Introduce yourself to game

I'm 24, live in germany and study psychology at the university. I play video games since good old nes and snes times. I'm a big fan of the diablo series and i'm eagerly waiting for a game that can compete with the awesome experience i had playing diablo... Hopefully PoE will be that game!

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Viper1540 wrote:

Well put MrNick1221 ....
Septile .. maybe "intellectually stimulating" for Phouriuh just means that he has to think about all the variables that the game presents before deciding how he should proceed at any given time. What attributes his character should have etc.
Why is that idiotic and how does it imply that English is not his/her first language.
Similarly nobody should say it is idiotic that you have "gaming ADD from years of playing fighting games, FPS games, and being introduced to the RPG genre through Diablo.", especially since you are in graduate school which must imply that you are smart!

That should hardly count as "intellectually stimulating." It might be intellectually stimulating to someone with downs syndrome, but anybody with a education above 10th grade wouldn't even have to think twice about it.

It's idiotic because video games are not intellectually stimulating and anybody who says otherwise just wants to stroke themselves. It implies English is not his first language because of his response to my first post, which clearly shows he has no reading comprehension.

Your last response makes no sense. But I will say that you can think graduate school implies I'm smart if you want, but to me it just means I have the ability to commit to a long term goal and finish all of the work necessary.

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resira wrote:

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Septile wrote:

Well shame on Colorado's public education for failing to teach you reading comprehension. Or whatever system you were educated by.

Shame on whichever institution failed to teach you respect.

Expecting me to respect people I don't know and will probably never meet in my life is ludicrous, especially when they say idiotic things.

If anybody would like to present themselves intelligently, I can manage to respect that. So far, few have done so on this forum.

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That should hardly count as "intellectually simulating." It might be intellectually simulating to someone with downs syndrome, but anybody with a education above 10th grade wouldn't even have to think twice about it.

It's idiotic because video games are not intellectually simulating and anybody who says otherwise just wants to stroke themselves. It implies English is not his first language because of his response to my first post, which clearly shows he has no reading comprehension.

septile could you let it upset other people? noone did something to you..

and also there are science study´s about gaming that intelectual stimulates;) google for it..tztz

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Septile wrote:

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Viper1540 wrote:

Well put MrNick1221 ....
Septile .. maybe "intellectually stimulating" for Phouriuh just means that he has to think about all the variables that the game presents before deciding how he should proceed at any given time. What attributes his character should have etc.
Why is that idiotic and how does it imply that English is not his/her first language.
Similarly nobody should say it is idiotic that you have "gaming ADD from years of playing fighting games, FPS games, and being introduced to the RPG genre through Diablo.", especially since you are in graduate school which must imply that you are smart!

That should hardly count as "intellectually simulating." It might be intellectually simulating to someone with downs syndrome, but anybody with a education above 10th grade wouldn't even have to think twice about it.

It's idiotic because video games are not intellectually simulating and anybody who says otherwise just wants to stroke themselves. It implies English is not his first language because of his response to my first post, which clearly shows he has no reading comprehension.

Your last response makes no sense. But I will say that you can think graduate school implies I'm smart if you want, but to me it just means I have the ability to commit to a long term goal and finish all of the work necessary.

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resira wrote:

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Septile wrote:

Well shame on Colorado's public education for failing to teach you reading comprehension. Or whatever system you were educated by.

Shame on whichever institution failed to teach you respect.

Expecting me to respect people I don't know and will probably never meet in my life is ludicrous, especially when they say idiotic things.

If anybody would like to present themselves intelligently, I can manage to respect that. So far, few have done so on this forum.

Respecting someone doesn't mean "letting whatever they say go". It means, simply, that you should talk to them the same way you'd like people to talk to you. If you find what they say stupid/wrong/in error, thats fine. But, you needn't call them an idiot or bash their schooling because (a) you have no idea who they are (b) it won't help anything (c) it makes you look immature.

Also, laying out blatant claims like "video games aren't intellectually stimulating" is an absurd stance to take. If all the OP meant by "intellectually stimulating" was that it required SOME ammount of thought, then obviously all games require SOME ammount of thought. True, most games aren't going to tax you all that much, but it isn't the case that games aren't intellectually stimulating at all.

