Metablog

Ah, finally. I finished my first post. I have like five more drafts in the works (two with similar length to the previous). I really must work harder at this.

On a thread at Pharyngula, I post some comments going against the grain there, though I have two or three other posters on my side. I’ll edit and restate my words here. (OK, using the present tense is a bit silly a week and a half after the post. Cut me some slack. I’ve been busy.)

Children have a different view of videos games than many of us adults do. (Though some of us younger adults have never grown out of that stage.) They have grown up interacting with advanced 3D graphics forming narratives, puzzles, and challenges of coordination or strategy. These games represent a significant pastime, no less important to them than baseball or football would be to a true adult fan. For more and more, significant portions of their social life are built upon interests and knowledge shared with their peers of these games and game systems and accessories, as well as time actually shared playing them. Whereas “being a gamer” several years ago meant being in a somewhat specialized and often stigmatized niche, nowadays it’s become much more respectable.
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