Games, music, movies...from years ago. Some I don't care about. Others I never fell out of love with.
Movies like: American Beauty, Wild Things, The Matrix, Dawn of the Dead.
Games like: FFVII, Chrono Trigger, Gunstar Heroes, Soul Blade.
Music like: The Offspring's Smash LP, Green Day's Dookie, Korn's Follow the Leader, No Doubt's Tragic Kingdom, Sublime's first album, Wu-Tang's 36 Chambers, Nas Illmatic.
I never stopped loving them. Some stuff from that era I don't care about today. But classic stuff is classic stuff.
I'm no athlete, I just lift weights a few times per week. But I don't think button presses, stick movements, key strokes, and mouse clicks count as "physical activity" either.
I agree with Yoshida's last remark. Nintendo does bring a lot of new people to gaming. Some of their stuff definitely appeals to the core fans, but less as time goes on.
No. I don't think that eSports is a "real" sport. When I workout, it's with weights at a gym three times per week. As much as I enjoy gaming as an entertainment medium, I think the whole eSport thing is just another cash cow.
I like gaming, but I don't treat it as a lifestyle..
@dannyodwyer Great article, with a highly uncommon and highly necessary middle-ground approach.
I have a strange relationship between the right-wing vs left-wing arguments that are so common. I'm white and from the southern United States, but am from a mostly African-American environment. In black America, right vs left is seen as a 'white persons argument'. So, until well into my adulthood, I had very little exposure to these issues save for talk shows on TV.
My first dose of the FAR right was at age 32 in the U.S. Army. Like many people during "the Great Recession" I fell on hard times and needed employment, and rolled the dice by enlisting. Big mistake: life sucks in the army -even in non-combat zones (South Korea was where I was stationed). It also exposed me to a lot of fascist ideals that I'm very much at odds with. There was also quite a bit of hypocrisy: they preach of "freedom" yet want laws against homosexuality and want to attack people based on their religion or for not living like a 1950s TV sitcom.
My first big dose of the Far left was the past 3 years I've spent in Seattle while attending college (Seattle Central Community College). Here, virtually EVERYTHING is some sort of "movement". And everything offends people. The word "chick" is deemed "sexist", but not words like "dude" or "guy"? The far left have proven to be just as repressive and one-sided as the far right.
Both the left and the right preach "freedom", but neither have any real regard for it. Everything is some sort of mission to them. On Capitol Hill (a very LGBT friendly area), pictures of half-naked guys are all over the neighborhood. But pictures of women in bikinis are deemed "sexist and misogynistic". I'm cool with either as I am a bisexual male (and rather masculine). If it were left up to me, I'd have pictures of half-naked people -both dudes and chicks (and trans)- all over the place so EVERYONE can get their ya-yas. But such middle-ground is just as frowned upon by the left as it is by the right.
The whole ideal behind 'propietary' devices and software is to CONTROL what consumers can and can't do. It's to funnel you into ONLY buying what they sell.
Want to listen to the music you own? Gotta buy those songs in the format they (Sony/MS) sells; you'll be repurchasing what you already own.
Long after human civilization has annihilated itself, either aliens or the next dominant species will discover a golden proprietary device. Then, they will understand how we destroyed ourselves
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