Sore Thumbs
Thank you, game controllers. Thank you for giving us the mastery over our video lives that we always lacked in our real ones. Thank you for abetting our crippling addiction, driving us further into pixel-based simulacra and away from the dwindling pool of people who actually care about us. Thank […]
Classically Trained Retro Gamer
You cut your teeth on the Atari. You honed your skills on the Super Nintendo. You grew your ability on the Gameboy. Science proves that if you spend 10,000 hours studying an area, you will be a master of that subject. You are not a gamer. You are an expert. […]
Particular Set of Gaming Skills Dark
So your parents / wife / significant-non-gaming-other tell you that you have wasted your life playing video game; that you’ll never amount to anything if you don’t get off the couch and do something. What they fail to realize is that your years at the console have honed your skills. […]