Playing Video Games with My Son Isn’t What I Thought It Would Be

Post by slavik81 » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 8:37 AM UTC

pasabagi wrote: post #14

ekianjo wrote: post #5

> But those games are about stretching and challenging him to fit the mold of the game’s demands. When we play Minecraft together, the direction of his development, and thus our relationship, is reversed: He converts the world into expressions of his own fantasies and dreams. And by letting me enter and explore those dream worlds with him, I come to understand him in a way that the games from my childhood do not. Is…

I played a lot of red alert as a kid, and flight simulators, but honestly, calling the first 'creative', and the second 'open world' is ridiculous. They were nice games - but if you play them today, you'll see how far games have come. You can literally build a computer in Minecraft. I don't like the game, don't like that the developer ripped off the idea, and find the art obnoxious - but you have to admit, it's basic…

Post by hudibras » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 9:21 AM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #83

I tried Minecraft for the first time in my life a few weeks ago. Together with my 5 year old son. He loved it, and I liked it too, but we really didn't get very far - the moment night fell, we got brutally slaughtered by zombies or whatever. Respawning only made things worse, because later nights seemed to bring stronger attackers. I played some Quake back in the day, it's not like 3d games are totally new to me. Sti…

Post by ascorbic » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 9:32 AM UTC

ekianjo wrote: post #41

mcphage wrote: post #12

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> Is this a Minecraft PR Piece? Because the games of my childhood were not just action games of the NES. You accuse this of being a paid plant because you can’t imagine that someone played different games than you as a child?! > RTS made you build bases from scratch and react to impending waves of enemies until you finally could crush them. Flight simulators were all about "open world" since you could have missions a…

> You accuse this of being a paid plant because you can’t imagine that someone played different games than you as a child?! I accuse them of making a very simplistic comparison against "old video games" while that person does not seem to have much exposure in terms of video games genres in the first place. Either they are ignorant or dishonest. It's difficult to be ignorant these days with the mass of information on…

Post by Mithaldu » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 9:58 AM UTC

jsemrau wrote: post #13

There should be more collaborative games rather than competitive games. One of my fondest memories is playing Quake 2 in COOP mode at a LAN Party back in the 90s getting stuck in a mineshaft with the group way past midnight. Extremely immersive and bonding experience. We still talk about this moment years later.

Post by aianus » Sun, Mar 11, 2018, 10:03 AM UTC

ascorbic wrote: post #104

athrun wrote: post #97

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Uh, this is a very interesting (and intriguing) perspective. Couple of questions: - Does this mean that there’s a case for QE to be made permanent under a low-inflation environment? - Under this model, govermnents would be directly responsible for the allocation of the newly created money. How can this not lead to a depressed economic output over time? - Where can I read more about this?

My naive question is why so few governments or central banks tried implementing QE as helicopter money, rather than for bond purchases. It seems to my (undergrad-only econ) perspective that the person in the street is far more likely to put the money to use in the economy.