Comments on: MMOG as Genuine Reality http://savageminds.org/2007/02/06/mmog-as-genuine-reality/ Notes and Queries in Anthropology — A Group Blog Thu, 24 May 2012 01:47:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Conor http://savageminds.org/2007/02/06/mmog-as-genuine-reality/comment-page-1/#comment-51795 Conor Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:11:30 +0000 http://savageminds.org/2007/02/06/mmog-as-genuine-reality/#comment-51795 Well thought out! Thank you, Rex. As an avid gamer, I often find myself in a position to defend the cultural integrity of games. I, too, find it ridiculous that people can argue to dismiss games as culturally insignificant. Gaming may be alien, but not so foreign as for all analogy to break down; these same people wouldn't be so brash as to say that what the Muslims do, though similar, isn't praying. Why then are videogames so qualitatively different that they defy reasonable comparison? I guess because they are viewed as masturbatory and juvenile, and people are quick to shun them for this senselessly awarded stigma. Well thought out! Thank you, Rex. As an avid gamer, I often find myself in a position to defend the cultural integrity of games. I, too, find it ridiculous that people can argue to dismiss games as culturally insignificant. Gaming may be alien, but not so foreign as for all analogy to break down; these same people wouldn’t be so brash as to say that what the Muslims do, though similar, isn’t praying. Why then are videogames so qualitatively different that they defy reasonable comparison? I guess because they are viewed as masturbatory and juvenile, and people are quick to shun them for this senselessly awarded stigma.

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