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Hello all. I'm 25 and getting ready to head back to school (again, finished my masters in mathematics in 2009) to do my doctorate in mathematics education (yes, I love math). I'm teaching high school and community college right now until I start school this fall. To help keep myself occupied I've been playing games and reading the GGG forums. This game looks pretty awesome and I hope to hear more about the beta soon.

I've also completed an undergraduate degree and am working while waiting for law school to start in the fall. This game really needs to come out BEFORE fall semester begins!

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MrNick1221 wrote:

I've also completed an undergraduate degree and am working while waiting for law school to start in the fall. This game really needs to come out BEFORE fall semester begins!

You are not kidding. I'm actually a little concerned that I might have to significantly cut back my gaming once grad school starts for me this fall. So I fully concur, hopefully it's released soon (or I'm invited to the alpha and/or beta).

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Skivverus wrote:

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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."

If text on a monitor can stop people from thinking clearly, they lack intelligence. A face-to-face confrontation is completely different, apparently that's a concept that nobody can get through their thick head.

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Skivverus wrote:

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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?

None of those examples are intellectually stimulating. If I can play through a video game without actively thinking about every decision I'm making, it's not intellectually stimulating. If those examples are intellectually stimulating, then you're intellectually disabled.

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Wittgenstein wrote:

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.

Once again, face-to-face confrontation is completely different than when you can't see who you're communicating with. I don't understand why nobody thinks about this, it just shows how little they understand about communication and how they just love stroking themselves.

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MrNick1221 wrote:

I've also completed an undergraduate degree and am working while waiting for law school to start in the fall. This game really needs to come out BEFORE fall semester begins!

I really hope you know what you're getting yourself into if you're thinking about going to law school.

Not sure what you mean by "stoking yourselves" I do like the phrase though. But, you are mistaken to draw such a rift between in-person and written communication. Certainly differences between the two exist, substantial ones at that, but, not the one you are claiming. If people shouldn't get upset by the written word, niether should they laugh, feel angry, scared, or any other thing. Certainly people do, certainly this is expected, and certainly your assertion is incorrect.

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Wittgenstein wrote:

Not sure what you mean by "stoking yourselves" I do like the phrase though. But, you are mistaken to draw such a rift between in-person and written communication. Certainly differences between the two exist, substantial ones at that, but, not the one you are claiming. If people shouldn't get upset by the written word, niether should they laugh, feel angry, scared, or any other thing. Certainly people do, certainly this is expected, and certainly your assertion is incorrect.

People who get their feathers all ruffled over the written word are mentally weak and I have no respect for the mentally weak, therefore call them idiots, stupid, retarded and any variation that states exactly what they are.

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Septile wrote:

I really hope you know what you're getting yourself into if you're thinking about going to law school.

Dude, seriously. Get over yourself.

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Septile wrote:

If text on a monitor can stop people from thinking clearly, they lack intelligence. A face-to-face confrontation is completely different, apparently that's a concept that nobody can get through their thick head.

Next question: how did you feel while you were writing this?

Text (on a monitor or in a book) is a different form of communication than verbal and body language, but nevertheless can carry emotional "punch", so to speak.

Read any good books lately? Case in point.

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Septile wrote:

None of those examples are intellectually stimulating. If I can play through a video game without actively thinking about every decision I'm making, it's not intellectually stimulating. If those examples are intellectually stimulating, then you're intellectually disabled.

It seems to me that you have never actually "played through" those games, as if you had, your blanket dismissal could have been replaced by individual critiques I might in theory be convinced by.

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Septile wrote:

Once again, face-to-face confrontation is completely different than when you can't see who you're communicating with. I don't understand why nobody thinks about this, it just shows how little they understand about communication and how they just love stroking themselves.

There are significant differences, yes (emotes, for example, showed up shortly after instant messaging for a reason), but there are also noticeable similarities you're (quite possibly deliberately) ignoring.

This thread is amusing.