Reblogged from naughtyjester
This image has been posted around, and often held up as proof that gamers are idiots because they can’t figure out something that retro gamers know by heart.
Unfortunately, rather than being held up as proof that modern gamers are idiots… I once again banged my head on the wall because seeing the tone of the articles, the reblogs with this image, and the comments proved why I am embarrassed to refer to myself as a “Gamer”.
The average age of gamers is supposed to be in the 30s. You would not know this by looking at how most gamers act. The average mental age of a gamer I would say is closer to 13. And the shitposting around at this topic is once again supplying evidence that the average gamer quit maturing when they hit age 13.
PROTIP: WHy are gamers asking about something that to you is common knowledge? Maybe that’s because they never played the game before and they don’t know.
And would you have done the same in the 90s if you had the internet? Yes. You got confused while playing a game that does not tell you everything about it. Don’t deny it… how many of you guys bought Nintendo Power or looked through it just to know how to get past level x? How many of you guys randomly thought “I should try this secret trick hahahaha.” without having seen it in The Wizard? It’s common knowledge to you. But guess what? It’s not common knowledge to everybody.
So you know what’s common knowledge to me? How to unlock the characters in Tactics Ogre or Star Ocean 2. But do you see me going around saying people who don’t know recruiting Ashton denies recruitment of Opera and Earnest are “idiots”? Do you see me going around saying people who can’t immediately figure out how to play Dark Souls are idiots? No. Of course not.
I’m reminded strongly of Testzero’s video game… The Theater. One room requires you to walk along a certain path of tiles, b ecause everything else is instant-death. The previous room gives you a hint on which tiles are safe. I paid for the directors cut version because it had some nice swag and was only a few bucks. In his commentary, he mentioned how he was surprised that one of the testers brute-forced the room because they didnt’ realize that the previous room was giving them a hint. Yeah, this is because of the next point…. not everybody is on the same mindset as you. Not everybody perceives the world the sae way as you do. This is part of why we HAVE these things, or why complex interpretations of Hamlet even exist.
Fun fact guys: Everybody does something that will be considered “stupid” by others because, surprise surprise, we are not a hive mind. Why do you think you can show two different people the same thing… yet they arrive at a completely different conclusion about something. You like to mock stupid customers for not knowing about how a computer works… but guess what. Take your car in to get repaired and the mechanics may be laughing at how “stupid” you are for not knowing something that to them is “Elementary my dear watson”. Hire some contractors to do labour for you to fix something in your house… and they could be mentally thinking “What an idiot.” because you don’t know about one thing that, to them, is rather obvious and common knowledge. Heck, log onto a multiplayer video game and see how many people insult noobs or ask “stupid questions”.
In fact, I almost wish we had internet as widespread in the 90s as we do now… just so I can see all the shitposting coming from the 20 year olds of THAT generation talking about how those ten year olds are idiots; and how the gaming journalism once more encourages this trashtalking mentality by stroking its readers’ egos.
Oh, and you know what behaviour this reminds me of? You know that stereotype of old people… who hated running through all sorts of obstacles to get “simple things” accomplished, yet give you some kind of story about how “Back in my day we… and we liked it!” to shut up you complaining about an inconvenience? Yeah! That’s exactly what I took away from this image and the reactions to it… that gamers just need to grow the heck up.
If anything, the gamers who answer the questions on what to do and acknowledge that not everyone has the exact same mindset are the most mature. These are the people I can believe are over 30. The people who talked down to gamers and acted like old men? Those are the people who make me ashamed to call myself a gamer.
Once again Gamers… I am very disappointed in you. Not the people who couldn’t figure out something that to you is obvious, b ut to the shitposters talking down to them saying gamers are “spoiled” by games that “hold your hand. You need to acknowledge this.
Not just to the gaming culture, but also to the technology culture. Outside of the tech indusry, there is a very unfortunate stereotype of people in the tech industry of being immature brats who would be fired if they had to work an actual customer service job. The Gaming culture overlaps strongly with the tech industry.
