Jon_Danger

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    So, bored and looking for something fun to do with my new PC and game capture abilities... I decided it would be pretty hilarious to watch my girlfriend play a PC FPS, as she has never played any computer games really, and she definitely has never played an FPS before.  I chose Half-Life because this was the first real game (besides Quake 3 arena) that I played as a PC FPS.  

     

    This has all be captured on video...

     

     

    I figured I should share this, not only because we had some fun, but she picked it up in a jiffy.

     

    Seriously, what I was expecting to be a hilarious romp of her getting stuck in corners and dying constantly ended up being a lot more normal of an experience.  She even remarked how easy things were to control.  I have tried to play Halo co-op with her, and she just can't get the dual stick FPS controls.

     

    I just thought it was really odd, and kinda cool.  Not really a scientific study, but kind of a neat result to this experiment.

     

    Can't wait for her to get to the parts with the military... it won't end well.

     

    Has anyone else had an experience like this?  I just assumed that the PC would be much harder to control for her, and I was wrong.

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    Great stream! I caught the last half of it. They met some random player who led them around, I don't want to spoil the ending, you can watch an archive of it.

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    Interesting timing, a friend on facebook just posted this.

    ‎"Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."

    ― C.S. Lewis

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    Somebody in that NY times "debate" needed to be contrary to everyone else. I think that it is important for people to read good fiction, and I think it is a tragedy when I hear people my age (late twenties) talk about "twilight" or the "hunger games" and I just know that the last real adult book they read was assigned to them in high school.

    But, overall, when we are talking about books, we need to be realistic. Reading books is escapism, and a leisure activity. I am sure high powered hedge fund manager could write an article talking about "Nothing is more embarrassing than some guy reading a book on the train, when he could be trading stocks on the Asian Market" And how people shouldn't be wasting their lives doing something that isn't advancing their lives in a significant and fiduciary way.

    Sure it sucks, and it really irks me when people swoon over these novels, and I want to just pop in and say, Read "The Brothers Karamazov", or a Hemmingway novel. In the end, books are entertainment, something that can be very enlightening and provocative, but entertainment nonetheless. So, we can delude ourselves and feel better because we are more accomplished because we have read X number of novels from the top of our self-described elitist hierarchy of fiction, or we can just let people read what they want to read. Some people don't feel like reading difficult prose or complicated fiction, that is their bag man. Let them have their vampire love novels.

    That op-ed piece smelled heavily of "elitist jerk" (see the sneaky jab at video games and pixar films.) Not only does Mr. Stein do a poor job of stating his position and making an argument, but I think that he misses the point entirely.

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    I just think that the quality (twilight as an exception) of the young adult novel has increased greatly.

    The Harry Potter books are not only interesting in scope and fiction, but technically well written. That is what set the Potter books apart from other YA fiction. And really pushed the genre forward, heightening expectations.

    I think that the Hunger Games books (at least the first one) are decently well written, and on top of having some interpersonal drama, it is a rare example of Science Fiction being popular! Which is rare, very rare.

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    I started playing the -effects on the Xbox, so I don't have to worry about these issues.

    Though, this weekend I installed ME2 and downloaded a renegade lady shepard save.

    Holy crap the game looks good on my PC. I kinda wish I had started on PC. At least with the 360, you don't have to worry about origin. (my ID is already tied to an EA account)

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    I would definitely suggest playing the game as the lady with the Russian accent. I too played as the British dude, but the achievement to change gender made me try out the Russian chick voice. I totally made a wannabee G.I. Joe Baroness, and she kicked ass.