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Gaming is actually pretty okay

Started by Melan, June 26, 2012, 06:31:37 PM

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#30
June 28, 2012, 02:05:18 AM
Agreed – Leiber has skills. Wildly inconsistent, I think, but when he's good he's very good.

QuoteI like the show; it's cheap, tawdry garbage - porno, really - masquerading as this seasons The Lord of the Rings (No Books, Please), but I know that and don't expect anything better of it.

This is exactly how I approach Game of Thrones. It's pretty much on the same level as Rome (though, the constant debauchery fit Rome a lot better, and I think Rome had an overall better cast). The hardcore Game of Thrones fans are pretty annoying because it's like they haven't read any other books, but it's still fun to watch popcorn-wise.

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#31
June 29, 2012, 12:51:55 PM
I love Game of Thrones.

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#32
June 29, 2012, 01:27:26 PM
Quote from: Imp;554024The hardcore Game of Thrones fans are pretty annoying because it's like they haven't read any [strike]other books[/strike] English history

ftfy.

On balance, fantasy lit switching from "Tolkien with the serial numbers filed off" to "European history with the serial numbers filed off" is a lateral move at best.
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#33
July 01, 2012, 05:45:33 AM
For the record, I think the RPG is and is always meant to be something that is not intended to be "educational".  Its a game and trying to make it out as something "greater" than that always leads down a path to idiocy.

That said, I certainly think RPGs can inculcate both certain skills, knowledge, and "values", not as the goal but as a side-effect.  It just so happens that the skills, values, and knowledge it imparts tend to be of a classic sort, and tend on the whole to be precisely the kind of "values" that a certain sector of society (including a certain sector who have decided to involve themselves in the RPG scene) despise and have ideologically worked very hard at trying to disparage.

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