A Conversation
A conversation:
M: so why don’t you use Linux?
E: well actually I don’t know, why should I?
M: because its better…
E: in what way
M it doesn’t hang, it doesn’t get viruses, its easy to use, its smarter than windows and osx, and in general just better.
E: my system doesn’t hang either, I don’t connect to the net, so I don’t care about viruses, Windows is just smart enough for me to use, and in all, I cant quite see any thing wrong in windows.
M: but linus is better
E: but I don’t really need something better.
M: but why use something that is worse, if you can have something better.
E: because I already have something, which is good enough for me, I don’t see the point of investing in getting something that I don’t really need, and am unfamiliar with.
M: well its free
E: its still not on my computer already
M: you’re just lazy
E: no I have better things to do
M: like what?
E: end this conversation.
M: but why cant you use Linux
E: I don’t see the point of it
M: its better
E: but it may not be more appropriate
The conclusion to this fascinating conversation later
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I Still Wish I Could Loose!
So to continue on my looserish or loose favouring rant… I really don’t get it. Is competition really that big a part of our lives today that a sub-par score just wont do? I mean we are supposed to be gaming for fun right?
Its weird in games like counterstrike when you get a single head shot and then just die, or spend an entire round hidden up in some corner, waiting for a victim… you know in typical sniper style people don’t get what you’re doing. Is it really that important to run after kills? If all I’m trying to do is have fun, then that’s all I’m trying to do…
If I find it interesting to build 20 ornagers and have them mow down a forest, while my woodcutters do nothing, is that really all that big a deal? I don’t get it… why aren’t we allowed to be weird, and slightly irrational when we play a game?
Its really not fair!
I mean most games are bad parodies of realities, specially in the FPS format, so then if I want to have some fun and just get myself killed as I try to at least play the character with some amount of dignity what is the bid deal?
For example when I Splinter Cell, I find it virtually impossible to actually pull of the whole stealth bit, and instead try Rambo mode… the game wont let me. In fact most games don’t let you do most of what you want to… which brings me to the topic of my next blog… but then you’ll have to wait for that, because I’m not yet sure what I want to say.
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The Gamer
Who is the gamer? or what makes him such? Can a person be defined as a gamer?
In china a few years ago, I read online, a group of boys got together, hunted down, and killed another boy because, online, in a game, he’d found and killed one of these boys, who, unfortunately had found a very rare ‘object.’ and his death, had meant they’d lost it.
The really scary thing was that this wasn’t an isolated event, and the story was actually about measures that the Chinese gov. was taking to prevent this sort of crime, by making the net more anonymous.
I’m not sure if these people can be called gamers, because the rest of the article also dealt with people who were, clinically, addicted to the internet.
The idea of the gamer used be of this social misfit, someone who can’t quite be cool, or even accepted in the real world, and so he escapes to this alternate one, where is the top cat. Typically, these would be seen as wimps, sissies, geeks, or any similar social stereotype that was a misfit.
Later when society started moving towards being more and more electronic, and spending hours staring at a screen became part of job descriptions, and not really that weird, gaming came to be a little more accepted. It was a legitimate pass time.
But obsessive gamers were still not quite regarded as socially normal.
Now gaming is coming to be recognized as a professional sport, and you have to wonder what kind of sportsmen these are… they definitely don’t fit the macho image that sportsman have.
Nor do they spend the time they’re not staring at screens blinking at the ‘bright light’ around them. They may not be hunks running on testosterone but they’re definitely not diminutive either, and if you want competitive spirit, they’ll give the Australian cricketers a run for their money.
Which once more leaves me asking, where exactly do gamers fit in? More on this later.
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