Social Interaction from Gaming
" Well yes and no to the interaction with the computer thing. However, when you talk on the phone, with your Mom, do you interact with your phone or your Mom? These are real people, here, and interaction with them, via computer is still interaction. Thankyou for your posts, though. I really want both sides of the fence, even on the fence opinions here. |
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No. (b) Personal abuse, foul language, inappropriate subject matter, obscene, harassing, threatening, hateful, or discriminatory or defamatory remarks of any nature ... are not permitted. - PoE TOS. Last edited by Support#0000 on Jun 11, 2014, 3:51:01 PM
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Being an expert in social interaction you leave much to be desired not intuit that presentation only would cause problems. Just that mistake is enough to crush the grandiloquent first part of the post. Make another topic about the same without speak about your great person and perhaps you obtain an interesting topic without fights...
Bethesda is known for having good ideas and terrible realization of them. GGG is a Bethesda subsidiary or what? Last edited by Actkqk#4579 on Jun 11, 2014, 5:20:24 PM
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" Try interaction 'via' a computer. 'With' is misleading. This isn't 2001 or Electric Dreams. 'All day' isn't really the issue. That's just argument 'via' (see, it's a handy word!) extremity. Your statement might have worked before internet 2.0 (i.e. when The Rest Of The World Discovered DSL and Caught Up To US Cable Internet), wherein we got skype, streaming, video chatting, photo exchanging, podcasting, facebooking, twitting...the whole boatload of social facilitators that showed Real Life that the Internet isn't antisocial, it's just a more artificial social environment. It's still social. Also, the word you're looking for is 'unsocial'. Antisocial, as in antisocial behaviour, means to actively act against social norms, which is why people can be ejected from pubs and bars for 'antisocial behaviour'. Given Real Life's embracing of Internet 2.0, you could probably argue that NOT using the Internet to supplant one's social life is antisocial these days. I have friends who refuse to use facebook and thus I have to manually contact them if I'm organising something larger than a casual get-together. They're friends and I don't begrudge them that, but it's still 'against the norm' these days. If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between. I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period. Last edited by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Jun 11, 2014, 6:24:04 PM
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And your friends and I don't begrudge you for using facebook, Charan.
But, ewwww facebook. :) |
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" Eh, I resisted it for *ages* (of course I had people getting in at the ground level), but when I took this epic little trip to Europe in 2008, I had like, 500 photos to share with people and was like 'oh, shit, well...this works' and that was the end of it. That said, I like tailoring FB to my needs and desires. [realnamehere]book is full of wordplay, wanky discussion of literary figures, high school female 'friends' who never really said much to me but apparently love my status updates and play a mean game of Scrabble...and, relevant to this, conduit to the organising of the occasional outing/inning, depending on the mood. It's just another tool. I used to be a ferocious net addict, back in the D1 days (Internet 1.0, as it were), so learning how to integrate things like Facebook into my 'real' life was a big step towards evolving past fear of relapse. Hell is most definitely not other people. Just some. And most of those, I firmly believe, are only such because we haven't had a chance to get to know them. If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between. I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period. Last edited by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Jun 11, 2014, 6:39:27 PM
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I have the feeling that no matter how I presented this, some people would still not like it. You can't please everyone all the time. The negative ones seem to be more vocal, in most situations I see. When you go to McDonalds and they forget your pickles, you complain. If there are pickles on your burger, you're fine and don't say a word. I'm sorry if I rubbed some of you wrong with my presentation. Can we please move on to discussing tools which can promote social interaction now? That would be great. Please? (please #2)
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" You DO realise which board you started this thread in, yes? Even I don't start threads here anymore. ...The problem is you're making 'suggestions' in GD. The moment that becomes clear, the thread gets buried in Suggestions. Most of the regulars know that, too. And I think this would have been a lot shorter if you'd framed it that way instead of trying to polarise two player types. On the other hand, maybe it was always your plan to garner attention by doing that. I dunno. Either way, your topic title says 'social interaction from gaming', which is certainly vague and broad enough to invite all sorts of responses, not just direct 'how can we make guilds in PoE better' feedback or input. ...I'd probably start over if I were you. If I like a game, it'll either be amazing later or awful forever. There's no in-between. I am Path of Exile's biggest whale. Period. Last edited by Foreverhappychan#4626 on Jun 11, 2014, 6:44:08 PM
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So, this is a secret suggestion thread?
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" You do know games are way more social now then they used to be. There was a very good professional work a few years ago that analyzed gaming mechanics. Cant remember his name but basically he stated that in the beginning gaming was much healthier. As an old school gamer myself ive seen this change. However now you have a bunch of youth that never lived through that period. But over the years the introduction of addictive mechanics caused gaming to rapidly shift more towards social platforms. This is the new meta partly because these types of games are much easier to produce. Think about it. The traditional console games while they are still around are more expensive. Ofcourse now they also jumped on the bandwagon. The introduction of internet also played a major role in this shift. New technologies opened new doors. Personally if you ask me all games now a days are not really games. Social interaction is all just a bunch of filler to distract you from content! If i want to socially interact ill stick to real life. And heres a scary thought! If you really knew what you were playing and put up with in your own mind you would abandon gaming all together. What we tolerate to play as a society is rediculously too high! We should demand better. Peace! |
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