If you played Big Blue in chess, I'd wager you'd be sweating by the end.

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Wittgenstein wrote:

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Septile wrote:

That should hardly count as "intellectually simulating." It might be intellectually simulating to someone with downs syndrome, but anybody with a education above 10th grade wouldn't even have to think twice about it.

It's idiotic because video games are not intellectually simulating and anybody who says otherwise just wants to stroke themselves. It implies English is not his first language because of his response to my first post, which clearly shows he has no reading comprehension.

Your last response makes no sense. But I will say that you can think graduate school implies I'm smart if you want, but to me it just means I have the ability to commit to a long term goal and finish all of the work necessary.

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resira wrote:

Shame on whichever institution failed to teach you respect.

Expecting me to respect people I don't know and will probably never meet in my life is ludicrous, especially when they say idiotic things.

If anybody would like to present themselves intelligently, I can manage to respect that. So far, few have done so on this forum.

Respecting someone doesn't mean "letting whatever they say go". It means, simply, that you should talk to them the same way you'd like people to talk to you. If you find what they say stupid/wrong/in error, thats fine. But, you needn't call them an idiot or bash their schooling because (a) you have no idea who they are (b) it won't help anything (c) it makes you look immature.

If I say something idiotic I expect people to call me out on it in the same exact manner I do, but so far I haven't said anything idiotic. Don't want to be talked down to? Think before you post something then, otherwise stop whining.
(a) I don't need to know who they are to know what they said is fucking stupid.
(b) the goal is to make them think twice before they say something fucking dumb.
(c) Where the fuck do idiots get this "Calling people stupid is immature wah wah wah" bullshit from? It's not immature, it is unprofessional though. But this is the internet, this is not a professional environment. Deal with it.

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Wittgenstein wrote:

Also, laying out blatant claims like "video games aren't intellectually stimulating" is an absurd stance to take. If all the OP meant by "intellectually stimulating" was that it required SOME ammount of thought, then obviously all games require SOME ammount of thought. True, most games aren't going to tax you all that much, but it isn't the case that games aren't intellectually stimulating at all.

If you played Big Blue in chess, I'd wager you'd be sweating by the end.

Video games are visually stimulating. VISUALLY. At first, when somebody is for the very first time playing video games they can be intellectually stimulating because they're trying to figure out the controls, but after that it's nothing. That's why time seems to go by so fast while you're playing video games, because you're not thinking about anything. Anybody who defines intellectually stimulating as anything that requires some thought is a fucking retard.

Are you serious? Sweating, sitting on my ass, playing chess? Jesus fucking Christ you've got to be kidding. Also board games =/= video games.

This is Septile's way of introducing him/herself. :D

@Septile

You are awesome.

I am a sixteen year old guy with not much to do. I live in the south so not many places to go/see around here, so I spend most of my time playing computer games. I look foward to the release of this game. It looks like a really fun game. I am into the Diablo type of game play so I feel this game is just right for me!

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Septile wrote:

Where the fuck do idiots get this "Calling people stupid is immature wah wah wah" bullshit from?

Possibly through analogy, or memories of what happens when a child loses an argument but doesn't want to admit it.

Those of us who have encountered this in debate contexts use the term "immature" as a convenient shorthand for "using language designed to stop people from thinking clearly."

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Septile wrote:

At first, when somebody is for the very first time playing video games they can be intellectually stimulating because they're trying to figure out the controls, but after that it's nothing.

A few counterexamples:
Dwarf Fortress, Dragon Age, and Myst.

And, for that matter, what exactly are we counting as "video games" here?


Anyway.
While I'm here - twenty-three, nearly a year out of college and still deciding whether or not to go after graduate-level psychology; gaming, reading, and tutoring in the meantime.

Yes,

typically people who start yelling and cursing (either online or in life) are doing so in order to get the other person uncomfortable, to make them stop thinking. You can see this in other ways as well, nothing "wrong" with yelling at a batter "YOU SUCK!" but you aren't telling him he sucks because he sucks, you're doing it because you are afraid he may hit a homerun and send your team home with a loss. So, until you can admit why you are yelling, you are immature.