Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them

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11B4V

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November 01, 2017, 07:39:25 PM Last Edit: November 01, 2017, 07:41:54 PM by 11B4V
Quote from: grumbler on November 01, 2017, 07:37:06 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on November 01, 2017, 07:17:14 PM
Well this thread took the traditional languish trajectory. :lol:

When you start out the discussion with an Op-Ed with a headline like "Video Games Are Destroying the People Who Make Them," you can't expect a whole lot.  I thought the discussion was interesting for a while, but then it devolved into "we gotta pass a law against this," and things always turn silly when people start proposing laws.

I didn't say it doesn't entertain the shit outta me. ;)
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Razgovory

#226
November 01, 2017, 07:39:59 PM
Quote from: grumbler on November 01, 2017, 06:44:15 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 01, 2017, 06:38:53 PM
Can anyone other than grumbler explain to me what the fuck grumbler's point is (whether you personally agree with it or not)?  I'm trying to follow this thread as I find it interesting, but for the love of me I can't figure out what insights were attempted to be added to the discussion.

I doubt it.  We have some pretty talented writers here, but, talented enough to make this simple enough for you to understand?  Not likely.


You really screwed this up.  The only way to fail the task DGuller asked for was for someone with the screen name "Grumbler" to answer.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

DGuller

#227
November 01, 2017, 07:54:03 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on November 01, 2017, 07:39:59 PM
Quote from: grumbler on November 01, 2017, 06:44:15 PM
Quote from: DGuller on November 01, 2017, 06:38:53 PM
Can anyone other than grumbler explain to me what the fuck grumbler's point is (whether you personally agree with it or not)?  I'm trying to follow this thread as I find it interesting, but for the love of me I can't figure out what insights were attempted to be added to the discussion.

I doubt it.  We have some pretty talented writers here, but, talented enough to make this simple enough for you to understand?  Not likely.


You really screwed this up.  The only way to fail the task DGuller asked for was for someone with the screen name "Grumbler" to answer.
To be fair, he didn't attempt to explain the point he was making here.  Nor anywhere else, for that matter.

Habbaku

#228
November 01, 2017, 08:54:31 PM
Quote from: dps on November 01, 2017, 02:56:40 PM
Quote from: Habbaku on October 31, 2017, 11:38:58 PM
Quote from: dps on October 31, 2017, 09:30:08 PM
I don't think that anyone can reasonably argue that the 40-hour cutoff for OT isn't a more-or-less arbitrary limit.

I don't know why you are so confident of that. A modicum of research will tell you that, no, it was quite deliberate.

"Deliberate" and "arbitrary" aren't antonyms.

I would love to know what definition of arbitrary you're intending to use.
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
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Eddie Teach

#229
November 02, 2017, 12:07:26 AM
Quote from: DGuller on November 01, 2017, 06:45:40 PM
Apparently we have some highly talented comedians here as well.

Names?
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

dps

#230
November 02, 2017, 12:50:21 AM
Yeah, I'm sure they've got names.

DGuller

#231
November 02, 2017, 12:52:38 AM
Quote from: Eddie Teach on November 02, 2017, 12:07:26 AM
Quote from: DGuller on November 01, 2017, 06:45:40 PM
Apparently we have some highly talented comedians here as well.

Names?
That wouldn't be modest.
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