 

Still is, and nerd is en vogue.

 

It's awful, when you pretty much have to keep this hobby secret from everybody except your closest friends or be labeled a weirdo.