SpaceGazelle wrote:fullspectrum wrote:Yo I turned 30 on 1st Jan. You're wrong bro. And I'm proud to play games.
Exactly how pissed do you get on New Year's Eve? If I were you I'd be dead already.
Bollockoff wrote:Having a meal with some family and friends last night and the conversation eventually turned to my father exclaiming his usual disbelief at technology these days and how I speak to my friends while gaming with them over the internet with a headset. Then a friend of my sister cuts in saying that I must be playing the new CoD "Black Something" and her and sis then have a good giggle talking about that time in Big Bang Theory when Sheldon did this and Sheldon did that while I grind my teeth together slowly and think what a shit piece of plaice this is. The friend comes back to the question and asks if CoD was indeed what I was playing and it's left to me to explain the ins and outs of League of Legends 5v5 play, how much strategy is involved that's seperated into early/mid/late stages of the games that can last up to an hour and passionate, (I.E. wound up some of my friends can get over losing a match) grand and spontaneous the atmosphere of playing with friends over chat can be. Without sounding like some ultra geeky bedroom obsessive or a general twat. I'm sure I failed in this scenario and will do in plenty more to come. But i'm wondering if anyone else has had awkward moments in a similar fashion or if they have a general attitude when this comes up.
adkm1979 wrote:I don't have any difficulty explaining that I play games. It's the discussing it with strangers on the internet that loses people.
davyK wrote:It fails by matching Melies with Miyamoto when they should have matched him with Chaplin. Melies should be matched up with pioneers like the early Atari guys. Miyamoto, like Chaplin, set standard solutions for many technical and narrative problems - he also eschews advances in technology while still providing great pieces of work - a more obvious parallel is the lack of voice talent with characters in his games too. Chaplin's everyman would have lost his universal appeal with a voice - and maybe that's the case with Link and to a lesser extent, Mario.
dynamiteReady wrote:Woah... That's a good shout. Incidentally, I downloaded a copy of City Nights some time ago, and still haven't watched it... Reckon I'd also have as much trouble explaining my desire to watch that, as I would my desire to send a mutated blue hedgehog hurtling down a hill fast enough to survive a loop-the-loop...It fails by matching Melies with Miyamoto when they should have matched him with Chaplin. Melies should be matched up with pioneers like the early Atari guys. Miyamoto, like Chaplin, set standard solutions for many technical and narrative problems - he also eschews advances in technology while still providing great pieces of work - a more obvious parallel is the lack of voice talent with characters in his games too. Chaplin's everyman would have lost his universal appeal with a voice - and maybe that's the case with Link and to a lesser extent, Mario.
Not to mention meeting up with people from the internet and staying at their houses.adkm1979 wrote:I don't have any difficulty explaining that I play games. It's the discussing it with strangers on the internet that loses people.
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