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video games' influence on your interests
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 video games' influence on your interests
August 18, 2014 at 9:17 pm
(This post was last modified: August 18, 2014 at 9:31 pm by DramaQueen.)
For example, there's a possibility that tomb raider is why I'm interested in archeology, geography, mythology and linguistics(but maybe I got it backward)
Age of mythology: Mythology
Bioshock: It really spoke to me and made me a libertarian.
Nemo me impune lacessit.
Other way around. My interests influence what kind of video games I enjoy.
"How is it that a lame man does not annoy us while a lame mind does? Because a lame man recognizes that we are walking straight, while a lame mind says that it is we who are limping." - Pascal
 RE: video games' influence on your interests
August 19, 2014 at 12:17 pm
(This post was last modified: August 19, 2014 at 1:14 pm by Losty.)
Hmm I only ever played Mario and Duck Hunt. Never had much of an interest in plumbing, mushrooms, or hunting. I guess it didn't work on me.
After a few years of playing Everquest and World of Warcraft, I have a pretty strong urge to backstab every gnome I encounter, and looting his still-twitching corpse.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould 
I think it's a feedback loop of things that I'm interested in and video games I like influencing each other. I bought BioShock, BioShock 2, and BioShock Infinite because I'm interested in science fiction and those games grew my interest in science fiction. Even in my earliest days of gaming, my parents got me Rise of Nations, Age of Empires, Age of Mythology, and Call of Duty 2 for Christmas the years they came out because I was interested in historical media and those games reinforced that.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense. 
History, politics, international relations, economics, etc lead me to play games such as Civ, Total War, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis and the like.
(August 20, 2014 at 6:16 pm)Zack Wrote: History, politics, international relations, economics, etc lead me to play games such as Civ, Total War, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis and the like. I want to get those kind of games? But I don't have a good PC, just a PS3 from France (we only got it last February) And we just finished the last of us, oh boy. 
Got Medieval Total War as a gift ages ago and loved it, which is what got me interested in history. Also playing strategy games (mainly paradox ones) is the main reason I know where things are.
If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R Tolkien
(August 20, 2014 at 6:22 pm)czúzyt ylgájla Wrote:(August 20, 2014 at 6:16 pm)Zack Wrote: History, politics, international relations, economics, etc lead me to play games such as Civ, Total War, Crusader Kings, Europa Universalis and the like. Consoles don't do real time strategy games like those very well because thumbsticks have nowhere near the accuracy of a mouse.
Luke: You don't believe in the Force, do you?
Han Solo: Kid, I've flown from one side of this galaxy to the other, and I've seen a lot of strange stuff, but I've never seen *anything* to make me believe that there's one all-powerful Force controlling everything. 'Cause no mystical energy field controls *my* destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense. |
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