The average age of a gamer is supposed to be 30. Gamers, start acting like it.
(Source: naughtyjester, via bauske)
So, I found a disc with a story that was written around 2004 - 2005. Around this time, my “fursona” was a winged unicorn. You know, brown horse with an alicorn and wings based off of a hawk.
This particular story also happens to feature a piece of jewelry (Guess what it was. :P ) that had a stone on it. Except the stone wasn’t a geological stone - it was made from an alicorn.
Oh, I say “Alicorn” to refer to a unicorn’s horn. This is the original definition of “Alicorn”, before Piers Anthony and MLP fans popularized it to refer to Winged Unicorns. (Let’s be fair to MLP here… that misconception existed long before G4 did.)
Some part of me is glad that didn’t stick. Just because equines get sooo typecast. I’d have to deal with stuff like:
This quote was taken out of context - Depending on the context of the quote, it’s actually a valid question.
“Do they speak French in England?” could be asking “Are there people in England who speak French”.
However, I would assume that they would speak English in England - but if you’re multilingual, you might want to know what other languages are recognized or spoken.
An artist whose work I really admire recently decided to stop accepting payments by PayPal and switch to the US-only service Dwolla. In doing so, they’ve removed my ability to do business with them. As an Australian resident and citizen, PayPal is the only truly international escrow and payment…
Really, this is what I call “The PayPal effect”… The main reason everyone uses PayPal? Everybody freaking uses it.
See, I would like some alternatives to establish. But the problem is? It’s hard to make the transition over to something like Dwolla or Amazon for several reasons:
So yeah. For a PayPal Alternative to become as widespread as PayPal, it needs several things:
It’s a real catch 22 - people want a good Paypal alternative, but until a good one emerges that won’t slowly fade, they won’t jump ship. Until this happens, frankly we’ll have to just grit our teeth and keep on using PayPal, no matter how much bullshit they throw at us. Those of us internet users in the Americas have already gotten used to this, because there are no good alternatives to their services that give you internet slower than AFRICA at twice the price and customer service with a budget of $0.25. Until a good alternative pops up in your area, you ahve to do nothing but grit your teeth and do it. Because the alternative is simply just not having internet or not being able to conduct business through online bank transfers.
One thing I find quite amusing about the new fanbase for My Little Pony is that their motto is about “Love and tolerance” (depending who you ask) or “Friendship is Magic”.
And yet for a fanbase that was founded on such mantras and morals… they’re surprisingly prone to infighting, treating other fanbases like crap, trying to kick out members of their OWN Fanbase, abandoning their old friends, and giving non-bronies the cold shoulder. Oh, on top of that is how many people act casually racist, sexist, homophobic, or make offensive comments about people with disabilities.
Ironic. And this is a fanbase based around the ideas that friendship is magic? I don’t call those guys bronies - I call them BINOs. Brony In Name Only.
There’s been a lot o backlash about copyright in recent years. Mostly because I think people are just backlashing against copyright abuse not flat out copyright law.
I’m sure people in favour of complete abolishment of copyright law would change their minds if say, this happened: They invent something. Someone notices something that can be improved, so they make an improved model. Sounds good, right? Well, they get to take credit for everything. You don’t get a penny. You don’t even get to be a footnote. Even though you provided the base for their improvement, they get to take credit for everything, even the stuff that they didn’t design. Well, guess it’s karma seeing as someone gets to do the same to them and not give them any ounce of credit.
In terms of creative copyright, they might also change their mind if they wrote something, and all of a sudden, dozens of works claiming to be the official sequel (or prequel) to your own work show up crawling out of the woodwork and you’re not entitled to any credit. Especially if these things start to violate your own vision of your own work, and it’s considered “Canon”. (I dunno what Baum would have thought of Wicked or Oz the Great and Powerful - he might not have liked them because they didn’t suit his vision. But Oz is public domain today)
Am I saying I’m anti-fanwork? No. Not at all. I don’t mind if people are just having fun and aren’t actually trying to profit off of a fanwork. I’d encourage people to make fanwork or write essays detailing alternative interpretations - just as long as they give me credit for it and aren’t claiming that they thought everything up themselves, such as the character(s) that make a cameo. If someone made a heartwarming animation just for fun? I’d happily let them do it. They’re not harming me - fanworks are just for fun and aren’t for profit.
If they wanted to profit off of it? I wouln’t go “YOU MUST STOP IT’S MINE ONLY”, I’d say “Hey guys? Little bit of credit? I would really appreciate it if you just asked me or let me know you intended to make money off of this.” And I wouldn’t demand all of it - if anything, I would use that as an opportunity to educate people about where the money goes from these things.
I saw a “Copyright is evil” thing saying that because of all the licensing and theatrical releases, they clearly made the money. People assume that it just goes all into their pockets, or that they’re clearly making a profit. Hey guys - it doesn’t. Especially for stuff like games or movies that require a lot of people. The theatres take a cut. The marketers take a cut. The CG-I people take a cut. The actors take a cut. The people who were hired to make the sets take a cut. The people who were hired to make the costumes take a cut. The editors take a cut. The people who invested money to HIRE these guys take a cut. Sure I can be a jackass and stiff them (Life of Pi, anyone?) But being an ass who doesn’t pay people who made the movie work is a very GREAT way to make people WANT to work with or for you. Because we aren’t owned by the studios, and actors & directors aren’t assigned to a movie and just forced to work with them or else they get fired.
Oh, and all the stuff like toys, collectible figures, video games? Most of the money made from that goes to - what else - the people who made them. The actors whose likeness is depicted rarely get any cut from that.
I doubt people would be so much against copyright law if people weren’t assholes in enforcing it. If there’s one good thing that comes from copyright law… it encourages people to come up with their own designs and their own similar stories. Would you be in favour of “no copyright” if the market became saturated with hundreds of sequels and remakes of other franchises that were not made with the consent (or involvement) of the original creator and do not follow their creative vision? Probably not. People bitch about “Remakes” and “Sequels”… but I’m pretty sure there would be a lot more of those if just anyone could make a Harry Potter movie without the consent or involvement of J.K. Rowling.
Again, if there’s one good thing about copyright… it’s encouraged people to come up with their own designs. Punish the people who abuse it.
Hilarious video about the $3 6-inch special. This was made by fellow Subway slave, squeakyraffe, also known as Terestrasz on Youtube.
:D Yep. had to ptu her in there.
Seattle’s vision of an urban food oasis is going forward. A seven-acre plot of land in the city’s Beacon Hill neighborhood will be planted with hundreds of different kinds of edibles: walnut and chestnut trees; blueberry and raspberry bushes; fruit trees, including apples and pears; exotics like pineapple, yuzu citrus, guava, persimmons, honeyberries, and lingonberries; herbs; and more. All will be available for public plucking to anyone who wanders into the city’s first food forest.
“This is totally innovative, and has never been done before in a public park,” Margarett Harrison, lead landscape architect for the Beacon Food Forest project, tells TakePart. Harrison is working on construction and permit drawings now and expects to break ground this summer.
The concept of a food forest certainly pushes the envelope on urban agriculture and is grounded in the concept of permaculture, which means it will be perennial and self-sustaining, like a forest is in the wild. Not only is this forest Seattle’s first large-scale permaculture project, but it’s also believed to be the first of its kind in the nation.
So proud!!!
so amazing! some people in my agroecology worked on this project in the fall. i’m sure that if anyone in the seattle area is interested in volunteering now, your help would be greatly appreciated. :))
I almost moved in right around the corner from this
but seriously, this is a fucking incredible idea.
Much better than the seattle big dig their planning…
Fuck yes.
